Posted: 10/19/15 at 5:47am
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Posted: 10/19/15 at 7:33am
Other than what?
Casting information doesn't often get announced until contracts are signed, which is usually right before rehearsals begin.
Posted: 10/19/15 at 7:56am
I think the OP means other than Benjamin Walker who is set to play Patrick Bateman.
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Posted: 10/19/15 at 8:01am
The original title of this thread was about how the OP heard a rumor that Brad Pitt was going into Chicago. Another troll.
Posted: 10/19/15 at 9:24am
According to Telecharge the supporting cast includes Jordan Dean, Jason Hite, Helene Yorke, Morgan Weed and Holly James.
saw this in London and loved it. Can't wait to see Benjamin Walker in his tighty whities 
Really hope there'll be a OBCR as the score is pretty thrilling
Posted: 10/19/15 at 10:06am
In Julie James' interview with Duncan Sheik, he did kind of hint that Jennifer Damiano is gonna be in it.
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Posted: 10/19/15 at 2:18pm
Ohhhhh......that's interesting, neonlights..alll the other names HAVE been removed from the Telecharge page ! They WERE there before I swear....
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Posted: 10/19/15 at 2:25pm
ajh said: "Really hope there'll be a OBCR as the score is pretty thrilling"
Dr. Zhivago has an OBCR, so it's not like that is some ridiculously high bar.
Posted: 10/19/15 at 2:30pm
The names ajh posted were up on Telecharge this past weekend when I was looking, so that must have just gotten taken down.
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Posted: 10/20/15 at 2:25am
I am so curious for those of you who saw it in London - how does it compare w/the book and the movie? Which one does it follow more? I love the original material so much I would cringe into the cosmos if this is anything less than brilliant.
Posted: 10/20/15 at 9:18am
I'm sure this will get a recording. The Doctor Zhivago recording is pretty great IMO. I think it's a beautiful score.
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Posted: 10/20/15 at 6:53pm
missthemountains said: "I am so curious for those of you who saw it in London - how does it compare w/the book and the movie? Which one does it follow more? I love the original material so much I would cringe into the cosmos if this is anything less than brilliant.
I've never seen the film or read the book (anything gratuitously violent I can't cope with!!) so I went to the musical mainly because I admire the director Rupert Goold, and I loved Spring Awakening twice. I actually found the story compelling, and found the economical use of onstage blood to be very clever, stylish even. The first really horrible murder was done in a really stylised way that was way more effective than having buckets of Kensington Gore sloshing about, and also meant that when we then saw REAL blood it somehow get more shocking.
The ambiguous nature of the end of the show was ingenious, unsettling and gave me the shivers.
If they have improved on the (already pretty terrific) London version this could be a real smash,
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Posted: 10/20/15 at 11:16pm
Liked the book; hated the movie.
The musical, for me, was really enjoyable. I have very few opinions or memories of the '80s (I was 5 when the decade ended), but the show seems to capture the era of excess image that plays such a role in the book and movie. It's slick and sexy--lighting and sets are done very smartly and the integration of new music and songs from the '80s work.
The workshop cast was very talented and the rumors I've heard have several of them joining the production.
Posted: 10/20/15 at 11:55pm
I've only heard a recording the musical but I felt it leaned a bit more in the direction of the movie. However, I say that mostly because what really makes the book special is the sense of being trapped inside Bateman's head as it mercilessly unspools these vile, putrid trains of thought. A visual representation is necessarily going to place you outside of that and certainly amp up the humor (not that the book isn't funny, but neither the movie nor musical actually made me almost vomit). What the musical really nails, though, is the emotional epiphany at the end. For the first time, I really understood the work, and how everyone, in their way, wants what Bateman wants, which is to be given a final, firm, objective judgement about themselves.
Posted: 11/22/15 at 6:16pm
I can not stop listening to Duncan Sheik's demo tracks on the official website. It's a problem. By the time a cast recording comes out I'll be so used to his versions. I already like "You Are What You Wear" with a solo male voice much more than a chorus of women (though the audio of the London production I listened to wasn't the best). I'm so excited for this! My only worries is with the book, if they'll be able to translate the material and pull off that abrupt, ambiguous ending well.
Posted: 11/22/15 at 6:40pm
I listened to the demo tracks but had a much less favorable reaction. It had that Spring Awakening thing but worse where the style of music just made it really hard for me to pay attention to the content of the lyrics. It's not just that it's pop or rock or however you want to classify it. There are plenty of musical theatre songs that take influence from different genres and can still be used to effectively tell a story. Here there's like a repetitive structure that makes it easy to tune out the lyrics, like a song on the radio. The song that name checks all the designers is also kind of dumb.
Posted: 11/22/15 at 6:59pm
wow, I liked the music! it sounds like pop/rock and not like typical showtunes.
Posted: 11/22/15 at 8:12pm
VintageSnarker said: "Here there's like a repetitive structure that makes it easy to tune out the lyrics, like a song on the radio. The song that name checks all the designers is also kind of dumb."
I think the shallow electronic pop style is done on purpose. I mean, the story is about the most vapid, status-obsessed monsters living in the most plastic, commercialized, image-obsessed decade in America. The songs are going to reflect the perspective of the characters.
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Posted: 11/22/15 at 10:33pm
MrSweetNAwful, I thought that listening to the music. I mean, that interpretation makes perfect sense to me. My issue is that this was also a problem I had with the Spring Awakening revival to a lesser extent and personally I think it would hinder my ability to follow the story in this show. It's slick in a way that inhibits your ability to focus on the words which is fine for pop music which often has terrible lyrics but is a bit of a problem when something important is being conveyed in a show. But that's just me and the music in the show itself and the way it's sung and arranged might be different.
