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Main Discussion Area => Stream of Consciousness => Topic started by: RGMike on May 26, 2011, 08:26:35 AM
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OK it's about time we had a separate thread for this stuff.
and to inaugurate it: Gaz should know there's a revival of "Godspell" coming to B'way this fall:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/prepare-ye-the-way-of-the-lord-godspell-revival-coming-to-broadway/
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I'll give serious consideration to that - and to the Shaggs musical (thanks!).
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I'll give serious consideration to that - and to the Shaggs musical (thanks!).
and I'll reiterate that you REALLY need to see Avenue Q and Jersey Boys. (and Ave Q is at New World Stages and always at the TKTS booth, so therefore very cheap.)
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The South Park guys were on Terry Gross' Fresh Air recently talking about their Book Of Mormon musical. I imagine it's fun. ...and probably $150 a ticket.
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The South Park guys were on Terry Gross' Fresh Air recently talking about their Book Of Mormon musical. I imagine it's fun. ...and probably $150 a ticket.
Yeah, and that's cheap for an Orch seat at a mucial these days. Gaz & I paid $99 for balcony. Totally worth it.
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From the ticket confirmation I got for tomo'w nite's perf of Tales of the City:
"Please be advised that this production contains brief nudity, drug use, adult situations, and disco lights. Parental guidance is suggested"
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From the ticket confirmation I got for tomo'w nite's perf of Tales of the City:
"Please be advised that this production contains brief nudity, drug use, adult situations, and disco lights. Parental guidance is suggested"
the disco lights is probably related to warnings to epileptics, unless it's just a joke!
;D
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Well, I saw Tales of the City last nite -- a preview; the official opening is Tuesday. I'll be interested to see what the critics have to say. My feeling is that it's enjoyable but needs work.
It's a long show -- they've mashed the first 2 books (Tales... and More Tales...) together and created a very plot-heavy 3 hours. What once unfolded leisurely (first in the newspaper and then in book form) seems a bit rushed. The songs by the guys from Scissor Sisters are a mixed bag. They're better when they're being disco/clever/satriric then when they're being sincere/Sondheimian. Theater legend Judy Kaye, who's done everything from Phantom to Sweeney Todd to Mamma Mia!, plays Mrs Madrigal and she's quite good. The actress who plays MaryAnn (Laura Linney's big break in the TV miniseries) appears to be doing a dead-on impersonation of Jane Krakowski as Jenna on 30 Rock. She looks and sounds just like her. This makes the character seem less innocent than she's supposed to be. In an odd casting twist, they've made Jon (the preppy, "A-gay" gynecologist that Michael Tolliver falls in love with) African-American, which keeps the ensemble from being completely white but doesn't quite jibe with the upper-crust homo crowd his character supposedly runs with. Nicest surprise: slutty, drug-addled Mona Ramsey is played by Mary Birdsong, best-known as the very butch Deputy Kimball in the latter seasons of Reno 911. She was quite a revelation; I'd never have recognized her.
The songs work to drive the plot but I didn't walk out humming any of them. This is a show that needs more outrageous humor (given the source material). There's *some*, but it pales in comparison to, say Book of Mormon. Not clear if this will make it to B'way next season, but if it does... expect changes.
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Well, I saw Tales of the City last nite -- a preview; the official opening is Tuesday. I'll be interested to see what the critics have to say. My feeling is that it's enjoyable but needs work.
It's a long show -- they've mashed the first 2 books (Tales... and More Tales...) together and created a very plot-heavy 3 hours. What once unfolded leisurely (first in the newspaper and then in book form) seems a bit rushed. The songs by the guys from Scissor Sisters are a mixed bag. They're better when they're being disco/clever/satriric then when they're being sincere/Sondheimian. Theater legend Judy Kaye, who's done everything from Phantom to Sweeney Todd to Mamma Mia!, plays Mrs Madrigal and she's quite good. The actress who plays MaryAnn (Laura Linney's big break in the TV miniseries) appears to be doing a dead-on impersonation of Jane Krakowski as Jenna on 30 Rock. She looks and sounds just like her. This makes the character seem less innocent than she's supposed to be. In an odd casting twist, they've made Jon (the preppy, "A-gay" gynecologist that Michael Tolliver falls in love with) African-American, which keeps the ensemble from being completely white but doesn't quite jibe with the upper-crust homo crowd his character supposedly runs with. Nicest surprise: slutty, drug-addled Mona Ramsey is played by Mary Birdsong, best-known as the very butch Deputy Kimball in the latter seasons of Reno 911. She was quite a revelation; I'd never have recognized her.
The songs work to drive the plot but I didn't walk out humming any of them. This is a show that needs more outrageous humor (given the source material). There's *some*, but it pales in comparison to, say Book of Mormon. Not clear if this will make it to B'way next season, but if it does... expect changes.
Nice review! How were the disco lights? :)
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Nice review! How were the disco lights? :)
Not bright enuf...
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The Chron gives TOTC a mixed review:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/01/DD5S1JMOKL.DTL
But check out the comments: a guy calling himself "jerk_quake" said the same thing I did about the actress playing Mary Ann. So I'm not crazy!
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I'll give serious consideration to that - and to the Shaggs musical (thanks!).
well the Shaggs musical opened -- not a good review from the NYT.
http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/theater/reviews/the-shaggs-philosophy-of-the-world-at-playwrights-horizons.html?hpw
But Annie Golden plays their mom!
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Dude! Sweet! for 4 days only you can download the entire Book of Mormon orig cast album for $1.99!
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Mormon-Explicit-Digital-Booklet/dp/B004ZCLL16/ref=dm_bookmormon_shorturl
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Neil Patrick Harris' HIGH-larious Tony Awards opening number:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6S5caRGpK4
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Neil Patrick Harris HIGHlarious Tony Awards opening number:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6S5caRGpK4
thought I'd posted the info here, but the song was written by Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne/"That Thing You Do"/Cry Baby fame. He co-wrote with his writing partner, David Javerbaum -- they did Cry baby on B'way together -- and Adam did the music, David the lyrics.
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As I mentioned in the Movie Thread, I'm seeing the filmed concert version of "Company" tonite -- NPH, Steven Colbert, Patti Lupone, Christina Hendricks, Jon Cryer and others doing the Sondheim musical. Looking forward to it as entertainment but I'm also curious: I've never done one of these one-nite-only movie theater things put on by "Fathom Events". I'd heard bad things about them, but they've put on 3 or 4 of these one-shots a month (everything from the Met Opera to Glenn Beck to Mystery Science Theater "live") for years now, so they must know what they're doing, no? Has anyone had experience with their shows?
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As I mentioned in the Movie Thread, I'm seeing the filmed concert version of "Company" tonite -- NPH, Steven Colbert, Patti Lupone, Christina Hendricks, Jon Cryer and others doing the Sondheim musical. Looking forward to it as entertainment but I'm also curious: I've never done one of these one-nite-only movie theater things put on by "Fathom Events". I'd heard bad things about them, but they've put on 3 or 4 of these one-shots a month (everything from the Met Opera to Glenn Beck to Mystery Science Theater "live") for years now, so they must know what they're doing, no? Has anyone had experience with their shows?
no, but Terry Gross' Fresh Air had Colbert on earlier this week and they were talking this event up. Expect a straightforward perf from Mr. Colbert, who was a theater major at Northwestern and reveres Sondheim.
If you're a Colbert fan -- or a Sondhiem fan -- the Fresh Air interview is pretty good.
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Dave (Eurythmics) Stewart has written the songs for the musical version of Ghost. Pottery wheel optional. It's playing in London, and Ben Brantley of the NYT was not pleased:
"The music –- aside from 'Unchained Melody,' which arrives like manna from that big radio in the sky –- is by Dave Stewart (once of the Eurythmics) and Glen Ballard, and it is the aural equivalent of a Stairmaster. Successions of ascending notes are repeated aerobically, until they just stop, as if they had gotten tired."
Eeek.
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Gaz and I were VERY lucky to have seen Book of Mormon from $99 balcony seats in April...
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-06-16/-mormon-tickets-soar-to-487-as-satire-breaks-broadway-records.html
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Diner... the musical? OK. With songs by... Sheryl 'Ho?? Er...
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/diner-musical-by-barry-levinson-and-sheryl-crow-is-setting-a-place-on-broadway/#more-231045
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Diner... the musical? OK. With songs by... Sheryl 'Ho?? Er...
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/diner-musical-by-barry-levinson-and-sheryl-crow-is-setting-a-place-on-broadway/#more-231045
Say it's not so, 'Ho.
(Btw, does anyone else think that the fellow on the far right in the accompanying pic is mis-ID'd as Paul Reiser? I think it could be Tim Daly, but it's tough to tell.)
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/09/20/movies/diner-pic/diner-pic-blog480.jpg)
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Diner... the musical? OK. With songs by... Sheryl 'Ho?? Er...
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/diner-musical-by-barry-levinson-and-sheryl-crow-is-setting-a-place-on-broadway/#more-231045
Say it's not so, 'Ho.
(Btw, does anyone else think that the fellow on the far right in the accompanying pic is mis-ID'd as Paul Reiser? I think it could be Tim Daly, but it's tough to tell.)
you're right:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118043104?refcatid=15
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sorry, no David Bowie musical... yet
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/bowie-shoots-down-report-of-musical-based-on-his-songs/
Honestly, the show described in the article sounds godawful, kinda like that Queen musical that ran in London for a few years.
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Posting this esp for Gaz since it's playing in NYC (on Sunday nites only, apparently) -- sounds like a hoot. "Disaster!" a spoof of '70s disaster flicks with a score made up of cheezy '70s hits.
http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/02/11/theater/reviews/disaster-at-the-triad.html?ref=theater
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get yer tix now: Book of Mormon coming to the Curran for 5 weeks in November!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/15/DDHD1N7P16.DTL
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Animal House: The Musical?? Yup -- being developed with songs by... Barenaked Ladies. Oy.
"Do you mind if we dance with yo' dates... fo' One Week?"
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Saw The Scottsboro Boys at A.C.T. last nite -- liked it a lot; not sure why it got such mixed notices in NY. Bonus: the Master of Ceremonies -- the only white actor in the cast -- is played by Barney Miller himself, Hal Linden!
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capitalizing on the popularity of "the Three Tenors", there is currently on B'way a show with 3 black tenors called "Three Mo' Tenors". Oy.
Does this mean we'll get a show with gay tenors called "Three 'mo Tenors"?
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Berry Gordy's (sanitized) history of the record label in Motown: the Musical:
http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/theater/reviews/motown-the-musical-berry-gordys-story.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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capitalizing on the popularity of "the Three Tenors", there is currently on B'way a show with 3 black tenors called "Three Mo' Tenors". Oy.
Does this mean we'll get a show with gay tenors called "Three 'mo Tenors"?
What about Three Moor Tenors?
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capitalizing on the popularity of "the Three Tenors", there is currently on B'way a show with 3 black tenors called "Three Mo' Tenors". Oy.
Does this mean we'll get a show with gay tenors called "Three 'mo Tenors"?
What about Three Moor Tenors?
Or the Five (Guys Named) Moe Tenors--they only do Louis Jordan songs.
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capitalizing on the popularity of "the Three Tenors", there is currently on B'way a show with 3 black tenors called "Three Mo' Tenors". Oy.
Does this mean we'll get a show with gay tenors called "Three 'mo Tenors"?
What about Three Moor Tenors?
Don't forget Jay, Dustan and Samantha:
Three Mohr Tenors
Carry on.