Urinetown writers back in the Fringe Fest
Aug 9 2011, 11:28:57 AM
most definitely!
Check www.yeastnation.com you can see some shots of the actors in costume.
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Urinetown writers back in the Fringe Fest
Aug 9 2011, 10:50:28 AM
Its an entirely new production, new director and design, new songs and story elements, Lots of changes since Chicago!
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Urinetown writers back in the Fringe Fest
Aug 9 2011, 10:18:23 AM
A behind the scenes look at The New York premiere ( at FringeNYC) of Kotis and Hollmann's Yeast Nation (the triumph of life), featuring Tony Award winner Harriet Harris.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jEV6y4wOoY
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HAIR: The Story of a Show That Defined a Generation
Jul 21 2011, 12:43:20 PM
Seeing the recent revival made me wonder if we can still have a Broadway show that can "define a generation"
http://www.crazytownblog.com/crazytown/2011/07/where-where-where-where-where-where-where-where.html
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Tweeting during shows
Jul 14 2011, 11:27:50 AM
Really great blog post by emerging playwright Kimberly Lew about tweeting and texting in the theater, a topic I know is hotly discussed and debated on these boards.
check it out:
http://www.crazytownblog.com/crazytown/2011/07/turning-it-off.html
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Julie Taymor's remarks at the TCG conference in LA
Jun 23 2011, 12:12:49 PM
Taymor was in LA last weekend for the TCG conference and made some interesting comments on her experience with Spider-Man. Its pretty clear that she's still not ready to take any responsibility for what's happened with the show. I know its kind of a beaten to death topic on these boards but I found her aversion to the focus groups they used during previews pretty insightful into her perspective on this.
More here:
http://www.crazytownblog.com/crazytown/2011/06/that-is-justwrong.html
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South Park and Musicals
Jun 9 2011, 11:18:54 AM
Last week I started a thread about Musical moments from the Simpsons. Since Book of Mormon looks like its going to win a bunch of Tonys come Sunday I thought it would be fun to talk about South Park's Musical Theater moments.
Here are my top 5 faves:
http://www.crazytownblog.com/crazytown/2011/06/the-top-5-south-park-musical-theater-esque-moments.html
Any others?
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Musical Theater and the Simpsons
Jun 2 2011, 09:27:57 AM
haha so true! Jon Lovitz is hysterical in that as well.
I was going more for direct parodies of musicals here, perhaps I should do another post with the best musical moments in general!
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Musical Theater and the Simpsons
Jun 2 2011, 08:33:07 AM
With everything that's been happening with Book of Mormon, its made me think a lot about how shows like South Park, Family Guy and before them the Simpsons have always played around with Musical Theater.
Here are my fave musical theater simpsons moments:
http://www.crazytownblog.com/crazytown/2011/06/the-top-5-simpsons-musical-moments.html
Any others people are fond of that I missed?
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Sneak Peek : SMASH
May 19 2011, 09:37:47 AM
I'm definitely excited for it!
http://www.crazytownblog.com/crazytown/2011/05/smashd.html
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Flash Mob Musical
May 12 2011, 09:06:23 AM
The folks at Improv Everywhere strike again:
http://www.crazytownblog.com/crazytown/2011/05/social-media-the-musical.html
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Best Actor and Actress
May 5 2011, 09:09:27 AM
I was thinking about the Tony noms yesterday, and I wondered to myself in all these awards why we separate the performance categories by actor and actress...
http://www.crazytownblog.com/crazytown/2011/05/tonyandtoni.html
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Show Doctors...bad medicine?
Apr 28 2011, 01:38:44 PM
I think Sister Act made the right call by actually hiring Jerry Zaks as the new director instead of just bringing him on as a consultant. It also seems from the Times article that the original bookwriter(s) were supportive of Douglas Carter Beane's input.
As far as the writers/directors needing an outside perspective...I think the show doctor issue is another example of Producers outsourcing responsibilities they once took on themselves due to a lack of knowledge, time or both. Ideall
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Show Doctors...bad medicine?
Apr 28 2011, 10:00:45 AM
I was intrigued by Patrick Healy's recent NY times article on this subject...so Today on the Crazytown Blog I discuss the wisdom of hiring a show-doctor to fix a problem show.
Composer Ryan Scott Oliver weighs in with his two cents as well!
http://www.crazytownblog.com/crazytown/2011/04/broadway-shows-need-a-nutritionist-not-a-doctor.html
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Why so few female writers and directors on Broadway?
Apr 21 2011, 08:59:00 AM
Hoping for a discussion about this issue a little more nuanced than that lol.
For example, there were no new plays by female writers on Broadway this season.
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Why so few female writers and directors on Broadway?
Apr 21 2011, 08:17:55 AM
There are certainly some great and prominent ones but this season the ratio of men to women in those jobs is particularly bad...especially on the writing side of things.
http://www.crazytownblog.com/crazytown/2011/04/where-my-ladies-at.html
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Josh Gad's web series
Apr 14 2011, 02:23:25 PM
amazing analogy! His level of commitment to character and weirdness is totally mr. bean.
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Josh Gad's web series
Apr 14 2011, 08:44:09 AM
Sorry- the original link was posted incorrectly. Its all good now!
Go watch- its one of the funniest things I've seen in a while.
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Josh Gad's web series
Apr 14 2011, 08:26:01 AM
Has everyone seen Josh Gad's web series that the BBC produced?
It's freaking hilarious:
http://www.crazytownblog.com/crazytown/2011/04/josh-gad-is-the-funniest-.html
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Stephen King & John Mellencamp's GHOST BROTHERS OF DARKLAND COUNTY - HOLY C
Apr 7 2011, 09:18:39 AM
I think its totally odd that he's collaborating with Mellencamp based on Mellencamp's body of work.
But as you'll see in my blog post about it I try to keep an open mind.
http://www.crazytownblog.com/crazytown/2011/04/stephen-kingand-john-fing-mellencamp.html
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