This Saturday at 10:30 AM and 1:00 PM the Metropolitan Opera Guild is giving a talk on "Opera vs. Musical Theater Part I and II". I have already purchased my $55 ticket but am unable to attend. Would anyone like to use it? No charge. I just hate for this ticket to go to waste.
Thanks so much for posting the contents of the petition. As a queer black man myself I found it most interesting. It reminds me of the dual prejudices and other challenges that I face in my daily life.
I have been assigned a college paper on the play An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. I was wondering if anyone had a link to a PDF version of the play, or if anyone knew where I could find one? I would greatly appreciate any help! Thank you in advance!
Jacobs-Jenkins will soon join the faculty of the University of Texas (Austin) in their MFA playwriting program for the Fall of 2019. In addition, he watched to the MFA playwriting program at Hunter Colle
viagalactica6 said: ""after the small wave of controversy? Hopefully a person of color."
Oh God, I sure hope so. In fact, it doesn't have to be Susan. It can be any character or couple in the show. I remember when I saw the original show when it played its out of town tryout in Boston. I was in absolute disbelief that there wasn't at least ONE person of color in the entire cast. But, then again with the exception of Showboat
"after the small wave of controversy? Hopefully a person of color."
Oh God, I sure hope so. In fact, it doesn't have to be Susan. It can be any character or couple in the show. I remember when I saw the original show when it played its out of town tryout in Boston. I was in absolute disbelief that there wasn't at least ONE person of color in the entire cast. But, then again with the exception of Showboat and Grind Hal
Having Sharon D Clarke singing at the end of the funeral like that was heartbreaking and shows how music can really add an extra dimension sometimes.
I am not really sure about having Ms. Clarke singing at the funeral scene. I hate it so when white directors place Black folks singing in white play classics some mournful spiritual song. Like in the Scarlett Johannsen production of Cat On a Hot Tin Roof and the director had all the Black actors singing spi
I saw it this week and thought that it was interesting. I thought the same thing about Slave Play when I first saw it. That is why I went back again to see that play and thoroughly enjoyed it at my second viewing. Actually I found the themes somewhat vague. Yet even a "vague" play by Jeremy O. Harris is more entertaining and fulfilling to me than other playwrights who are often praised for their work. The New York Times gave the play a positive review. I
I loved the cast album of GYPSY! God what I would have given to have heard Merman sing that score live. I had the rare opportunity to sit in back of her at a performance of IRENE on Broadway starring Jane Powell. I told her how exciting she was on the recording. She replied in her own inimitable voice "Thanks honey!"
Evita@theBroadway said: "Saw Moulin Rouge last night at 8 and was disappointed to see that Karen Olivo was out. However there was no notice in my playbill and no pre-show announcement made. I thought it was equity rules that you have to notify the audience if someone is out and also who will be going on in their place.
Am I wrong? For the record her understudy was awesome."
I definitely thought that that was a rule. It gives the theater goer the option to
I agree with you. I also saw Lansbury in Gypsy and consider it one of the greatest musical theater performances in theater history. I was so overwhelmed that I went back the very next night and bought standing room. I cannot possibly imagine how Ethel Merman could have been better.
Fortunately for me I caught her last matinee performance as Mame in the original Broadway production. Superb!
Slave Play coming to Broadway in September! Sep 23
2019, 09:00:49 PM
Is there something wrong with theater turning out to be more of an experience instead of an entertainment? I can think of plenty of evenings in the theater that have turned out to be fantastic experiences and I have grown and learned from them. Can you imagine that?
First of all there is the hurdle of getting past the Gershwin estate for a remake of Porgy and Bess. There will be a new production that opens tonight at the Metropolitan Opera House in NYC that is planning a tv broadcast of the opera - not the musical - Porgy and Bess and i think that that is more in line with what the Gershwin estate is envisioning right now.
No disrepect for Billy Porter and his talents but I think that the greatest Sportin' Life of this generation is Damon
soulgrrl said: "amoni said: "How dare Tammy Blanchard not be Ellen Greene! The nerve!"
I don't think that comment is fair to those who pay a pretty pennyto see a live performance. Sure, Ellen Greene is the gold standard but she's not the only actor/actress in theater who have shined in their respective roles. Others have come in afterwards and killed after original casts have moved on...hence standout performances in other revivals. When I see a
