I like "Rags" as well. I also liked "The Life". Pamela Isaacs and Lillias White have beautiful voices.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
urban cowboy before they cut the opening menage...yum, yum
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL! (How I wish they would have brought the revised tour to Broadway!)
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
sweet smell of success, seussical, nd i guess cats hehehe l8r
"Chicago is it's own incredible theater town right there smack down in the middle of the heartland. What a great city! I can see why Oprah likes to live there!" - Dee Hoty :-D
I alas must be one of those "carrie" posters. Some of the show is just too fun to hate. The mother daughter songs show such brilliance, ferocity, and potential(the duet, 'evening prayers' has the loveliest string arrangement)... I think people love to hate it and only dwell on the multitude of things that went horribly wrong(the sets, the costumes, story holes,etc.) Okay so a lot was wrong... rewrite and revive!!!
i saw CATS in the West End mid-80's and it changed my life. i know it's chic to hate it now, but i loved it and it's a great introduction to theatre for kids.
My "guilty pleasures" on stage are usually not musicals...but those atrocious "so-bad-they're-good" nudie comedies (or even more hilarious "dramas") with hot men in them.
Will: They don't give out awards for helping people be gay... unless you count the Tonys.
"I guarantee that we'll have tough
times. I guarantee that at some point
one or both of us will want to get out.
But I also guarantee that if I don't
ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for
the rest of my life..."
i've posted before, i saw GOODBYE GIRL in Chicago before NYC and loved Martin Short and Bernadette. The show's not great, but they were.
Will: They don't give out awards for helping people be gay... unless you count the Tonys.
"I guarantee that we'll have tough
times. I guarantee that at some point
one or both of us will want to get out.
But I also guarantee that if I don't
ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for
the rest of my life..."
I agree with Sweeedboy. I saw "Carrie" three times, and have a bootleg audio tape of the final performance. Sweeed is right -- the mom-daughter stuff is another show. Not only not embarrassing, but some of it pretty thrilling. Buckly gave one of her most fully invested performances, and she knocked your socks off late in the show, after Carrie goes to the prom, with "When There's No One." (Only song still performed, though Alice/Em did a stirring version of the Darlene Love number, "Unsuspecting Hearts.")
Even when "Carrie" was over the top -- like the attenuated, tortured title song -- it has real feeling underneath. I hear many people want to perform it, but the authors keep saying no, except for letting Betty do "And Eve Was Weak" with Linzy Hately at Carnegie Hall. But then, those numbers didn't make the album from that evening. The authors themselves seem to have a love-hate relationship with the material -- perhaps appropriate,considering how all over the map the show was.
Any one else here a "Carrie" fan? We should start a separate thread.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
B.O. John- How was Metropolis? I wanted to see it desperately in London but it closed before i could see it. Judy Kuhn sounds good on the CD - so does Graham Bickley (what happened to him???...) for that matter. Actually some of the songs are pretty good but some are pretty not.
lol, Graham Bickley is on a MILLION of those "Best of andrew Llyodd webber cds you see for 6.99 at San Goody or Tower Records, singing everything under the sun!