AIDA at the Westchester Broadway Theatre

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/3/06 at 7:26pm

Performances began a few days ago.

Anyone see it? Anyone plan on seeing it?

I'm considering it, but you all know how I am about not taking well to change, so I'd like to read some more about it before I decide on seeing it or not. If anyone goes, please post about it and let me know what you think!

http://www.broadwaytheatre.com/show_pgs/Aida.htm

[Staci1818]

Posted: 2/3/06 at 9:17pm

I haven't seen the show, and I've been thinking about going, but I'd like an opinion as well.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 2/3/06 at 9:22pm

I'm seeing it on Feb 17th, esp. if nothing else has been said, will post a review...err the best that I can anyway.

[SallyBrown]

Posted: 2/3/06 at 11:28pm

I'd like to point out that Westchester Broadway Theatre is a great place. Because I love it. I heard about them doing AIDA and I want to see it.... last time I saw Oliver there and I was mainly impressed all but with the children...Aida should be good? Hoping to see it soon.

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 2/3/06 at 11:40pm

o___O

A children's ensemble in AIDA? Erm...that's pretty strange.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 2/4/06 at 12:13am

No Gav, I think Sally was referring to the children's ensemble in Oliver. I saw that too and really enjoyed it, but my fav production I saw there was Miss Saigon--first time I had ever seen/heard the show and woow. It was pretty awesome. I'm excited for Aida.

My mom's a teacher and for some reason as an end-of-the-year present she tends to get one 2-person gift certificate to Westchester, that's why we saw Saigon, and we're using another to see Aida.

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 2/4/06 at 12:14am

No, wrq...if you click on the link, and then click on "who's who", it says there's a children's ensemble in it.

[Luckydave14]

Posted: 2/4/06 at 12:57am

I believe there are two kids in each production who play Young Aida and Young Radames. It will obviously be different than the Broadway production.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/4/06 at 12:59am

I've never liked that idea. hmph.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 2/4/06 at 2:41am

Oh sorry Gav, I apologize.

Hmm...I won't pass judgement till I see it...cute kids are hard to dislike

[NSMTpublicity]

Posted: 2/4/06 at 12:07pm

I beg you to give this new concept a chance. This was how NSMT did it in 2004. The kids are in the opening and closing only! It worked so beautifully! I cried without fail avey time.

Patricia Wilcox was our Choreographer.. and I think she is staging and choreographing that production in Westchester... as her hubby is in it and some of our cast.

At NSMT the opening took place in live ruins rather than a museum.. a few families milled about near some urns and bricks.. the brocken remans of a pyramid... soon 2 kids form 2 different families become fixated on the brocen pyrapid like tomb.. the parents are trying to move on and the kids keep tugging on them to bring them back to the ruins... as they are leving the stage (remember we are IN THE ROUND) a tomb opens and out comes Amneris.. the show goes on like normal... at the end.. Rod and AIDA are burried in the small pyramid in the center of the stage... as the darkness takes over.. the light comes back up on the "ruins scene.. you now see that the pyramid that the kids were fixated on was the final tomb of Rod and Aida... amneris sings out the finale ... as she exits the families enter the stage again .. obviously on their way out of the exhibit... the kids break away from the parents.. and as they stand on opposite sides of the ruin facing eachother.. you realize it is a reborn AIDA and ROD... and they are lit with a small shaft of light... and on the final cors.. you hear a little bit of wind.. and tinny bit of glittler falls from the sky on the tomb and 2 kids reborn.

It was always a HUGE tear jerker.. more clever than Broadway,s DONT I KNOW YOU opening and closing.

Updated On: 2/4/06 at 12:07 PM

[TennesseeTwang]

Posted: 2/4/06 at 2:15pm

In the Zachary and Gateway theater productions that used children in the opening and closing scenes, the director cut songs.

Will the Westchester production cut songs as well?

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 2/4/06 at 2:17pm

Hm...that does sound like a clever idea.

[Luckydave14]

Posted: 2/4/06 at 5:32pm

I think I like the Broadway beginning and ending better than that.

[RonRogell13]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 1:00pm

We have not cut any songs (i believe)
and yes, the kids we have are cute! :)
i don't know which opening and closing i like better. i watch the show 8 times a week but have only seen the b'way production once.
oh well...if you guys go see it, post a review. i would love to know what you think!

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 1:02pm

heh. I asked about the kids on another thread, but I guess I got my answer. Can you describe it? And maybe some of the sets, as well?

I'll probably go see it. :)

[RonRogell13]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 1:25pm

actually i see on one of these threads....so confused now...ha ha ha....that someone explained the opening and closing with the kids and the pyramid.

our sets are really cool...we have hydraulic lifts, sliders, flys, pallets, dry ice, smoke machines, turntables...if you've never been here before, we are a thrust stage...

[OasisBroadway]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 1:28pm

Looks like this will be a good production. I have been anxious to see Aida again since it closed on Broadway. I was going to see it at the Bucks County Playhouse in PA but have been hearing bad things about their shows. So I think I will check this one out instead.

[Bway=happy]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 2:21pm

Wowza! Check out the second picture on the site! Radames is a hunk! Very Jesus like (my good friend played him in the youth production there recently). I love lifting the turntable too for a rowboat; I didn't know it could do that! The pictures make it look like they are doing the same ruins children thing in the opening/closing. Oooo I can't wait to see this over Spring Break now! I go there all the time, thanks for opening it up to the greater community!

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 2:52pm

I've been before. :) Not in YEARS, but I have.

So the kids... they're just like... playing in the sand? Do they know each other already, or are they seeing each other for the first time? If the former, I'm just not sure I understand how that creates the same emotional context created by seeing them reunited upon recognition, but if y'all say it works...

I have hair preferences when it comes to my Radameses. :) Does anybody know what this guy sounds like? Like, if you could compare him to someone, who would you pick?

I hate being the asker of a zillion questions, but sometimes I still just want to remember it as it was, narrow-sighted as that is.

[Luckydave14]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 3:26pm

http://www.broadwaytheatre.com/

Here is a picture of the guy who plays Radames. It said in a review that I read that he was an understudy on Broadway. His name is Eric Sciotto.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 3:28pm

He was Adam's understudy, which I've already decided is a little too ironic for my personal comfort.

He should cut his hair.

[OasisBroadway]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 3:28pm

Looks like he has been in a few shows.

http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?id=70171

[RonRogell13]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 8:41pm

the kids are at a museum where the ruins are...they kind-of recognize each other...you have to see it...hard to explain...

a lot of the times Eric sounds just like Adam!

[kate2]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 9:05pm

If Adam Pascal and Cheyenne Jackson had a baby, it would look exactly like the "Radames" in this production.