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Audra in Concert  May 11 2018, 11:24:05 AM

I was happy to buy the digital album today, but I noticed the New York Philharmonic put the entire album on YouTube for free (for the time being, anyway).

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYp5ygzS3i7CKYAXj2kU2obtSRhUROt8t



Me and My Girl Encores  May 10 2018, 03:21:00 PM

The New York Times review is up (Jesse Green). Likes the performances; the show, not so much.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/theater/me-and-my-girl-review-encores.html



Best movie adaptations of plays  Apr 8 2018, 10:27:47 PM

Glad to see “Wit” mentioned. I think it’s just superb. 

There have been so many excellent adaptations. Looking at comedies alone, three of my favorites are “The Man Who Came to Dinner,” “The Philadelphia Story,” and “Auntie Mame.”



what is the most overrated musical of all time  Apr 2 2018, 10:30:26 PM

Cats, now and forever. 



I’m still here  Mar 25 2018, 10:22:34 AM

“Elaine Stritch, boy, could she sing that song. I went out with her one night. It was just for fun, but we had the best time, laughing and giggling. And I’m saying good night to her, and I said, ‘Elaine?’ And she said, ‘Yes?’ as she was walking away. And I said, ‘I’m still here.’ And she said, ‘So am I, hon.’”—Burt Reynolds, in a interview in today’s New York Times. 



NYCC Grand Hotel  Mar 22 2018, 11:50:35 AM

Tony2600 said: "If Encores ever gets arounhd to doing "Silk Stockings” Irina Dvorovenkowould be a natural."

Or “On Your Toes.”

 



NYCC Grand Hotel  Mar 21 2018, 07:17:12 PM

musikman said: "Was at the dress rehearsal last night. Is it taboo to say anything about it on here? I was right near the person who yelled at the end of the death dance. They were cheeringloudly for all the dancers last night so I assumed they were friends of some kind?"

Huh. I thought she shouted something like “Don’t let him hurt you!” (But I was too smitten with adorable Brandon Uranowitz to give it another thought.)



Steven Spielberg, keep ben Platt away from the west side story remake  Mar 18 2018, 03:12:47 PM

(And rhythmically, from beginning to end Platt is everywhere except where Leonard Bernstein says he should be.)



Steven Spielberg, keep ben Platt away from the west side story remake  Mar 18 2018, 09:47:31 AM

@Dave28282, I agree with everything you say. 

As for objective measures for the performance of a song, there is one: the written score. You can make your own interpretive choices, but you have to start by studying the instructions the composer put down on the printed page. 



Steven Spielberg, keep ben Platt away from the west side story remake  Mar 17 2018, 12:23:25 PM

The Other One said: ""What do you think are other great examples of the lip-singing art?"

Dorothy Dandridge in Carmen Jones. Marilyn Horne did the singing, but it's all in synch to the character.
"

 

Oh, yes! And interestingly, I have seen Horne do master classes on multiple occasions, and she often criticizes young singers for “going out of your voice.” Performers do it to sound expressive, I think,


Steven Spielberg, keep ben Platt away from the west side story remake  Mar 17 2018, 11:48:08 AM

I think the Kerr/Nixon collaborations are great role models for lip-syncing on film. Kerr has that gorgeous dancer’s épaulement that exactly captures the raised expressivity of Nixon’s trained voice. The way she holds her head up and almost seems to rise up onto her toes in ‘Hello, Young Lovers” and the title song of “An Affair to Remember”—it gives me an exquisite thrill every time. What do you think are other gre

Steven Spielberg, keep ben Platt away from the west side story remake  Mar 16 2018, 12:28:24 PM

Ben Platt is an incredibly talented guy, with a great gift for connecting with audiences. But his habit of turning everything he sings into a kind of speech-song to me seems fundamentally misguided (something to grow out of, maybe) and ultimately a distracting mannerism. It's like he keeps trying to show us what a great regular guy he is. His casual relationship with rhythm in particular drives me crazy. I wish his coach could get him to trust his singing voice more (he's got a good o

MY FAIR LADY (2018) Previews  Mar 14 2018, 03:18:34 PM

Last weekend I happened to walk by the Beaumont and they had the backstage thrown open to the street as they worked on the sets. I snapped a picture (flowers in the foreground, "the street where she lives," apparently, in the background), but couldn't figure out how to share it here, so I made it my avatar(!). Or try this link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y19dOA3r7_zIac1t


Beaumont center orchestra  Feb 28 2018, 06:43:54 PM

Thanks, everybody! Since it was unanimous, I picked up seats in the first row. I haven’t seen MFL since London 2001, so I’m excited!



Unpopular Opinions  Feb 27 2018, 11:27:22 AM

The last scene of "Angels in America" is a mistake.



Beaumont center orchestra  Feb 27 2018, 11:25:19 AM

Sorry to start another thread on this eternal subject, but I have to make a very quick decision on behalf of a friend coming from London. I've almost always sat in last rows of the orchestra for shows at the Vivan Beaumont, and they're fine, but for the dates I'm looking at for "My Fair Lady," I see I have a choice between Row C (second row) and Row N, both center (300s). Personally, I usually don't like to sit too close, but because the Beaumont has a thrust stage,

Lansbury/Hearn Sweeney Todd film in iTunes  Jan 2 2018, 01:23:50 PM

The video of the Lansbury/Hearn Sweeney Todd is now available to stream in iTunes, I was pleased to discover, so I watched it again for the first time in years. Wonderful to have it available this way, and the performance still lives up to its legendary status. BUT: I guess I hoped, slightly, that they would have improved the video quality over the old DVD release. The

SUNDAY revival recoups and cast recording released in June  Nov 18 2017, 02:42:31 PM
(It appears to be omposdible on this site to prevent an autocorrection of quotation mark-parenthesis-period to a happy face!)

SUNDAY revival recoups and cast recording released in June  Nov 18 2017, 02:33:40 PM

I don’t know why I only just got around to listening to the new cast album. Wow. Michael Starobin’s refreshed orchestrations, gorgeously played and gorgeously recorded, sound incandescent. Every time the Sunday “burble” comes up (the sound you first hear at the beginning when George says “Harmony” it’s so magical it brings tears. And you really notice how beautifully it’s varied (as in “Move On&rdquo

Encores Golden Apple  May 10 2017, 11:32:28 PM

henrikegerman said: "Who is Mikaela Bennett singing so gorgeously as Penelope? "

Her bio in the program says she is a fourth-year Juilliard student, and this is her professional stage debut. 



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