Someone on this board will know this: Is there really no footage of MFL with Andrews? (Like not the Ed Sullivan or other “formal” tv excerpt stuff but something of an actual performance?).
Can you imagine seeing this show when it was brand new and you were in the audience hearing I could have danced all night with a then essentially unknown Julie?
I still laugh at that famous New Yorker cartoon of the
MY FAIR LADY film :lucky Julie Aug 18
2019, 07:47:46 PM
Im watching MFL now on TCM. Its such sludge. The peonies at the beginning are lovely. The rest.......ugh.
Is this screenplay close to the musical book?
In retrospect, Im guessing it was the luckiest career move ever for Julie Andrews that she wasnt cast? This studio production, so thick and lifeless.
I want to like this, but its just so bad. Audrey is wrong in every moment. The cockney is wrong, and shes gaunt and wan when its the princess mode.
W
THello, Dolly! Tour reviews. Aug 7
2019, 11:13:58 PM
https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/theater-dance/2019/08/07/Review-Hello-Dolly-Betty-Buckley-Pittsburgh-Benedum-tour/stories/201908070074
Ohhh Chess. Trampled by Phantom and Into the Woods. Judy Kuhn, David Carroll : it doesn’t get better. I saw it the Saturday matinee Tony weekend. The mezzanine/ balcony audience were all seated at the sides (was the show hoping for group sales?), the lights dimmed and everyone ran to better seats. I still remember the “bravos” in the house for Quintet. Regardless of the swirling monoliths and the brown costumes, David Carroll And Judy, Judy Judy: once she’s on stage, s
Has Ben Platt’s album charted on Billboard? May 24
2019, 04:13:56 AM
Yet? I just read through the Top 200 and I was surprised not to see it. The charting page for Platt shows only the Miranda/Ben combo. It seems peculiar. Am I missing something?
BEN PLATT Music Tour May 4
2019, 11:20:50 AM
Just saw a few photos on Instagram. The stage set is insane (as in bizarre Solid Gold/American Music Awards insane).
This totally my bad. I hadn’t heard a word even on Instagram. Cover art just released yesterday in time for The Lusty Month of May! This will be Huge https://www.amazon.com/Home-Work-Memoir-Hollywood-Years/dp/0316349259/ref=nodl_
Its allegedly been in the works, for years. But Im thinking well never see it. And, I get it. The bodies were, well, buried already on the first (wonderful) memoir. The post MFL MP SOM would be the best, but I just dont see Julie, so private, doing the promised second volume. Thoughts
Stockard Channing in Six Degrees of Separation Apr 3
2019, 04:04:19 PM
Oh, plus a young Laura Linney as a replacement Tess, to boot. I remember thinking “ohhh that’s someone to watch....”
Channing, simply luminous. I wasn’t living in NYC at the time, but I purposefully flew back in a second time to see that performance. The towards the end face-off with Flan, and those ending moments, as goodas it gets.
I am fond of the film; thanks to John Guare for demanding Channing be cast.
You never know what youre going to get. Ive seen her brilliant and Ive seen her terrible. I had, like, 15th row aisle at MSG her last tour and actively hated the show so much I left early. Interminable set and costume changes, horrible computer graphics throughout, the same jokes from 20 years earlier. The whole thing felt like a middling rehash rather than from the heart. Bette sang the great Leonard Cohen song Everybody Knows; well, sang because she essentially shoute
MARY POPPINS RETURNS Dec 11
2018, 11:02:53 AM
I just listened to the soundtrack and then read the newer comments here
Absolutely, that sound of music is (oddly?) there, completely. Lots of MP references in the scoring.
The orchestrations are sumptuous (and Very Big)
As for the songs and cast:
Well....
The best by far for me are
Can You Imagine That? (The equivalent of Spoonful). Blunt sings splendidly, belts, completely puts across the song on soundtrack. Anyone else hear a little of
MARY POPPINS RETURNS Nov 27
2018, 06:58:14 AM
Shaiman/Wittman are more than capable of writing soaring earworm songs, but these first two songs don’t reflect it, at all. Hopefully the better are yet to come
The film will be a box office juggernaut come what may.
RIP William Goldman Nov 17
2018, 01:15:19 PM
Thank you Hogan’s Hero (you are now mine). While THE SEASON is a great read, Goldman’s homophobia is virulent and aggressively so. These post-death (sorry, Bill) platitudes, esp columns (Slant, for god’s sake, like, really?) praising The Season, have made me a bit nauseous. I first read The Season in my teens (70s); I (living in Wichita with no understanding of the world) fully felt the abject disdain/hatred from Goldman’s book. And it wasn’t just a passing phrase, the book oozes with Goldma
