Dames at Sea Casting

[Ranger Tom]

Posted: 6/25/15 at 2:11pm

Waiting...waiting...I know they have some time but very anxious to hear which six dynamos they've secured.  Anyone hearing anything?

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 6/25/15 at 2:34pm

I hope Laura Osnes and Rachel York are still with the show!

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 6/25/15 at 2:40pm

I'm still not convinced this show is happening.

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 6/25/15 at 2:45pm

Here is their commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auKoa3RE9NU

Im excited!!

Updated On: 6/25/15 at 02:45 PM

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 6/25/15 at 2:58pm

You always are excited for a good flop, Philly.

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:00pm

ummm no I'm actually excited to see this show. Don't you think its gonna be good?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:02pm

You seem to be excited over every show Philly

Never having seen the original, I will go in with an open mind. It may be good or it may not be. Times will tell.

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:04pm

I am not excited over every show, only the ones that i want to see, which is almost every musical and a few plays

Updated On: 6/25/15 at 03:04 PM

[peacelovemagic1]

Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:17pm

That commercial reminds me so much of the On the Town one, with the same vintage style and use of black and white. Interesting tactic, although I'm not sure who they are aiming at, demographic wise.

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:20pm

^ Yep, since On the Town is doing so well...

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:21pm

dames at sea is gonna cost a quarter the amount of On The Town. Idk a lot of people love these old fashion sailor musicals

[ACL2006]

Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:23pm

but DAMES AT SEA will likely cost about half the price to run. Much smaller theater, a cast of just 6 and much smaller orchestra. Probably around 400K a week would be my guess.

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:24pm

"Idk a lot of people love these old fashion sailor musicals"

They should put that in the investors' packet.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:27pm

"Old fashioned sailor musicals"

Years ago a musical of Billy Budd opened. 1 performance & gone. That was relly old fashioned

As good as OTT is, every revival has lost money. I saw the current one and the one with Bernadette Peters that played the Imperial I believe. Great show but despite your comments, old fashioned sailor musicals are not a draw. Besides, with the exception of OTT, how many old fashioned sailor musicals are there?

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:30pm

Anything Goes ran for a long time, and On The Town would be doing well if it was in the Longacre, or a theatre that size. Disney should just buy the Lyric at this point 

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:33pm

The recent revival of Anything Goes was not a commercial production.

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:34pm

so what they ran for a year and a half. Im sure they made money. Didn't they keep extending the run?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:35pm

Why would Disney buy a theater that is to big for commercial shows?

Technically, Anything is not an AOFSM musical. The only thing nautical about it is that it takes place on a cruise ship. For the sake of argument, however, I will agree to you including it.

[ILuv2shop531]

Posted: 6/25/15 at 4:07pm

I'm pretty sure Laura is doing The Bandstand at Papermill which would make her unavailable for this.

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 6/25/15 at 5:58pm

I hope she chooses the Broadway show over the out of town which probably won't come to Broadway this season anyway

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 6/25/15 at 7:54pm

Dames at Sea is NOT an "old-fashioned sailor" show. It's a spoof of Busby Berkeley movies of the early 1930s, that happens to end with a show-within-a-show staged on a battleship after an earthquake destroys their theater. (Yes, it's a broad comedy.)

The characters aren't actual sailors, but show biz types.

If you want a comparison, look to 42nd Street (not OTT); Dames at Sea tells the same story (star gets injured, chorus girl goes on in her place and becomes a star). The joke is it does it with cast of six rather than a cast of thousands.

The songs are lovely and often hilarious and the overall affect is charming. HOWEVER, its jokes do depend on a knowledge of Busby Berkeley and Ruby Keeler, et al. Do folks still watch those old movies on TV?

[Smaxie]

Posted: 6/25/15 at 8:22pm

>The characters aren't actual sailors, but show biz types.<

Two of the characters, Dick and Lucky, are both actual sailors in Act One, and then play sailors in the musical within the musical in Act Two. The also persuade their Captain to allow them to stage the show on their ship when the theatre gets knocked down.    

 

Updated On: 6/25/15 at 08:22 PM

[Fantod]

Posted: 6/25/15 at 8:48pm

Yes, people love those sailor shows like Ankles Aweigh, Sail Away, and Oh Captain!

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 6/26/15 at 12:18pm

">The characters aren't actual sailors, but show biz types.<
Two of the characters, Dick and Lucky, are both actual sailors in Act One, and then play sailors in the musical within the musical in Act Two. The also persuade their Captain to allow them to stage the show on their ship when the theatre gets knocked down.    
 "

Technically, that is true. But being sailors has nothing else to do with their characters or the plot. It doesn't even inform the songs they sing.

Calling Dames at Sea a "sailor musical" is a misnomer. The sailors are there only so the show can satirize the "Shanghai Lil" number from the Jimmy Cagney/Joan Blondell film called, simply, Dames.

[Smaxie]

Posted: 6/26/15 at 1:16pm

Three out of seven characters are Navy men, and the entire second act is staged on their battleship.  It's not a documentary on the life of sailors, no.  But there are jokes and songs that rely on the characters being sailors. It's been a while since I've seen it, but what of the title song ("I like a sailor boy, a seaman, who is thoughtful and sweet" etc.), "Star Tar" ("I'm the star tar of the Navy.  I'm the hit miss of the sea.") or Mona's line to Dick about how she can't wait to see what else he has stored up his dicky?