Defying Gravity Concert in Sydney
Defying Gravity Concert in Sydney
Joined: 12/31/69
#1Stephen Schwartz's New Musical Revue
Posted: 10/10/15 at 7:02pm
Did anyone know they were making a Stephen Schwarz musical revue? I want to see this!!
wildcat
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/04
#2Stephen Schwartz's New Musical Revue
Posted: 10/10/15 at 8:09pm
Looks fascinating! I also saw an ad today for a new Australian concert tour of Stephen Schwartz material starring Sutton Foster, Aaron Tveit and Betty Buckley.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#5Stephen Schwartz's New Musical Revue
Posted: 10/11/15 at 10:01am
Because so many things of quality come from a cruise ship.
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#6Stephen Schwartz's New Musical Revue
Posted: 10/11/15 at 10:42am
I certainly wouldn't book a cruise just to see this, but it does look entertaining.
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yankeefan7
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/12
#7Stephen Schwartz's New Musical Revue
Posted: 10/11/15 at 3:01pm
Exactly. If your going on that cruise ship anyway, I am sure it will be better than the standard cruise ship entertainment.
#8Stephen Schwartz's New Musical Revue
Posted: 10/11/15 at 3:23pm
It is a little weird that this is premiering on a cruise ship, but hey, if its good, its good.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#9Stephen Schwartz's New Musical Revue
Posted: 10/11/15 at 6:41pm
With any revue, there should be a mix of standards and well known numbers and those that were cut and are lesser known.
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#10Stephen Schwartz's New Musical Revue
Posted: 10/11/15 at 9:41pm
Mr Roxy said: "With any revue, there should be a mix of standards and well known numbers and those that were cut and are lesser known.
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"Should be", Mr. R, but I doubt you'll get the lesser known songs on a cruise ship, no more than you will in a "Broadway revue" in Las Vegas. Not unless they are seriously preparing the show for New York.
#11Defying Gravity Concert in Sydney
Posted: 10/12/15 at 3:31am
This is the concert they are doing in Sydney if anyone is interested. http://www.defyinggravitytheconcert.com
I booked my tickets today. Great line up of stars.
#12Defying Gravity Concert in Sydney
Posted: 10/12/15 at 10:06am
I was actually astonished at the song selection of the Broadway revue that was performed on the Celebrity Equinox for quite a few years. (We were on that gorgeous ship back in 2010 and again in 2012-- same show more or less.) Amidst all the expected schlock, they actually managed a respectable Sondheim medley of 4 songs, including (if I recall correctly) "Putting It Together", "You Could Drive a Person Crazy", "Being Alive", and culminating in a performance of "Send in the Clowns" with an entire Cirque-du-Soleil- style pas de deux performed upstage behind the singer! Hysterical!
And Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas has a truly legitimate bang-up one-act production of CHICAGO that really knocked our socks off! Same staging and every bit the equal of the current Broadway production. (Or if that sounds like faint praise, consider it far superior to the Broadway company.)
#13Defying Gravity Concert in Sydney
Posted: 10/12/15 at 10:17am
Will the singing and band be live for the Schwartz revue, or will it be the cruise-ship standard of half live, half click track with lip sync?
#14Defying Gravity Concert in Sydney
Posted: 10/12/15 at 10:55am
Can't say with any certainty, but that CHICAGO production mimicked the Broadway revival set with the band onstage so, yes, for that show they had a respectable live band. The Equinox show's instrumental score was entirely prerecorded. As for singing, my recollection is that in most cases only the soloists are singing live. Any ensemble singing seems to be prerecorded.
Updated On: 10/12/15 at 10:55 AM#15Defying Gravity Concert in Sydney
Posted: 10/12/15 at 4:42pm
Someone, it may just be that the ensemble track was "sweetened". That was the procedure at THE FABULOUS PALM SPRINGS FOLLIES: the ensemble was singing live to a prerecorded track "sweetened" by vocalists imported from L.A. It was the only way the cast could simultaneously dance full out and also appear to sing full out.
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Myself, I wouldn't call that Sondheim medley "obscure". Okay, so they weren't singing "Cabaret", but those are among the most recognizable Sondheim songs and "Send in the Clowns" is his one, true commercial hit.
StephieElise
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#16Defying Gravity Concert in Sydney
Posted: 10/13/15 at 8:28am
mtchairs said: "This is the concert they are doing in Sydney if anyone is interested. https://www.defyinggravitytheconcert.com
I booked my tickets today. Great line up of stars."
Don't remind me! I'm desperate to see this (Sutton Foster! In Australia!) but I have tickets to something in Melbourne on the Sunday night that I'm not willing to miss and is a only on that weekend and I just don't think I can justify the flights to Sydney for such a short time. 
Why does it have to be that weekend?!
#17Defying Gravity Concert in Sydney
Posted: 10/14/15 at 2:21am
What's the relationship between the Sydney concert and the cruise ship revue? (it seems odd this thread is trying to service both topics).
The Sydney concerts are selling very well. Both will be sold out for sure before the performance date. Exciting!
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
