Petition to Get Ragtime Filmed for DVD release
Petition to Get Ragtime Filmed for DVD release
#1Petition to Get Ragtime Filmed for DVD release
Posted: 1/5/10 at 12:19am
Please post your messages, and show your support. If enough people virtually sign this in the next few days, and write messages of support, maybe the producers could be persuaded. If any of you have any contacts with the show, please private message me contact e-mails, or you can simply forward them this thread.
I believe that there honestly could be a market Ragtime on Great Performances or the Hot Ticket, and then an eventual DVD release. I think it could be a hit on DVD/Blu-Ray such as the final performance of Rent has been.
So please show your support.
#2Petition to Get Ragtime Filmed for DVD release
Posted: 1/5/10 at 12:26amUgh.
"Broadway...I'll lick you yet!"
TalkinLoud
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#5Petition to Get Ragtime Filmed for DVD release
Posted: 1/5/10 at 12:40amThe producers have already lost 8 million $$ please, let it RIP.
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#6Petition to Get Ragtime Filmed for DVD release
Posted: 1/5/10 at 12:45amBecause this ALWAYS works.
#7Petition to Get Ragtime Filmed for DVD release
Posted: 1/5/10 at 12:58am
"I think it could be a hit on DVD/Blu-Ray such as the final performance of Rent has been."
In case you hadn't noticed ....... RENT ran about 12 years as opposed to less than 12 weeks for Ragtime.
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#8Petition to Get Ragtime Filmed for DVD release
Posted: 1/5/10 at 1:04amAside from the financial improbability of this project, that set would be a bitch to film.
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#9Petition to Get Ragtime Filmed for DVD release
Posted: 1/5/10 at 1:07amWow it just so happens I am actually one of the producers of the show and this Virtual Petition has changed my mind, The show WILL be filmed!
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#10Petition to Get Ragtime Filmed for DVD release
Posted: 1/5/10 at 1:10amWhat I think is too bad is how this thread is being blatantly shot down for no reason. If I titled this thread: "Should there be a petition" then it would make sense for this type of banter. So please either show your support, or write criticisms elsewhere.
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#11Petition to Get Ragtime Filmed for DVD release
Posted: 1/5/10 at 1:14am
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#12Petition to Get Ragtime Filmed for DVD release
Posted: 1/5/10 at 1:18am
With all due respect, you are not being shot down for "No reason". The reason being is that these "Virtual Petitions" happen ALL THE TIME. and 95% of the time, to no Avail.
Another thing is your prediction about it selling like RENT did is another far fetched thought. Personally I dont know how RENT did on Blu Ray, but I will take your word and assume it sold very good.
Ragtime might be a better show, but to the general public Ragtime isint even in RENTS league.
Before I even saw Broadway shows 2 shows I heard of where CATS and RENT.
Ragtime (Imo) would be a HORRIBLE flop, for the mere fact that no one knows about it, as it is thats probably the reason it isint doing so well now.
I understand you must love the show and thats why your hoping for a dvd but, it isint going to happen.
Im sorry.
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-Avenue Q
#13Petition to Get Ragtime Filmed for DVD release
Posted: 1/5/10 at 1:23am
Okay saveusmike I understand what you are saying. I just see a bunch of stage shows on DVD its disappointing Ragtime is not among them.
Updated On: 1/5/10 at 01:23 AM
#14Petition to Get Ragtime Filmed for DVD release
Posted: 1/5/10 at 1:26am
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Hahaha.
HA.
Life is disappointing.
The end.
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#15Petition to Get Ragtime Filmed for DVD release
Posted: 1/5/10 at 1:52am
And all of those DVD's of live shows you've seen required much advance planning beyond the 5 days you're expecting this to be thrown together in.
I also doubt they'd record it with an understudy in the role of Mother.
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#16Petition to Get Ragtime Filmed for DVD release
Posted: 1/5/10 at 2:41am
Yeah, this post is not going to do anything. Plus, a few days in advance to record this for release is not enough time at all, and who's going to put the money down for it? I'm sure the producers who are losing money certainly want to.
And just in my opinion, I didn't like how Rent was filmed. It was too busy and some of the camera shots were embarrassing, in my opinion.
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#17Petition to Get Ragtime Filmed for DVD release
Posted: 1/5/10 at 2:44am
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#18Petition to Get Ragtime Filmed for DVD release
Posted: 1/5/10 at 3:16amMaybe Andrew KeenanBolger could film it for his blog!
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#19Petition to Get Ragtime Filmed for DVD release
Posted: 1/5/10 at 3:20amWe aren't shotting you down we are just trying to show you how this could NEVER happen.
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dramamama611
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#20Petition to Get Ragtime Filmed for DVD release
Posted: 1/5/10 at 5:00am
The above posters are right: this is ridiculous.
1. On line petitions are worthless
2. Creating a DVD like you are suggesting is freakishly expensive.
3. There is no time. You don't just run out and hire a camera crew and have them do it. To do it well take a LOT of planning.
4. There IS NO audience for this. If there was, Ragtime might have had a chance on bway.
5. Theater does not NEED to be preserved in this way. That's the beauty of theater. It's a privat moment between that day's audience and the cast. It SHOULD be exerienced live.
6. The producers didn't feel this was successful enough to put more money into a cast recording -- how could you persuade them to do this.
I loved Ragtime. Got to see it twice. I'm sad it's going. But it is and life goes on.
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#21Petition to Get Ragtime Filmed for DVD release
Posted: 1/5/10 at 6:56amDon't shows get filmed for promotional reasons? Why don't they just relseas that on iTunes or something?
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#22Petition to Get Ragtime Filmed for DVD release
Posted: 1/5/10 at 10:43am
You want RAGTIME filmed? Put up the cost to have it filmed. Petitions don't work -- money does.
Also, PBS does NOT film anything -- investors are the ones who fund these filmings AND then negotiate for PBS to air them. Again... PBS does NOT fund any filmings.
The recent revival of COMPANY was filmed by a private investor who funded the filming. They later negotiated with PBS to air it which they did as part of their GREAT PERFORMANCES series.
To cover all grounds here, the few Lincoln Center productions which aired on PBS are also NOT filmed by PBS but by the Lincoln Center. PBS airs those as part of their LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER series -- which is fully funded by the Lincoln Center.
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#23Petition to Get Ragtime Filmed for DVD release
Posted: 1/5/10 at 10:56amWhen this drive is over, I would like a pony.
#24Petition to Get Ragtime Filmed for DVD release
Posted: 1/5/10 at 11:14am
"I believe that there honestly could be a market Ragtime on Great Performances..."
I believe that there could be a dishonest market...
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