Profile for Ranger Tom

10086sunset said: "This thread is like a Lifetime movie.It's horrible but you keep watching just to see how worse it can get."More like watching the political process these days - both Dems and Reps. It's hilarious and unbelievable.

"The Story of Jerry and the Dog" monologue from Albee's The Zoo Story has a solid rant near the end.

Tom Hanks - was in the Sacramento State theater department together before he moved on to bigger things. Took Dr Larson's playwriting class and worked tech for the revolving stage in our "Oliver."Freda Foh Shen and Nick Rashad Burroughs both went to Santa Rosa Junior College's Summer Rep Theater. From what I remember, Freda left directly from SRT to join the OBC of Pacific Overtures.

Rest in peace, beautiful human.

Does it count that leads in Kiss Me Kate double into their Taming of the Shrew characters. Lilli into Kate, Fred into Petruchio (Fred Graham), etc.?

ACL2006 said: "As much as I love Mara Davi, I think she's probably too young for the role."Maybe - depending on who they cast for Joe Hardy.

BrodyFosse123 said: "I'd love to see Garrett Clayton as Lola. Her "Whatever Lola Wants" would be fabulous. Hopefully they retain Bob Fosse's original choreography for this. "Only if Rosie O'Donnell plays Applegate.Back to Lola - Mara Davi, any day. Of course, she could do Gloria too. But it's time for her to shine.

Amen!!

A Director said: "Ranger Tom - You stated, "I think it would open the nation up to a heightened appreciation of what Broadway is all about. These Fox/NBC trinkets don't make it happen."You live in a narrow little world. There are people in the nation, beyond your little bubble, you come to New York City and see Broadway shows. There are people in the nation, beyond your little bubble, who see Broadway shows on tour. There are people in the nation, beyond your little bubble who see professiona...

Very excited to hear this. Of course, they could announce an airing of almost any Broadway show and I'd be happy. I think it would open the nation up to a heightened appreciation of what Broadway is all about. These Fox/NBC trinkets don't make it happen.

Exciting. Not fortunate enough to know Ms. Cole like some of you but the "Ballet" Crescendo has always been my favorite single moment in musical theater.

Toxic AvengerSomewhere in Timebare (please produce before EVER doing Spring Awakening again)

Like some, love a few, don't hate any. There's nothing he's written that is "the worst ever." There's nothing he's written that is the best ever. While I don't mean to say that he is musical theater "light," I think his shows are mostly just plain fun and you don't have think a lot before/during/after. Fun is good.

Thanks. I really like it.

Interesting. Not bad. But "Totally F***ked" above "Another Hundred People," "At the Ballet," and "The Impossible Dream" is not only wrong but satanic.

I always get excited at the thought of these but once the commercials start coming every five to seven minutes, totally killing the energy and timing, I get depressed. Derek, Dove, and Andrea are giving 100% all the time. The best thing so far was the Wicked commercial. We don't get to see that out in the sticks. West Coast viewer so still looking forward to JH and YCSTB.

My Fair Lady

QueenAlice said: "One of the original cast members of Hair wrote a book (I forget her name but it was the lady who played Abe Lincoln) and she has a really detailed synopsis of the original production of the show in New York and mentions the cast milling around the back of the theatre and climbing on the chairs and then (in very stylized slow motion) coming towards the stage right before the song "Aquarius" --"I was able to see the London cast in the summer of '74. They did the slow motion en...

The nudity (in most productions, it was about 20-30 seconds worth) was the most sensationalized part of the Hair controversy. But, more than that, the themes of draft dodging, drug use, songs with titles like "Colored Spade" and "Sodomy," and it's religious references - or basically the whole tone of the musical - sparked a lot of controversy and discussion. For the time, it was the anti-musical. Godspell caused national controversy in and out of churches by depicting Jesus and his followers ...

Brilliant!!