Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian
The image they seem to be using has Tony Yazbeck, and I HIGHLY doubt if he is cast he could sell out the Lyric. He would be great, but they need to sell tickets too.
There was a time when a Bernstein show could fill a huge theatre but remember the last revival? It was wonderful in Central Park then it got lost in another big Broadway house.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Ozzie and Daniel Radcliffe as Chip, obviously.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
They really do need a name for this, but the big question is whom?
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian
I'll never understand why a musical revival without names (assuming this revival won't have any) would open in the fall. It's almost always a disaster, like RAGTIME in 2009.
I'm right there with you, LJay. It's always baffling, as if the producers had no idea what the challenges are. I guess the idea is they don't wanna be swallowed whole by the flashy spring shows, so it might seem like a losing battle either way. Still, looking back at the Foxwood/Hilton/Ford/Lyric history since the original RAGTIME opened, I don't think any show has actually recouped there. Maybe someone like Smaxie can provide better info on this. It's just odd to hear they'll open in such a big theatre, and to announce a pre-sale without any cast attached. We know Hugh Jackman is already taken in the fall, so who will their star be?
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
My guess is that they kind of know they'll lose money on this (especially with that 28-piece orchestra *swoon*), and just feel that it's worth doing -- I figured the same about the FINIAN's revival a few years back. Still, if they want it to run at all, I suppose they do need a name. Insasmuch as the 3 male roles have pretty high-level demands and the 3 men they already have seem ideal, the likelier places to put a name would be Claire or Hildy (or the character parts, but audiences would probably feel cheated coming to see a big name as Madame Dilly or Pitkin). But who even is such a name as to ensure a run?
This was, hands down, the best revival of an older musical I've seen since the Lincoln Center South Pacific, and the best production that ON THE TOWN could ever hope to see.
I hope they keep the cast from the Berkshires, because they were all spectacular.
PalJoey-that theater is enormous. They need a couple of names to put people in seats. They'd have been better off to try for Lincoln Center-at least there you get a subscriber base that builds word of mouth.
Not sure this can succeed in that cavernous theater.
That's great, but I bet even the amazing revival of South Pacific couldn't fill that theater. I'm doubtful this will unless some serious A-listers are cast.
I bet they go with the same cast, I can't think of ant "A-listers" who would fit in this production. I wonder if the fabulous Nancy Opel will have to choose between this and HONEYMOON. And any show that gets Rupert back on the Boards is OK with me.
Man, this does seem like a HUGE gamble in that giant theatre, but I've got to give kudos to the producers for taking such a big risk. To me, this is the most exciting revival news since the Broadway transfer of the Kennedy Center Follies. And I am seriously THRILLED that they are mounting this show with a 28 piece orchestra. I know that West Side Story is Bernstein's musical theatre masterwork -- and God knows I love it -- but for my money the dance music in On the Town can't be beat. It's just on another level and I'm so grateful that we'll get to hear it played by a full orchestra.
PJ, how was the choreography in the Barrington production? I'm really curious about that aspect of the production. Can it really hold a candle to Robbins' work?
I don't think anyone is calling this a disaster, we are just questioning the size of the house they are going to have to fill. The production sounds fabulous.