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Anyone else watching 'You're The One That I Want'?
#25re: Anyone else watching 'You're The One That I Want'?
Posted: 1/7/07 at 8:42pmUsually, during audtions, they DON'T want you to sing songs from the show, am I right?
#26re: Anyone else watching 'You're The One That I Want'?
Posted: 1/7/07 at 8:42pm
EDIT: SORRY DOUBLE POST.
Usually, during audtions, they DON'T want you to sing songs from the show, am I right?
Updated On: 1/7/07 at 08:42 PM
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#27re: Anyone else watching 'You're The One That I Want'?
Posted: 1/7/07 at 8:44pm
I am wondering if they didn't request/suggest it (as I have attended auditions, one for a professional production of "Grease" in fact, that have requested songs from the show).
And some of the people being pushed through aren't even community theater caliber singers....
#28re: Anyone else watching 'You're The One That I Want'?
Posted: 1/7/07 at 8:44pm
And none of them should really be singing "There are Worse Things I Could Do"...that's Rizzo's song......
It's just driving me crazy because if you're only casting Danny and Sandy, then the majority of these people should have been typed out by now...
What I'd like to see is someone who thought she'd make a great Sandy turn out being a spectactular Rizzo.....or vice versa
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#29re: Anyone else watching 'You're The One That I Want'?
Posted: 1/7/07 at 9:09pm
Gah, why does my TV suck! My reception is awful, and I SWEAR I just saw an acquaintance of mine go through to academy, but it was so fuzzy I wasn't sure. The girl was wearing her "audition gear" that she always wears, so I swear it was her.
And I know she was out in LA during this time frame for an audition, and she was actually playing Sandy in a professional production of Grease here in the cities (for which she received critical raves) but just took extended leave from the production because of another opportunity that has been very hush-hush.
Grrr. Piece of crap TV.
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#30re: Anyone else watching 'You're The One That I Want'?
Posted: 1/7/07 at 9:15pmThis show is horrendous.
#31re: Anyone else watching 'You're The One That I Want'?
Posted: 1/7/07 at 9:24pmThe dancing is worse.
#32re: Anyone else watching 'You're The One That I Want'?
Posted: 1/7/07 at 9:34pmWow. As awful as it sounds, I really wish I had auditioned.
#33re: Anyone else watching 'You're The One That I Want'?
Posted: 1/7/07 at 9:41pmHahaha! Were the auditons close to you? Or would there have been a looonnnng drive?
#34re: Anyone else watching 'You're The One That I Want'?
Posted: 1/7/07 at 10:05pm
I almost went to the Chicago ones, but I said...damn I'd have to get up at like 4 am...so that didn't happen...though I'm thankful!! lol
an HOUR to learn THAT dance?!?! wtf...I don't consider myself a "dancer" but I could have def. had that "dance" section perfected in 15 minutes.
#35re: Anyone else watching 'You're The One That I Want'?
Posted: 1/7/07 at 11:34pmIt's like a train wreck... so bad yet I can't look away!
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
#36re: Anyone else watching 'You're The One That I Want'?
Posted: 1/7/07 at 11:39pmI was that way too - that is untill the dancing started. Then I just had to switch the channel.
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#37re: Anyone else watching 'You're The One That I Want'?
Posted: 1/7/07 at 11:40pmI thought it was fun.
#38re: Anyone else watching 'You're The One That I Want'?
Posted: 1/7/07 at 11:48pm
Not an hour show. 
Not sure I'll make it to the end.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
Perfectly Marvelous
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/06
#39re: Anyone else watching 'You're The One That I Want'?
Posted: 1/7/07 at 11:56pm
Was I the only one who got a kick out of the guy singing a Green Day song? Seriously, I just couldn't help but laugh!
I liked the tap-dancing cupcake girl. I think she'd make a great Jan. Too bad they're only going for Danny's and Sandy's though. Ah well.
"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables
#40re: Anyone else watching 'You're The One That I Want'?
Posted: 1/8/07 at 12:00amDang... I want to see the elminination, but am meeting a friend out in a bit.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
#41re: Anyone else watching 'You're The One That I Want'?
Posted: 1/8/07 at 12:41amWhat a waste of my evening.
JustAGuy
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/03
#42re: Anyone else watching 'You're The One That I Want'?
Posted: 1/8/07 at 12:41amWhat Broadway show has ever held open vocal auditions for the leads...without an accompanist? They lost me right there.
#43re: Anyone else watching 'You're The One That I Want'?
Posted: 1/8/07 at 12:56am
Ivan and I watched it, and I think I enjoyed it more than him.. but only by a little. We may not watch it next week.1
The thing that gets me is this... how many people are actually going to go to NYC to see it? We both said that we're not going to do it. If we're in NYC and it's playing, we may see it.
I don't think any of them will be able to perform 8 shows a week. It'll be a good thing to be their understudy.
magic8ball
Broadway Star Joined: 3/28/04
#44re: Anyone else watching 'You're The One That I Want'?
Posted: 1/8/07 at 1:32amDoes anyone know the restrictions placed on contestants re: prior professional experience? If the goal here is to find talent in a pool of "unknowns", why did I recognize an acquaintance of mine in the background who has done work regionally and off-Broadway before?
#45re: Anyone else watching 'You're The One That I Want'?
Posted: 1/8/07 at 1:37am
Geeze, I should've auditioned... if this is the kind of talent they're letting through.
There are no prior experience restrictions. You could be a card carrying equity member for all they care.
Kathleen Marshall looked like she wanted to kill herself.
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Perfectly Marvelous
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#46re: Anyone else watching 'You're The One That I Want'?
Posted: 1/8/07 at 2:37am
"What Broadway show has ever held open vocal auditions for the leads...without an accompanist? They lost me right there."
I thought that was a little odd, too.
It didn't seem right... at all.
I mean, at the very least, they could have had a backing track.
"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables
Wicked_fan
Broadway Star Joined: 5/25/04
#47re: Anyone else watching 'You're The One That I Want'?
Posted: 1/8/07 at 2:57am
I completely agree about the accompanist thing...
and also about the dancing thing... it took them an hour to do a 10 second dance that was simple. wow.
it IS like a train wreck...I couldn't turn it off!!!
I feel like we'll see SO MUCH more talent in NYC.
-Feste from "Twelfth Night"
#48re: Anyone else watching 'You're The One That I Want'?
Posted: 1/8/07 at 4:23amEh, all those community college, On My Own, singing girls and pretty boys with no talent are going to be blown out of the water once they start showing the NY auditions. They are going to go from Grease Academy to McDonalds Hamburger College.
#49re: Anyone else watching 'You're The One That I Want'?
Posted: 1/8/07 at 7:13am
I couldn't stop switching the channel on this. It was actually kinda painful to watch about half the time.
But what're they going to do if this TV show flops? They're still going to have to go through the process to get leads for the musical. Either way, they're goign to have to open Grease during the summer on Broadway.
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