News on your favorite shows, specials & more!

Profile for Mark Waltz

Mark Waltz Profile Photo
Member Name: Mark Waltz
Contact User: You must be logged in to contact BWW members.


Most Recent Message Board Posts:


View Off Topic Posts

THE COTTAGE On Broadway - Previews Thread  Aug 29 2023, 10:19:37 PM

I saw this tonight, and before the show started and during intermission, a lot of people were pointing out details of the curtain that I felt were metaphors for the plot. Not going to give any details away, but that was a great way to get people to start to engage with the show before hand and put away their phones!


Encores! 2023: LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA with Ruthie Ann Miles, DEAR WORLD with Donna Murphy, and OLIVER!  Jun 24 2023, 09:08:26 AM

Hoping "Light" does transfer. I thought initially, "Too soon?" when I heard they were doing it, but it has been 18 years. People born when it played at Lincoln Center are now adults. Both productions are excellent, but the small twist of this really works, and Anna Zavelson as Clara is a definite find. That big voice coming from a small frame, yet not coming off like a "greedy songbird" (to paraphrase "Amadeus". Hoping this is the "Into the Woods"/"Parade" of later this Broadway season. I hope Victoria Clark has a chance to see it. Maybe Victoria, Ruth or Anna will sing a song from it honoring Renee Fleming (who played Margaret fairly recently) at the Kennedy Center Honors. 


& JULIET On Broadway - P/reviews & News Thread  May 5 2023, 07:34:01 PM

This is the & Juliet I'd like to see. Didn't see this reference posted anywhere but thought it was amusing. 

"And it had been up to me
I could have changed the course of history
I could have prevented many a famous tragedy
With a laugh and a smile and a song
For every night i lay in bed my cheeks, my cheeks grow soaking wet
When i think of what i could have done
For romeo and juliet
Hello verona phone
Oh yes mister romeo


Pre show announcements  Mar 8 2022, 05:36:25 PM

With completely different voice once a minute, tell the audience that they have a certain amount of minutes before the show starts. 10 minutes then five minutes than 10 minutes then 5 minutes again, then two minutes then 10 minutes again. If you have lots of seniors in the audience, it creates a lot of fun. You might make some people think that they're watching the little old ladies from ""The Producers".

 

(Worked in Noises Off!)


The Music Man’ is the wrong Broadway revival for this crucial moment  Jul 1 2021, 08:32:40 AM
I consider "The Music Man" up there with "Guys and Dolls" and "Hello Dolly!" to be practically perfect shows that give me that goofy smile the minute the music starts that often brings me to tears of complete joy. All three shows are fantasias on life that should just be enjoyed for the color, the music, eccentric characters (who somehow change during the course of the show) and in the case of Sky Masterson, Harold Hill and Horace Van Degelder either atone or begin to see life from a different a
Stuart Damon has died…  Jun 30 2021, 11:47:29 AM
I really enjoy the cast albums he's heard on, including "Irma La Douce", the Off Broadway "Boys From Syracuse" and "Do I Hear a Waltz" where he isn't allowed to sing the lyric that Sondheim wanted for "We're Going to be All Right" (basically an early version of "You're Gonna Love Tomorrow") that Richard Rodgers found crude. On the 2001 Pasadena cast album, that lyric is restored, and was in the Encores production.

As a GH fan, I preferred the sometimes volatile drama and frequent comic

Draw the wrong moral from a musical  Mar 19 2021, 03:02:55 PM
Company:
All of your crazy married friends hate each other and only like you because you're single, and they want you to be as miserable as they are.

Tuck Everlasting:
The only creatures who will be around when the world ends are the Tuck family and a bullfrog.

Follies:
Powerful men are secretly miserable and suicidal, and their sophisticated wives who act like European royalty really long to act like chorus girls.

Brigadoon:
It's best to go to s

Plays set in a subway?  Dec 29 2020, 09:06:28 AM

I'm floored that I can't think of one play, but there are quite a few subway scenes in "On the Town" (Miss Turnstyles you know and Jackie Hoffman as the old lady chasing the sailors after they rip off the poster), and "Bells Are Ringing" with the "Hello Hello There!" number. Anything Neil Simon perhaps? Every time I see "The Nanny" episode where they are at Astor Place and Fran holds the woman's baby after demanding that the man who dem


Did Meryl see THE PROM on Broadway?  Dec 28 2020, 11:33:22 AM

Maybe its time for that musical version of "Sweet Bird of Youth".

Beth would be sensational singing "I See Me!", especially those disco moves! 


Rebecca Luker Has Passed Away  Dec 23 2020, 12:12:35 PM

What a sad way to go into the holidays. I haven't had a tear in my eye for someone I didn't know since the death of Marin Mazzie. I'm glad I got to see her so many times from "She Loves Me" at Reprise in L.A., then "The Music Man", "Nine", "Where's Charley?", "Death Takes a Holiday" (wishing it had in this case) and "Cinderella". There really was music in her to paraphrase the beautiful Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerste


I’m Bleaching My Butthole For Christmas  Dec 20 2020, 12:46:15 PM
For a moment, I thought I was on Datalounge.

Does sound like an interesting song if they ever do an Avenue Q Christmas show.

Why Do Shows Change Theatres During their run?  Dec 15 2020, 11:44:55 AM

Don't forget "Bajour" which transferred from the Shubert to the Lunt-Fontanne then closed a month later. I guess it was those tsetse flies that chased them out. 


Netflix's THE PROM official thread/reviews/reactions  Dec 15 2020, 10:18:00 AM

edmundog2 said: "The age thing is a little weird. One of the aspects of the character is that he took a bus to NYC and saw her in one of her first shows. Their romance is like... Someone who’s always been in her life but never has, if that makes sense? There’s a better way of saying it, I’m sure. Making him 20 years younger puts a different tone on it, to me. It’s not a missed opportunity from another life, it’s just her boinking a fan.

Also,


Netflix's THE PROM official thread/reviews/reactions  Dec 15 2020, 10:14:18 AM

I'm glad that Meryl added more dimension to the role of Dee Dee Allen. I was concerned that she might return to the ultra egotism of Madeline Ashton and give Dee Dee's "Eleanor" a bit of "Songbird!" (you know, the musical version of "Sweet Bird of Youth". I laughed at some of the new lines that weren't in the original show, especially her apparently going off about someone's cellphone ringing then realizing that it was her own phone in her wig. 

I think "The Prom" movie also set a record as perhaps the quickest stage musical to get a film version. It opened on Broadway just two years ago. I can't think of any other show made into a musical that fast outside of "Kismet" (Broadway, 1953, film, 1955) or the partial sound version of "Show Boat" that had the music in the background. (I haven't seen that version yet, so I'm not sure how close it is to the 1927 original. 


Peg Murray, Tony Winner (Cabaret) has died at 96.  Dec 7 2020, 01:26:49 PM

I really enjoyed her work on "All My Children". She was quite the scene stealer for a basically minor recurring character, and they kept her going for years. Just prior to joining "AMC", she filled in for Constance Ford as Ada on "Another World" and shared scenes with future "AMC" co-star David Canary. I never thought that anyone could take over a pivotal role like she did on "Another World" considering how beloved Ms. Ford was, but Peg was qu


What musicals still need to be revived through ENCORES?  Dec 4 2020, 02:09:40 PM

Purlie was done in 2005 by Encores starring Blair Underwood, Lillias White, Anika Noni Rose and John Cullum, not that they couldn't do it again. In fact, it might be timelier now than it was then. I recall going to see it and singing "Walk Him Up the Stairs" as I headed to the grand tier. 

"Dear World" was done at Mufti starring Tyne Daly a few years ago, but I'd definitely see it again at Encores with the full orchestra. One show that Mufti has do


2009-2010 Musical Revivals  Sep 8 2020, 09:38:14 AM

I was fortunate to have seen them all since I believe that most of them had lotteries (in-person) or general rush. I got TKTS for "A Little Night Music" right at the last moment before the show started, and my seats were phenomenal. 

Birdie suffered from a Rose that couldn't dance so there was no Shriner's Ballet. It was serviceable, but even with Stamos, Gershon, Irwin, Hoty & Houdyshell, it seemed like a community theater production. No real magic. They cha


If You Could Cast Judy Garland In a Broadway Show?  Sep 7 2020, 06:54:20 PM
To be a bit more obscure, I could see her as Leona in "Do I Hear a Waltz". Even more obscure, the Nancy Dussault role in "Bajour" opposite pal Chita.
Space, Sci-Fi and Broadway  Sep 4 2020, 03:35:32 PM

"Mars Attacks!" could be very funny as an Off Broadway musical, at a medium sized theater perhaps. Imagine of all the songs in the world what they could use as the one that makes their heads explode! The singing and dancing Martians would be hysterical to watch, and the Martian disguised as a sex bomb could have a great dance number with the Martin Short character before it annihilates him.


Plays or musicals with scenes at New Year's?  Jul 30 2020, 10:44:01 AM

I believe that Belle performs the song "Here's to Us!" on NY's Eve in "Little Me".

The Act One Finale of "Legs Diamond" has them doing a countdown when the bullets start to fly.


You must log in to view off-topic posts.

Videos


TICKET CENTRAL

Recommended For You