Dear Barry & Fran Weissler,- Page 2
Dear Barry & Fran Weissler,
Wilmingtom
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/11
#25Dear Barry & Fran Weissler,
Posted: 9/19/14 at 3:31pmThanks for joining with the sole purpose of bashing Josh. I guess you didn't get the gig, right?
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#26Dear Barry & Fran Weissler,
Posted: 9/19/14 at 3:33pm
"I thought Justin Guarini was fatastic in Women on the Verge."
I was surprised by that too. And THEN saw him play an entirely different type in "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County."
Having said that, I will never see Laura Osnes in anything.
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#27Dear Barry & Fran Weissler,
Posted: 9/19/14 at 8:56pm^ Girl was superb in BONNIE & CLYDE. She's the real thing, despite the reality thing.
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#28Dear Barry & Fran Weissler,
Posted: 9/19/14 at 10:00pm
So... Is it safe to assume they'll cut the shirtless scene? 
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
brdway411
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/14
#29Dear Barry & Fran Weissler,
Posted: 9/20/14 at 12:57am^^^ LOL, I am avoiding the show with this cast.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#30Dear Barry & Fran Weissler,
Posted: 9/20/14 at 1:01am
"Girl was superb in BONNIE & CLYDE. She's the real thing, despite the reality thing."
This will not change my prejudice.
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SamIAm2
Featured Actor Joined: 3/10/09
#31Dear Barry & Fran Weissler,
Posted: 9/26/14 at 12:53pmFindingNamo, I'm curious. Why the prejudice? Is it the reality show thing?
Wilmingtom
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/11
#32Dear Barry & Fran Weissler,
Posted: 9/26/14 at 2:41pmTroynow, in case you haven't heard, the "laughing stock of Broadway" will become the 2nd longest running show in history in November. They must be doing something right.
#33Dear Barry & Fran Weissler,
Posted: 9/26/14 at 4:30pm
^^ running the cheapest production of a musical, keeping the costs low and every so often debasing the production with stunt casting of the lowest order. Doing "something right" =/= doing something well.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
Updated On: 9/26/14 at 04:30 PM
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#34Dear Barry & Fran Weissler,
Posted: 9/26/14 at 4:59pm
And since none of us know HOW he was cast (only because of AI, did he audition and actually ACT) no one actually knows if the casting is appropriate or not. He might suck, but he might be wonderful as well.
Why not wait and see before deciding ANY opinion? I know that is a bizarre concept.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#35Dear Barry & Fran Weissler,
Posted: 9/26/14 at 4:59pm
And since none of us know HOW he was cast (only because of AI, did he audition and actually ACT) no one actually knows if the casting is appropriate or not. He might suck, but he might be wonderful as well.
Why not wait and see before deciding ANY opinion? I know that is a bizarre concept.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
#37Dear Barry & Fran Weissler,
Posted: 9/27/14 at 6:52pmWhen crap like WHAT happens? Have you seen him in the show? I had to do a bing search to find out who this guy is. I would hardly call this stunt casting.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#39Dear Barry & Fran Weissler,
Posted: 9/28/14 at 1:04am
Um, yes, sort of. We don't seem to have the magical powers that you possess. What is it about him that makes you so sure he CAN'T??
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
Updated On: 9/28/14 at 01:04 AM
#40Dear Barry & Fran Weissler,
Posted: 9/28/14 at 1:21amIt's important that 'we' are allowed to express opinions on all things theater here, but I have never understood why the mass hysteria when producers try to keep their show, and directly all the other performers, employed with the so-called 'stunt casting'. It's a fantastic idea-sometimes it works and when it doesn't-that sucks-but that's BUSINESS. Have a bitch but if a show can stay open, employ people, make a profit, that's fcukin' fabulous.
Wilmingtom
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/11
#41Dear Barry & Fran Weissler,
Posted: 9/28/14 at 1:24amDoes it only qualify as stunt casting if they're bad? Or is it stunt casting to cast Tom Hanks even if he's good? Or is casting anyone who has a name who might sell tickets stunt casting, whether they're good or bad?
#42Dear Barry & Fran Weissler,
Posted: 9/28/14 at 1:28amIt's only stunt casting if the primary reason seems to be to sell tickets, I think. Someone coined a term here called "event casting" if I recall correctly, which was meant to refer to casting that will both sell tickets and is artistically meritorious.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Wilmingtom
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/11
#43Dear Barry & Fran Weissler,
Posted: 9/28/14 at 1:40amThat's a great explanation. But it makes me wonder if casting, say, Tom Hanks or Julia Roberts or Hugh Jackman is "event casting" unless they don't work out, and then it is perceived as "stunt casting." It may just be that I'm not into labels. I guess if Lindsey Lohan ends up being terrific in Speed the Plow, it was "event casting." If not, it was "stunt casting."
