ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "There are specifications to joining Equity: acquiring 25 (or 50) "EMC Points", which you get by working as a non-Equity actor at an Equity theatre. Or, an Equity company can buy your card for you."
Equity producers don't "buy" cards for people. They offer Equity contracts to non-members, which then makes those people eligible to join. Most people join this way.
I've heard from folks involved in previous workshops that this is kind of a nutso piece, so I'm excited to see it lavishly supported by Lincoln Center.
I saw this on Sunday evening. It's the sort of spectacularly bad big-budget mess that just doesn't happen very much anymore. The vocals are outstanding, the plot is incomprehensible beyond the broad strokes, the choreography is ridiculous to the point of being hilarious, the costumes are Starmites meets Hook meets ASOS, the book is mostly hacky jokes that don't land, there are no fewer than 5 confetti cannons in the first act.
I was wondering about it just the other day, but it appears there's been no news since it closed at the end of January.
Aug 15
2019, 01:13:59 PM
I think he meant an independently-produced EP of Hall covering some of these songs.
Aug 15
2019, 12:08:15 PM
Hall has released a number of EPs of her covering songs by specific artists she loves (including songs from Hedwig). I wouldn't be surprised if she released a Steinman EP to join the set.
This will be a limited engagement of a known property, of which the real "star" will be the conceit of the production, and which will surely be a prestige piece. They don't need a name that will get ticketbuyers from Wichita to immediately fork over $300.
OffOnBwayHi said: "ljay889 said: "......and Encores! Isn’t meant for works in progress. It’s been doing completed musicals since the beginning. You should know what you’re getting into it. If you didn’t want to pay a lot, there were plenty of $25 seats available. "
I know both of thosethings; I knew what I was getting into, just never experienced it.ALLseats should be $25 (honestly, free for this) and readings of completed, alread
Road Show coming to Encores! Off-Center Jul 27
2019, 10:40:25 AM
This presentation is probably the best this show will ever get. I enjoyed it more than I anticipated, but the show’s faults are baked in and twenty years of tinkering have only mixed it up more.
There are several gems in the score, but ultimately it made me just want to listen to Assassins (it doesn’t help that “It’s In Your Hands Now” originated in that show).
It’s worth pointing out that Moulin Rouge, the film, was far from universally acclaimed itself. It averages 76% on Rotten tomatoes and 66/100 on Metacritic, and was consistently knocked for putting spectacle above deeper emotions and for throwing too much into the mix. In fact, to this day you’ll find people love it or loathe it in equal measure.
Speculating on its demise when out of the gate it’s doing numbers all producers dream of is silly.