Well, let's not forget that Eve Harrington seemed to be rushing all of Margo Channing's performances... If not, then we never would've had that brilliant movie!
...or that fun musical on Broadway about 20 years later!
I saw Carol Channing in “Hello, Dolly!” in 1995 in Pasadena. I don’t think she performed the show anymore after this 30 city tour.
I never appreciated Channing before seeing her live in this tour of the show. However, I immediately GOT IT after seeing her performance. She was absolutely amazing...and her eating dumplings scene at the Harmonia Gardens was...well, perfection.
Did anyone here go? I saw some good feedback on Facebook, but it seems she only performed a couple of numbers. Understandably.
After seeing her live countless times from the early 70s (including Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall and everything before, after and in-between). I saw her at Disney Hall in Los Angeles in 2014. It was tough to watch, but she had the audience in the palm of her hand.
I’ll rely on recordings and my memories now. There was a time when no one c
JayElle wrote: The NY Times article said voters were voting "against the commercialism" of the other musicals. It showed. Show was okay, but not great.
I can't help but wonder what this board would've looked like, had it been around, in 1994 when PASSION won Best Musical over BEAUTY AND THE BEAST...
TexanAddams18 wrote: Except that nowhere in the Carousel script does it say anything about the race of Billy and in West Side Story it says in the first paragraph Maria is Puerto Rican.
I think the reason for this is that, when CAROUSEL was written...and based on the time period in which the story took place...there was no need to call out the race of Billy. It was just understood.
For WEST SIDE STORY, it was important then to separate the Sharks and Jets in
CDs can actually hold approximately 80 minutes of music.
Others have been correct here about some of the earlier players possibly not being able to handle anything past 72 or 74 minutes. Interesting tidbit: when they were developing CD, the benchmark was that they wanted one disc to be able to hold a complete performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
I won’t be seeing this in New York after reading all of the negative comments about the production...but, as many people here predicted, and are affirming, it sure does make for a great cast recording! I’m enjoying Tunick’s orchestrations and all of the performances. The recording has “life” to it as does the new “My Fair Lady” recording.
it makes me even angrier that we got such an underwhelming recording of “Hello, Dolly!” last ye
Dollypop, you are so right! COCO has to be, hands down, the most poorly produced cast album of the modern age of stereo recording. The CD iteration is just as bad...
I pay for both Apple Music and Spotify. Currently, it’s not available on either of these services. I think someone said earlier that this record label doesn’t release digitally for sometimes up to a year. That’s a shame as they’d realize revenues now from digital. In a year, demand will not be so great...or a lot of people will have moved on to next year’s cast albums. All of the majors release their cast albums day-and-date with the physical release. I
fashionguru_23 asked: Does anyone know where this fits in number of times the same movie has been remade outside of Shakespeare, or ones where they have the same source material (Shop Around the Corner)
I think the first iteration of the story on film came with WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD, directed by George Cukor in 1932 and starring Constance Bennett.
In 1937, that film was remade starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March...it was titled A STAR IS BORN.
MAME is one of my go-to cast albums. I would love to see it revived... Please, if you see the North Shore Music Theatre production, post your review here...
