Riedel is the spam emailing equivalent/Hedda Hopper of theatre journalism and I'd love if we could collectively stop giving him--er, I mean, 10086sunset, any time of day.
Saw it in LA. What a mess. Even the greats (Henry, Sam, Jeanine) can fahk things up. They really screwed the pooch on it. It just doesn't work, period. It's got some killer one liners, but it's trying to do too many things at once. It's truly terribly contrived. As its been said earlier, the show is an view of what a big America musical would be from a Chinese perspective. And then--the protagonist gets stabbed in the neck--just like DHW IRL. It's a play with music, and th
The fact that hes straight has me so shook. It like, makes me hate him even more. I dont feel bad about bashing him; he's downright mean, catty and nasty. He's a parasite to the industry. He's a modern day Hedda Hopper.
I heard she taught a Master Class and threw a fit because she insisted one of the students was a reporter in disguise (she wasn't) and threw her out of the classic. She's known to be pretty erratic.
1) Reverse racism isn't real so let's just shut down any discussions around that.
2) I left a theatre company recently for a variety of other reasons, but one of the kicker being that the artistic director (latino gay man) wanted to do a version of Company with a multi-ethnic cast (after we'd already talked about wanting to do only new works that season among one of which was a docutheatre about student protestors I loved), and his reason was that "we don't see
I was wondering, are there any pictures, assemblances of a script, or even audio (I doubt theres anything more than that) of the show when it was out of town? I heard there was a sideplot where they included The Field Mice from the original novel that got cut. I'm curious to know as much about this as possible.
It's insanely subjective. I think honestly the biggest crime here is when people who are too old play teenagers. It's so cringey, and then I think it also gives teenagers unrealistic expectations of what their bodies and voices should sound like. I understand that the reasons this is in place is because of the liability/headache of working with actors under 18, which I understand all too well as a director myself but I wish we could maybe adjust some of the laws to make it easier. I h
I think everyone needs to remember that technically, ACL is the first modern American docutheatre piece. It was the first commercial piece that used real people's stories, real people's words (often verbatim) from so many different dancers, in and out of the cast. I think it would be so unethical and so disrespectful to change it. Their stories live on to this very day through telling that story. Am I the only one that thinks that's actually so beautiful and amazing? I would
Just out of curiosity, when shows are being licensed and on the site is "restricted" am I correct in saying that this usually because there's about to be a major production of it being done? Or are there other reasons that this happens?
What happened to her? She was so talented! Her last credit was for ROCKY HORROR SHOW (2001). And she was in the original RENT?! I wonder if she's teaching or directing now like Freddi Walker but I can't seem to find her!
Please tell me for the love of god that they are not setting this in present day. That would literally defeat the entire purpose. The 70's are as much of a character as any of the rest of them.
Evsever said: "The 1970s costumes were a nice touch."
I 100% agree. The book has specifically modern lingo at a few points but I really wish they'd give permission to put it back in the 70's. I just think overall, it feels right to keep it in the original era when it was written--it just works better what with Carrie not knowing her period, bullying IRL as opposed to online--it just feels like, pun intended, like it'll always be a period piece. But th
It was so cringey, but also some of them aren't terrible singers but so insanely autotuned. I thought it was absolutely ridiculous esp. cutting Margaret's songs, but enjoyable in a it's-so-bad-it's-good-way. I don't hate the revival, but there are certainly plenty of things to hate about it. I really enjoyed it live and having directed the revival version myself and a huge fan of the original I couldn't help think about one of my favorite underraged productions wi
Just saw a mind blowing, awesome college production of Cabaret and it made me think about this. Is it true that Hal Prince cast Jill Haworth because she was not a strong singer? She sounds pitchy to me and I can only determine that's because it was intentional.
I guess I'm really split on it. In theory I'm not against Sally being played by a "bad singer", but it's hard, because I believe that the songs help tell the story in this case and it seems wrong to me
