newintown said: "The linked piece really isn't material to the conversation here, I think - it reads like a freshman essay, andone from an agricultural state college, to boot. But it canat least trigger more interesting thought."
Hey, newintown - I did a search and you are correct, the author went to that well-known agricultural state college the UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO!
The lyrics for "Love Changes Everything" are generic and bland. They you nothing about the character because they are not specific to the character who sings the song. The music is not interesting, it just repeats and repeats going nowhere.
Much fault also needs to lie with the play itself, which is often too talky for its own good. Shaw seems much less interested in telling Joan’s story than wanting to expose hypocrisy and corruption in the church and politics, which is all well and good, but Joan often doesn’t even feel like the main character. Sure, she’s talked about an awful lot, but the play is rarely told from her perspective, but rather from that of the church.<
She is also a trained opera singer who studied voice and opera at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute.
Ambrose is the lead singer of "Lauren Ambrose and the Leisure Class", a ragtime dixieland jazz band formed in 2009. They have performed several times at Joe's Pub and charity events.
The show is based on DRAMA HIGH The Incredible True Story of a Brilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town, and the Magic of Theater by Michael Sokolove. The teacher is Lou Volpe who came out as gay. The school is Henry S Truman High School in Levittown, PA. Sir Cameron Mackintosh makes an appearance in the book when he comes to see the school's production of Les Miz.
The book is very good. I give it two thumbs way way up!
Dear Sally Durant Plummer: You wrote - I'm not saying that all shows should deal with this every time we cast someone not white in a role. There are many shows - Hello, Dolly!, She Loves Me, etc. - that are just great fun and everyone deserves a chance to play those roles. I just don think that is true of Carousel, when the only actors of POC are cast as Billy and Jigger."
ErikJ972 said: "haterobics said: "qolbinau said: "It is more complex these days - so called left-wing ‘progressives’ claim to hold progressive values but then go on to defend the most right-wing, sexist homophobic belief system on earth. It is indeed very hard these days to tell the values someone holds based on their political ideas when it’s full of inconsistency/contradiction."
I'm surprised by the posts by the musical mavens and some of the wanna be mavens. You don't know Carousel. The three major productions were choreographed by people from the ballet world. The original was choreographed by Agnes De Mille. The National Theatre production was choreographed by Sir Kenneth MacMillan. This production is choreographed by Justin Peck.
If you live in a musical comedy bubble, you probably don't know Justin Peck's work. Go t
Most of the reviews for LOVE NEVER DIES say the story doesn't make sense. Many of the comments posted here agree.
Poor ALW can't make up his mind if LND is or is not a sequel to Phantom.
Except for the Prologue which takes place in 1911, Phantom takes place in 1881. LND takes place in 1907. ALW claims LND takes place 10 years after Phantom. Really? One would assume ALW knows how to add.
Joan Rivers wrote and starred in TWO Broadway FLOPS! The first ran for 9 performance and the second ran for 50. She was a replacement in Broadway Bound. Those were her Broadway credits. Lights were dimmed for her. Good figure.
HunterK said: "chernjam said: "Had to laugh realizing that LND is playing tonight in Boston... Obviously theatre people didn't realize this was Super Bowl Sunday and that the Patriots would be in the game. Have to imagine lots of discounts for tonight's performance"
That is why and how I am going!! For me seeing a show is the gay man's Super Bowl!!"
What a cliche! There are gay men who like musicals and football!
