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Anyone as horrified at Gwyneth and Lea doing Chicago songs on Glee??
#50 Anyone as horrified at Gwyneth and Lea doing Chicago songs on Glee??
Posted: 11/24/10 at 2:49am
Video taping Broadway shows
If there were a bootleg of Ethel Merman in Gypsy would you watch it?
I still don't understand what you are trying to accomplish by reporting this thread. Nothing is going to happen. Again anonymous reports about anonymous productions... can't really do anything with that...
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#51 Anyone as horrified at Gwyneth and Lea doing Chicago songs on Glee??
Posted: 11/24/10 at 3:23amI simply saw the Performance as a Fun Play ripped off of the Film it's Television! nothing serious here.
#52 Anyone as horrified at Gwyneth and Lea doing Chicago songs on Glee??
Posted: 11/24/10 at 3:31amGlee just needs to go away.
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
ElphaWoods
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#53 Anyone as horrified at Gwyneth and Lea doing Chicago songs on Glee??
Posted: 11/24/10 at 4:56am
Seriously people? Instead of making a thread about something positive you do it about something that you didn't like?
This is ridiculous, and by the way that performance it's suppose to be in a school! as if anyone is high school would do that routine exactly as in broadway singin and dancin perfectly.. gimme a break...
I don't get why instead of putting your energy in something good and positive you spend time saying how horrible this and that is.. really sad for this kind of people...
I loved that episode and I'm glad that Glee is showing new generations some broadway classics...
#54 Anyone as horrified at Gwyneth and Lea doing Chicago songs on Glee??
Posted: 11/24/10 at 5:08amJust shut up. With the name ElphaWoods you're not really helping matters.
ElphaWoods
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#55 Anyone as horrified at Gwyneth and Lea doing Chicago songs on Glee??
Posted: 11/24/10 at 5:41am
ha..now this just makes me laugh... attacking my silly board name.. which of course has nothing to do with this thread or anything at all, its just a nickname!...by the way as this is a FREE forum, im gonna keep saying whatever i feel like saying..
#56 Anyone as horrified at Gwyneth and Lea doing Chicago songs on Glee??
Posted: 11/24/10 at 11:30am
Thread reported.
What do you think they're going to do? I think the statute of limitations ran out on our production, which was over 20 years ago.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#57 Anyone as horrified at Gwyneth and Lea doing Chicago songs on Glee??
Posted: 11/24/10 at 3:49pm
"Video taping Broadway shows, stealing from grocery stores, raping small children, murdering people, and embezzling are all enjoyed by a lot of people too.
That doesn't make it right.
The Nazi party was enjoyed by a lot of people as well. As was Hitler as a leader of their country. If the war had ended differently, he'd have gone down in history as a revolutionary great person.
Again, just because things are enjoyed by the masses, it doesn't make them right."
Did you just compare watching Glee to raping small children and Nazis? Seriously? Get a grip.
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Disneyland Magic Man
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#58 Anyone as horrified at Gwyneth and Lea doing Chicago songs on Glee??
Posted: 11/24/10 at 5:40pm
As much as one would probably enjoy watching a bootleg of Merman in Gypsy... it's still illegal.
It's like saying, "If you knew you wouldn't get caught, would you steal?" or "If you knew no one would ever know, would you have sex with a child or drown a baby?"
Please, there's no justification for doing illegal things, regardless of how harmless they might seem.
If you want people to keep writing shows for you to watch and/or perform in, respect their rights as an author and follow the rules. Why do actors and theater patrons find this so hard to understand? If you don't like the way something's written, write your own material.
#59 Anyone as horrified at Gwyneth and Lea doing Chicago songs on Glee??
Posted: 11/24/10 at 5:47pm
Disneyland Magic Man, you need to understand/distinguish the difference between legality and morality.
The analogy is not like that at all. Just wondering are you a child? I mean your reasoning..it's just strange and superficial.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Updated On: 11/24/10 at 05:47 PM
#60 Anyone as horrified at Gwyneth and Lea doing Chicago songs on Glee??
Posted: 11/24/10 at 7:58pm
"If you want people to keep writing shows for you to watch and/or perform in, respect their rights as an author and follow the rules. Why do actors and theater patrons find this so hard to understand? If you don't like the way something's written, write your own material."
So when can we expect the Disneyland Magic Man tv show that features top of the line musical theater numbers week in and week out? I'll be glad to tune in!
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#61 Anyone as horrified at Gwyneth and Lea doing Chicago songs on Glee??
Posted: 11/24/10 at 8:31pmI watch videos of Disney rides on YouTube that aren't officially licensed by Disney. Does that make me a bad person? I do it while cooking in meth lab, but that shouldn't make any difference.
Disneyland Magic Man
Featured Actor Joined: 9/9/06
#62 Anyone as horrified at Gwyneth and Lea doing Chicago songs on Glee??
Posted: 11/25/10 at 6:48am
It is morally wrong to combine the songs Singing In The Rain and Umbrella.
It is legally wrong to do so at an actual high school without obtaining the proper rights from both parties and letting them know how you plan to bastardize the material and subsequently getting permission to do so.
Glee has money, so neither is an issue. But ACTUAL high schools and colleges watch the "fictional" television show and think it's okay to replicate.
It is morally wrong to present a piece of dramatic work, straight play or musical, in any other fashion than the author's original wishes.
It is also legally wrong to do so without proper permission.
Why is it that because I try to represent a piece of artistic integrity that people in this business should hold that you think I am a child? I'm not. I'm a college educated working actor trying to grasp how anything positive can come out of a television show like Glee.
It might make people interested in the arts, and THAT is always a good thing. But Glee is doing it with false pretenses. THAT's not a good thing. The last thing I need to do is loose a job to someone who'll be lip-sinking "live" to a prerecorded track (it's been tried before) or god knows have to pay money to see a Broadway show under the same circumstances.
evadiva
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#63 Anyone as horrified at Gwyneth and Lea doing Chicago songs on Glee??
Posted: 11/25/10 at 7:18am
"I'm a college educated working actor...."
"It might make people interested in the arts, and THAT is always a good thing. But Glee is doing it with false pretenses. THAT's not a good thing. The last thing I need to do is loose a job to someone who'll be lip-sinking "live" to a prerecorded track...."
And THAT is not how you spell lose.
Just sayin'....
#64 Anyone as horrified at Gwyneth and Lea doing Chicago songs on Glee??
Posted: 11/25/10 at 8:46amWhy is it morally wrong to combine songs?
#65 Anyone as horrified at Gwyneth and Lea doing Chicago songs on Glee??
Posted: 11/25/10 at 8:56am
Disneyland Magic Man, you're just digging a deeper hole for yourself. Putting aside how pretentious you sound, your arguments are facile.
A)There is no moral choice in combining songs. It is your OPINION that combining Singing in the Rain and Umbrella is a bad idea. It is your OPINION that it didn't work. That does not, in any sense of the word, make it morally wrong.
B)Actual people watch Two and a Half Men, doesn't mean they think they should behave like Charlie Sheen. Actual people watched Lost, doesn't mean they think if they crash in a plane they're going to become guardians of the human race. Actual people watch Glee, doesn't mean they think they can act like Karofsky and bully people because of it. See, most people can distinguish between reality and fiction. It's something we learn early on. I teach 7th and 8th graders. They're aware that Glee is a fictional show. It's not that hard.
C)"It is morally wrong to present a piece of dramatic work, straight play or musical, in any other fashion than the author's original wishes."
Again, according to who? To you? Once the author's written it, it's out there. LEGALLY, some works can't be altered, but MORALLY it's called artistic expression. Are you saying that, according to your strict moral code, every production of every show should look exactly the same from here to eternity? No one can ever try something (like The Hot Mikado or Carmen Jones) because the original author didn't give their approval?
D)As an actor, you sure have a limited grasp of human emotion. You say you don't get how anything positive can come from Glee. How about the fact that it brings enjoyment to millions of people? I have no interest in Sex and the City - I think it's ridiculous fluff - but I wouldn't begrudge anyone who enjoys it they're pleasure in watching it. How about the fact that kids ARE learning new songs now? Are you afraid that people are going to become interested in the arts, perhaps people with more talent than you, who will be auditioning against you now? Besides, why on Earth would you worry about an actor auditioning with a lip-synced track? What director would cast that person, or are you really just that bad of an actor? Your worries here make very little sense.
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