DigificWriter said: "I'm going to reiterate what I said earlier: a rock band does not go out and find a replacement lead singer "just in case" something happens to their regular frontman on the first night of a 2-night show, even if said second night is going to be preserved for release.
Well let me know when theatre is a rock band and I'll take your comparison into consideration. Theatre does plan. Do you know why? Because **** like thi
DigificWriter said:FOX made the decision they made, andit's not anyone's place to say what they * should * have done."
I can very easily say what they should have done. Even if they decided they couldn't of done it live, they should have spent the ENTIRE day Sunday polishing what they did have and rerecorded what they needed to. That Valentina's Today 4 U sounded like THAT for something that was not live was unacceptable. They denied her a second take that
It's kind of easy to critique the taping of a live event. Pointless, but easy.
But for the most part it wasn't actually filmed live. It was mostly filmed on a closed filming day a couple weeks prior to closing with only a few wide shots & the finale with the original cast being from the final performance.
but It be interesting to see some of the musicals they have made based of the Anime/manga their to make it to broadway.
Those tend to not be very good... and done on the very cheap comparatively to what their source would require. They're not exactly Broadway caliber in terms of design and the stories they're telling aren't really meaty enough to excuse a lacking production design.
They have to be holding something back for the Broadway opening right!? There's no way they were going to give us everything they had in Denver when they are headed to NYC in a matter of months.
That is not what an out of town try out is for and for a company with as deep of pockets as Disney it should NEVER be. They're not putting it up early in Denver as a sneak peek for those in Denver, they're doing it to test what does and does not work. Both art
I don't understand the insistence on doing these things live when they don't even film them with an air of theatricality. All you have is a cast running between sets with all of the missed cues and cuts too early. If you're going to film it like a movie, then just let it be a TV movie. For the love of god. Personally, I think The Wiz is the one that pulled off the live musical the best because it was literally a stage musical filmed.
I'm not really seeing the magic of either of those two that warrant a transfer. London appears to literally just be the 2000 revival dusted off which has toured around the US like 4 or 5 times by now. Then you have the one from outside Chicago that is just a stripped down version with no flash and color blind casting which you could do with any production of it.
Why are these being mulled? If you want to restage it, then restage it. Don't dust off almost a 20 year old
>Speed: He IS entitled to the part. He signed a contract! And unless it said he must sell X amount of tickets to keep his job, then they should keep their end of the deal. No they cannot fire actors whenever they like.
I'm jumping backward to the mid point of the this thread because OH MY GOD YES YOU CAN! 1996, Cameron McIntosh sees the production Les Miz on Broadway was appalled by what he saw and fired almost the entire cast effective a
Frozen made over a billion dollars at the box office and the franchise brings in billions more. Else could drop a log on stage qnd it'll still play minimum 10 years.
>Everyone is losing their **** over a staircase. Honestly what does it add to the story with it there. This is about being sucked into Elsas head and beginning her journey with her.
This is Disney. Frozen is not deep. This is the act 1 finale and you need something to wow, not a woman on a stage alone with some backdrops. She doesn't even get to have a platform that raises or anything. The Disney magic is not matching the intensity of the song and how they
The only thing that is bothering me is that Berthe is literally 25-30 years old
which just zaps... all of the magic of her trapeze act right out of the situation when you can tell the actress is absolutely not 60-70 like she's supposed to be.
