I am a producer of world class media (stage, film, TV, audio recording), and in addition I develop and produce original, indigenous talent in all areas of media production, in concert with production possibilities in major U.S. cities. In my spare time, I screw around on the Internet.
I used to post here as gvendo2005, but in turning over a new leaf with regard to my Internet persona, I felt a new account was needed. And... here I am!
Cora Hoover Hooper said: "AEA AGMA SM said: "RippedMan said: "Do we think the Liberty will ever come back? Doesn't seem like they can get anything to stick in that house - restaurant/store - so why not convert it back? Or is it too far gone?"
From what I was told the way the Liberty was boxed in by the developments around it they ended up cutting off too many of their emergency exits to have a capacity of 500+. Assuming that's true, it c
After a few too many visits to the Spirit of Halloween in the fall, I still keep trying to find a way in my head to make the Liberty work again, in spite of the obvious drawbacks and hurdles to be cleared.
I mean, not for nothing, it was a preview of a Disney On Ice attraction on a surface designed to make simulated ice skating easier, with little time to learn any complicated choreography. I'm pretty sure it's not a representative sample.
A better look might be when she dropped into The Lion King a while back, and had no problem being physical and enthusiastic. (Likewise Favorite Flop? Nov 26
2019, 10:50:03 AM
SeanMartin2 said: "Amoung many, the most egregious is GREAT COMET, considering it was a rabid fanbase that forced the show to close when the "base" didnt get the performer *it* wanted."
Bag on stans all ya want, I do it for fun, but that's not the reason it closed.
CATSNYrevival said: "I realize this was 30 years ago but seriously? Berry Bostwick, Susan Egan, Donna McKechnie and Brent Sudduth in ancient China? Who cast this?"
According to IMDb, Rachelle Farberman.
Other intriguing theater / pop culture note: Micky Dolenz directed this.
I'd make the same cuts to Phantom as the Vegas spectacular did, except for leaving the chandelier drop at the end of Act I and keeping the intermission. Less is more, and this is a show that would play much better as a fast-paced thrill ride than the yawn it has become.
In fairness to Doyle, if you take out the actor/musician nonsense, the idea of a Sweeney a la Marat/Sade, with the inmates play-acting the events which run on a loop in the traumatized mind of Toby, now confined to an asylum, is pretty solid. (It's also been beaten farther into the ground than any dead horse, sadly.)
The movie solved this problem Ivo seems to think exists by cutting the ballet and moving "I Feel Pretty" earlier in the piece. You're not special, van Hove.
It's alright, gang, I swapped that out for a slightly easier dream: taking the published edition of the gender-bent Company and splicing it with the "original," so to speak, so we can finally deal with a gay Bobbie instead of a ridiculous emphasis on her biological clock and a weird apparent reinterpretation of "Being Alive" as being alone.
I admit that once or twice, just to see if I'd get physically slapped by Sondheim, I've thought of staging a version of Company that wouldn't change a word or a note, but would include a silent male roommate for Bobby who tags along on his adventures, commenting only with physical gesture or facial animation on what's going on, and then "Being Alive" ends with Bobby finally realizing what's been right in front of him all along.
While I don't necessarily agree with joevitus' sweeping generalization that everyone thought Company was a coming out story, I will add that there is proof someone thought it was: Arthur Laurents once implied -- by pointing out the similarities between the two -- that his play, The Enclave, which premiered a few years later (with an incidental score by Sondheim, funnily enough) was braver than Company because he wasn
Irene Cara started with the tour, but bailed very early on for undisclosed reasons. Her understudy, Leesa Richards Humphrey, took over, and was then succeeded by Syreeta Wright (former Mrs. Stevie Wonder and successful R&B artist in her own right).
Eight productions (and 14 performances total) of Jesus Christ Superstar. (It will be nine, and 15, when I catch the current 50th anniversary tour in Providence this spring.) Each time I see it, it speaks to a different part of me.
Luminaire2 said: "g.d.e.l.g.i. said: "Now thatMotown's come, gone, and is more or less done, maybe this is the chance to jettison some of the Menken score (sorry Alan!) and give Whoopi songs from the movie that are already known to fit a comfortable range for her?"
I’m here for it."
And it's not like it'd be hard:
* Bump "Take Me to Heaven" (opening number for Deloris and the girls
