Profile for JillS

Winston, where in the world do you get your information? I am no more a Scientologist than you are a rocket scientist. Sorry to be harsh, but you really shouldn't repeat silly, unfounded assertions about a person's religion (or lack thereof). If you must know, I'm a lapsed Roman Catholic (very lapsed.) I was also not born in Kenya. I was born in New Jersey. And just in case you're wondering, Dickens wasn't a scientologist either. But he was an alien!

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yes, we do plan to put the extra stuff on itunes eventually. we did not have time to record Madame's "way it ought to be" reprise, Round and Round (or Bless this Fine Night - which you're right - is a part of round and round) or the No Honest Way reprise in London. but we got everything else - about 32 pieces of music. the dvd does have 3 additional pieces, Carton's first Act II, "if dreams came true " reprise, then Darnay's portion of that reprise and then Lucie's song "Without a Word" is ad...

Enchanted - i'll put my challenged bass clef reading up against any alleged musicianship of yours any day of the week. name the time and place - seriously. in the meantime, you should try not being so bitter and angry about me personally - you will age prematurely and end up unhappier than you already are. and insulting me for reading and posting something on a chat board? while you hide behind your anonymous chat board identity - and read and post stuff on a chat board? hmmm.

Ok Cats, Bway Babe and company - i'm home for 24 hours on a rare break from cd post production and able to do a little catching up - what do you wanna know? First, no discourtesy has been intended in our not releasing specifics and we're certainly not getting any sick pleasure out of torturing anyone- we truly have not known the specifics previously. Secondly, Bway Babe you're on the money about the nature of the endeavor - we're producing, editing, designing ourselves and there are literally...

CyCoSpaz and Phllly - I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!! AC and TheaterDork? mmmm...not so much

Bobby Bubby, have you looked at the box office for "Phantom" lately? (now in its gajillionth year) It seems to be doing pretty well for a relic of a genre that nobody wants to see anymore And if you spoke to most of the audiences coming out of our show and read the readers opinions on blogs and the New York Times site, for example, you'd see that many audience members loved the show and had a completely opposite opinion of the new york critics. If you read the new york media reviews you'd hav...

Tevye you're such a big fat cow milking fibber. i was always watching the show during previews so you couldn't have come out in the lobby and found me chatting during Act two. "other members of the creative team"? who might they have been and how are you identifying them as such? can you name even one of them? i thought not. and you could tell what we were talking about and what we were saying by the "tone" of our conversation eh? amazing powers you have there. and snickers of laughter follow...

No i didn't think you were suggesting a rip-off - hence my winky face! I'm just always genuinely curious to discover and become aware of the similarities myself when people say something of mine sounds like something else. (because despite the assertions of several unimaginative critics, I've never composed anything using tracing paper!)

You've got me stumped too Schmerg! I just looked the "jane" song up on Itunes and I can't figure out what you might mean. By instrumental are you talking about the introduction to the song ? or the whole orchestration? Anyway, whatever it is you think you're hearing - I claim "no foul" as I wrote all my music long before "Jane Eyre" made it to Broadway!

Info below about where it should be available. But also if you're in NY i'm sure you could get the cd at her CD release party which is tomorrow night at the Canal Room at 7:30. RE: NATALIE TORO¹S CD RELEASE PARTY WHEN: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd TIME: 7:30pm WHERE: CANAL ROOM 285 West Broadway (@ Southeast corner of Canal Street) RSVP: 212-221-8361 TORO's CD RELEASE PARTY celebrating the release of her new self-titled CD which will be available nationally Monday, November 24th on Amazon.com, iTune...

unless the grosses you can find right on this website are completely wrong it's not the case that Wicked played to empty houses during previews. Maybe you went to a couple of ill attended previews? but the weekly house capacity percentages are very high and they are not supposed to figure any papering into that Also a nowhere near filled Gershwin can still be an incredibly strong and healthy sized audience - the place is huge!

Little Mermaid and Wicked can't really be used as examples of "well they overcame bad reviews" because they were both pre-sold shows that had huge appeal in spite of the reviews and they were both doing very well (i believe 90+% attendance area even in previews which basically indicates they will be critic proof and they both had tons of money to advertise and did it very effectively. And on top of that the New York Times wrote a love letter to Chenoweth or Menzel or both (can't remember) .

Actually Yankee, the idea of dueling theater critics isn't really that ridiculous. They do it in Chicago and some other places and of course the Siskel and Ebert model has proved enormously popular for film. But the Times would never voluntarily dissipate their power or do anything to diminish the public perception that they are the paper of record on any topic - so they won't be doing two reviews of anything anytime soon. Though in 1935 they sent 3 different critics to review "Porgy and Bess...

Yankee Fan. I'm with you on this one. Winston, I have to respectfully disagree. If a lot of other factors are with you (good economy, good advance, good time of season, lots of money to advertise) word of mouth may (possibly) save a show that gets slammed. But word of mouth takes months and months to build if you're a show starting from scratch as we were - and the reviews are now eblasted around the world in a matter of seconds. One might say the NYTimes is half way around the world while wo...

got it. just responded.

Oops! Sorry for repeating myself

I never said it was a critic's job to look around them and try to interpret what other people are thinking or feeling. I said they ought not to present their own opinion as a statement of fact to the exclusion of the possibility that anyone else is having a different reaction. i haven't read the critic's handbook lately but when in doubt I like to take a page from Alexander Pope's Essay On Criticism 'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the tw...

I never said it was a critic's job to look around them and try to interpret what other people are thinking or feeling. I said they ought not to present their own opinion as a statement of fact to the exclusion of the possibility that anyone else is having a different reaction. i haven't read the critic's handbook lately but when in doubt I like to take a page from Alexander Pope's Essay On Criticism 'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the tw...