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If you have spotify, you can listen to it on the player for free. It is there now. Just listened to it on spotify. Yes it is amazingly good.

I just posted the same message without reading what had already been posted. Sorry about that. I think it is the truth.

The message I posted was from a reply by John Rubenstein, the original Pippin in the musical. He use to post on the google group rec.arts.theatre.musicals as Shipshe Hope this message helps answer the question posed.

This was posted way back and I found it in my hotmail folders: Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre.musicals From: ship...@aol.com (Shipshe) Date: 1996/08/15 Subject: Answering PIPPIN questions To set the record straight on several of the questions in a recent string: The PIPPIN video was made in Canada expressly as a video, although it was performed in front of an audience because there was so much "relating" to the audience in that show. The video cast never toured or did the show anywhere else. Th...

That is true he did say that. I just know she does have experience on stage in musicals. I also read that she was actually suppose to play the female lead in the movie musical of "Phantom of the Opera" but because of some schedule conflict or something like that could not.

I looked it up. This is about Anne Hathaway: Hathaway graduated from Millburn High School, where she participated in many school plays; her high school performance as Winnifred in Once Upon a Mattress garnered her a Paper Mill Playhouse Rising Star Award nomination for Best Performance by a High School Actress.

This part of the interview I do not know if I agree. Anne Hathaway has done musicals on stage. When she was younger she played the lead in "Once Upon a Mattress" at the Arts school I think she went to. I know she played the lead in "Carnival" as well. Here are Tom's comments: where a lot of Anne’s singing has been in the privacy of her own home or at the Oscars, but not something like [Les Misérables].

found great interview with Tom Hooper about movie. Agree or not agree? I did like what he said. http://movies.yahoo.com/news/tom-hooper-ready-defend-those-les-miserables-close-000057604.html

What can I say? I have a problem with a congestive heart condition. I try not to drink before or during a movie. I actually went before even commercials or previews started. Only took a few sips of a coke but that was enough. I sat through the whole movie and escaped as titles came on even though I love the score and would sit through those just to hear it.

I finally got to see Les Miz at the movie theatre. Frankly I hardly go to see a movie these days but wanted to see it on big screen. Do not like sitting through thirty minutes of commercials and previews before actually getting to the film. It use to not be that long. This was definitely Tom Hooper's direction, some may say over direction, of this musical on film . The extreme close up camera work did make this movie personal and more emotional however. I sat in the third row. Hardly anyone w...

I watch the Tommy Tune awards for the best high school musicals in Houston every year because I know how it is since I performed in high school musicals, actually got to play the dream role of Fagin in "Oliver." When I first saw a roadshow of that show as a young kid, I said to myself "Someday I will play Fagin." Turns out the high school director decided to do "Oliver" last year of my high school time. I auditioned for him in his drama and speech class. He said this is not usually done. I sa...

I agree with broadwaybabywannabe2

Thanks. I will check it out.

What do you guys think of this show on PBS? I think someone posted a message about it but that was before it was broadcast? Thanks, Brad

I enjoyed the show. There is no doubt the writer is the same writer of Gillmore Girls. Sutton Foster's character looked almost identical to the Lorelai mother character of Gillmore Girls. They way she dressed, even somewhat how she talked. And then you have Kelly Bishop from Gillmore Girls(Lorelai's mother) playing her mother in law. It will do good on ABC Family because of the audience for that network.