Trivial Pursuit #101- Page 3
Trivial Pursuit #101
#50re: Trivial Pursuit #101
Posted: 4/9/05 at 7:24am
Talk about me looking way too deep...
And I'm smiling! 
. See! 
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#51re: Trivial Pursuit #101
Posted: 4/9/05 at 7:26am
OK. MY turn.
ANYONE CAN WHISTLE was nominated for only ONE Tony--which it did NOT win.
What was the category, and who was the nominee?
#52re: Trivial Pursuit #101
Posted: 4/9/05 at 7:27am
Well this was fun!
Anyone Can Whistle is such an interesting, complex musical, and it's always been one of my favourites!
How nice to talk about it!
magruder
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#53re: Trivial Pursuit #101
Posted: 4/9/05 at 7:28amHerbert Ross for choreography, I think. (And no, I didn't go to TonyAwards.com).
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#54re: Trivial Pursuit #101
Posted: 4/9/05 at 7:33am
As usual, magruder, you are CORRECT!!!
(And I know YOU don't have to "research" your answers.)
Your prize?
One free DVD Rental of FUNNY GIRL--check out Ross' stunning "Don't Rain on My Parade" sequence!
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#55re: Trivial Pursuit #101
Posted: 4/9/05 at 7:33am
This thread just got me thinking of Lee Remick. She was such an underrated actress. Loved her in "Days of Wine & Roses" and "The Long, Hot Summer".
okay I'm done with the threadjack....
#56re: Trivial Pursuit #101
Posted: 4/9/05 at 7:34am
Of course. And Herbert Ross' choreography was supposed to have been absolutely divine.
A real shame that it hasn't been preserved the way Robbins and Bennett choreography has...
magruder
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#57re: Trivial Pursuit #101
Posted: 4/9/05 at 7:59am
You know, thinking of my questions that I've posted, there are people who bemoan the trend of self-referential or meta musicals like The Producers, Urinetown, Spamalot, etc., as some sort of recent development. Here was Anyone Can Whistle, referencing Gypsy and West Side Story in its day. Yip Harburg also loved to do it, as early as Finian's Rainbow, with Og referencing Cole Porter's "Night and Day". Rodgers and Hammerstein even do it with "Intermission Talk" in Me and Juliet, which refers back to their own The King & I. Even 1927's football musical Good News referenced 1917's football musical Leave it to Jane by naming one of its characters Bingham, after Atwater's rival school in Leave it to Jane. ("We're gonna murder Bingham and they haven't got a show!" goes the Atwater fight song in Leave it to Jane). Just goes to show you, as much as things change, the more they stay the same.
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#58re: Trivial Pursuit #101
Posted: 4/9/05 at 8:05amAnd don't forget THE GIRL IN PINK TIGHTS--which was a fictionalized version of how THE very first modern American Musical--THE BLACK CROOK--was created.
#59re: Trivial Pursuit #101
Posted: 4/9/05 at 8:26am
Just like everyone bemoaning the fact that BWW used to better, theatre people just need something to complain about.
Look at the critics of Sondheim's shows. He's never had a show receive universal raves. His early shows were all criticised for lacking melody, being over-complicated, being too cynical etc, and shows like Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods were criticised for not living up to the classic standards of the early Sondheim works, often by the same critics...
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#60re: Trivial Pursuit #101
Posted: 4/9/05 at 8:31am
Isn't it terrible, paradox?
When A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM won the Tony for Best Musical, Sondheim's score wasn't even NOMINATED for "Best Music and Lyrics."
You know what show DID win for best Music and Lyrics that year?...
The immortal classic BRAVO GIOVANNI. ***rolls eyes***
magruder
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#61re: Trivial Pursuit #101
Posted: 4/9/05 at 8:37am
"In Sydney, Australia!
They find ya, and they jail ya!"
As ridiculous as the score to Bravo Giovanni is, it's a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. Highly listenable, if nowhere in Forum's league.
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#62re: Trivial Pursuit #101
Posted: 4/9/05 at 8:40am
c'mon, magruder, how can you tolerate that god-awful title song?
I think it repeats the phrase "Bravo Giovanni" like 87 times...
magruder
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#63re: Trivial Pursuit #101
Posted: 4/9/05 at 8:50amIt's no worse than "Wish You Were Here"!
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#64re: Trivial Pursuit #101
Posted: 4/9/05 at 8:53am
Or "Fanny".
Rome Roved Repetition.
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#65re: Trivial Pursuit #101
Posted: 4/9/05 at 8:54ammichele lee was in "bravo giovanni" wasn't she?
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#66re: Trivial Pursuit #101
Posted: 4/9/05 at 8:57am
Yep, Marquise.
LIGHT-YEARS before she was our Karen on "Knots Landing," Lee was the female lead in BRAVO GIOVANNI.
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#67re: Trivial Pursuit #101
Posted: 4/9/05 at 9:01amyeah, i thought so. my friend daniel has the cd and i heard a song she sings from it called "steady, steady". she has a great voice and when i asked him who it was he told me and my response was something along the lines of "No F-ing Way!"
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#68re: Trivial Pursuit #101
Posted: 4/9/05 at 9:02am
Then he went on to torture me with "L. David Sloane" and I terminated the friendship...
He just went too far there...
magruder
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#69re: Trivial Pursuit #101
Posted: 4/9/05 at 9:47amYou're killing me with the Glenn Hanson avatars, Marquise.
Videos