I'd like to be a dancer in the 2010 Promises, Promises revival. I saw the choreography number on The Tonys & was blown away. Eventually, I saw the entire musical at the Broadway Theatre & the sneak preview on The Tonys lived up to expectations. (I'd have to put lifts in my wingtips & learn to do a handstand to be cast.) Fun question!
Ironically, Goldie Hawn's PRIVATE BENJAMIN is one of my favorites & along these lines I've always wondered how it might translate to stage as a musical.
(While watching Overboard seven years after seeing Pvt. Benjamin I kept making analogies between the two.)
I'm sorry to read Faye is in diva-mode these days. I read her autobiography LOOKING FOR GATSBY & THOROUGHLY enjoyed it! I would like to comment fellow Kentuckian Johnny Depp has taken up for her in the press lately.
If The Devil Wears Prada does indeed come to the stage, fingers crossed the lead character is more of a blatant Anna Wintour ripoff than the alterations Meryl Streep made for film (gray bouffant hair), changes Streep no doubt made so the Wintour parody wouldn't be too pronounced.
In the 1982 movie, the producer asks the cameraman how much farther he can move the camera back to make Dorothy more attractive. "How do you feel about Cleveland?" the cameraman responds.
I've heard vague rumors that this line has been altered in the stage version. I'm wondering if anyone who has seen it can verify this claim as well as give an approximation of the revised wording?
AADA81 said: "Easy: "Sweeney Todd" over "Ballroom" in 1979. No one expected Todd to win as 'Ballroom' was expected to take the jackpot. And 'Ballroom' has lived on where as 'Sweeney Todd'....anybody?"
Funny. (I've a friend whose license plate reads SWEENEY.)
Was Kerry Butler in contention to get one of the five nomination slots for her portrayal of Barbara (the Geena Davis role)? Could someone please refresh my memory?
