Years ago, I arranged to get a group together to record and audio commentary for a release of Sondheim's PASSION for DVD.
Marin, Donna and even Jere Shea (who was nearly impossible to track down as he was now working in Massachusetts for the government) all agreed to do it. Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine and Ira Weitzman all agreed to participate as well. We had some wine (which only Mr. Sondheim had a glass or two of during the session) and the com
PBS/Great Performances will be airing the British live production of “The Sound of Music” early in November... It was broadcast live in the UK during the 2015 holiday season. This will be it’s first legit exposure here...
Saw this news online and immediately came here to see what the reaction would be. I was hoping it wouldn’t be about Laura being too old for the part...and it wasn’t!
I’m as excited as just about everyone here. I think Laura will be great. I didn’t see Lauren, but I’ve seen Laura in so many things that I can’t imagine her not owning this!
Well, let's not forget that Eve Harrington seemed to be rushing all of Margo Channing's performances... If not, then we never would've had that brilliant movie!
...or that fun musical on Broadway about 20 years later!
I saw Carol Channing in “Hello, Dolly!” in 1995 in Pasadena. I don’t think she performed the show anymore after this 30 city tour.
I never appreciated Channing before seeing her live in this tour of the show. However, I immediately GOT IT after seeing her performance. She was absolutely amazing...and her eating dumplings scene at the Harmonia Gardens was...well, perfection.
Did anyone here go? I saw some good feedback on Facebook, but it seems she only performed a couple of numbers. Understandably.
After seeing her live countless times from the early 70s (including Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall and everything before, after and in-between). I saw her at Disney Hall in Los Angeles in 2014. It was tough to watch, but she had the audience in the palm of her hand.
I’ll rely on recordings and my memories now. There was a time when no one c
JayElle wrote: The NY Times article said voters were voting "against the commercialism" of the other musicals. It showed. Show was okay, but not great.
I can't help but wonder what this board would've looked like, had it been around, in 1994 when PASSION won Best Musical over BEAUTY AND THE BEAST...
TexanAddams18 wrote: Except that nowhere in the Carousel script does it say anything about the race of Billy and in West Side Story it says in the first paragraph Maria is Puerto Rican.
I think the reason for this is that, when CAROUSEL was written...and based on the time period in which the story took place...there was no need to call out the race of Billy. It was just understood.
For WEST SIDE STORY, it was important then to separate the Sharks and Jets in
CDs can actually hold approximately 80 minutes of music.
Others have been correct here about some of the earlier players possibly not being able to handle anything past 72 or 74 minutes. Interesting tidbit: when they were developing CD, the benchmark was that they wanted one disc to be able to hold a complete performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
