That was really well done. It could easily have been an embarrassment (as these on-location promo vids often are), but it was utterly charming. Great editing, too.
I loved it! But why do I never get to see handsome dancing sailors in New York?
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
I love the promo! It's very impressive, considering how wonderful the opening scene in the movie is, and they duplicated the look and feel on probably not much of a budget. But that weird lyric change to New York, it's a visitors' town! I guess the NYC tourist board helped out with expenses.
I love the modern touches too! I laughed out loud at least twice.
I applaud the producers for making a big effort to get people excited about this show and aware of it before it even opens. This was the first show I have ever seen at the Berskshires and it was one of the top 10 best overall show performances I've ever seen. People on this board are singing it's praises already and the show deserves it. It will be some of the best dancing we've seen in a long time. Hands down.
I thought it was a really well done promo video. Tony, Jay, and Clyde are doing a great job selling it. I'd love it if they did more promo videos like this.
I'm loving their promotion for this show. I sincerely hope they can fill that theatre. This is such a special production. I also hope the producers are setting aside some money for a cast album because it's a wonderful score and this cast is top notch. It would be a shame not to record it.
A bit different, but earlier this week, Josh Bergasse choreographed a number for the So You Think You Can Dance contestants based off of the opening number. They seem to be really into this idea of the winner joining the cast. It's just refreshing to see a show promoting itself so early and doing it with what at least seems like a good strategy. On the Town on SYTYCD
The principle of Chekov's gun argues that if you introduce a song in which the characters mention their chest hair, do NOT have the actors shaved, plucked and waxed.
I loved it a lot! But, to be honest, it felt long towards the end. It really should only been like a 30 second to a minute promo than like the 4 minutes or so it was. But, I can not wait for the piece to come to Broadway! Good Work overall!!!
Extraordinarily well done. I've directed the show before (I'll always remember the band call where most of the 24 musicians debated how to beat the single bar of 1/1 time. Somebody suggested "pokies" and that's just what the conductor did, every night.) and I hope they've brushed up the text. I never want to hear the line, "So I said to him, listen Mr. Gadolfin...." again.
But back to this great mini-movie. It practically tops the Gene Kelly/Sinatra/Munchin version. But the original cast knew how to wear their sailor hats properly.
"I've got to get me out of here
This place is full of dirty old men
And the navigators and their mappy maps
And moldy heads and pissing on sugar cubes
While you stare at your books."
It was breathtaking in the Berkshires. Joshua Bergasse made everything as young and fresh and sexy as the show was envisioned to be, infusing it with authentically Jerome Robbins dance language and even a little of the Gene Kelly dance language for Tony Yazbeck's tap solo in "Lucky to be Me," which was not part of the original show but has become part of the world of On the Town over the years.
And with the addition of Megan Fairchild of the New York City Ballet as Ivy, the level of dance authenticity went through the roof.