She had one of the lead roles in the Encores' production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Pipe Dream, their biggest financial flop, but a show from which some very good songs could be excavated.
Leslie played Fauna, the owner of the local bordello, who was mother-figure to her girls and to the "bums" who hung out on Cannery Row. I thought she was fine in a fairly difficult role.
Small businesses are financed through savings and bank loans of the owners and families. They are almost never funded through solicitation of strangers to invest.
It is far too expensive and time consuming to make a public offering under SEC rules.
Well, I've said enough. Your argument against my reasoning is compelling, and I can only respond in kind with, "No, you are wrong." You have nothing to say to the poor people in Seatlle?
To end the discussion on a kinder note than you, I think that the discussion was useful and I do understand your concern.
How do you get the emoji to appear? I made the last post on BWW mobile app and added a grinning emoji to indicate that I was joking about talking to the producers. But here it just showed up as a question mark.
I was referring to the long ago victory of movie theaters over television and VHS/DVDs. I wasn't aware of the Netflix controversy. I'm not saying that this is the last word, but an Ernst and Young report widely circulated concluded that effect on movie theaters was minim
Surprised that you’re so dug in on this, Hogan. You’re certainly an independent thinker.
We are just discussing possible consequences at a high level. Serious discussions by those with the power would follow and perhaps take several years to resolve all issues. I’m hoping that beginning with a pilot program, perhaps using an existing streamer like Netflix but retaining all scheduling power, might make things happen faster. Why just this morning I’ve had two majo
Hogan, right now we have only two states of seeing a Broadway show. See it live on stage or don't see it at all. I respect the view that seeing the show live is all the best, and I would be very careful to do nothing to lower live attendance. Don't let anyone see a filmed version until a year or two years after the show has closed. (I know that I've neglected touring companies.) I'm not even proposing the sale of the show on media, just the streaming of the show. For now. <
We have a bit of a plan to emulate in Disney and the way that they handled their classics like Snow White and Pinnochio. Some organization created by Broadway should retain custody of all the filmed shows. I could see a subscription Broadway channel which, depending on the show, would not air any film until the show had been closed for a year or two. In the case of shows that never close like Wicked, well, they can experiment.
Just as Disney pulled properties like Bambi out of circulat
Discussion of TV series is far off topic. If you think that these series were memorable, your opinion is just as good as mine. The point is that dozens could have played the TV roles but that only a handful, if even that, have the talents that these actresses bring to the musical stage.
I never saw Pushing Daisies, and its description sounded pretty looney, but Chenoweth was so high on it, (and she won the Emmy), that I wasn't prepared to say her time would have been
Yep, I saw some dark faces. I don't even know if there were any African Americans in Mason City (River City), Iowa in that era and, if there were, did they mingle with the whites or were they isolated?
To tell you the truth, in that version some people had trouble with the Matthew Broderick/Robert Preston comparison, But it does give me a lame excuse to link my absolute favorite rendition of "Til There Was You," even better than Paul McCartney's. This was a bonus
Sutton Foster is one of the most beloved actresses on Broadway and she sells tickets. It's just that she doesn't get that much exposure when she's appearing. She did Anything Goes for about a year in the 1000 seat Sondheim eight shows a week. That would mean maybe 400,000 saw her in the role. Good, but even with the wide selection of small screen entertainment we have now television delivers to millions in an hour. And it doesn't cost $140. If Kelli O'Hara is the rei
Steel Pier - had the pedigree: Scott Ellis, Susan Stroman, Kander & Ebb, Karen Ziemba, Kristin Chenoweth in her Broadway debut. Nominated for everything, won nothing. Those in the show remember it fondly.
Ann Miller or Eleanor Powell? Ann looking younger than expected.
I had competely forgotten about Robyn and Fred. I always had read that his jealous wife had insisted that he keep his distance from Ginger. Well, they both seemed to be happy together. Sweet Mystery of Life.
Ginger was pretty tough. Most probably don't know that she won the Best Actress in a Drama Oscar for Kitty Foyle. She beat Katherine Hepburn (The Philadelphia Story), Joan Fontain
Dames at Sea was a long time ago and introduced us to Bernadette Peters, didn't it. This is when I get frustrated that there's no way for me to see Dames at Sea or My One and Only.
And all the while you were "protesting," two brothers, countless friends, hundreds upon thousands of other brave Americans, and myself, were offering our lives in foreign lands so that you could ride in comfort on that bus.
If you went to 'Nam in my place, then you have a right to be ticked off. If you didn't, then you should silence yourself. There weren't very many "heroes" who went to the jungle. It was mainly those who couldn't get out o
bk said: "Almira, you forgot only one thing, vis-a-vis the outraged folks: If you don't agree with them then you, too, are a bully. I just had that happen on Facebook. This has become such a bore, all this manufactured outrage. I kept watching the video and saying to myself, "Myself, where is this bullying?" There was not a whit of bullying. And Almira is absolutely 100% correct - you want bullying, look no further than this thread, Facebook, and Twitter."
Yes, in "Nice Work if You Can Get It" Kelli and Matthew -- well at least Kelli -- do a nice job singing "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off," but fail to follow it up with the dance routine on roller skates that Fred and Ginger segue into.
They say that the soundtrack of "Shall We Dance" is the only place that you can hear certain orchestral themes by George Gershwin. I believe that they are reverse engineering the soundtrack and intend to come out with pu
GavestonPS said: "I think MY ONE AND ONLY is a better representative of Rogers & Astaire than CRAZY FOR YOU."
Never saw it, except for some highlights. You must have seen more than just the highlight numbers "S'Wonderful" and "Kicking the Clouds Away." In "S'Wonderful" on the desert island they rouse themselves and splash through water independent of each other. "Kicking the Clouds Away" is three minutes perfor
What puzzles me about this is the notion that male ballet dancers are somehow non-virile sissies. The two great dancers of the last Century, arguably, were Nureyev and Nijinsky. Both were cultural superstars. Admired for the condition of their bodies and the athleticism that allowed them control over the bodies.
Nureyev created a sensation when he defected to the West from Russia. He never lacked for offers of work from all over the world. The duo of Nureyev and Fonteyn was almost
Susan Stroman's 1992 hit Crazy for You is the closest I can think of. It is based on the 1930 Broadway musical Girl Crazy, whose score was written by George and Ira Gershwin. Although I thought that Astaire was a Broadway star who migrated to Hollywood while Ginger was strictly Hollywood, Rogers played the female lead in Girl Crazy and it made her a star. No, Fred was not in this one. (However Ethel Merman made her Broadway debut here and sang "I
