ROZA (with Georgia Brown) - MARY TESTA studio recording? Please!- Page 3

[BSoBW3]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 3:26pm

OOOO, this is back!

"Get the lady dressed for the party
Get the lady dressed to go dancing!
Ya, ya!
Uh, uh!"

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 4:01pm

Marcia Lewis was also wonderful in this show. She had some hilarious lines!

[BSoBW3]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 4:02pm

"Better get a pu$$y whipped!"

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 4:09pm

I think the line is "better get a pu$$y quick"

It is referring to the sex change operation that Bob Gunton's character is scheduled to get.

[BSoBW3]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 4:16pm

Ah, yes, you are right!

And, actually, I meant to write "better get her...."

But, you are right

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 5:01pm

I've always thought this show was interesting, after reading about it in Not Since Carrie and hearing A House in Algiers on Marcia Lewis' CD... but I don't know too much beyond that. Where have you guys gotten your material from? A demo CD? I know there's no recording...
P.S. I love the flop love

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 5:37pm

This got me to thinking- what other unrecorded flops have had songs recorded by Broadway artists on their solo CDs?
Off the top of my head, there's the Marcia Lewis Roza number, both Alice and Emily's and Betty Buckley's recording of songs from Carrie...
Anyone know other good ones?

[Doctor Dolittle]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 9:17pm

I saw this show. One of the few I walked out of. She was terrible.

[BSoBW3]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 9:19pm

Do little. shhh.

[Doctor Dolittle]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 9:30pm

Sorry, it's the truth.

[BSoBW3]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 9:32pm

I knws, I knows

Updated On: 2/15/06 at 09:32 PM

Posted: 2/15/06 at 11:43pm

Roza first was performed at Baltimore's Center Stage.
I loved this musical.
What a thrill to meet and get autographs from Hal Prince and all the other talented people involved in this production.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 5/5/06 at 3:40am

I think that Mary Testa needs to get a studio recording of this show going. I happen to love the music. And to hear Mary Testa sing BRAVO, BRAVO!

OOOO - Marc Kudisch can play Madame Lola!

C'mon! They can do it!

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 9:51pm

You know - even though I disagree with it, Frank Rich's review was very well written and never reached the negative bitchiness of Brantly's review.

Brantly can learn a lot.

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 10:24pm

can you post the link? i'd love to read the review!

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 10:25pm

I mean, I agree with what he says. But I disagree with how much of an impact it has on the show.

I mean, "Bravo Bravo" is not ALL about the rain.

http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?_r=1&res=9B0DE7DC103DF931A35753C1A961948260&oref=slogin

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 9/2/06 at 3:53pm

In between the Devil
And the deep blue sea
There is still
An awful lot of me

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/2/06 at 8:14pm

I saw it but remember nothing of it

Would enjoy hearing the score again again

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 7/24/14 at 3:36am

Do any of the new posters of the last eight years have anything new to say about this show? I've heard the score and while parts of it are catchy, it's more than a bit overwrought with a very late-eighties sound.

[tazber]

Posted: 7/24/14 at 5:59am

There is a video of the first 20 minutes or so on youtube. I loved the music I heard in that clip.

I've always been intrigued by this show. Would love to hear the entire score.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 7/24/14 at 3:03pm

Do you have a link? I could only find Bravo Bravo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teDqP4wbQ3c

This show has always fascinated me. I've read the novel in French for school as a teen (I believe the English name is Momo) and seen Madame Roza, the French movie version, but only heard brief bits of the musical. The fact that the composer did one of my fave cheezy 1960s French songs (Et Maintenant--performed in English as What Now My Love?) has me intrigued as well. I suppose Prince wasn't too upset at its flop status since he had just had a hit with Phantom in London and knew it would be coming into New York.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 7/24/14 at 7:49pm

I love the film and Georgia Brown, and I really looked forward to the production in LA.

Alas, Dimitri2 sums it up well. He only neglects to mention a truly appalling song about being crowded by the Nazis into the Paris velodrome, in which Roza sang repeatedly that "They put a number on my arm!" (as if that were the worst thing the Nazis ever did). (The song is based on an historical incident, but that was cold comfort.)

I in no way blamed Miss Brown for the production's failure. She worked as hard as she always does in my experience. Bob Gunton played a transvestite, so there was that.

Updated On: 7/24/14 at 07:49 PM

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 7/24/14 at 8:18pm

It's odd--Wiki says that composer Gilbert Bécaud brought the property to Hal Prince, because he was such a fan of Sweeney, and always wanted to do a musical of the property. Prince finally gave in as long as Prince got to choose the librettist/lyricist. He chose Julian More. I can't find ANY info on Julian--was he the son of Prince's college roommate or something? Because the lyrics are pretty awful--and you'd think with Prince's circle of friends he coulda gotten... well someone else.