maybe this thread on the day he died isn't the best place to share it.
Hal Prince has died Jul 31
2019, 02:49:19 PM
His book, Sense of Occasion is perhaps as impactful to the subject of concept directing as the famous A Director Prepares. He WAS Broadway and he truly changed the type of theatre being produced.
RIP to the greatest director of musicals of all time.
Try to be as self-aware as possible. To people that have seen you perform - try to get their opinion. Their honest opinion. Don't take each one as gospel, but notice the trends, what people keep repeating. No yourself - what roles you can and what roles you can't play. In general, know your "type." That doesn't mean you can't play outside of that but sometimes it's best to find what you're good at, work to become great, then one of the best around and then mo
Always try to have a clear picture of the context of your education - I went to a high school for the arts and it was simultaneously the greatest and worst thing that happened to me. The air was oppressive, with the same chosen few students getting wonderful opportunities to fill out their resumes before college (this was a school where most students in the theatre program applied to audition-based schools to study drama) and the other 45 students stood in the ensemble and moved the set. The
Tituss v. Andy Cohen Jul 29
2019, 09:14:19 PM
Funny how verbatim passages of Murphy’s notoriously homophobic stand-up act have mysteriously disappeared...
Interesting. I've never met Andy in person, but I took a master class type thing with Tituss (through a company) and I remember him being super positive and funny. He joked about a 9-year old singing "Your Daddy's Son" from Ragtime and after I sang "Half As Big As Life" from Promises, Promises. he looked me dead in the eye and said "You know yourself." So I have nothing negative to say. Of course, this was in 2014 before Un
Maybe an agent worth their salt would know what kind of show WWHL is. This is the show where Brandi Glanville said that Joanna Krupa's vagina smelled and was sued for it. So... know the platform you're on and what its history is. It's not like the show has changed in the past 10 years - it's all about Andy being messy and asking inappropriate questions. It's not an Oprah interview.
Also, Andy may be messy, but the one topic he goes DEEP on is LGBT rights and issues.
Tituss was on Watch What Happens Live (presumably to promote his new album and an upcoming project) last night and got into a little tiff with host Andy Cohen...
It was hard to watch two big personalities clash, but personally I wonder what Tituss expected from WWHL. An
Jul 21
2019, 07:37:35 PM
Sondheim states in Finishing the Hat that he wanted to switch those musical numbers and Robbins finally relented to try it for a preview performance. Because of the sets, it proved impossible and it was never performed like that in front of an audience. Sondheim was excited when the film used his idea, but later disavowed it, stating that the original was less realistic, but worked in a way that the film placement didn't.
You seem to know more about Lehman's
Jul 20
2019, 09:12:05 PM
Oh lord. Smoke a joint and move on.
Patti may be messy... but is she wrong?
Jul 19
2019, 07:18:06 PM
Amen! But I think LuPone meant "bite the pillow" not "bite the bullet", don't you?"
This made me choke. Bravo.
Countess Luann will finally join CHICAGO Jul 19
2019, 03:43:14 PM
I mean, she’s been on a fairly popular television show for eleven years and has her own sold-out cabaret show that tours the country. I think this is more stunt casting than say, Rumor Willis (unless I’m greatly underestimating her “celebrity”). Certainly of the Lisa Rinna level Chicago has set.
Countess Luann will finally join CHICAGO Jul 19
2019, 03:04:27 PM
She has said it’s “a role all about class.” An allusion to her book Class With the Countess and her single “Money Can’t Buy You Class”. I would assume it would be either Velma or Mama, considering that they sing “Class” - Mama would seem just a bit more realistic considering her limitations?
If she played Roxie, I would buy a ticket immediately. There’s no way I would miss that train wreck.
Countess Luann will finally join CHICAGO Jul 19
2019, 02:56:22 PM
This announcement also comes only a few weeks after the RHONY season finale, where Luann’s friend was caught with a hot mic explaining why Luann needed “friends” to come out during her cabaret show. “I don’t think she could carry a show alone... She can’t really sing.”
Countess Luann will finally join CHICAGO Jul 19
2019, 02:51:15 PM
I pleaded guilty... to unabashedly loving Luann and RHONY. For 11 years I have found her endlessly entertaining and deluded. For the past two years she has also spoken at length about her live of the theatre community and the people she has met while touring with her cabaret. This is fully the kind of casting we have come to expect from Chicago.
I do feel badly for people who may pay money without knowing how she will “sing” the role.
Film is a literal art form while theare is a poetic one. Often times, the best theatrical adaptations into the film medium are those that stylize the art form - therefore blurring the "realism" that film is so known for. For example, Kazan's film adaption of A Streetcar Named Desire kept the poetic nature of Jo Mielziner's sets which heightened the drama of the story. Vivian Leigh's blazing performance - a completely different acting world from Marlon Brand
