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[CostumeMistress]

Posted: 3/23/05 at 12:35am

Updated On: 2/7/06 at 12:35 AM

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 3/23/05 at 12:38am

hate it. my school did it. I opted to get the CD first before auditioning. so glad I did. ugh... horrid.

[TGIF]

Posted: 3/23/05 at 12:42am

I thought it was a cute show. Nothing more. Nothing Less. It had its moments, I shed a few tears in it.

[Mimi Imfurst]

Posted: 3/23/05 at 4:12am

sadly i did a regional production of this show. The money was really good, but absolutely horrible otherwise. Who the hell does 10am matinees! I HATE CHILDRENS THEATRE!

[AngusN]

Posted: 3/23/05 at 8:22am

Hi,
I live in England and I'm desperate to get hold of a copy of the American / Wichita cast recording - they are like gold dust in England. Would anybody be generous enough to donate their unwanted copy? (Especially CATSNYRevival.)
I'd happily pay you.
Thank you for your time.

[Bwaybaby109]

Posted: 3/23/05 at 8:30am

I'm in this show right now actually as Maureen at my college! It's wonderful! It has wonderful music, great characters and it has funny moments and moments that make you cry. Another great song is Now I've Seen You, beautifully written for a tenor. It's not really a childrens show, but it's very family oriented so I recommend anyone to see it or perform it sometime.

[DancerGirl16]

Posted: 3/23/05 at 10:53am

I adored Honk! I was in a production of Honk had a great time and it really turned out to be a great show! I think it is fabulous and charming yay for honk!

[broadwaybaby77]

Posted: 3/23/05 at 12:40pm

I love this show!

The camp that I go to put on a Broadway Junior production of it, and I was the Cat. I think it's a great show with a great message for kids to hear.

I love all of Ida's songs...well, almost. The only song I don't really like in the whole show is "Hold Your Head Up High", but I like when it's the end of Act 1 and Ugly hears his mother singing it...it's so sad at times.

At the end of the show, I was carried away in a strait-jacket. It was real, too. I'm 14 and I've already been carried off to the Betty Fur Clinic.

[Bwaybaby109]

Posted: 3/23/05 at 12:44pm

Haha! The Cat is probably one of the greatest villian roles for a male to play. You Can Play With Your Food is a great song. It's funny, I mean when I first heard we were doing this show I was like "A musical version of the Ugly Duckling! Please!" But when I heard the music and read the script I fell in love with it! No wonder it got the Olivier for Best Musical over The Lion King. I'm having so much fun with this show we're doing it in a few weeks!

[Mimi Imfurst]

Posted: 3/23/05 at 1:30pm

yea, i do have to admit, the show itself has great music... some of the plot is a little...ehhhh.. but the music is great. it was just a bad experience for me because i hated the director and too many shows.

[theatermom4]

Posted: 3/23/05 at 3:24pm

My daughter is in a production of Honk! which opens in two weeks. The idea of the show seems so silly to me that I haven't invited friends to come see it. She says it's going to be good, so I guess I have to be more open-minded.

[Bwaybaby109]

Posted: 3/23/05 at 3:35pm

yea please do, it's not as childish or absurd as you think it is. you should watch one of her rehearsals to see if you like it. whos she playing in it?

[jim]

Posted: 3/23/05 at 5:57pm

Music Theatre of Wichita did a wonderful production in 2001. Thanks to my friend Wayne Bryan, the artistic director of MTW, I got to
sit on a little of the post work that was done for the recording. Got to hand it to Wayne, music director Michael Lavine, Russell Ochocki from MTI and the wonderful cast..they recorded that album the same week that the show was up and running. And the album was available for sale just two weeks later.

[Bwaybaby109]

Posted: 3/23/05 at 9:29pm

wow thats awesome I don't own the recording but I have heard it before, they're really good!

[inlovewithjerryherman]

Posted: 3/23/05 at 10:00pm

I LOVE HONK.

nuff' said.

[AngusN]

Posted: 3/24/05 at 6:32am

Hi,
I'm still trying to get hold of a copy of The Wichita recording of 'Honk'. Can anyone help me out? We don't seem to have a copy of it in stock in England.
Thank you for your time.

[jim]

Posted: 3/24/05 at 3:30pm

For the person from the UK who is looking for the Wichita recording,Dress Circle carries it. Just checked their home page.
HONK! MTW CD

[broadway86]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 11:35am

My school did this last semester, as part of our children's theater program. I played The Cat, and had a great time. It's an adorable show with catchy music. I can't help but tear up a bit whenever I hear "Hold Your Head Up High" and "Every Tear a Mother Cries", or when Ugly gets the Signet ring.

[Beergoggles]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 12:50pm

We snag Look At Him in a choral singing class. I don't know what i think of it! When i listened to the CD it sounded o.k but then someone was telling me about the setting etc and it just sounded farcical!

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 1:44pm

It's The Ugly Duckling. Do people not realize that? How much substance or plot does one expect? It's a clever musical comedy aimed at families and children, not West Side Story or Gypsy. Incidentally, it beat out The Lion King for Best Musical in London. A friend of mine saw the West End production and said it was brilliantly staged and reduced her to tears. I think, like most shows, it suffers greatly when shoddily staged with half-assed direction and little creativity. Half the show is inventive costumes/sets and the other half is emotion and charm. If the theatre can't make an effort to fulfill the potential in these, then of course the show will seem trite and stupid. Any show would.

Updated On: 5/2/05 at 01:44 PM

[WesternSky2]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 2:51pm

Oh dear, how I adore Honk. My school did it last year. It was so much fun to perform in. Definitely a cute show.

[musicalsinger20]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 3:58pm

I saw a production of this that one of my young friend was in.
He played a duckling and a froglet. It was such an adorable show. I like cute shows! I prefer those more then ones aimed mainly at adults. I guess that is why I like Disney so much. I am listening to the Broadwayworld radio right now and there is a song on right now called it is the reprise of Look at Him. I love this guy's voice. A very cute show. PM me if you want.

Natasha

Break a leg!

[MarkCohen]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 4:11pm

I'm Ugly in our production and we have Dress Rehearsal tonight. Opening Friday!

[broadway86]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 4:17pm

Break a leg. The more I think about it, the more I like it. It really is an emotional show.

[stagemaster333]

Posted: 5/2/05 at 4:38pm

I did Honk! two years ago and it was a lot of fun. I love the music. It also offers a lot of opportunities for creativity, what with an underwater scene, a blizzard and the fact that everyone in the show is an animal! I really enjoyed the design aspect of this show more than anything.