Anybody Know Anything About RING OF FIRE?

So I'm auditioning next week for the national tour of Ring Of Fire, a musical about Johnny Cash, but that's about all I know about it. So I was just wondering if maybe anybody had seen it or heard any reviews of it????

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Where?

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is there acting, or is it just songs?

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The cast is six people plus musicians. The story loosely follows Johnny's life from boyhood to retirement. The three men allude to Johnny at different ages (young man, middle age, maturity) and the three women represent June at different ages. However, all six and the musicians are onstage for the entire show. The show covers the majority of his hits (although one of my favorites is missing--the song where he worked in the car factory and took home spare parts in his lunch box).

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Updated On: 5/3/07 at 09:54 AM

I don't recall any need for acting. All they do is sing. I can't believe they are touring this crapfest. Well, I guess at least the rest of the nation will get to suffer this putrid show too.

wow a lot of people hated this show...

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It's my understanding that this version is different than the Bway flop and that it's more along the lines of a bio-musical now...but that could be complete BS.

My guess it that most audiences will like it...esp if they play the rural routes.

Sure. Act 1 was a flop. Couldn't tell you about Act 2, though, as I wasn't able to make it through without killing myself.

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It is not that Ring of Fire was bad per se, but to quote Alice B. Toklas on Oakland "there was no there there".

The show as done on Broadway had no real raison d'etre and all Johnny Cash's musical edges were smoothed out.

It was earnest and well-meant which are lofty ways of saying 'dull'.

Perhaps this revision will work better that the Broadway show or even just work less earnest-and-well-meant.

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