Kad said: "I think we're at a Van Hove oversaturation point."
Disagree. If we can have a Joe Mantello show on Bway every year - hell, multiple Casey Nicholaw shows - then we can have a Van Hove every season. Fine by me!
nmartin said: "Isn't this essentially the same show she did at the Walter Kerr in '95, post-Sunset?
She did a costume bit where dresses from her shows were lowered from the flies and she explained them. When she got to Norma's, she hit it with a pointer, looked at the audience, and said, "I wish you could've seen me!""
I think the Bway show was based on this one, and it was also recorded for PBS. But I hadn't heard/seen the dr
Agree the white characters seem to have less catchy recit, but it’s just recit. There are plenty of songs/arias, though. So like all operatic scores, those are where the melodies are.
I didn't realize Bekah was working on it. That gives me hope. And hearing how they're possibly really reimagining the story for today is exciting - why not?
BrodyFosse123 said: "Having seen the original Broadway production about 2 weeks before it closed, I definitely will be seeing this revival. It'll be interesting seeing a new staging of it as the original staging was so fantastic on every level. I'll be going with an open-mind and no expectations as I did when I saw the original. I only went just to add it to my Flop List and spent the entire 1st act with my jaw dropped. I was blown away with what I was experiencing both visua
Anyone think Cher will be at the last Cher Show on Sunday? Aug 18
2019, 10:40:37 AM
Oh I wasn’t implying she didn’t have the right to make the changes! Not was I being shady. In fact, every interview I’ve heard, the person says they would allow some of the unorthodox things (mainly the how and when, like on the day of Opening when a show is long frozen, not the what) precisely because this was Cher and it was her story!
I’m just fascinated by that. More how artists from different industries and mediums interact with the very specific way theatre operates.
I'd like a bit more of the tea behind Cher's involvement in the creation, once it closes and people feel freer to talk. It seems in every interview I've heard, there's another little nugget of how she would be far more involved (and in some unorthodox ways) since it was her life: she requests a rewrite which required restaging on the *day of Opening*(!), during previews she sent in her personal makeup artist to overhaul SJB's wig and makeup design. Fascinated by these.
qolbinau said: "Don't want to create a new thread for this, but I'm re-listening to the Evita OBC and it almost is scary to listen to LuPone because it sounds like the same voice she has in 2019! When you listen to say Bernadette in 1974-1984 it's very much 'young Bernadette'. But LuPone could as well have headed to the recording studio during Company and recorded the OBC Evita. It's incredible."
ljay889 said: "Patti is known for playing hardball, but I’m not surprised she didn’t follow through with her word this time. I couldn’t imagine she’d pass up a Broadway transfer of a major Sondheim revival, and the 50th anniversary of the show itself."
Agreed. She has to know this is a special moment. How many more Sondheim revivals on Broadway will she get to do, especially if I may be so frank, while we're lucky enough to have him with u
But I always thought her life needed a bigger treatment. More like a rock opera type of treatment.
So agree.
I'll never forget the terrible taste of having the Queen sing a verse of the stupid song, "F You Dress". What's more, in the next scene, the Queen must be the the one to defend the morals of the crown and arbitrate their break-up - and even sing a ballad about it after. Talk about completely stripping a character of all power just before you ne
