Your hero's biggest mistake?
Your hero's biggest mistake?
Orpheum
Stand-by Joined: 8/24/05
#0Your hero's biggest mistake?
Posted: 9/9/05 at 9:23pm
Sondheim's Follies. I know it has its fans...but why?
What about you?
Orpheum
Stand-by Joined: 8/24/05
#2re: Your hero's biggest mistake?
Posted: 9/9/05 at 9:33pm
I'm your hero?
Aw.
With hindsight, perhaps it's not one of my best. 
GovernorSlaton
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/04
#3re: Your hero's biggest mistake?
Posted: 9/9/05 at 9:34pmWhy does Follies have fans? Because despite a flawed book, it's perhaps his greatest and most emotional show, with a score that contains crowd-pleasing numbers in the style of composers of the 30's and 40's AND deeply felt character songs that, instead of sounding out of place with the more hummable songs, fit and compliment the other style beautifully. The characters are real and identifiable, its themes of regret and longing for the past have touched many, and to top it all off, it contains some of the wittiest and most stirring lyrics ever penned for the musical stage. That's why.
Orpheum
Stand-by Joined: 8/24/05
#4re: Your hero's biggest mistake?
Posted: 9/9/05 at 9:39pmI knew my choice would be controversial! I'm well aware it's more of a personal feeling - but something's just not quite right. Pehaps it's not Sondheim's fault, though.
#5re: Your hero's biggest mistake?
Posted: 9/9/05 at 9:42pm
Follies is my favorite Sondheim show. My mother used to sing "I'm Still Here" to me.
Never a mistake.
Me, I like to live.
Me, I like to laugh.
Me, I like to love.
Me, I like to laugh.
Me, I like to love.
JudasIscariot
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/05
#6re: Your hero's biggest mistake?
Posted: 9/9/05 at 9:48pm
My hero? Jonathan Larson. His biggest mistake? Dying.
He had such potential... it makes me sad thinking how much more joy he could bring, and now he won't have that chance.
#7re: Your hero's biggest mistake?
Posted: 9/9/05 at 9:48pmmy mother used to sing "Rose's Turn" to me...
#8re: Your hero's biggest mistake?
Posted: 9/9/05 at 9:55pm
Somehow, I don't think Jonathan Larson meant to die.
But I know what you mean. It's really sad.
#9re: Your hero's biggest mistake?
Posted: 9/9/05 at 10:02pm
STEEL PIER.
My theater "heroes" are Kander and Ebb.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#10re: Your hero's biggest mistake?
Posted: 9/9/05 at 10:03pmHmmmm, she sang on a controversial program
#11re: Your hero's biggest mistake?
Posted: 9/9/05 at 11:36pmI can relate to how some may feel about Jonathan Larson, he is my hero and to me he's made no mistakes.
boytobroadway
Broadway Star Joined: 8/28/05
#12re: Your hero's biggest mistake?
Posted: 9/9/05 at 11:42pm
Has Ellen DeGeneres made any mistakes?
hmmmm, she fills me with joy and utter bliss.
It makes me want to cry when I think of how I will never see her show cause I am in the midwest and to poor to make my mom take me to see her.
so sad,
B2B
#13re: Your hero's biggest mistake?
Posted: 9/9/05 at 11:45pmIdina Menzel. Smoking.
that's a really big mic...
boytobroadway
Broadway Star Joined: 8/28/05
#15re: Your hero's biggest mistake?
Posted: 9/9/05 at 11:47pm
NO WAY IDINA SMOKES?!?!?!?!?!
Make her stop! She is to good to ruine her instument!
PLEASE STOP IDINA!!! I must really be behind if I didn't know that.
B2B
LaVieBoheme2
Stand-by Joined: 2/25/05
#16re: Your hero's biggest mistake?
Posted: 9/10/05 at 12:10amNorbert Leo Butz- he did Wicked.
Elyse. No day but Today.
My avatar: me talking to Norbert Leo Butz.
#17re: Your hero's biggest mistake?
Posted: 9/10/05 at 2:03amHaving sex with his stepdaughter...oy what was he thinking?
#18re: Your hero's biggest mistake?
Posted: 9/10/05 at 2:16amwhat? Norbert did that?
<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.
-Dre- You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree.
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WickedJerseyGirl
Stand-by Joined: 8/31/05
#20re: Your hero's biggest mistake?
Posted: 9/10/05 at 2:54amNot Leo! lildogs must have been talking about Woody Allen..lol.
Idina: This is called a kielbasa!
Pianist: It's called a 'KA-basa'...
Idina: It's called a kabasa? Oh, a KIEL-basa's a sausage, isn't it? I CAN PLAY THAT TOO! HULLO!!
#21re: Your hero's biggest mistake?
Posted: 9/10/05 at 10:18am
My hero's biggest mistake was being gay, because now I can't marry him.
However from his point of view that's a good thing.
But not from mine.
(D'ya see how I cleverly worded that so the majority of my heroes could be filled in? Yeeeaaaahhh.)
#22re: Your hero's biggest mistake?
Posted: 9/10/05 at 10:24am
Dude, you are so entitled to you opinion. But if you are going to bash a much loved piece like Follies, please back up your opinion.
Hmmm...I'm trying to think of something I hate from someone I admire. I think part of admiring someone is understanding where they are going creatively.
Urban
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/05
#23re: Your hero's biggest mistake?
Posted: 9/10/05 at 11:16am
boytobroadway Smoking, at least short term, helps an singers voice (relaxes those vocal nodes). Of course long term, that is a different story all together. There was a post a while ago about this very issue, search for the term 'smoking' I think it is only at worst on page two in the search.
Of course me personally, I'd say Rasputin in "Anastasia". Why oh why? Brilliant and beautiful movie - except for that one mistake with a stupid stupid stupid idiotic character - 'magic powers' in an otherwise relative realistic movie (than again I suppose it wasn't either Ahrens or Flaherty's doing but a decision made by the highers up in the studio).
popular_elphie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/05
#24re: Your hero's biggest mistake?
Posted: 9/10/05 at 11:32am
Well, off-topic here, when I was about 13, my hero was Hilary Duff. And her biggest mistake was going into singing.
After that, ick.
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