MOULIN ROUGE! cast album available digitally 8/30 Aug 23
2019, 08:02:16 AM
For those of you who can’t wait, you can always just put on Pandora’s Top Hits of the 2000s station and have pretty much the same experience.
Cutting songs from a performance Aug 10
2019, 08:50:31 PM
When I saw The King and I, Kelli O’Hara was clearly very ill (she didn’t return for Act Two) and they cut “Shall I Tell You What I Think Of You.”
Speed said: "The phrase"Don't You Know What's Out There in the Woods" is the same musical phrase as the title phrase of "Giants in the Sky." "
The Witch sings that phrase to Rapunzel, who then is later killed by one of the aforementioned giants in the sky. A wonderful example of a leitmotif that subtly foreshadows the character’s upcoming tragedy.
CATS Film Adaptation Thread Jul 18
2019, 07:09:13 PM
I was a little encouraged after seeing the featurette but now having seen the trailer I have to wonder what was the point of building all of those sets and choreographing all those wonderful dancers if they were just going to paint over everything with CGI and make it look like a cartoon?
qolbinau said: "Well, it is pretty controversial about whether it was Meryl Streep or Donna Murphy doing the belting!"
I find this conversation very interesting; especially since when I saw Murphy do Into the Woods at the Public (4 years prior to the film), I thought she really struggled to sing it. I'm with GeorgeandDot, I think it's Meryl all the way.
My initial instinct says that Corden lacks a certain pomposity that Barry needs in the earlier chunk of the show (a quality that Ashmanskas has perfected to great comedic effect over the years). Corden tends to read overly eager, desperate to please; whereas Barry has a world-weary, self-important "I'm better than this" attitude, at least at first. Streep hasn't done this kind of over-the-top in a bit (even in Mamma Mia, she's fairly emotionally ground
RaisedOnMusicals said: "It's hard to tell whether the above was sarcastic, but standing ovations have been around since the time of Ancient Rome, and they became associated with the theater in the 17th century. <>
After Eight said: "In the old days, applause alone sufficed. It would suffice equally today."
Yes, because the first documented standing ovation wasn’t until 2013. Such a new phenomena!
Does the box office know about understudy appearances Jun 24
2019, 03:39:57 PM
magictodo123 said, “I specifically bought a ticket to Waitress, shuffle slong, mu Fair lady knowing I would see the understudies for the leafs.”
So aren’t you doing the exact same thing as those going to see shows based on who typically plays the role? In both cases, the reason you’re attending the show is to see a particular performer in the role. So, in fact, you did care about (at least some of) the “details of a show’s inner workings.”
That is to say, people go to see show
Beetlejuice Cast Member Death Jun 22
2019, 05:27:12 PM
I think it’s more that this show has a more flippant attitude about death than other shows and so it seems little awkward?
BrodyFosse123 said: "That’s not the cast, that’s just Tony, Maria, the Jets and the Sharks. No Anita or any of the girls are in this photo nor Valentina the drugstore owner or Officer Krupkec etc. The cast would mean EVERYONE. "
And where are all the extras? I want to see EVERYONE EVERYONE!
MITB Tony's Reactions Jun 10
2019, 10:48:12 AM
Because who could forget the golden rule of comedy: explain the joke and tell the audience exactly what it is you’re parodying and how you’re doing it.
These people are acting as if the Tonys have never done a musical parody before, You know, like they’ve done nearly every single year. All nominated shows are fair game. What a weird fan base.
all_that_jazz said: "What the hell does this feud bit have to do with celebrating bway. James Corden is not funny. We need to go back to having bway star hosts and presenters. This show is much like most.of the shows this year. Dull and mindnumbing."
Twolfwriter said: "The whole exercise, based on the real experiences of teaching 5thgraders about the Underground Railroad, is fake, condescending andsuperficial, even when looked at from the POV of a 5th grader."
While I haven’t seen the show yet, I grew up in the same town as one of the creators and attended the same middle school and high school (we overlapped years a bit). I can confirm this is a real exercise that used to be taught.
LYLS3637 said: "That's because Malek didn't do a great job lip syncing. The entire success of the movie musical historically has been based on a great performer's ability to lip sync to a track-- Judy being one of the best."
Agreed on Malek. I suppose what I was trying to articulate was that by having Zellweger perform the song herself, she doesn't have to stick to every note and vocal inflection laid out by Garland which may give her more control ove
Teaser trailer for Judy w/Renee Zellweger May 10
2019, 11:40:13 AM
I’m actually pleased that she’s doing her own singing because I think it frees up the performance a bit. I found it distracting in Bohemian Rhapsody, for example, whenever they’d switch to Mercury’s real vocals because it never looked like the sound was coming out of Malek’s mouth and I think the performance suffered. While I’m sure Zellweger prerecorded her vocals, she can align her vocal performance with her on-screen performance.
