#26
Posted: 10/8/15 at 2:32pm
eperkins, jinx.
Great minds think alike.
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#27
Posted: 10/8/15 at 3:04pm
So, so excited for this!!
"I have maggots in my scrotum!"
#28
Posted: 10/8/15 at 3:45pm
Having just seen the show, I wondered about the injury potential in the choreography. It's not just that it's so much dance, the leaping up and off and landing must take a toll on knees. I wasn't prepared for the intensity of the movement, which is almost non-stop, to quote the show itself. I bet two-show days are brutal, and that the company orthopaedist is used.
Rannells seems like a logical choice, with the vocal chops and the {what Namo said} thing. This may also the direction casting the role goes in the future, to someone known in the theater who can carry it for 3-6 months. It's about 15 minutes of stage time, every minute a delicious morsel. And it makes an easy put-in, with none of the cast required except for a 1-2 minute sequence in act two. He's also in the ending choral work, but has no lines assigned in the libretto.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
#29
Posted: 10/8/15 at 5:02pm
Oh my God, I have wanted this to happen since I first heard You'll Be Back, this is so exciting!
#30
Posted: 10/8/15 at 5:34pm
And yet, if you wanted to see it with Rannells (myself included) you're basically SOL as the show was already pretty sold during his entire run prior to his announcement.
Ahh well...groffsauce for me on Oct 22, I suppose. No complaints.
#31
Posted: 10/8/15 at 6:07pm
I was really hoping for Steven Pasquale too! Somehow he was a very intriguing possibility to me. I get my next Ham fix 11/17 (unless my boyfriend wins the lotto before then). I'm very partial to Groff's King but I'm interested and will report back on Andrew Rannells.
#32
Posted: 10/8/15 at 6:16pm
re Thayne, without regard to the injury, pulling him from the dance corps definitely leaves a hole. And I speak from experience as I saw his understudy. And ironically, depending on the injury, it might not leave him unable to do the king, as it is not physically demanding at all.
#33
Posted: 10/8/15 at 6:38pm
Which 1-2 minute sequence is King George in during Act 2?
Updated On: 10/8/15 at 06:38 PM
#34
Posted: 10/8/15 at 6:48pm
jman16 said: "Which 1-2 minute sequence is King George in during Act 2? "
After "I know him", isn't he on stage for most of "Reynolds pamphlet'?
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Updated On: 10/8/15 at 06:48 PM
#35
Posted: 10/8/15 at 11:12pm
He's on stage from I Know Him through The Adams Administration, We Know, and Hurricane until The Reynolds Pamphlet, right? I remember noticing that was the longest he had been onstage but I don't remember it being 5 songs worth. Then again, I wasn't particularly watching him at that point.
#36
Posted: 10/9/15 at 2:16am
The King is seated downstage as a spectator at the end of "I Know Him" and stays there for a bit - then he moves to the upper level for a bit - and does some of the group choreography on the subsequent songs. During The Reynolds pamphlet, his exit is a very deliberate downstage cross in front of Hamilton where he gloats on the line "You're never gonna be President now" and throws the Reynolds pamphlet over his shoulder, sort of in Hamilton's face.
#37
Posted: 10/9/15 at 2:42am
Oooh, wicked1492, Norbert is an interesting idea!
#38
Posted: 10/9/15 at 4:07am
Is the King in the opening and closing numbers, and does he still do the preshow announcement like he did at the public?
#39
Posted: 10/9/15 at 4:15am
Hi ChairinMain, the King is not in the opening or closing numbers. Yes, he still does the clever pre-show announcement. He comes out for the bows at the end of the show in the plain ivory costume the cast wears for the first number - but he only wears it for the bow.
#40
Posted: 10/9/15 at 5:52am
I wonder why the king doesn't do the curtain call in his royal getup and changes into the ivory costume, as you note. He doesn't appear in the ivory costume at all in the actual show. I guess it makes him blend in with the rest of the cast, but why would that be desirable?
#41
Posted: 10/9/15 at 7:37am
Isn't everyone in ivory at the curtain call except Hamilton and Burr? It would be weird if King George was the only other character chosen to stand out in his usual costume at that point.
#42
Posted: 10/9/15 at 9:03am
Everyone is in ivory at the end, appropriately. And though the King is on stage for those other sequences in act two, his contribution other than his song is brief. The put-in could be easy, the role is still essentially a stand-alone/in-one.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
#43
Posted: 10/9/15 at 9:07am
mariel9 said: "Isn't everyone in ivory at the curtain call except Hamilton and Burr? It would be weird if King George was the only other character chosen to stand out in his usual costume at that point.
Isn't Eliza still in her blue dress when she bows? I think I remember she finishes "Who Lives...," blackout, and then it goes right into curtain call?
#44
Posted: 10/9/15 at 9:16am
Sorry, yes, Eliza is also still in costume.
#45
Posted: 10/9/15 at 11:33am
I've always viewed the ivory outfits, when worn by major characters, to show that at that moment, they're not George Washington or Angeica Schuyler. They're just people telling a story. I know during Who lives, Who dies... there's references to the individual characters, but it seems like narration or storytelling to me.
#47
Posted: 10/27/15 at 8:08pm
Considering he's in the middle of his first performance in the role, I'm going to guess there's been no word.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#48
Posted: 10/27/15 at 8:10pm
Alex M said: "Any word on how hes doing?"
Well, he seems pretty happy.
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#49
Posted: 10/27/15 at 8:12pm
Hard to imagine he'll have trouble landing a 5-minute sassy one-song role.
#50
Posted: 10/27/15 at 8:32pm
Looking forward to seeing it for my second time next Thursday--with Rannells!
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