| Member Name: | MagicalMusical | | Contact User: | You must be logged in to contact BWW members. | | Gender: | Male | | Profile: | Another gay guy who falls into the stereotype of liking musical theater. But the gayness doesn't stop there. I particularly love magical musicals, about fantasy, fairy tales, poofy dresses, sparkly special effects, and, yes, Disney. |
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New Cinderella Prince Song Dec 15
2020, 07:05:50 AM
VintageSnarker said:A savage level of faint praise. I wish they'd use it as a pull quote."
Haha thanks.
| Why Didn't Annaliese Van DerPol become a hit? Dec 15
2020, 07:04:43 AM
I always liked Annaliese ever since she said "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes" was "untouchable", and then was Belle. After seeing that Cameo, wow, she, wow, she has a really good soprano voice and she sang the hell out of "Happy Birthday". Like, amazingly. I didn't know that song could sound like that, lol.
| New Cinderella Prince Song Dec 14
2020, 07:29:38 AM
It is sweet. I think it's a really nice song. It's not really good, but it's kinda almost good. It's the best song so far, because it has a nice chorus, and it doesn't sound like some other song (Like "In My Own Little Corner"! Grrr!).
| ALW's Cinderella Sep 18
2020, 07:59:01 AM
These two songs we've heard are pretty good melodically and lyrically. I think the most beautiful parts we've heard is the really beautiful repeated string of notes in "Far Too Late" when she sings, "...I would show you how I'm sorry, how I long to clean the slate" and all the other times she sings those notes. I just wish "Bad Cinderella" didn't have some phrases that sound so much like "In My Own Little Corner"!
| ALW's Cinderella Mar 9
2020, 05:21:03 AM
Cinderella is my favorite story, and Cinderella's my favorite literary character. I only like classic, faithful, and "once upon a time" versions, but this may have a modern story I like, and I'm glad it's still set "once upon a time". I love that the actress playing Cinderella is a big girl. The only thing from this I don't like is the music from that clip. It sounds way too modern and I just plain don't like the melody. And yes, the begin
| Into the Woods "Money before a child" line Dec 11
2019, 02:49:37 AM
Thank you very much for answering my question.
| Into the Woods "Money before a child" line Dec 8
2019, 01:11:06 AM
I have been wondering this for a while. In Into the Woods, the Baker's Wife says to the Baker, "You would take money before a child?" I always thought it just meant "You would take money from a child?" and the "before" part was an old medieval way of speaking. But now, I wonder, does she mean, "You would take money from this boy to sell back the cow before you would keep the cow so we could lift the curse and have a child?"
| ALW- reworking a new Cinderella for the stage May 23
2019, 12:39:17 AM
Oh, I hope the gay subplot does get more prominence! But yes, the focus should be on Cinderella and her romance.
I know a lot of Cinderella versions and as far as the ones close to the "original' or "real" Cinderella it's pretty much just the original Greecian one, Chinese one, Italian one, and then the ones we know the best, the French one that invented the fairy godmother and glass slipper and the German one which has Cinderella's mother's ghost and the
| ALW- reworking a new Cinderella for the stage May 22
2019, 01:58:57 AM
It sounds like this project will be A LOT better than what we thought it was gonna be!
There is this article:
https://nypost.com/2019/05/16/cinderella-musical-gives-prince-charming-a-gay-twist/]‘Cinderella’ musical gives Prince Charming a gay twist
It basically says the musical had a workshop in London at the Ot
| ALW- reworking a new Cinderella for the stage Sep 17
2018, 01:25:32 AM
Webber isn't trying to write for youth culture with this musical, he's trying to write for a new, creative, interesting take on a classic story.
| ALW- reworking a new Cinderella for the stage Sep 15
2018, 07:38:02 PM
It's true that we have Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, but that one was written for television, not the stage, so it's hardly a full show, and it doesn't have music like Andrew Lloyd Webber's.
Cinderella is my favorite story ever, but I only really like it when it's set in the past. You know, a "fairy tale" time. So I hope they don't set it in too modern a place. Also, the magic is my favorite part of the story, so I don't know w
| ALW- reworking a new Cinderella for the stage Sep 15
2018, 07:38:02 PM
Cinderella is my favorite story ever, but I only really like it when it's set in the past. You know, a "fairy tale" time. So I hope they don't set it in too modern a place. Also, the magic is my favorite part of the story, so I don't know what to think when they say it will be taken away from a "world of magic and fairy godmothers".
But I still have hope because he said, "Every piece of the story is followed". This could really turn out good, b
| Official Into the Woods Movie Discussion Thread Apr 16
2015, 11:38:33 PM
The song "She'll Be Back" was cut for good reason. In it the Witch is "waiting right here" for Rapunzel to return, then a little later she decides to leave the world where Rapunzel still lives? By the way, the Witch never commited suicide, she asks to be punished like she was before and taken away from the place where the other characters are.
Boy does this film not make sense with Rapunzel not dying. It's like it's not the true Into the Woods without that key moment. If it had kep
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Paper Mill Apr 8
2015, 12:39:28 AM
I think the ending with Quasimodo commiting himself to die with Esmeralda's corpse is wistfully romantic and beautiful.
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Paper Mill Apr 7
2015, 02:29:49 AM
I saw this in the afternoon the day before Easter. It. WAS. AMAZING. It was faaaaaantastic! Just glorious, gorgeous, perfect art. I even think the idea from the original book of Quasimodo being partially deaf but still being able to sing extremely well worked, because his deafness was only noted in one scene.
I don't cry often, but I came close to crying many times, and finally in the end I cried. And I thought my depression had numbed me to all my emotions!
Mic
| Disney movies that should be on broadway Jan 28
2015, 06:12:17 PM
Cinderella. The Disney version.
| Official Into the Woods Movie Discussion Thread Jan 7
2015, 09:19:28 PM
Henrikegerman, I liked your answer on what Cinderella learned on the steps of the palace. That sounds right. However, as a huge fan of the original story and Disney animated film, I will say Cinderella's goodness (and in the Disney animated version, faith and belief in her dreams) led her Fairy Godmother to help her, and in the Disney animated version her help of animals had them help her. So she kind of decided her fate those ways.
| Official Into the Woods Movie Discussion Thread Jan 6
2015, 06:57:51 PM
Glad this thread finally has the right title...
When Cinderella says, "And you've learned something too, something you never knew...", what does she mean? What did she learn? That she can let other people decide things for her? Doesn't sound like much of a lesson.
| Official Into the Woods Movie Discussion Thread Dec 29
2014, 01:38:11 AM
Glad to read your review Musical Master, and I’m so glad you so enjoyed it as you did. I think your 9.5 out of 10 rating is perfect. The film felt almost perfect but just needed a little something more…a little fixing.
Finally, Musical Master said that the Witch tells Rapunzel “But there’s a giant!” as Rapunzel runs off, so THAT makes the lyrics of “Witch’s Lament” make sense to me. Finally! Because she's thinking Rapunzel will not be safe if she doesn't listen that there is a gia
| Official Into the Woods Movie Discussion Thread Dec 26
2014, 11:50:36 PM
I’d really like to know, how does “Witch’s Lament” make sense with Rapunzel running away and not dying?
I could see the Witch wanting to bring Jack to the Giant to get killed so she can still live and enjoy her life alone with a new house and garden away from her punishing mother. But her leaving the world when Rapunzel’s still in it makes less sense than when Rapunzel died.
Did Jack run away from his mother when the ground shook at Cinderella’s wedding because he thought it mi
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