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Any discounts for PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE at New World Stages? Thanks.

Love that this beautiful score was recorded! Does anyone know if there will also be a physical cd release? Some of us love having the physical collectible album too

To me, an "original musical" is the same as an original SCORE-->new songs composed for this work. It's still an "original" to me, even when it's adapted from another non-musical source. So "Oklahoma" is an original musical because "Green Grow the Lilacs" wasn't a musical. The current "Kimberly Akimbo" is a (wonderful) original musical, because the same named play it's based on did not have songs.Almost every musical is based on some kind of source material (novel, play, film), but making it i...

You are so right! She was a treasure...a performer who gave 100%, and someone who raised the game on what a "Broadway concert" or "theatre concert" could achieve. Her Broadway engagements at the Palace in the 1951-52, 1956-57, and 1967-68 seasons gave audiences an electrifying experience. She was making real theatre, not tossing off a set of hit songs, as many theatrical concerts prior to Judy had done. Later theatre concerts such as "Lena Horne: Lady & Her Music", "Elaine Stritch At Liberty"...

Best 12-Thanks for clarifying. Of course I remember the HAIR film wasn't a popular, mainstream hit (which frustrated me, especially compared to the much sloppier GREASE film the year before), but I just wanted to highlight some of the great critical reception. It became apparent to me, when the recent Bdwy revival was done, that HAIR's lack of FINANCIAL success in '79 had somehow misled younger people into thinking it was poorly reviewed, when quite the opposite was true. Mr. Nowack and Best1...

Thanks for kind words, CarlosAlberto, will do. There are SO many interesting people that post here-just look at all the knowledge and affection in this thread.Mr. Nowack, Best 12 bars, Yourself..... posting rare film footage, videos that some of us would have missed, original production stills, plus just the good conversation that good company brings. A toast to you all, bringing warmth and color to a dreary February night!

Hey "Best 12 Bars": I always enjoy your posts, though I rarely comment. I appreciate you knowledge and obvious affection for so much of the good work that has been done.One point regarding what you said re: appreciating some of these film adaptations. Maybe you don't know it, but the 1979 film of HAIR was RAPTUROUSLY received, and very much appreciated by many. At the end of 1979 Variety did a survey of the best reviewed films of the year, from a representative array of critics and entertainm...

I thought that the last revival of CABARET, the Sam Mendes/Rob Marshall Roundabout version, was supposed to be available for licensing for amateur productions, but maybe I was just dreaming that. I don't see it listed with MTI, and Tams Witmark just offers the original and the '87 revivals. Does anyone know if this the last version (with "I Don't Care Much", and the stunning ending) is available, or is going to be available in the near future? Was I just dreaming? I could have sworn I heard t...

Pal Joey: It's insights like that that make this board worthwhile. I hope you had a wonderful night. And it's exactly that interaction between our real lives, and the art created by Sondheim (et all) that is the reason so many of us are theatre lovers. You understand your own life better because you watch what is enacted onstage. And it's different when one is 15 or 17 vs. when one is 50. Not better or worse. The more complex the work (and "Follies" qualifies here) the more likely that it wil...

Last night there was a reunion party, at the theatre, where former "newsies" gathered to relive the past, and mingle with the young newsies now taking their place....sounds a little like "Follies", huh? But seriously, last night was an extra-special night at the Paper Mill. The theatre invited many cast members of the original 1992 film musical to meet the current stage cast. And to meet fans of the property, past and/or present. It was a party and I had a wicked time! Some of the original fi...

Yah! I've been telling people that this material was great for 19 years. Any score with "King of New York", "Carrying the Banner", and "Santa Fe" is a show I'll be there for. Congrats to all the cast (Jeremy Jordan and Andrew Keenan-Bolger) and creative team for making such a hit a Paper Mill....and maybe now Broadway.

This year, as part of the NY Musical Theatre Festival, the Paley Center is having an interesting "Twice-Told Tales" screening series this weekend. They are showing two musical adaptations done on tv of the same story: one famous, and one obscure. They're showing two musical "Peter Pan"s and two musical "Cinderella"s. There are panel discussions, and tomorrow afternoon's "Peter" panel features one of the 1960 cast members, Edmund Gaynes, who went on to produce, etc.... Check out the link to th...

andi1235: Just to clarify regarding Howard Ashman and NEWSIES: You (and Mr. Ashman's sister) are correct in saying that the work onscreen is not Ashman's, it is Jack Feldman's. Didn't mean to imply Ashman's work was there uncredited, and sorry if I did. What I meant to convey was that when the project was first being talked about in '90-91, as Disney was developing it, it was being touted and talked about as another Menken/Ashman musical for Disney-but live action instead of animation. The Ho...

I think the main reason that "Santa Fe" is used twice: once to start the show, and then as the big Act One curtain number, is part of what I mentioned in my long post above. It is the best-known, most respected song in the score. The creators are recognizing that by giving it these two prime spots. For the record, Alan Menken didn't want it to start the stage version, but book writer Harvey Fierstein convinced him that it is the thematic key for the entire work. I love the song, I just miss s...

To EricMontreal re: fans of NEWSIES. I can assure you that not ALL of the fans of the original film were only those who saw it as children. When it opened in Manhattan in April of 1992, it opened at the Sutton Theatre (no longer there, it was a beautiful theatre on W.57th St), I was one of MANY, MANY adult fans of the musical. First off, all of us were just thrilled that it was a real, live action musical film! After a bunch of film musicals in the early 80s (Victor Victoria, Best Little Whor...

NEWSIES does indeed have a huge cult following, FAR larger than that of SWING KIDS. In fact, NEWSIES, despite it's initial failure at the box office, generated more internet fan sites than any of the hit movies Disney ever produced. The video, laser disc, and DVD releases were all successful for Disney. And there has been a lot of interest in a stage adaptation. Interesting to note that NEWSIES was originally a Alan Menkin/Hopward Ashman project. They felt Disney owed them a "live-action" mus...

The film version of BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE, was a big hit upon release in 1982. It is NOT a faithful version of the show at all, waaaay too many cuts and changes. But some theatre people mistakenly assume that because it isn't good (though the AGGIE number is both "hot" and "good"-worth seeing the film for that alone!) that it didn't do well. It was a major financial success, and very profitable for Universal. In fact, it was probably the last screen musical to be commercially successful for ...