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re: 'All About Us' Reviews?
Apr 23
2007, 10:46:13 AM
The Thornton Wilder play was a bit difficult for an audience to understand and so is this musical. However, in one of the best songs in the production "The Discussion" (sung by Socrates, Moses, Plato, and Homer) Ebb and Kander make clever, hysterical fun of that difficulty.
The reviews I have seen are mixed with raves for the performers (especially Eartha Kitt and Cady Huffman) and a good deal of the music. I saw it when it was called Over and Over and this production is a great impro
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re: Uggams in Anything Goes
Apr 23
2007, 10:28:04 AM
Although LuPone was powerful it was extremely difficult to undersand what the devil she was singing. Of course, show business people know the songs but she was infamous for how she ran through a song lyric (even fodder for Forbidden Broadway). Also, the backstage was in turmoil and there were complaints brought to Equity about Lupone's behavior.
The cast was delighted when Leslie Uggams came into the show. She has one of the best reps in the business from the actors down to the stage
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