re: Of All The Shows/Performances You Saw This Year...
Dec 25
2008, 03:14:03 AM
Echoing some common votes:
-Patti LuPone in Gypsy (pretty sure I didn't breathe once during "Rose's Turn")
-In the Heights, seeing it without having the faintest idea what I was getting into other than that I'd heard good buzz about it. Phenomenal.
-August: Osage County - absolutely brilliant start to finish
Regrets:
-Missing Blackwatch.
-Missing Blasted, though I'm told it was hard to sit through.
-Missing [title of show]
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re: Funniest Broadway Song?
Aug 26
2008, 01:32:39 PM
"A Little Priest" - Sweeney Todd
"Getting Married Today" - Company
"Agony" - Into the Woods
"All About Ruprecht" - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
"Oklahoma?" -Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
"Dance Ten Looks Three" - A Chorus Line
"Nothing" - A Chorus Line
"Marry the Man Today" - Guys and Dolls
"Take Back Your Mink" - Guys and Dolls
"No Me Diga" - In the Heights
"Old Fashioned Wedding" - Annie Get Your Gun
"Her Is (Reprise)" - The Pajama Game
"I'll Never Be Jealo
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re: Audience Character breakers
Aug 23
2008, 07:56:33 PM
Last spring I was playing Hope Cladwell in Urinetown. At the end of "Follow Your Heart," there're like 3 lines of (deliberately) awkward dialogue and then a kiss. So it's closing night, and we get through the little scene and we kiss, and as we break apart we hear someone in the audience yell "WOOO! KISS HER AGAIN!" The only saving graces of the moment keeping us from bursting into hysterical laughter were that our blocking thereafter didn't require us to make eye contact, and that we were far e
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re: Favorite Opening Sequence In a Musical
Aug 11
2008, 09:11:04 PM
Additions:
"Runyonland" from Guys and Dolls, when staged well is fantastic and so fun to watch
"There's No Business Like Show Business" from the Annie Get Your Gun revival versions
"Wilkommen" from Cabaret
To second:
42nd Street
Carousel
A Chorus Line
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re: Jason Robert Brown Posts Singing Contest On His Blog
Aug 2
2008, 05:38:12 PM
I'm another soprano who thought she'd give it a shot, haha.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usZO_BNGEts
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re: Who's the winner (Elle on MTV's Legally Blonde?)
Jul 22
2008, 03:35:48 AM
Anakela 1, everybody bitching and moaning over whether or not Bailey's name was on Amazon 0.
I rarely do this, but I had to comment because I am pretty literally laughing my f_____ ass off over here.
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re: Favorite Shakespeare Play (AND WHY)
Jun 30
2008, 12:57:52 AM
I love Much Ado About Nothing for the comedies. A smart, hilarious, and extremely touching play from start to finish. I also empathize most strongly with Beatrice out of possibly any woman in literature which may have something to do with it. It's probably my favorite Shakespeare overall.
To be cliched, I think Hamlet is maybe the most brilliant play ever written. I get something new from it every time I read or see it, it is an astonishingly beautiful tragedy that happens to also have
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re: WEST SIDE STORY Revival Begins Previews On Broadway February 13, 2009
Jun 29
2008, 11:36:17 PM
I am so excited for this production. However, as to Diana DeGarmo - did whoever suggested it see her in WSS in San Jose? Because I did, and she was terrible. She was the indisputable weakest link in what was actually a pretty strong production otherwise. And this is coming from someone who liked DeGarmo on Idol...
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re: Anyone see any Bway stars perform before they 'made it'...?
Jun 28
2008, 08:52:41 PM
While all involved were already names, I saw Wicked in the first week of it's San Francisco tryout.
Not technically a star, but saw Spring Awakening's Remy Zaken in Lippa's A Little Princess during it's presumed (but ultimately canned) pre-Bway run.
Oh, and I saw Billy Ray Cyrus in Annie Get Your Gun as Frank Butler. Which does not at all fit these criteria but was to this day the most hilarious theatrical experience EVER.
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re: Which of the following ten upcoming shows are you most looking forward
Jun 24
2008, 09:19:10 PM
Equus and Billy Elliot, and WSS of the not mentioned.
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re: Fastest quick changes
May 13
2008, 03:21:00 PM
I was wondering when someone was going to mention 42nd Street; the costume changes in that are ridiculous for just about everybody but Dorothy, Abner, and Julian.
In Annie Get Your Gun, Annie has a pretty brutal one from the end of the first "No Business Like Showbusiness" reprise into wen she has to be nice and polished when she joins the company in the next scene on the train; it's pretty much the end of the song, four lines, and she's onstage again.
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re: Britney Spears Eyed for Broadway role???
Mar 29
2008, 07:22:11 PM
...Why should we pay to see as Blanche when we can watch her "embody this fallen Southern Belle so well" on TV and internet gossip sites for free?
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re: Most Romantic Showtunes
Jan 28
2008, 06:00:18 PM
"If I Loved You" - Carousel
"Elaborate Lives" - Aida
"They Say It's Wonderful" - Annie Get Your Gun
"I Got Lost In His Arms" - Annie Get Your Gun
"Unexpected Song" - Song and Dance
"I've Never Been In Love Before" - Guys and Dolls
"Make Believe" - Show Boat
"The Next 10 Minutes" - The Last Five Years
"If I Didn't Believe In You" - The Last Five Years
"A Heart Full Of Love" - Les Miserables
"I'll Cover You" - Rent
"Sun and Moon" - Miss Saigon
"I've
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re: Musical Theatre BREAK UP SONGS
Dec 15
2007, 08:47:49 PM
"Still Hurting" - The Last 5 Years
"What Did I Have That I Don't Have?" - On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
"I Had Myself a True Love" - St Louis Woman
"Maybe This Time" - Cabaret
"Hopelessly Devoted To You" - Grease, the movie (Love Grease or hate it, it's sort of an undeniably great belt it out breakup song)
"Tell Me On A Sunday" - Song and Dance
"Someone Else's Story" - Chess
"I Know Now" - 42nd Street (ish)
"I Know the Truth" - Aida
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re: Specific short lines or lyrics that give you chills
Nov 16
2007, 11:54:49 PM
"I can't believe he's gone. I can't believe you're going. I can't believe this family must die. Angel helped us believe in love, I can't believe you disagree. I can't believe this is goodbye." - Goodbye Love, Rent
"Sawyer! Think of Broadway, dammit." - Lullaby of Broadway (scene), 42nd Street
"The gift was ours to borrow" - What I Did for Love, ACL
"Why do I want him still? Why, when there's nothing there?" I Know the Truth, Aida
"Start by admitting from cradl
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re: What is your favorite broadway love song?
Aug 11
2007, 04:13:01 PM
"I Got Lost" - Annie Get Your Gun
"They Say It's Wonderful" - Annie Get Your Gun
"Elaborate Lives" - Aida
"So In Love" - Kiss Me Kate
"I've Grown Accostomed to Her Face" - My Fair Lady
"If I Loved You" - Carousel
"Tell Her I Love Her" - Urinetown
"A Little Fall of Rain" - Les Miserables
"Seasons of Love" - Rent (I realize it's not necessarily a "love song" but it is one of my all time favorite songs about love)
"The Next Ten Minutes" - Last 5 Years
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re: Which show would YOU be in? (now past or present)
Aug 2
2007, 03:43:13 PM
Morales in A Chorus Line
Roxie in Chicago
Eponine in Les Mis
Christine in Phantom of the Opera
Mimi in Rent
Galinda in Wicked
...but really, what does it matter that I'm not a belter? That's not THAT important...
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re: Which do you prefer - Miss Saigon or Les Miserables?
Jun 28
2007, 05:35:30 PM
For me, Les Mis has a much stronger score. The music is more compelling; the songs are more gripping and more memorable (for me) than those in Miss Saigon. In terms of listening to one over the other, I'll basically always pick Les Mis.
Even with as much as I love the music, though, I've never seen Les Mis live and not been at least a little bored. I think the show has spectacular dramatic moments, and there are parts that are unbelievably absorbing and emotionally effective. Overall th
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re: Favorite Forbidden Broadway Parody
Jun 27
2007, 01:38:53 AM
Unfortunately, I've never gotten to see it live, but based off of recordings:
Joseph and the Amazing High C - "Give them a TV star, a naked TV star..." [possibly made funnier because Donnie Osmond was my first Joseph]
The Guys and Dolls Sequence
Cheesy as Cats
all the collective Les Mis parodies - thelong sequence and More Miserable
Oh what I wouldn't give to see it live...
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re: Revivals They Should Do
Jun 26
2007, 05:08:02 PM
West Side Story
Angels in America
Arsenic and Old Lace
Evita
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