I would also love to see "Nicholas Nickleby" revived. I saw it a few times regionally (I live in Ohio) and it's a real tour de force: 8 1/2 hours long, with a HUGE cast, and audience involvement with catwalks going all around the theater. It's what live theater is all about, and a fantastic story to boot.
Unfortunately, putting it on these days WOULD be prohibitively expensive. I remember the flap when the ticket for the Broadway version were (gasp!) $100 - imagine wh
ljay889 said: "10-20 years??? The 2014 movie was quite successful and made 213 million in the worldwide box office. I think there would certainly be enough interest in a full scale Broadway revival."
The movie was very different from the stage show. Songs were cut, the timeline was rearranged, and Rapunzel's fate was very different. Anyone going to a revival of the stage show having seen the movie, but unaware of the changes, would be pretty shocked I think.
Theater3232 said: "We all know who this playwright voted for and how active he was on her political campaign. It's sad that the political attacks continue when so many people are trying to volunteer, give money to the Red Cross, etc."
In America, we muiltitask. We can volunteer, give to the Red Cross, AND call out reprehensible behavior. We're talented like that.
Wayman_Wong said: "It is, however, sad and ironic that ''The Greatest Showman'' should open only months after the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closed in May 2017 after a run of 146 years."
In a lot of ways, the time for that sort of entertainment is past. When you have a culture where you can see amazing marvels with the click of a mouse, how are you going to make some guy walking on a wire attractive? In past days you did
1981 Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Nicholas Nickleby. It's long - 8 1/2 hours - but every moment is theatrical gold. Amazing, amazing stuff.
Scarywarhol said: "I'm listening to these new numbers. Tim Rice has been on autopilot for years, and was certainly never half as good as Ashman, but I'm still surprised. Good LORD, are these embarrassing lyrics! It's a joke to put them next to the original songs."
I felt pretty much the same way. "Evermore" was really generic, but the absolute WORST was in the reprise to 'Beauty and the Beast' where Emma Thompson actually sin
jo said: "I still have that CD (Save the Children) which I then got from London's Dress Circle Shop. It has the inset of the song listings/singers. Please feel free to ask the info for any particular song( s). There are 22 songs all in all."
Thanks, Jo! That's interesting, the CD set I got has 33 songs. Is yours on 2 discs? Is there any way you can scan the inset and email it to me? My email is sarahb2@bex.net. Thanks!
I recently acquired the 2-CD set "Save the Children: A Christmas Spectacular of Carols and Songs", which was recorded in 1988 using the London and Broadway casts from a lot of the hit shows of the time. The casts of Cats, Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Me and My Girl, Chess, etc. participated.
It's a great CD! Elaine Paige, Colm Wilkinson, Michael Ball, Claire Moore, Jonathan Pryce, and Paul Nicholas are just a few of the artists who
Unfortunately, the more serious ramifications of this will probably be along the lines of Trump defunding PBS, anything to do with the arts, and trying to get 'Hamilton' closed down for sedition. He probably couldn't do it, but I bet he'd try. He's very thin-skinned. I also honestly think he'll try to get SNL taken off the air for the same reason. The First Amendment doesn't mean anything to him.
Rather than get all huffy that Pence was booed, maybe what Trump should do is reassure those who are worried that they're about to lose a lot of rights that that isn't going to happen.
Maybe he should release a statement basically saying, "Hey, look, I know you're all worried, but don't be! I will work to preserve the rights of all Americans and Pence will do the same. None of you are losing anything, so don't worry and let's all work together to make Ameri
I enjoy their stuff. Darren Criss and Joe Walker, who played Voldemort in AVPM and Dolores Umbridge in AVPS, were amazing. The rest of the cast was good too, but those two really stood out to me.
From what I understand, it's not just the poles. It's that the mezzanine and balcony overhangs start very far forward, resulting in most of the back orchestra and mezzanine seats having an obstructed view from the top ( I imagine if you're in the back few rows you feel like you're in a cave - miles from the stage AND you've got this low ceiling over you). The balcony is also pitched so that the further back you sit, the more the bottom of the stage is cut off, with t
I'm not sure I'm even going to try for Chicago, even though it's much closer to me than NYC. It looks like just about every seat in that theater has problems, and I'm sure the halfway decent ones were sold long ago to subscribers and presale. Maybe I'll just see what I can get for Detroit...
I couldn't find anything for $179, and I refuse to pay more than that to see a show. Now that the OBC is about halfway gone (and by next summer I'm sure they'll all be gone), there's no rush to see the show. I'll wait and pay reasonable prices!
But only if they don't take the literal approach like they did with Les Mis."
And no live singing! Geez, that destroyed 'Les Mis'. The only number that benefitted from it was 'I Dreamed a Dream'. 'Bring Him Home' is my favorite song from that show, and I can't even watch it in the movie because you can see the pain in Hugh Jackman's face as he s-t-r-a-i-n-s to hit those high note
This was many years ago, but all of the productions of 'Nicholas Nickleby' I saw involved the actors coming out in costume before the show and right before the second act to mingle with the audience. The ones I chatted with weren't in character, but I suppose some of them might have been.
That's a shame. There's no way 'Les Miserables' and Donald Trump should be linked. You'd think the owners of the musical could do something to stop it, if they didn't give permission. They really can't do anything?
