Profile for WiCkEDrOcKS

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "David Gordon's tweet reminds me of Harvey Fierstein's eloquent explanation for how Jerry Mitchell turned KINKY BOOTS around in early previews out-of-town. Without big textual or structural changes, he refocused and calibrated the performances, scenesand musical numbers to entertain while moving the story forward and putting character first.

That's not enough for EVERY show, but it certainly helps some shows."

Overall (this was my first live exposure to TOMMY), I enjoyed this quite a bit for the most part, but I do have to say something was up with the lead's mic last night (or his diction, honestly)? I could understand everyone else very clearly, but about 65% of his lyrics were lost, which...was unfortunate. 

And I did miss the actual physical pinball machine from the original production (thank you, YouTube). Would've also loved more physical set pieces. Part of me also wa

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "I want to know if the original program-printing was a goof of including the wrong song list, or if they actually overhauled the book and cut a bunch of songs since it went to print (which was probably about 2 weeks ago). I don't have the program in front of me right now but there's a huge difference from the song list in the printed Playbill vs what's on the paper insert."

I also noticed (on Wednesday at least) the song prog

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "Sauja said: "The trouble, I think, with trying to do a massive rethink of a piece as part of Encores is that there just. Isn’t. Time."

There were workshops and dance labs of this last year with much of the same cast (incl principals). So for once, there WAS time!

Tony Goldwyn & Richard La Gravanese were attached to this revisal prior to Savion and the rest of the team getting involved. The first iterati

Sauja said: "As Encores gets farther and farther from their goal of showcasing great scores from forgotten musicals, they seem to have forgotten that the two week rehearsal process gives them only enough time to mount what’s on the page, not to revamp an entire show from a new perspective."

This. (Even though I don’t believe this is technically an Encores production. But the points you made still stand.)
 
I was there tonight as well an

B212323 said: "WiCkEDrOcKS said: "By and large, I thought this was exceptional. Overlong, sure, but not by some insane margin - I strangely didn’t find it slow at all. It’s supposed to take us along on this band’s experience of recording an entire album - which in itself is often draining, arduous, stressful, and long. That’s the point. But it’s far from boring. I thought the ensemble was up there with the cast of THE COMEUPPANCE. It’s har

By and large, I thought this was exceptional. Overlong, sure, but not by some insane margin - I strangely didn’t find it slow at all. It’s supposed to take us along on this band’s experience of recording an entire album - which in itself is often draining, arduous, stressful, and long. That’s the point. But it’s far from boring. I thought the ensemble was up there with the cast of THE COMEUPPANCE. It’s hard to pinpoint a single performer, but Will Brill (al