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Wonderland marquee -- Dianetics?
Mar 10
2011, 11:52:54 AM
Winston, where in the world do you get your information? I am no more a Scientologist than you are a rocket scientist. Sorry to be harsh, but you really shouldn't repeat silly, unfounded assertions about a person's religion (or lack thereof). If you must know, I'm a lapsed Roman Catholic (very lapsed.) I was also not born in Kenya. I was born in New Jersey. And just in case you're wondering, Dickens wasn't a scientologist either. But he was an alien! 
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Feb 1
2010, 10:53:10 PM
markbradleymiller.com
very good. very reasonable.
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Anyone know any good headshot photographers?
Feb 1
2010, 10:52:57 PM
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re: http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/A_TALE_OF_TWO_CITIES_PianoVocal_So
Dec 20
2009, 02:22:22 AM
yes, we do plan to put the extra stuff on itunes eventually. we did not have time to record Madame's "way it ought to be" reprise, Round and Round (or Bless this Fine Night - which you're right - is a part of round and round) or the No Honest Way reprise in London. but we got everything else - about 32 pieces of music.
the dvd does have 3 additional pieces, Carton's first Act II, "if dreams came true " reprise, then Darnay's portion of that reprise and then Lucie's song "Without a
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re: http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/A_TALE_OF_TWO_CITIES_PianoVocal_So
Dec 20
2009, 02:13:06 AM
Enchanted - i'll put my challenged bass clef reading up against any alleged musicianship of yours any day of the week. name the time and place - seriously. in the meantime, you should try not being so bitter and angry about me personally - you will age prematurely and end up unhappier than you already are. and insulting me for reading and posting something on a chat board? while you hide behind your anonymous chat board identity - and read and post stuff on a chat board? hmmm.
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re: http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/A_TALE_OF_TWO_CITIES_PianoVocal_So
Dec 19
2009, 01:11:12 PM
Ok Cats, Bway Babe and company - i'm home for 24 hours on a rare break from cd post production and able to do a little catching up - what do you wanna know?
First, no discourtesy has been intended in our not releasing specifics and we're certainly not getting any sick pleasure out of torturing anyone- we truly have not known the specifics previously. Secondly, Bway Babe you're on the money about the nature of the endeavor - we're producing, editing, designing ourselves and there are literally 2-4 people doing all of it - so I'm sure you can imagine! I myself have been basically living at my orchestrator/co-producer/engineer/mixer's (yes this man can do it all!) house for the past 2 weeks. My feeling is that you all would rather have the very best recording we can give you and not just one that's rushed out the door to get it in the mail to you - I hope you guys will agree and can be patient a little longer. It's also my understanding that everybody who's called to pledge PBS was told 6 to 10 weeks for delivery - and so that's the deadline we've been working under - and unless the people who do the actually shipping (we don't have to do that THANK GOD) drop the ball, everybody should be getting their stuff no more than 6 weeks from the date they order it and probably sooner.
Here's the track list as it currently stands - though in just the past 24 hours it has changed again due to the fact that we have more music that we would have liked to include than the 80 minute format will allow us to include. So we're still trying to figure things out in that dept. this list comes out to about 79 minutes and 50 seconds!
SONGS
ACT I
1. THE WAY IT OUGHT TO BE
2. WHO ARE YOU
3. YOU’LL NEVER BE ALONE
4. ARGUMENT
6. THE WAY IT OUGHT TO BE (London)
6. NO HONEST WAY
7. THE TRIAL
8. REFLECTION
9. LETTER FROM UNCLE
10. THE PROMISE
11. I CAN’T RECALL
12. RESURRECTION MAN
13. NOW AT LAST
14. IF DREAMS CAME TRUE
15. OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND
16. LITTLE ONE
17. UNTIL TOMORROW
ACT II
18. EVERYTHING STAYS THE SAME
19. THE TALE
20. IF DREAMS CAME TRUE Reprise
21. WITHOUT A WORD
22. THE BLUFF
23. LET HER BE A CHILD
24. DREAMS REPRISE/THE LETTER
25. DEFARGE GOODBYE
26. FINALE
27. NEVER SAY GOODBYE (bonus track)
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re: Your best and worst from this Broadway Season
Aug 17
2009, 10:54:03 PM
CyCoSpaz and Phllly - I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!!
AC and TheaterDork? mmmm...not so much
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re: Tale of Two Cities: In Concert to be filmed for PBS
May 27
2009, 03:15:45 AM
Bobby Bubby,
have you looked at the box office for "Phantom" lately? (now in its gajillionth year) It seems to be doing pretty well for a relic of a genre that nobody wants to see anymore And if you spoke to most of the audiences coming out of our show and read the readers opinions on blogs and the New York Times site, for example, you'd see that many audience members loved the show and had a completely opposite opinion of the new york critics. If you read the new york media reviews you'd have to acknowledge that they had their minds made up before they even saw the show - most of them came right out and said so. Even so, we also got some rave reviews - (Huffington Post, Connecticut Post, lots of online sites (NYC.com) several radio and television stations) - those reviews were unfortunately lost in the shuffle of the overwhelmingly negative Time review. I take a little comfort in the admissions of some of the critics of their own ridiculous bias: (John Simon, for instance, wrote that Dickens book has a great first and last line and nothing of value in between! Yikes!) The truth is that there is an audience for those costumed, period shows that you would dismiss - - the decades of audiences for shows like "Phantom" and "Les Miz" and their continuing popularity around the United States and the world prove that. But although "Tale" was mistakenly likened to "Phantom" and "Les Miz" as a pop opera it really had much more in common stylistically with say, "Oliver!", than with either of those shows. We painstakingly kept electric guitar and contemporary drum kits etc. out of the orchestration - but no matter - the genius "experts" still called it a "poperetta"!
If we had opened at any other time (for instance, not the same week that Lehman went bankrupt and the stock market crashed and everyone started talking about the Great Depression Part Deux!) we would have had a chance to tough it out. But the complete collapse of the world financial markets made it impossible for us to battle back (remember all of the hit shows that closed in January? They lasted til January only because they had reserves built up from years of running and could afford to lose money during those lean months when everybody was suffering.)
A funny side note - i just returned from a week of casting our concert in the UK and spent a great day running around London with Charles Dickens great, great, great granddaughter Lucinda - a writer in her own right and all around lovely person who came to see our show THREE TIMES during the closing weekend. She loved it and thinks the critics are...challenged She even wrote a letter to the New York Times (that they didn't publish, of course)
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re: Tale of Two Cities: In Concert to be filmed for PBS
May 26
2009, 09:48:05 PM
Tevye you're such a big fat cow milking fibber. i was always watching the show during previews so you couldn't have come out in the lobby and found me chatting during Act two. "other members of the creative team"? who might they have been and how are you identifying them as such? can you name even one of them? i thought not. and you could tell what we were talking about and what we were saying by the "tone" of our conversation eh? amazing powers you have there. and snickers of laughter follo
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re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Jan 5
2009, 05:20:27 PM
No i didn't think you were suggesting a rip-off - hence my winky face! I'm just always genuinely curious to discover and become aware of the similarities myself when people say something of mine sounds like something else. (because despite the assertions of several unimaginative critics, I've never composed anything using tracing paper!)
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re: Songs That Sound Suspiciously Similar
Jan 5
2009, 04:07:46 PM
You've got me stumped too Schmerg! I just looked the "jane" song up on Itunes and I can't figure out what you might mean. By instrumental are you talking about the introduction to the song ? or the whole orchestration?
Anyway, whatever it is you think you're hearing - I claim "no foul" as I wrote all my music long before "Jane Eyre" made it to Broadway!
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re: Toro
Nov 22
2008, 02:20:46 PM
Info below about where it should be available. But also if you're in NY i'm sure you could get the cd at her CD release party which is tomorrow night at the Canal Room at 7:30.
RE: NATALIE TORO¹S CD RELEASE PARTY
WHEN: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd
TIME: 7:30pm
WHERE: CANAL ROOM
285 West Broadway (@ Southeast corner of Canal
Street)
RSVP: 212-221-8361
TORO's CD
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re: How was Tale Today?
Nov 19
2008, 12:52:39 PM
unless the grosses you can find right on this website are completely wrong it's not the case that Wicked played to empty houses during previews. Maybe you went to a couple of ill attended previews? but the weekly house capacity percentages are very high and they are not supposed to figure any papering into that Also a nowhere near filled Gershwin can still be an incredibly strong and healthy sized audience - the place is huge!
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re: How was Tale Today?
Nov 19
2008, 11:43:19 AM
Little Mermaid and Wicked can't really be used as examples of "well they overcame bad reviews" because they were both pre-sold shows that had huge appeal in spite of the reviews and they were both doing very well (i believe 90+% attendance area even in previews which basically indicates they will be critic proof and they both had tons of money to advertise and did it very effectively. And on top of that the New York Times wrote a love letter to Chenoweth or Menzel or both (can't remember) .
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re: How was Tale Today?
Nov 19
2008, 02:06:10 AM
Actually Yankee, the idea of dueling theater critics isn't really that ridiculous. They do it in Chicago and some other places and of course the Siskel and Ebert model has proved enormously popular for film. But the Times would never voluntarily dissipate their power or do anything to diminish the public perception that they are the paper of record on any topic - so they won't be doing two reviews of anything anytime soon. Though in 1935 they sent 3 different critics to review "Porgy and Bes
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re: How was Tale Today?
Nov 18
2008, 03:47:53 PM
Yankee Fan. I'm with you on this one.
Winston, I have to respectfully disagree. If a lot of other factors are with you (good economy, good advance, good time of season, lots of money to advertise) word of mouth may (possibly) save a show that gets slammed. But word of mouth takes months and months to build if you're a show starting from scratch as we were - and the reviews are now eblasted around the world in a matter of seconds. One might say the NYTimes is half way around the world while word of mouth is still putting its shoes on. (except these days it's actually been around the world 80 times and then some)
Also, if certain media outlets like the Times or any of the other major "print" papers weren't still the go-to source for anyone interested and the "accepted" arbiter of taste in the mind of the public, we would have been seen as having mixed to good reviews across the board. The majority of bloggers, professional and non, and radio were positive - the print bastions were negative. No one I encountered at the theater said "hey I read the rave on Huffington Post or in Connecticut Post or NYC.com or I heard the rave on the radio." They all said they read the review in the Times (followed by "what the heck show did they see?" Actually, the language was usually a lot more colorful and all the more amusing because it was usually a very sweet looking older lady from New Jersey or Long Island who had suddenly found the more profane part of her vocabulary.) The fact is that a show's primary audience in the first weeks and months is always going to be the tri state area and those folk look to the Times for a review. My naivete about that subject got a jolt on the Monday night press preview before our Thursday opening. I knew that members of the press had been coming since the previous Saturday and would be coming up to and through the opening. But on Monday night the cast and creative team (sans me) were all having a cow because they knew the Times was there that night. "tonight's the most important night of your life; after tonight you can relax" i was told. i was like - "wha?" ironically, we had an amazing show that night, with only press and our regular preview audience- and no appreciable papering that I was aware of - and everybody felt so great about the show afterwards. That's why when the reviews came out everybody was in shock. It just didn't seem possible that those reviews had come out of that performance in that theater. Go figure!
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re: How was Tale Today?
Nov 18
2008, 01:44:39 AM
got it. just responded.
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re: How was Tale Today?
Nov 17
2008, 09:41:57 PM
Oops! Sorry for repeating myself
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re: How was Tale Today?
Nov 17
2008, 09:24:30 PM
I never said it was a critic's job to look around them and try to interpret what other people are thinking or feeling. I said they ought not to present their own opinion as a statement of fact to the exclusion of the possibility that anyone else is having a different reaction.
i haven't read the critic's handbook lately but when in doubt I like to take a page from Alexander Pope's Essay On Criticism
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill
Appear in Writing or in Judging ill,
But, of the two, less dang'rous is th' Offence,
To tire our Patience, than mis-lead our Sense:
Some few in that, but Numbers err in this,
Ten Censure wrong for one who Writes amiss;
A Fool might once himself alone expose,
Now One in Verse makes many more in Prose.
'Tis with our Judgments as our Watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
In Poets as true Genius is but rare,
True Taste as seldom is the Critick's Share;
This part's good too
A perfect Judge will read each Work of Wit
With the same Spirit that its Author writ,
Survey the Whole, nor seek slight Faults to find,
Where Nature moves, and Rapture warms the Mind;
Whoever thinks a faultless Piece to see,
Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
In ev'ry Work regard the Writer's End,
Since none can compass more than they Intend;
And if the Means be just, the Conduct true,
Applause, in spite of trivial Faults, is due.
As Men of Breeding, sometimes Men of Wit,
T' avoid great Errors, must the less commit,
Neglect the Rules each Verbal Critick lays,
For not to know some Trifles, is a Praise.
Most Criticks, fond of some subservient Art,
Still make the Whole depend upon a Part,
They talk of Principles, but Notions prize,
And All to one lov'd Folly Sacrifice.
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re: How was Tale Today?
Nov 17
2008, 09:24:27 PM
I never said it was a critic's job to look around them and try to interpret what other people are thinking or feeling. I said they ought not to present their own opinion as a statement of fact to the exclusion of the possibility that anyone else is having a different reaction.
i haven't read the critic's handbook lately but when in doubt I like to take a page from Alexander Pope's Essay On Criticism
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill
Appear in Writing or in Judging ill,
But, of the two, less dang'rous is th' Offence,
To tire our Patience, than mis-lead our Sense:
Some few in that, but Numbers err in this,
Ten Censure wrong for one who Writes amiss;
A Fool might once himself alone expose,
Now One in Verse makes many more in Prose.
'Tis with our Judgments as our Watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
In Poets as true Genius is but rare,
True Taste as seldom is the Critick's Share;
This part's good too
A perfect Judge will read each Work of Wit
With the same Spirit that its Author writ,
Survey the Whole, nor seek slight Faults to find,
Where Nature moves, and Rapture warms the Mind;
Whoever thinks a faultless Piece to see,
Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
In ev'ry Work regard the Writer's End,
Since none can compass more than they Intend;
And if the Means be just, the Conduct true,
Applause, in spite of trivial Faults, is due.
As Men of Breeding, sometimes Men of Wit,
T' avoid great Errors, must the less commit,
Neglect the Rules each Verbal Critick lays,
For not to know some Trifles, is a Praise.
Most Criticks, fond of some subservient Art,
Still make the Whole depend upon a Part,
They talk of Principles, but Notions prize,
And All to one lov'd Folly Sacrifice.
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