I loved this movie so much for the acting, and the Sondheim songs were a perfect way of showcasing the actors in different ways...Adam Driver singing BEING ALIVE, got me choked up with emotion as the song really did belong to him at this point in his life, and the shrug and relief on his face after singing this moving rendition tells it all...he was living this song and this particular moment...
i snuck in to a theatre showing CATS after seeing the movie BOMBSHELL...which is great btw...and caught Jennifer Hudson singing Memory...as with all the musical numbers in the movie version of Les Miz, she acted the song while singing it and i found it very affective. But the last few minutes of the movie made me realize that i did not want to see the whole feature in one sitting...
Mack and Mabel for sure...i once saw a L.A. Reprise version at UCLA,, with Jane Krakowski and Douglas Sills in 2000, and always wondered why this Jerry Herman musical was a flop on Broadway....
if Imelda does Dolly like she butchered Mama Rose, then no thanks...that performance was the most manic i have ever seen on stage for a character that needed not to be...pushy yes but manaical to the point you wanted to slap her quiet...
as an out of towner i find this forum very useful to keep me informed on what's what on Broadway...i like to read about the buzz shows have or not have on this forum, and there are always interesting bits of information to be gleamed from all you "experts"...even if most of it is untrue...
Bettyboy72 said: "With all the delicious names being tossed around we will probably all be saddened when they trot out the awards bait cast-Streep, Dench, Bening, Hawn, Mirren, Keaton, Zeta-Jones and the like."
sorry no sad tears here for this cast list if it is the actual cast...I MEAN MY GOD!!.
i too saw this production in London and LOVED IT...if this bit of news turns out to be correct than i am there and will hold off any near death until i see this on the big screen...how 'bout Catherine Zeta-Jones as Phyllis?...
Dolly80 said: "I for one am totally on board for Claybourne Elder running around in next to nothing during ‘Barcelona’..."
...and he can sing the pants off of anybody as well...(G)..i saw him at the Hollywood Bowl 2 years ago singing FINISHING THE HAT and i fell in love with that song and Claybourne Elder...
Ok i did not love this tv show, but i really liked many aspects of it...BEN PLATT, GWYNETH PALTROW...(who is looking more and more like her mother Blythe Danner, who i absolutely have loved), and even JESSICA LANGE,( who although i HATED her character, played her brilliantly), and finally BETTE MIDLER who shows up in the final Season 1 episode.
The show is gorgeous to look at showing off Santa Barbara in all its glory. As to comments here about older actors playing teenagers while i wo
CATSNYrevival said: "What was wrong with "Another Hundred People?""
i saw COMPANY the very first week of previews and ANOTHER HUNDRED PEOPLE to me was very clunky...it was not a smooth choreographed number...the song seemed to stop and start...now maybe my memory from the original production inn 1970 has dimmed, and maybe i have listened to the OBC album way too may times, but the way this number was that very first week diminished the song's power...
god this board is not to be believed...i say one thing and someone else says another, then the flood gates open...yes GETTING MARRIED is a song that creates a lot of buzz when performed, but seeing Bailey in London, and discovering this new young man singing at a fever pitch, myself and the audience were cheering HIM on, as well as the song...and there were only 2 stopped musical numbers the night i saw this wonderful production...Getting Married and Ladies Who Lunch...to say that a
The opening set piece for the recent revival at Lincoln center of The King & I with the ship coming into harbor...breathtaking...and the opening transition in An American In Paris, which went from one of the leading male performers along on stage to transitoning into post war Paris with huge backdrops of the French flag and the city...also breathtaking and it won a Tony for sets as well that year!
Jonathan truly stopped the show the night i saw it in the West End...he was so exciting...and it is a true shame he won't be on Broadway stopping the show there as well...they better cast someone truly exceptional in this role!!
1 question to everyone here...has there been any word if Sondheim will write a new song for this movie?...composers always seem to add a new song for Oscar consideration...just curious...
