AIDA at the Westchester Broadway Theatre

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

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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.

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

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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.

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I've never liked that idea. hmph.

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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.

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

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

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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!

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...

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!

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.

Looks like he has been in a few shows.

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

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