#5176
Posted: 9/7/04 at 10:51am
I would pay BIG money and travel almost anywhere to see them in a revival of Porgy and Bess.
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#5177
Posted: 9/7/04 at 10:53am
Oh my! YES!
#5178
Posted: 9/7/04 at 10:59am
Just thinking of that gives me the shivers - I don't have Porgy on my iPod yet, but I do have Ragtime so I think I shall give it a listen as I wait for 5pm to roll around! I think Marin's "Back to Before" is so lovely.
I sing for myself. I sing when I want, whenever I want to, just for me. I sing for my own pleasure. Do you understand that?
#5179
Posted: 9/7/04 at 10:59am
That would be something to see. I wish the two of them would do a show together again. Anything at all would be worth seeing if Audra and Brian were in it.
#5180
Posted: 9/7/04 at 11:01am
Morning all!
I am sure people have thought of Audra and Stokes doing it (they did do selections with the San Fran Orchestra a few years ago on PBS)...but, for my money, we'd need a truer bass...so how about Michael Bell or Chuck Cooper?
Audra could walk by singing her appointment book and I'd stop and listen.
I am sure people have thought of Audra and Stokes doing it (they did do selections with the San Fran Orchestra a few years ago on PBS)...but, for my money, we'd need a truer bass...so how about Michael Bell or Chuck Cooper?
Audra could walk by singing her appointment book and I'd stop and listen.
#5181
Posted: 9/7/04 at 11:03am
Congratulations on your place, bway! And I don't know either of those singers, but I'm with you on Audra 
#5182
Posted: 9/7/04 at 11:06am
oh, My, DGrant...Chuck Cooper is an AMAZING singer. Won a Tony for the Life, I do believe, and was most recently incredibly underused as the Bus in Caroline, Or Change.
He has an absolutely thrilling voice. Thrilling.
Michael Bell was "Ol' Man River" in the Show Boat revival and was also in the Civil War. I'm sure he's done much more. He's one of the only true basses I've heard on Broadway in the last 20 years.
He has an absolutely thrilling voice. Thrilling.
Michael Bell was "Ol' Man River" in the Show Boat revival and was also in the Civil War. I'm sure he's done much more. He's one of the only true basses I've heard on Broadway in the last 20 years.
#5183
Posted: 9/7/04 at 11:06am
Audra and Chuck Cooper -- oh my -- Bway, go into casting will you! Great idea...
"Sir K, the Viscount of Uppity-shire...." -- kissmycookie
#5184
Posted: 9/7/04 at 11:08am
These are the types of things I miss when I'm laying by the pool with a margarita. I think we have The Life OBC, so I'll have to get that out and take a listen.
#5185
Posted: 9/7/04 at 11:11am
DG...I can go for a margarita by the pool right about now.
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#5186
Posted: 9/7/04 at 11:12am
KMF, I think I'm missing a calling...but my problem would be that I'd actually rate a lot of people on talent over having a nice set of legs or looking good shirtless, which seems to be the prevailing sentiment on Broadway these days.
Could the world actually handle good-looking (if not hot) people capable of actually performing their roles? IT would seem doubtful. :)
Could the world actually handle good-looking (if not hot) people capable of actually performing their roles? IT would seem doubtful. :)
#5187
Posted: 9/7/04 at 11:16am
see Bway -- there's your problem -- you want the show to have TALENT...I certainly casting directors or producers shared your sentiment! By the way -- great new icon -- Tobey's cute as a button...
"Sir K, the Viscount of Uppity-shire...." -- kissmycookie
#5188
Posted: 9/7/04 at 11:29am
ain't he, though?
Oh, as for Casting Directors and whatnot...well, I know many casting directors who truly try to get talent in the door.
I was up for a new musical having a regional debut. I got called in by the casting director who very badly wanted to get me in front of the director (and even said so to me). The end result is that the show was cast by marginal Broadway actors (people who have a few credits and are just establishing their name) in order to boost ticket sales. The director came to NYC with a list of people he wanted to see and that's pretty much all who got in the door.
Casting directors have a LOT less power than anyone would imagine, I fear.
Oh, as for Casting Directors and whatnot...well, I know many casting directors who truly try to get talent in the door.
I was up for a new musical having a regional debut. I got called in by the casting director who very badly wanted to get me in front of the director (and even said so to me). The end result is that the show was cast by marginal Broadway actors (people who have a few credits and are just establishing their name) in order to boost ticket sales. The director came to NYC with a list of people he wanted to see and that's pretty much all who got in the door.
Casting directors have a LOT less power than anyone would imagine, I fear.
#5189
Posted: 9/7/04 at 11:30am
Speaking of icons, KMF ... I have to say I'd cast Zack in my next production.
I sing for myself. I sing when I want, whenever I want to, just for me. I sing for my own pleasure. Do you understand that?
#5190
Posted: 9/7/04 at 11:32am
With his new shaved head Zack could do the King and I.
#5191
Posted: 9/7/04 at 11:35am
He could add a new dimension to that role... Getting to know you, getting to know ALL about you...
I sing for myself. I sing when I want, whenever I want to, just for me. I sing for my own pleasure. Do you understand that?
#5192
Posted: 9/7/04 at 11:37am
Getting to bone you.
Getting to hope you bone me.
Getting to hope you bone me.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
#5193
Posted: 9/7/04 at 11:38am
Zak bones me first and then I migh consider sharing -- he is quite a speciman of man, ain't he!
"Sir K, the Viscount of Uppity-shire...." -- kissmycookie
#5194
Posted: 9/7/04 at 11:39am
MMMMMM HMMMMMM. You ain't EVEN lyin'!
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
#5195
Posted: 9/7/04 at 11:42am
Hi kids! Im back from my trip to Arizona....DEAR GAWD! Hope all is well with everyone.
"It never bothered me that she called me a c*nt, it bothered me that I answered to it!" Carol Channing about Ethel Merman filming an episode of "The Love Boat"
#5196
Posted: 9/7/04 at 11:45am
Bobby, pumpkin, so nice to see you're back. How was the trip?
#5197
Posted: 9/7/04 at 11:45am
Bobby - welcome back! I had forgotten about your little 'home with the folks nightmare' trip - did you survive reasonably intact?
#5198
Posted: 9/7/04 at 11:49am
Bobby - don't worry it won't take long to catch up, it appears most of the threads lately have been deleted. Can't fathom why...
I sing for myself. I sing when I want, whenever I want to, just for me. I sing for my own pleasure. Do you understand that?
#5199
Posted: 9/7/04 at 11:49am
WEll, where to start....the car got sold! Thats taken care of. I was supposed to have stayed 2 nights with my mother. I stayed less the 8 hours! My sister tried to run me over with the truck!
"It never bothered me that she called me a c*nt, it bothered me that I answered to it!" Carol Channing about Ethel Merman filming an episode of "The Love Boat"
#5200
Posted: 9/7/04 at 11:52am
Wow Bobby - your family sounds fun!
I sing for myself. I sing when I want, whenever I want to, just for me. I sing for my own pleasure. Do you understand that?
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