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re: 24601!
Aug 2
2006, 04:05:55 PM
They changed the number in Japanese. It's ni yon roku go san, which translates as 24653. My guess is its because the "ah" in san is not nearly as rough on the throat as trying to hold the "ee" in ichi, which is 1.
On that note, I also need to throw in that I'm looking forward to Gemignani as Valjean.
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re: 24601!
Aug 2
2006, 02:29:20 PM
I like both Colm and Takeshi Kaga, from the Japanese Red Cast (of course, in Japanse, he's 24653, but that's beside the point).
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re: Rapper to Join 'Chicago' ??
Jul 14
2006, 12:06:08 AM
I wouldn't discredit Usher too soon. It's stunt casting, yeah, but I live 20 minutes from Chattanooga, where he grew up, and know a number of people who knew him (in fact, my high school Spanish teacher's niece dated him for a while), and everyone who I've ever talked to who knows him has said he has done well when he's been on stage with stuff like this. I'm not typically a fan of Usher, but I am interested to see how this works out.
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re: How is the Fox Theater in Atlanta?
Jul 3
2006, 12:00:34 AM
Lenox is a bit of a drive, but it's not too bad, about half an hour or so going north on Peachtree given average traffic. There is a train station at Lenox; there are others as well, but the one that I know for sure is the Lenox station.
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re: Songs that build up in speed as the verses progress...
Jun 20
2006, 09:27:56 PM
I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General. Starts off A Tempo, slows second verse, then speeds up so that it's faster than A Tempo for the end.
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re: why no major revival of 'Equus'?
Jun 20
2006, 09:08:47 PM
Well, it wasn't professional, but one of Emory University's theatre groups performed Equus two years ago. It was the year before I got there, so I didn't get to see it, but it is supposedly one of the best student productions ever done on campus.
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re: Are There ANY Techies On This Board?
Jun 18
2006, 07:03:22 PM
I mostly do lighting design and direction, but lately I've taken to doing some tech directing and stage management work as well. I started off with lighting design and have been a techie since the age of 12.
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re: Operetta and Musical
Jun 18
2006, 01:20:52 AM
According to the dictionary I just checked:
An Opera is a work that has been numbered in some way and comes from the time when composers numbered their works (ie, Beethoven's symphonies, which are probably the most famous numbered works, though they aren't operas). Opera is the plural of the Latin Opus, meaning work.
An Operetta is lighter than an opera and is not necessarily numbered. It also may deal with more popular subjects.
A Musical is defined as a "play or m
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re: LuPone / Webber
Jun 13
2006, 11:37:09 PM
Also, during the whole debacle, Webber tried to convince Patti to take the role in NYC after Close left; obviously, she didn't care much for this idea. It got to the point where he begged Betty Buckley (who was in London preparing to replace Patti at the end of her run there) to try to convince her to take the offer. Buckley didn't like the idea, and neither did Patti.
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re: The Show That Did You In
Jun 13
2006, 11:31:47 PM
Ragtime. Then shortly after that, I worked on a production of Into the Woods, which just solidified it what Ragtime had started.
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re: Sweeney's Tony Performance.
Jun 12
2006, 02:57:50 PM
Michael Cerveris said in an interview on Sirius that the reason they didn't do A Little Priest was because they did it for the Drama Desk and they wanted to do something different. I thought the medley was well put together. I do hope that this show sticks around a good, long while. I saw it back in March and loved it.
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re: Hosting a Tony Party, need a little help
Jun 10
2006, 10:37:53 PM
Name That Tune with showtunes. Charades with titles of shows/names of songs/names of actors/etc.
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re: Books to Musicals, what do you guys think?
Jun 9
2006, 11:18:18 PM
I think that if it were approached by the right creative team and were carefully worked not to seem like a South American version of Les Mis (and had a better book than the movie version of the book), Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits would make a phenomenal musical.
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re: Songs/Scenes Cut for Amateur Productions
Jun 6
2006, 09:59:41 PM
The worst was my sophomore year of high school, we did Into the Woods, and our director cut the entire affair sequence between the prince and the Baker's Wife. It was so obvious and so bad. Losing that kills the whole second act, if not the whole show.
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re: Why haven't there been any more Tony announcements in terms of musical
Jun 5
2006, 10:53:05 AM
Michael Cerveris said in an interview with Seth Rudetsky over the weekend that Sweeney's cast is doing a medley for the show: Ballad of Sweeney, Worst Pies, My Friends, Finale version of Ballad of Sweeney, so there's one number we can look forward to.
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re: Who will be in L.A. production of Scoundrels?
Jun 5
2006, 10:50:48 AM
Christine Pedi just said for sure that "I just found out that my good friend Tom Hewitt will be in the touring company of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. He'll be the tall, good looking one."
She sounded pretty sure about it, so hopefully we'll hear something official soon.
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re: What Broadway Actors Could Be Successfull In All Three Mediums - Stage,
Jun 4
2006, 09:46:22 PM
I sort of agree with what has been said about Hugh Laurie so far, except I say he already has it. Roles in plays have been written for him, and he has performed in them and performed well. I read the script a while back for a class I was in of a play called Gasping, which is a satircal piece about a corporation deciding to create an elitism regarding the air people breathe, resulting in the destruction of the human race. Not the cheeriest piece, but hysterically funny. Regardless, the main c
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re: KAT MCPHEE - BROADWAY SHOW?
Jun 1
2006, 12:58:22 AM
I don't tend to follow Idol that, much, but my parents were watching Fox and Friends yesterday, and she was making an appearance on the show; she apparently was a senior at a theatre school in Boston (I think it was Boston) before she left to be on Idol, so she does have training.
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re: Favorite Lighting Moment...
May 30
2006, 08:26:34 PM
Well, as a lighting designer, I get to do some really fun stuff, but my favorite bit of lighting likely comes form Ragtime. The end of the second act, when Coalhouse opens the doors to go outside, is probably the single most vivid lighting image I can remember.
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re: Deciphering the next musical
May 29
2006, 10:38:49 PM
Perhaps the "2 in 1" clue refers to a show with a play-within-a-play structure, such as how Kiss Me, Kate has The Taming of the Shrew in it.
Also, if that were the case, it could explain the clue about it starting with A or H....the musical proper could start with one letter, and the show inside could start with the other.
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