joevitus said: "Ol Blue Eyes don't confuse your personal prejudices with that of most theatergoers. Follies sees more revivals than Candide, A Little Night Music more revivals than On the Town. Forum more than Wonderful Town."
I was just talking about the score to Candide. The Musical itself has never been very successful. The Overture to Candide is widely played in concert and on classical and light classical radio stations. &nb
joevitus(I don't think his work is any less melodic than Bernstein's in West Side Story, and once the movie company put big bucks into pushing those songs, a "score you can't hum" was suddenly recognized as a national treasure). It's about tailoring the score to the show.
I think that you're going to have a hell of a time convi
I just remembered that I had made that post. It drew the usual reaction to my off topic posts. I'm 68 and I was born three days after The King and I opened on Broadway. I don't think that everyone's favorite Bolshevik, Leon Trotsky, is quoted much anymore, but this quote just hit me between the eyes:
"“Old age is the most unexpected of all things that can happen to a man.”
My comment was not clear. I wasn't asking if Sondheim could have
I’m sure that I would have become a big Sondheim fan if my formative years had come during when he was ruling Broadway. But those years occurred during Rodgers and Hammerstein and Lerner and Loewe.
I remember clearly the night my father brought home with him the OBC album for Company. Mom was a big Broadway fan and this score had won the Tony. We were used to hearing musicals kick off with “Oh What a Beautiful Morning” and when we put Company on the old Hi
Sorry to butt in, and a bit off topic, but I would like to give those suffering from the patriarchy some hope.
Starting back about two decades now, women are simply taking over higher education. Don't hold me to the exact statistics, which most would not agree on anyway. But for the last ten years approximately Ten to eleven percent more women than men are enrolling in four year colleges upon graduation from high school. And I believe that this means three million more women than m
Treat Williams tweeted Kelli O'Hara and Brian Darcy James from his home in Vermont that he had expected to stay in Vermont through Christmas, but was not unhappy that he would be working on a new musical in New York with the two of them instead.
TLDR: Mormons tend to be weird people with conservative but not extremist views, but they tend to be outwardly nice and they support the arts, so a lot of performers seem willing to accept a large paycheck and boost to their careers in exchange for not debating theology and politics while they're there.
Past participants have included Kristin Chenoweth, Sutton Foster and Sierra Boggess (twice).
Kelli O'Hara needs neither the paycheck nor the career boost. S
I have to believe that the Mormon attitude towards issues so important to the theater community has to be influenced by the theater community’s acceptance of the nightly ridicule of the Mormons and their beliefs. Some even suggest that the Mormons don’t find it offensive.
So, in this time when the country is so divided, should the parties stay 2000 miles apart and lob grenades at each other, or should they come together over the mutual love of Broadway music?
At the Cancer Society benefit two weeks ago I asked Susan Stroman about Crazy for You. She said that it was not dead and was awaiting a theater.
I mentioned that Tony Yazbeck, a big part of the success of the 25th Anniversary performance, would probably be unavailable since he was scheduled to be tripping over to the Beaumont for Flying Over Sunset in March. She acknowledged this and said that she was very happy for him having gotten that opportunity.
If you missed it on your local PBS channel, 42ND STREET is available for streaming on the BroadwayHD site. After a slow start, BroadwayHD now has a fairly impressive array of recent musicals, led by West End's The King and I. Also Roundabout's recent She Loves Me with Laura B., Kinky Boots, Hugh Jackman's Oklahoma, An American in Paris, The New York Philharmonic's concert Carousel, with Kelli O'Hara, Nathan Gunn, J
I think it is human nature to get a kick out of seeing somebody famous especially if it is from something you enjoy like Broadway theater.
Good, observation, Yankee Fan. Probably it is not necessarily that they are entertainers, it is just that they are famous perhaps.
I went with my father to an Old Timers' Day at Yankee Stadium in the mid-60s, and Joe hit a clean home run down the left field line into the seats. More on topic, my uncle was one of the best am
GavestonPS said: "dramamama611 said: "Except being famous because of bway isnt really the same as being Hollywood famous. The can often lead uninterrupted lives easily.
And, to be fair, NYers are a lot less into the whole...gah! A famous person, squee! than you might think."
Exactly. When I lived in Manhattan it was considered the height of "uncool" to acknowledge any celebrity outside of a work situation.
BroadwayHD is finally starting to come up with some content. In addition to 42nd Street and King and I, people here might be interested in the NY Philharmonic’s concert Carousel, with Kelli, Nathan Gunn, and Jesse Mueller, Roundabout’s She Loves Me with Laura B., An American in Paris, Hugh Jackman’s Oklahoma, and a bunch of quality other good stuff dating back 5-10 years.
BroadwayHD is finally starting to come up with some content. In addition to 42nd Street and King and I, people here might be interested in the NY Philharmonic’s concert Carousel, with Kelli, Nathan Gunn, and Jesse Mueller, Roundabout’s She Loves Me with Laura B., An American in Paris, Hugh Jackman’s Oklahoma, and a bunch of quality other good stuff dating back 5-10 years.
It Dallas is playing Philly for the division title and you, as a Cowboy fan go to the game wearing a Dallas Jersey, nobody has any right to heckle you or lay hands on you. but if you've ever been to a game in Philly before you know the fans are going to make your life miserable.
No cops are going to come to your rescue inside the stadium. You have to be bright enough to know what's going to happen to you. If you can't handle it, don't go.
Weinstein has been accused of serious crimes, but is out on bail and has not had his day in court yet. So right now he is one of those innocent until proven guilty.
You know why the law makes a big deal out of this distinction between accused and convicted. It's because thousands of innocent men, mostly non-white, have been lynched and shot and beaten by an angry group of people who didn't think they had to wait for a conviction since there were a lot of accusers and the courts
I think that most would agree with you that theater is best experienced live, but if you say LIVE OR NOT AT ALL to people who want to purchase a film then you are taking money off the table that everyone on Broadway could use. If people on the other coast have no access to New York productions, they will start doing their own productions, with Broadway talent.
Example: Chicago Lyric Opera now presents one major musical a season. In 2015 they produced Carousel borrowi
FWIW, the main losers are the holders of the copyrights on the show. There can be separate copyrights on the play as a whole, on the music and on the choreography. Under the law passed by Congress in the mid-70s, copyrights are good (with some exceptions) for 70 years after the death of the initial holder of the copyright. (This would meant the composer of the music.)
Not strictly relevant here, but many feel the 70 year period is too long to tie up that art from the public domain. A n
What many non-eq shows do in their advertising is paramount to outright deception. 'Direct from Broadway' or something similar. And the prices... Total crap "
I’ve brought this up for discussion before. Misleading , untrue ads and they get away with it."
