2016 - 2017 Touring Season- Page 3

[notalwaysontime]

Posted: 6/2/15 at 6:09pm

Just got the news about Hedwig coming to SF, I am boy scared and excited. I really want to see it, but I'm scared about who would be playing her. I feel like I'm already lucking out getting to be on the list of cities that are getting Idina in If/Then, so we won't be lucky enough to have someone awesome as Hedwig too lol fingers crossed though! (I've been eh on the last few seasons here, so I'm so happy things are looking up. I'm still really pissed at myself for not getting tickets to the prebroadway run of Beautiful though. I was such a dope, there was something nagging at me to do it, but I never did. boy did I miss out.)

[JoseLee_]

Posted: 6/2/15 at 6:18pm

Hedwig is a boy. He only got his sex changed.. well sort of.. to go to America.

[notalwaysontime]

Posted: 6/2/15 at 6:45pm

"Hedwig is a boy. He only got his sex changed.. well sort of.. to go to America."

 Oh oops, I haven't seen the movie in a LOOOOOONG time so I don't remember much about it, and I could have sworn I had heard female pronouns being used. Thanks for correcting me! I really don't like getting things like that wrong.

[mariel9]

Posted: 6/2/15 at 6:59pm

Hedwig was born a boy, had a sex change, and presents as female and uses a female name through most of the show. People use female pronouns to refer to her. John Cameron Mitchell uses female pronouns to refer to her.

[JoseLee_]

Posted: 6/2/15 at 7:02pm

There is a thread just for this topic. He is a guy. He never felt he was a woman. Or wanted to be a woman.

[notalwaysontime]

Posted: 6/2/15 at 7:02pm

"Hedwig was born a boy, had a sex change, and presents as female and uses a female name through most of the show. People use female pronouns to refer to her. John Cameron Mitchell uses female pronouns to refer to her."

 Ok, so I actually was right then? 

[mariel9]

Posted: 6/2/15 at 8:17pm

""Hedwig was born a boy, had a sex change, and presents as female and uses a female name through most of the show. People use female pronouns to refer to her. John Cameron Mitchell uses female pronouns to refer to her."
 Ok, so I actually was right then? "

In my opinion, yes. Hedwig is subject to interpretation like any work of art, and her gender is complicated, and I would say, non-binary (or genderfluid). Saying she's a boy and using male pronouns are certainly non-standard. I can see why someone might interpret the work that way, but it's an odd thing to correct the use of female pronouns and state she's a boy like it's a known, accepted fact. I'll keep using the pronouns her creator uses.

[JoseLee_]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 1:47pm

I really wish that Les Miserables goes on tour

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 1:58pm

^
Well, it did tour before opening on Broadway.  I saw it in Chicago.  I didn't care for the new staging at all.

[Wildcard]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 2:02pm

^

I prefer the new staging. The only place where I liked the original more was during the barricade scenes, especially Gavroche's end scene and the final battle.

[JoseLee_]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 2:13pm

I missed it. the tour was here in L.A. in 2011... 4 LONG years ago :p

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 3:27pm

The individual slo-mo death specials on the little barricade gave me the giggles.  It looked like the opening credits of So You Think You Can Die.

Updated On: 6/3/15 at 03:27 PM

[Wildcard]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 3:34pm

The original staging had the slow-mo death specials too 

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 4:02pm

I just watched the original staging in April (for the 15th time) in London.  They don't look anything like the new ones with all the special bright lights for each musically timed death.  It's FAR more subtle.  The bright lighting in the original is reserved for after their death in a more gentle fade and really quite beautiful and poignant.  In the new version, it looks like you'd expect to hear Cat Deeley announce each character as they're shot.

[broadwaysfguy]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 9:45pm

John Cameron Mitchell HAS to launch the Hedwig tour...

IN SAN FRANCISCO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Watch for it, will bet he does the SF and LA legs.....

[JoseLee_]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 10:05pm

Everyone who has starred as Hedwig on Broadway has been at least a little popular. I'm almost 90% sure they won't cast a regular broadway actor.

Maybe:

Aaron Tveit

Any broadway hedwig so far...

Kyle Dean Massey

John Camreon Mitchell (maybe a few stops?)

 

I just want to see it live. With someone that can sing & act. :)

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

Posted: 6/10/15 at 1:47pm

Tony Danza Will Lead Honeymoon in Vegas National Tour!

[asmith0307]

Posted: 6/10/15 at 10:01pm

Adding them now! Gigi also slipped in a touring announcement in their closing press release. We will see if it actually pans out...

[NewsiesForever]

Posted: 6/10/15 at 11:00pm

Given how poorly the show did and I doubt Vanessa, Corey, or Victoria will tour, so I doubt it will tour.

Any news of another Newsies tour? Perhaps a return to Chicago?

[gleek4114]

Posted: 6/10/15 at 11:21pm

Newsies really only needs one tour. It's going out again if that's what you mean, but no, it's not coming back to Chicago... it was just there a little over 6 months ago.

[NewsiesForever]

Posted: 6/10/15 at 11:32pm

Will Newsies go on tour in 2016-2017? By making a return trip to the bigger cities like Chicago that it went to this first tour?

Updated On: 6/11/15 at 11:32 PM

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 6/11/15 at 12:08am

I feel like Gigi and Honeymoon In Vegas will do well on tour. My only concern is a mix-up between An American In Paris and Gigi. Two musicals set in France written by classic composers.

[JoseLee_]

Posted: 6/11/15 at 3:20pm

I really want On the Twentieth Century to tour. I have the cast recording and I would love to hear that amazing score live. With Kristin or not.

[AHLiebross]

Posted: 6/12/15 at 12:10am

I'm going to see Hedwig for the first time in a few weeks. I'm glad that Darren Criss will still be performing.

One thing has had me head-scratching from the beginning: If Hedwig is female, she is probably taking hormone shots. If so, she might look and sound more like a female than like a male. Under those circumstances, shouldn't she be played by a woman actor, instead of a man?

[JoseLee_]

Posted: 6/12/15 at 1:11am

In the show Hedwig. He is playing 2 people. He also plays Tommy in the end.