Because your Mothers love might feel insane, But she really knows everything.
Why that line means so much to me. Cause I can relate to youths pain. I was 18 just graduated from HS and moved to the West Coast. My mom called and asked me to return. Not knowing my mother kept alot of things to herself. I returned to Boston, and a month later she passed away. But I did have that chance to say good-bye. She was the most wonderful mother I could have asked for. Still wishing I could have spent more time with her. That's why I related so much to this show. joe
Rebecca Naomi Jones singing "Come Down Now" just gives me the chills.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
"All you have to do is ask me, I'll give you all the love life allows"
Just want to echo that Rebecca Jones singing Come Down Now was phenomenal. (I also like the "to be seen and to be seen through" line from that song, too -- kind of what love is all about, isn't it?)
"What was the name of that cheese that I like?"
"you can't run away forever...but there's nothing wrong with getting a good head start"
"well I hope and I pray, that maybe someday, you'll walk in the room with my heart"
My best PASSING STRANGE memory occurred at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre when the musical made its world premiere in 2005.
A scene/song later cut from the production, in Act 2, in a celebratory explosion of meeting the artists of Berlin, members of the cast come out into the audience and chat/sing.
I had an aisle seat, and Rebecca Naomi Jones skipped over, plopped herself infront of me and asked me repeatedly something along the lines of her body image as a woman. Her wild eyes and frizzy hair were so enchanting... and I carried that experience with me to when I finally interviewed the entire cast in Fall 2007.
clever name, I was blown away and sobbing mess at the same time. Did get a chance to talk to Rebecca this past weekend. She said she hopes to record "Come Down Now" on her album. But did say it was much longer at Berkley. And will record that version.
Don't be sad about your chosen path and where it's taken you thus far cause this is what you did and that is who you are and it's all right...yes it's all right
I haven't seen the show, but I own the cast album.
Favorite Moment: "Love Like That," right after Stew sings "Too bad it takes so long to see what you've been missing-"
And then Heidi cuts in with the refrain. A wonderful choice, to have the woman sing in a song about a dead mother. I get choked up every time.
"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
Because I live in chicago I never got to see it but have been listening to the cd repeatedly and bought a t shirt. I love the score and cant wait for the spike lee film. My favorite line is "Ill grow bolder, Ill Grow Colder, Ill Grow Older and Keep filling my cup Ill Grow Bolder, Ill Grow Colder Ill Grow Older but Ill never grow up"
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
I heard, and keep in mind that these could be total rumors. There are talks for Chicago and San Francisco, and possibly London. That is just I have heard though. Updated On: 7/26/08 at 02:00 AM