According to Chita's understudy, Lenora Nemitz, Gwen's tirade during the scene introducing Nowadays never remotely happened and it was always a duet. Too much artistic license is being taken with facts in this series and it would've been easy to check with the people who were in the room.
John Rubinstein has put on the record that Gwen never showed up to a Pippin rehearsal, laid on the floor and talked to Bob about Chicago. No one ever would do that. We all knew that w
Like you, I see everything with the original cast and spent Full price for a Broadway ticket $55 (not a typo) and wished I had been in any other theater that night. The inane lyrics, with often sloppy rhymes repeated endlessly, (country/ hungry ) come at you relentlessly and for some unknown reason principals play multiple roles.
It was pretty to look at but there is a good chunk of theatre professionals
Nice topic. Looking forward to people's responses.
Susan Stroman's transition of the Arrival of the Ladies into Deadrock using treadmills in Crazy For You is one of the most exciting things I have seen on stage.
There was a moment in the original Pippin when Ben Vereen lifted a red handkerchief off the floor centerstage and the entire set rose out of it. Likewise, the reveal of the entire company in the revival of Pippin during Magic to
The truth is that no one with the authority to make a casting decision is required to be at an EPA(as opposed to a Chorus call). Also, no casting decisions are actually made at EPA, you would be required to come to New York for more auditions anyway.
I would suggest you contact the casting director and be ready to submit a video tape audition. Most actors have videos of themselves ready to go or are already online.. If you do not have one this is a good reason to start.
There will be no further discounts added. Print out the logo of the show and put it in a Christmas card with a note saying that she is invited to see the show in March then sign it O.G., if she is a fan of the show she will understand.
Always avoid the first five rows out of musical since you cannot see the entire stage and take in the spectacle.... And this show is spectacle. What a nice gift, you are a Very thoughtful parent.
For the poster who asked if they should see King Kong or The Prom, there is no comparison. King Kong has the most astonishing puppet ever put on the stage but the book, music and lyrics fall entirely flat.
The Prom is probably the best honed musical-comedy since The Producers... Okay, it's no Mel Brooks, but it is that kind of professional, tight fun with an A- list cast that rarely happens.
CoreyRyan3 said: "Look, this show is not perfect. It’s hokey, it chews the scenery, it wears its little bleeding heart on its sleeve and it loves every damn minute of it. But that’s exactly what makes this show so special. It achieves exactly what it sets out to do, which is to beat us over the head with heart and a message of acceptance and tolerance. And I know some people don’t go to the theatre to “preached” at, but this one finds new ways to make th
Distinctive Baritone knows his stuff. Good call. Musical Theater programs are so lucrative for colleges yet there are so few Jobs out there for person to make a living that the programs should be illegal.
Spend your money on a college program where you can actually make a living-and possibly do well. Sure, 5% of the graduates do very but this means 95% are all doing something else by the time they are forty and have not even finished paying back their loans.
Head up to Radio City immediately. The lines to get through security are at least 30 minutes. It says two hours on your ticket but no one pays attention. We arrived five minutes early and missed the first six numbers. Also, they are kidding about the 10 PM show being racy.... It is not like Vegas, it is always the same show.
Be advised that two people can sing any song ever written together. The song need not be composed as a duet. Use your own creativity. People are giving you great choices and you are shooting them down.
Nothing Can Stop Me Now does not need Ooh's and Ah's you know that -any two people can sing the lyric and the message is good.
Tonight and I Wanna Be Seen With You are both uptempo with a great feel and message for an o
There is nothing "IN CONCERT" about this staging, you guys should know that. This is a FULLY STAGED, expensive, first rate, choreographed, CLASS A production with huge sets and extraordinary costumes. It is only billed as "IN CONCERT" to get people to watch it who would not watch a MUSICAL on television. It was brilliant marketing.
You know you can tap to anything, right? Everyone on the planet would prefer she not tap to Forty-Second Street or Dames At Sea so you are on the right track there.
It probably would be innovative if she tapped to something from Hamilton or Let It Go.
You'll Be Back lends itself to a tap number but the other tunes would be more interesting.
I have had a lesson with Joan Lader and her technique is really wonderful. Steve Potfora is a Vocal Coach (who works on audition material) with students in over one hundred Broadway Shows who is great, accessible and in Manhattan. His info is on Facebook.
It is just greed and pushing the old theater lovers out to make way for a different type of theater goer that can afford $850 per ticket. It will certainly change the artform since the people actually in the arts will no longer be able to attend. We will see onstage the things that appeal to a more " Theater as an Event" audience.
Since there are a limited number of theaters available and the owners ge
Always True is a much better audition song since it has comedy built in. S'Wonderful is a play on words and shows the cleverness of the lyricist not the actor. It is smarter to do a non-Gershwin song since they have to sit through Gershwin all day and Porter certainly is close enough.
Sometimes, your choice as an artist is better than someone else's choice. Always True has a better ascending line to sing show the voice. Still, it could be that you do
People who work in the theater steer clear of the first couple weeks of previews since the timings are not set yet. Sound is not balanced since you need an audience there as guinea pigs to get the right timbre for the theater. The light cues are not perfected yet since they are often cued to the actors timing and, of course, the actors are getting used to each other and finding their way thru the piece for the first two weeks with a live audience.
