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Carolee Carmello

You may like "In" and "Out for Blood," but they should be cut. They are *awful* songs. You like them for the camp factor, but any workable version of this show is going to lose the camp factor. They would be wise to cut "I'm Not Alone" as well.

I understand you need two sides in a debate. "This debate is stupid" is not a side, it's an editorial comment by someone who obviously isn't interested in the debate. That's cool, but why register the complaint. This is just people discussing art... No one will die if we don't figure out which one is better.

If people do not wish to enter the debate, why must they come here and rain on everyone's parade? If you find the comparison unfair then find another thread...no offense, you are more than welcome, but so many people are such naysayers. Thanks!!

Dolores Gray Pamela Myers Alison Fraser

I guess the thing of it is dedication. If an actor is dedicated to their role they'll do what they have to.

LaChiusa is more melodically accessible, but his music is much more complex and is sometimes difficult to assimilate. I love it. I directed a production of Hello Again a few years back, and I think the score to that show is outstanding. One of the best ever written. "Mistress of the Senator" is a wonderful song.

"How Glory Goes" from Floyd Collins

"Hopefully, nothing." Well said. If they have to keep doing this to us, I vote for: Flight of the Navigator Tron Pollyanna The Parent Trap Freaky Friday Those would actually probably be better than the ones they've done so far...

You've got to love Charlotte d'Amboise. She is a trouper, but she's been around for years. She'll work all the time, she always has, but I don't think she'll ever be a "star." Broadway economics don't permit the sustenance for anyone to be a "Broadway star" anymore. Certainly not in the same way Mary Martin, Ethel Merman, John Raitt, Alfred Drake, Julie Andrews, Judy Holiday, Chita Rivera, etc. were stars. A show like "A Dancer's Life" about D'Amboise would be a terrible flop, I'm afraid.

"Someone in a Tree" from Pacific Overtures. That song covers the pivotal moments of the story. Everything changes after the signing of the treaty, and Weidman and Sondheim were brilliant. Because they don't know what happened they cover the event with the boy in the tree, the boy as an old man, and the samurai under the floor and piece it together through memory. The text is complex, the interactions between the three narrators are structured wonderfully. The "he was only ten" interactions be...

But so much of Pacific Overtures is so smart. Particularly the way it pits Eastern Theatre and Occidental traditions against each other. That is amazing to me. "Someone in a Tree" is Sondheim's most successfully realized, and I think best, song.

Yes, I did. I broke the rule. I LOVE Pacific Overtures. Sondheim's best show I think. I have not yet seen Awake and Sing. Very excited though...my tickets aren't for a couple of weeks.

I have decided that there should be a thread where no talk of Wicked can happen. I have nothing against Wicked, I actually enjoyed it when I saw it and I listen to the original cast recording a lot too. I just am tired of being discussing its inherent quality. For all of you who are tired of it too...I give you this gift. Enjoy!

DG/Sum: I said SIMILAR integrity. Not saying anyone else doesn't have it, but the things that are integral to the work of LaChiusa and Sondheim is not the same thing which is integral to the work of Stephen Schwartz, Alan Menken, Elton John, Billy Joel, ABBA, or anyone else who is currently writing commercial hit shows today. There is nothing wrong with writing to sell tickets. LaChiusa and Sondheim don't do that. Matt: Carolee and Donna Murphy tie I think. I can't choose. They are both so gr...

"I agree...i think they should have acted out Out For blood more or even with the song being so long and the meaningless ballet dance break they could've transistioned into something else." No...it was perfect the way it was. If "Carrie" worked it would be unremarkable. Mediocre. The way it was was the only way it should be. A bad idea, remembered, but best forgotten.

A Little Night Music Desiree Armfeldt - Bernadette Peters Fredrik - Rupert Everett Carl Magnus - Brian Stokes Mitchell Charlotte - Judy Kuhn Anne - Anne Hathaway Mdme. Armfeldt - Judi Dench Henrik - Elijah Wood Petra - Tammy Blanchard

But Jennifer Holiday looks fabulous after her gastric bypass surgery.

"I'll agree with frenetic, but "textured"? As in a Laker Girls half-time show where they do they same move, but on different beats sort of way?" I said textured. I never said it wasn't tacky. Personally, "Out for Blood" is my favorite part. It's such a schlocky D-Level Vegas show. Particularly when Billy smears himself with the blood of the pigs, and Charlotte d'Amboise is wearing that terrible red sequined majorette costume! I've never seen truer Theatre (with a capital 'T'). The production ...