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Press release is up: http://losangeles.broadwayworld.com/article/bare_A_Rock_Opera_Returns_To_LA_For_Two_Night_Workshop_102_103_20090904 Tickets are available.

And if Broadway was a place where theater snobs like the above poster were able to decide the sort of material that filled our theaters, it would be long dead. Welcome to 2009. The fact that most of you claim you can't think of any classics within the last twenty years and still find a need to post on Broadway message board is beyond me.

I think most people in this thread are having a hard time defining a classic in comparison to what they want and do not want to be a classic. Because let's face it... there are certain shows that people do not like now that area already classics in their own way. Wicked. Phantom of the Opera. Rent. These are extremely popular shows (two of which are still running - with RENT on tour) and that popularity will not die in the next fifty years. All three of these shows will see a very, very healt...

PGenre, I agree with you that TDK deserved the fifth slot over The Reader. Am I surprised it was not nodded? Absolutely not. Mainstream America are not the audience of voters for AMPAS. At least this is a nod in a better direction. It allows a wider array of movies to be seen. Last year, for example, our ten nominees could have been: Slumdog Millionaire, Frost/Nixon, Milk, Ben Button, The Reader, The Dark Knight, Doubt, Changeling, Rachel Getting Married, Happy-Go-Lucky But suggesting that so...

I'm only three. Sad face.

"I don't think Zac was ever really up for this part. " Are you retarded? This project was created for him in the first place. Go back to junior high, you f***ng moron.

Tried searching. Couldn't find it. What did they replace Bush with? And is it on tour as well?

Oh gee, my jokes aren't fresh for Craww. I'll have to buy a douche. I didn't say the B-way kids wouldn't be considered. I said they shouldn't be seriously considered (like, oh, a Matt Doyle Melchior). Though, you're right, if they're going to go for unknowns for the smaller parts .. Emily Kinney or Andrew Durand popping up here and there wouldn't be the worst thing. My point was mainly for the leads. Regarding the MPAA: "The Ratings Boards may rate a motion picture PG-13 if, based on a specia...

the f*ck rule is applied to using the word as a reference to sex. You will automatically get an R rating if you use it like "i want you to **** me" or "i want to **** you." Using the f-word as an expletive does not automatically make you qualify for an R rating, especially in an artistic context. Just to let you know. But there are a bit too many ****s in Totally f**ked. That alone will definitely get them an R rating. But they can definitely argue with the MPAA on that one since it's in a su...

Sporky, I think you're missing the point. Clearly, you would to have be able to sing to do these parts. Several people in this thread are slamming Anne Hathway's support issues, or saying other women like Kristen Bell or Amy Adams wouldn't be able to sing Glinda because it's so high soprano. But these women do have good voices. Good enough to hit these notes well in the recording studio. Probably not good enough to sing eight times a week. But who cares about that? And for the many theatre sn...

I wouldn't worry too much about who can hit what notes. Or Anne Hathaway not having enough support. I'm sure they will be coached and will be able to hit the notes they need to. Remember they only need to hit the notes once ... in the recording booth ... not eight nights a week. Like Rosario Dawson. They made her sound good in Out Tonight. No way she can sing that flawlessly any time of the day, though. I'd say Anne Hathaway and Amy Adams are some pretty good bets because they can sing, and t...

Hold on - some of you are actually spending the time and money to double major...in TWO arts degrees? Are you fuc*ing retarded? Musical Theatre AND Voice? To the person who started this thread. Please, get at least one real degree so that you don't wake up in twelve years and wonder why you're a substitute teacher.

Right, it doesn't matter if you've had rehearsals with the Directors - the songs itself are emotional. And it's not like the story is new. Hell, I'm sure more than one of the newbies studied old recordings of the LA and NYC shows. The budget was what was likely the hardest thing on them, because they probably didn't have the time in the recording studio to go over many of the vocal tracks more than one or two times (with the more climactic songs probably getting a third take...) But nonethele...

Dear broadwayguy, you are a f*cking idiot. The whole point of being a Broadway actor is to portray emotion through your singing, and unfortunately in this recording, most of the performances failed. In fact, most of my OBC recordings or movie musical soundtracks well portray emotion. Especially better than Doyle and others in BARE. It's kind of what's required of the job...

I really don't think they would open with Halloween. That sounds a bit drastic. It would completely alter the entire opening sequence, cutting out that monologue and ruining that energy that begins with RENT. I seriously doubt that any of these changes regard rewriting the course of the story or the book.

Right, after reading that article - how can anybody think that's legitimate at all? A love triangle with two lesbians and a straight guy - and she claims it's taken from her book and thus her life. It's utterly ridiculous. She's just another selfish lesbian. Maybe that's the one connection she does have to the characters in RENT.

K, I love me some RENT as much as the next guy - but really what in it could possibly seem plagiarized from this novel? I haven't read the novel, nor has anybody posted specific instances of plagiarism by RENT - but honestly, the plot of RENT does not seem complicated or intricate enough for any of it to be seen as anything more than a coincidence. Most art has essentially already been done in another form, or told in another way before. And especially the basic RENT story structure - gay cou...

Odd question, but was anybody here aware of RENT (or alive) when Jonathan Larson died. I'm just curious whether, in the Bway / NY community, if it was a big deal yet even though it was still just in workshops and not yet a main piece of known theater, or if it wasn't too big of news until the show transfered.

Dear Schmerg, Go f*ck yourself. Those are people who work hard in marketing and the creative advertising of the feature and deserve to get the credit when it's due. Just because a game or a plush toy is something you buy after the movie does not lessen the amount of time spent working during pre-production and production of the flick. Disney is one of the few companies (Dreamworks being the only other that comes to mind) that is happy to give credit when it is earned. So many people in so man...

Again - just because Efron has done several movie musicals doesn't mean that he's going to be first in line to be Fiyero. First of all - Wicked is a movie that isn't PRIMARLY set in high school (only really about half of it) which leads me to believe we will see some late twenty-somethings / thirty year olds filling these parts. There is no way Efron will be able to play opposite of Amy Adams, let alone the fact that he probably won't want to. When this movie starts to film in the time to com...