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This is not a stage musical that screams--Make me into a movie !

It now belongs on the Concert Platform.

Ms Reinking visited Melbourne to oversee a production of Chicago starring the wonderful Caroline O'Connor. During a rehearsal I attended, and knowing 'someone', I was asked if I would like to take Ms Reinking for a walk around the area while certain things were changed, not needing her input..

Needless to say, an hour spent strolling the neighbourhood and chatting, mainly about Australia, was one hour that is mine alone.

Thank you for that Hour and for all the years

Well I hope they at least show how this drug works.

Let's all light a candle to this dead Diva and to Dollypop for trying so hard to keep her memory alive.

Are there any tales of well know 'stage fathers'. Is there a masculine equivalent of the dreaded female stereotype?

At least one brain cell seems to be working then.

For once that was funny.

HogansHero said:

As already rehearsed, yes. (ditto for a non-Broadway show)

HH I noticed on numerous threads that you use the word 'rehearsed' in a way I don't understand, as above.

Do you mean 'gone over many times'?

 

Just had a listen to the newly released single. What do you think?

Me?--Juvenile lyrics, musically a mix of everything and then,of course, a loud screech at the end. I just hope this is just a quick throw-away 'look at me I'm a rebel' type song and the rest is sheer brilliance.

We can all dream.

Stepping a little to the side re Lanie K. As a young theatre queen I just loved her voice and when she announced a concert in Melbourne[at the dreadful rock & fight venue Festival Hall[usually, though I did see Barry Manilow mime most of his show there] I rushed and bought tickets for myself and friends.

Looking around from our Front Row Seats[where she would notice us !!!], we chatted, 'where is everyone'?

I think there were more on stage than in the audience.

PutonyourWarPaint said: " the interest on my card from these tickets will.

Don't you pay your credit card back to Nil at the end of each month? No interest that way.

"

 

Who is Zahra Newman, Lousy?

Pippin is an import too, I think--could be wrong.

For such a short season theatre starved patrons would be happy to see Minnie Mouse as The Leading Player, or a coloured male, or Chinese or whatever nationality.

And I think that KAK will pull in her TV followers-a clever bit of stunt casting. I wonder if the make-up people will undo what untold $s have created to make her look 'older than she ever intended to be'?

Jim Parsons, physically, is not your leading man type but will always be a leading man character.

I would love to see him as a Joker type or evil in James Bond or nasty in a Marvel film.

He certainly has his own mannerisms that invade all his characters but, so what?

Just watched Ratched and the brilliant Judy Davis. I thought her Judy Garland took over totally and belonged inside Nurse Bucket.

I am not a Patti fan but her teaming up with RR was a pure joy for me--solidarity.

Apart from it being clever, I could hear the clarity and beauty[matched by RR] in Patti's vocals and her breath control, remarkable.

Thank you Patti for helping out a friend.

Thank you DAME---same back to you..x

Dear Lord, How could Bennett DO that?  Holliday had to perform one of the most difficult songs EVER and to be upstaged nightly and robbed of her applause--that was so childish and petty.

I always wondered why it was written that way? Trust a bitchy queen to f^ck it up.

Comment removed for my insensitivity-sorry.

and...I have read comments below and MAYBE I was too hasty to judge. I did see the show in SF and it was my first experience being amongst a majority

This is my 2nd[or 3rd] name here as I kept forgetting membership details etc.

My theatrical world expanded once I discovered BWW and I read here for a long time before I dared to contribute. I had never typed a thought before and after the first few attempts I was mortified that so many strangers could be so rude. I had never heard of or new the meaning of 'sock puppet' or some other word I was called; I asked a question and was told 'that's what google is for'; was

All these wonderful suggestions show just what a unique, versatile voice her throat produced. It is indeed a tragedy the way her life unfolded but we still have the movies and recordings. All the above fantasies we can now only imagine her interpretations of these songs.

It is threads like this one that cast me back to that very sad concert in Melbourne where we waited over an hour to witness the brilliance, then the breakdown of the legendary Ms Judy Garland.

R.I.P. Over that R

I was fascinated, repulsed, had tears, furious, laughed[a little-think I needed an audience around me to encourage the mirth] and was entertained, to a point.

Never saw the original movie and don't remember anything about the Australian production which I know that I saw, so viewed this last night as a new adventure.

The whole set-up was painfully obvious but clever in its revelation. The characters appeared, left their mark then continued to hover till next called upon to p

jo said: "So long as it happens --

https://twitter.com/StoriesforH/status/1309035202438721537?s=20

Do turn on the sound."

Sorry Jo but that was just so D.R.E.A.R.Y ! There was that great uplifting,stirring joyous marching tune as the camera pans along a sad PLAIN drab marquee surrounding equally uninteresting neighbours.

Good try, intentions were good.