Chicago Spelling Bee - Issac "Chip" Berkowitz?
Chicago Spelling Bee - Issac "Chip" Berkowitz?
bigrab1018
Leading Actor Joined: 10/9/05
#0Chicago Spelling Bee - Issac "Chip" Berkowitz?
Posted: 3/22/06 at 4:11pmUmmm...why did they completely change Chip Tolentino into a Jew?
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#1re: Chicago Spelling Bee - Issac 'Chip' Berkowitz?
Posted: 3/22/06 at 4:23pmMaybe they wanted that actor, and the name was flexible.
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#2re: Chicago Spelling Bee - Issac 'Chip' Berkowitz?
Posted: 3/22/06 at 5:03pmThere is another thread on that somewhere on here....
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#3re: Chicago Spelling Bee - Issac 'Chip' Berkowitz?
Posted: 3/22/06 at 5:06pmThey had a hard time finding a filipino actor, and wanted to stick with chicago based cast. Supposedly the dialogue will be the same.
stage_door76
Broadway Star Joined: 1/18/05
#4re: Chicago Spelling Bee - Issac 'Chip' Berkowitz?
Posted: 3/22/06 at 6:16pm
The Australian version didn't employ a Filipino actor for Chip and everything remained exactly the same.
Forgive me for maybe missing something, but is there anything specific in the show that pre determines that Chip Tolentino has to be Filipino? I don't recall it if there is...
"...But Kungurtseva reels off multiple fouettes and the tape is stopped so she can take a bow. The Jester, an abomination introduced to Swan Lake in Soviet times, extorts applause from the audience. The cuts don't help the storytelling, the production is bare bones and they go for the '50s-style happy ending.
The audience cheers like mad at the end. It's the Russian ballet, after all..."
#5re: Chicago Spelling Bee - Issac 'Chip' Berkowitz?
Posted: 3/22/06 at 8:28pm
Nothing, just the surname (which isn't inherently Filipino, either; I guess his surname should be Cayabayab or Consing or something to be more obvious).
Although when I saw it in SF, Marcy exclaimed, "I ALWAYS KNEW YOU WERE ASIAN!" when the Chip actor returned as...well, you know.
I'm not sure if that was an adlib, though. I've only seen the show once so far.
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MyMeredithMonster
Broadway Star Joined: 5/20/05
#6re: Chicago Spelling Bee - Issac 'Chip' Berkowitz?
Posted: 3/29/06 at 6:16pmThat line is actually always in the show. Although, I haven't seen any understudies go on for Aaron yet, so maybe it changes then.
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#7re: Chicago Spelling Bee - Issac 'Chip' Berkowitz?
Posted: 3/29/06 at 6:21pm
Yeah, I think it's ad-libbed for Aaron like the thing Stanley does with Sara. But I don't see why hi sname is changed. To me it's not the same. Chip is CHilito Tolentiono Damnit, not Issac.
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Updated On: 3/29/06 at 06:21 PM
#8re: Chicago Spelling Bee - Issac 'Chip' Berkowitz?
Posted: 3/29/06 at 8:09pm
I was really surprised they changed Chip for the Chicago production but at the same time, when Evan D'Angeles went on as Mitch Mahoney in SF, they kept Mitch's full name but turned him into a "Stand and Deliver" Latino gangbanger type... 
I don't see anything wrong with it if they thought it was neccessary, but 99% of the audience isn't going to exclaim in horror, I don't think.
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CTY
Understudy Joined: 1/6/05
#9re: Chicago Spelling Bee - Issac 'Chip' Berkowitz?
Posted: 3/29/06 at 10:18pm
hopefully they will say something like
"WOW...SO YOU REALLY ARREEE JEWISH!"
#10re: Chicago Spelling Bee - Issac 'Chip' Berkowitz?
Posted: 3/30/06 at 12:13amThat line is only used for the adult show in NYC.
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