The Official Raúl E. Esparza "Spread the Love" Thread, part two- Page 78

[Shiksa Goddess2]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 12:35am

I found it while googleing. If you blow it up his eyes are AMAZING!

[opiv]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 1:27am

Wow they are amazing!

He's purty.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 2:10am

Listening to him now. So relaxing...

[Shiksa Goddess2]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 2:00pm

Agreed- on him being purty and relaxing, lol. I have been listening to him non-stop for like 3 months now.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 6:55pm

http://www.broadway.com/Gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=527236

YAY!!

I'm sure that Raul will stay with the production when it transfers.

...Now, where are they going to put it?

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 7:01pm

AWESOME.

[Behind_the_Spotlight]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 7:05pm

I about started jumping around my dorm in JOY at that news!

I think you just made my night.

Hmm... I wonder when in November? In time for my birthday, perhaps? ::plots::

[Shiksa Goddess2]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 7:06pm

*SQUEELS LIKE A FANGIRL* Yeaaahahhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *throws confetti* You know what is so ironic? Spotlight totally told me about this right as the cymbals crashed in Side by Side by Side/What Would We Do Without You!

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 7:08pm

Well, I was just reposting it from the main board.

[Shiksa Goddess2]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 7:09pm

And we do so much love you for it!

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 7:14pm

Eeep! I'm *so* asking for tickets to this instead of Rent tour tickets for my birthday.

[Shiksa Goddess2]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 7:17pm

Why am I so freaking excited about this? Lol. I can't stop juming up and down!

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 7:18pm

Cast Recording? Maybe?

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 7:19pm

Someone might finally get his Tony

*wishful thinking*

[Shiksa Goddess2]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 7:19pm

*prays* I've been wondering about that though- I mean, how likely is it that there will be a cast recording when there are already two- the original and the revival from 1995?
Updated On: 4/6/06 at 07:19 PM

[gboogie]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 7:25pm

This is the best news I've heard in a long time! :)

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 7:28pm

BIG mistake.

BUT. TONY.

[gboogie]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 7:29pm

TONY!

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 7:29pm

I might not even be able to see it in New York, but I'm excited because more people really should see this great production, and it seems like it'll be great for Raul's career. I hope it's well-preserved when it transfers.

I'm going to try to be optimistic, Em.... Sweeney probably didn't seem like it could work on a Broadway stage, and it's fine. I can see why you're concerned, though. Updated On: 4/6/06 at 07:29 PM

[Shiksa Goddess2]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 7:30pm

Em, I'm gonna have to disagree with you. I don't think the stage is really that important to the production. They can find something that won't totally change the feel of the show.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 7:36pm

I trust them to find something that works, but it's going to lose a lot of the intimacy that makes it so visceral and cathartic to watch a show about a community and its outsider.

There's an interview with John Doyle where he talks about his whole meta-theatricality thing: in Sweeney, for instance, the characters speak to each other, obviously, but they almost always face the audience. And on a proscenium stage, you do that, and it's very rigid. You can do that on a thrust stage and still have a more varied, interesting staging, because on three of fours sides, you're still going to be facing *some* portion of the audience -- so Doyle can do his meta "thing" and still have it feel intimate and engaging. Not to say that Sweeney isn't engaging, but Company is a story that, IMO, thrives on the intimacy it has on a thrust stage that it will lose on a proscenium stage.

I know many people who saw Sweeney in London, and they keep shaking their heads and going "it was so much better in London...." (on a thrust stage).

Updated On: 4/6/06 at 07:36 PM

[Shiksa Goddess2]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 7:40pm

I see your point, but I am a strong believer of the fact that it is the show/score/lyrics and the actors/director that ultimatly make or break the intimacy factor. And I think with this cast (if it stays) the show can't become too stand-offish. Either way, I am so happy for Raul, this is so exciting!

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 7:44pm

Well, if that were the case, then why would direction matter, ever? I don't think it's going to be standoffish, just... less intimate.

Updated On: 4/6/06 at 07:44 PM

[Shiksa Goddess2]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 7:47pm

Direction matters because the actors have to have some idea what to do- some artistic vision to follow or else no one would be on the same page and the show would be a mess because they could potentially all interpret the show in different ways.

I don't know, I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Spotlight and I are already planning the trip to see it, lol.

Okay, I am off to see How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (my school is puting it on). But I will think about what you're saying Em, 'cause I really do want to understand what you mean. I never thought a performace space could really change a show that much when there is so much else going for it.
Updated On: 4/6/06 at 07:47 PM

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 4/6/06 at 7:51pm

Well, at least you'll have seen it in its original incarnation. And the people who saw Sweeney in London may feel that it's lost something in being taken off the thrust and put in a larger house (I don't doubt that it has), but people who see it without that perspective are still wowed by it. I do definitely get what you mean about intimacy being a bigger issue with Company, but... it's just too good to close in Cincinnati and that be the end of its life.

Hmph, more Broadway theaters should have thrust stages.