__________ Would Make An Excellent BWW Forum Member Critic
__________ Would Make An Excellent BWW Forum Member Critic
#1__________ Would Make An Excellent BWW Forum Member Critic
Posted: 11/11/07 at 6:10pmMargo Channing. That fab person certainly has a way with words. You can't help but pay close attention to what his words say about a certain show or actor. Any other nominations? from RC in Austin, Texas
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
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Posted: 11/11/07 at 6:11pm
Margo would be my vote as well!
"It's not so much do what you like, as it is that you like what you do." SS
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
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Posted: 11/11/07 at 6:16pm
No bias, I promise 
...but my vote would go for LuvtheEmcee. She has a wonderfully attentive eye and an equally great way with words.
(additional votes would go to Margo and MichaelBennett)
I recognize the addiction to being alive.
Updated On: 11/11/07 at 06:16 PM
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Posted: 11/11/07 at 6:17pm
She just says that because I know where she sleeps.
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Posted: 11/11/07 at 6:18pm
Yes Margo,
I don't know if this is allowed, but I actually think I'd do a good job - I've gotten really nice feedback on my reviews - and I love doing it!
Madame Morrible: "So you take the chicken, now it must be a white chicken. The corpse can be any color. And that is the spell for lost luggage!" - The Yellow Brick Road Not Taken
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Posted: 11/11/07 at 6:18pm
Pffft, not true :-P
Learn to take a compliment. You should "review" more things for BWW....like them old days
I recognize the addiction to being alive.
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Posted: 11/11/07 at 6:20pm
I don't quite get your comment...
I wasn't trying to act like I was bragging. I just like doing it. :)
Madame Morrible: "So you take the chicken, now it must be a white chicken. The corpse can be any color. And that is the spell for lost luggage!" - The Yellow Brick Road Not Taken
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Posted: 11/11/07 at 6:21pm
You snuck in -- that was for me.
I should. And I will. 
Now that I'm seeing other shows again.
LadyRosecoe
Broadway Star Joined: 8/4/07
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Posted: 11/11/07 at 6:21pmShe wasn't commenting about you, she was referring to Emcee
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Posted: 11/11/07 at 6:24pmThanks! Sorry - I got confused
Madame Morrible: "So you take the chicken, now it must be a white chicken. The corpse can be any color. And that is the spell for lost luggage!" - The Yellow Brick Road Not Taken
myManCape
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/26/05
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Posted: 11/11/07 at 6:37pm
Dawn, Ellen, Georgette, Hillary, Julie, Kathleen, Matt, Randy, Smiti, Susan, Steve and Tom would make excellent Theatre Critics for any website.
"Have they come yet?"
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Posted: 11/11/07 at 6:53pm
I tend to like everything that I see or at least focus on what I liked. I won't nominate myself, but here's my "audition" piece. I think it's the best review I've written even though most people didn't like the show...
The forbidden love affair between Queen Guenevere and her husband's most trusted knight Lancelot takes to the stage, and to the road, in a stunning new revival featuring an updated book, new orchestrations and now, Lou Diamond Phillips as the magnificent King Arthur. Forget what you may have heard about the previous incarnation starring Michael York. This Camelot has taken advantage of previous reviews and has been spruced up for the second leg of the US national tour with style and class.
Lou Diamond Phillips brings a very welcomed youthful energy to the brazen king torn between the woman he loves and the man he trusts. The audience erupts into thunderous applause as Phillips takes the stage even before he has uttered a single word. In a brief prologue we see the iconic image of a young Arthur pulling the sword from the stone and then flash forward twenty years later to a tired Arthur in despair on the battlegrounds outside Jouyas Gard. The mystical wizard Merlyn then takes us back to where it all began to the night the young king meets his bride to be. Phillips has an immense stage presence that fills the theatre with a sense of urgency. I found myself hanging on to his every word and every lyric as he uses his first two songs to give a taste of the subtle vocal work to come in his new PC "How to Handle a Woman" and "What do the Simple Folk Do?". The later he uses to channel a young Richard Burton, who originated the role, as their vocal performances are at times eerily similar.
Rachel de Benedet as Guenevere delights every time she takes the stage taking us on a whirlwind of emotions. Her light soprano is put to good use as she sores through her ballads with heart break and uncertainty with her out of place and twice reprised "Before I Gaze at You Again" and an abbreviated "I Loved You Once in Silence". She even joins Lance for his final lyric in the repositioned "If Ever I Would Leave You" adding a brief but welcomed duet between the two lovers – and it only took forty-seven years.
Matt Bogart continues to impress as Lancelot a role which he originally played to great acclaim at the Arena Stage in Washington DC. His French accent is perfectly charming and endlessly sexy as his goofball portrayal morphs into a matured lovesick knight torn between his heart and his duty. Purity is the key word here and Matt has that in spades. His thunderous baritone enchants in the comical "Cest Moi!" to the soaring and romantic "If Ever I Would Leave You".
Time Winters brings some welcomed comedic relief to the soapy proceedings as the dim-witted King Pellinore who is at his best during a new exchange of dialogue between he and Arthur about a farmer named William and the new criminal law. Pellinore simply will not be bothered with trial by jury threatening, hypothetically, to cut off the heads of any jury that finds him guilty only to be stunned by the endless chain of theoretical events of his then having to be tried for murder. Shannon Stoeke hits the mark perfectly as Arthur's estranged son, Mordred. His utter disdain for Camelot is highlighted only by his sarcasm and wit as he playfully predicts the outcome of the affair between Lancelot and Guenevere to a bitter sweet reality.
I was very pleased with Michael Learner's revisions. The new placement of "If Ever I Would Leave You" which has now been moved to occur much later in the evening is utter perfection. The entire scene now has purpose and everything that happens after the fact is now justified as we get to see Lace and Guenevere really betray Arthur instead of just talking about it as in previous productions. "Fie on Goodness" has been cut, but the "Scotland" portion of the song is brilliantly retained and sung by one of the knights as a poem at the very top of the second act which accompanies Lancelot's poem that he recites first in French and then in English.
The opulent sets are not complimented by the minimalist approach to prop work, but still manage to impress highlighting the many, many locations from the various rooms and hallways of the castle to the Camelot hillsides, enchanted forests and battlefields. The costumes still feature a few men in tights, and are at times probably a little too inaccurately over colored, but still capture the mood, elegance and even the sex appeal in the clothing of the time.
Craig Barna's new orchestrations are mostly, although thinfully, faithful to the original orchestrations straying only during the new sexed up "Lusty Month of May" to some of his tribal inspired beats that he seems to have recycled from his orchestrations from his equally tribal "Ugg-A-Wugg" in the Cathy Rigby Peter Pan revival.
Overall the production is a must see. What Merlyn, or rather Michael Learner, told Arthur rings true. A few hundred years from now it will be discovered that the world is round, like the table, and perhaps one day people will sit around this world and go looking again for right, justice, and an end to war! Classy.
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
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Posted: 11/11/07 at 7:19pmI agree with everyone who's been said, plus Yankeefan007.
LuPonatic
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/06
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Posted: 11/11/07 at 7:31pmMichael Bennett gets my vote. I don't see him do it too often, but they are always wonderful to read, and I really respect his opinion.
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Posted: 11/11/07 at 8:43pmMargo, absolutely one hundred percent.
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Posted: 11/11/07 at 8:49pmI'll add another vote for emcee, just cause she also knows where I sleep.
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Posted: 11/11/07 at 8:49pm
It would have to be Margo, But Yankeefan a very close second.
( My favorite review of all time would have to be Margo's for "In My Life", the opening line was priceless. "Margo is Tired" )
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
Tazber's: Reply to
Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian
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Posted: 11/11/07 at 8:51pmluvtheemcee gets my vote for sure.
"I am ready to disclaim my opinion, even of yesterday, even of 10 minutes ago, because all opinions are relative. One lives in a field of influences, one is influenced by everyone one meets, everything is an exchange of influences, all opinions are derivative. Once you deal a new deck of cards, you've got a new deck of cards."
— Peter Brook
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
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Posted: 11/11/07 at 9:02pmI thank my nominators, and second Margo/Emcee.
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
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Posted: 11/17/07 at 2:54pmI vote for TheEnchantedHunter.
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neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
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Posted: 11/17/07 at 3:32pmJaystarr
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
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Posted: 11/17/07 at 4:56pm
Love me some Jaystarr, but I'd say Margo is the obvious choice.
And then again, there's always americanboy99!
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Posted: 11/17/07 at 5:06pmemcee gets my vote
<--Sometimes it's easier to get out of a jam than into one
misschung
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/07
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Posted: 11/17/07 at 5:13pm
No bias, I promise
...but my vote would go for LuvtheEmcee.
"Unquestionable Brilliance" :-P
The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go --doesn't it?
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Posted: 11/17/07 at 5:14pm
I vote for Margo. One of the people on here who seems to know what they're talking about.
I know you.
I know you.
I know you.
Updated On: 11/17/07 at 05:14 PM
