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emro
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Joined: 8/02/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 0 |
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big, the musical. I wouldn't even let my parents come and see me
in it. And Pippin. I hate Pippin. It's so-- what is
the word I'm looking for?--groovy/hippy/yucky.
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Cucumber sandwiches? Watercress sandwiches? The whole scene would stand or fall on his ultimate decision. -- Instant Lives & More: Oscar Wilde
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Alycia_K
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Joined: 7/29/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 0 |
Posted: 8/03/05 at 7:54pm |
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The student version of Grease doesn't thrill me. You can't take things out of a play that give it character and expect it to have the same punch. But I also think that it was just that production of it. Also, I was in a school production of Fiddler that was positively dreadful 85% of the time.
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falstaff83
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Joined: 8/14/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 0 |
Posted: 8/14/05 at 12:26am |
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People will hate me for saying this, but... A Midsummer Night's Dream. Now, don't get me wrong- I think Shakespeare is rightly considered the finest playwright ever. But that's for two reasons: 1. he's a great artist, and 2. he's a great thinker. MND- I have no prob with Shakespeare as thinker. I understand the play. I just don't think it's very exciting. The lovers are incredibly boring. There are no great speeches, no great wordplay. A lot of the humor is derived from making fun of stupid people, which I just think isn't that funny. I studied the play in school, I've seen it performed, I've even been in it. And it's just a really lame play. I probably wouldn't dislike it so much if it weren't performed soooo much. But it seems like EVERY theater group does it. What Grease is to the modern musical, MND is to Elizabethan comedy.
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jtonner
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Joined: 2/02/04 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 56 |
Posted: 8/15/05 at 1:28pm |
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It is almost as if I wrote this post. My only difference would be to add "The Wiz". Another of those musicals (like Pippin) that is so dated, it cannot be saved. big, the musical is just bad, how such a good movie could become such a bad musical is beyond me. It is as if they removed everything in the movie was good so they could add things that were terrible. John |
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Scott B
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Joined: 12/08/04 Online Status: Offline Posts: 239 |
Posted: 8/15/05 at 6:04pm |
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While I've never seen Big, the Musical ... I've heard absolutely nothing good about it. One of our local theatre groups has been planning on this production for a while with no specific time slot. I just found out last night it got cancelled from this year's schedule. Sounds like it might have been a very excellen move on their part. |
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Topper
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Posted: 8/15/05 at 7:34pm |
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Believe it or not, there are also staged musical
versions of the movies "Carrie" and "Urban Cowboy." Both of which blessedly closed after a very limited Broadway debut. I wish I'd see them only out of curiosity. |
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tristanrobin
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Posted: 8/15/05 at 10:53pm |
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I saw "Carrie" the musical on opening night.
I don't know why it was such a monumental flop. It was terrific - good music - INCREDIBLE choreography - wonderful sets. I thought it was going to be a huge hit - and I think it played like a week LOL. Many many years ago I also saw the musical version of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" with Mary Tyler Moore whch was also a huge failure...and I loved it. I must never be producer. I'd lose my shirt. LOL Although "Carrie" seems like strange material for a musical - most musical sound a little strange when you first hear about them. I know when I first heard they were making "Wicked" into a musical I was skeptical - and could anything be less musical sounding than the plot of "Little Shop of Horrors?" Another musical based on dubious material is "Light in the Piazza" which we saw two weeks ago. It was positively glorious - and yet, the material certainly woulnd't seem to make one sit up and get excited about writing songs for it! |
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pauliebonn
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Joined: 4/15/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 62 |
Posted: 8/16/05 at 3:16am |
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i must say....it seems that you people have alot on your minds. If I may speak my mind too...
I must say that I dispise "ANNIE", Do not care for "Anything Goes!", "Fiddler" bores the heck out of me (the movie was good), and I do not like HONK!
Other than that, I must disagree on a few things...
"Pippin", and "Godspell" are two of my favorites. Although they are a bit outdated, I think that where you put on the performance, makes a great deal of difference. I performed "Godspell" in a friends Church, and it was spectacular. On the other hand, we have a troupe here doing it in the fall, and they have a 30 member chorus (UGH!!!)
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POB14
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Joined: 7/01/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 349 |
Posted: 8/17/05 at 11:33am |
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I know I'm going to get flamed for this, but . . . <looks around, covers head> Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. I hate, hate, hate that flippin' thing. Maybe it's the score, where every song is played twice just to pad the thing out to "real" musical length. Maybe it's the irritating narrator. Maybe it's the whole idea that it was "rediscovered" (read: dug out of the trunk) after Sir Andrew got to be hot. Maybe it's the fact that I was forced to sit through the concept album in music class in junior high, and I hated music class, junior high, and concept albums. And sitting through, for that matter. Yeah, probably that's why. But I hate that thing. Irrational, I know. But I do. Sorry. Flame on. |
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Sueshoo
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Joined: 4/29/05 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 27 |
Posted: 8/17/05 at 3:47pm |
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I almost hate to say this but....... Neil Simon plays, perhaps because they are done to death and/or groups try to update them and in my opinion that just does not work. |
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