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BOUNCE begins at the Public Oct. 28
#25re: BOUNCE begins at the Public Oct. 28
Posted: 6/5/08 at 3:30pmAnd the Boca Raton number. It just didn't work and was ultimately very confusing.
#26re: BOUNCE begins at the Public Oct. 28
Posted: 6/5/08 at 3:35pmI LOVED the Boca Raton number! The idea of it was one of the oldest cliches, but Sondheim made it work (at least to me)!
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
TheBoyDownstairs
Featured Actor Joined: 10/10/07
#27re: BOUNCE begins at the Public Oct. 28
Posted: 6/5/08 at 4:36pmI'm just relieved its not actor-musicians, now I can actually see it. I'm just done with actor-musicians.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#28re: BOUNCE begins at the Public Oct. 28
Posted: 6/5/08 at 4:53pm
"I don't think it's Sondheim's best, but how could it be at his age?"
Are you f'ing kidding me? Some composers actually get BETTER with age and many write their BEST in their later years. That has to be one of the most idiotic excuses for a sub-par score I have ever heard.
#29re: BOUNCE begins at the Public Oct. 28
Posted: 6/5/08 at 5:06pmI haven't heard anything yet, but I agree that Sondheim's worst is better that many people's best.
With Clay Aiken in Spamalot, all of Broadway is singing a collective "There! Right! There!" -Me-
"Not Barker, Todd is the only person I've ever known who could imitate Katherine Hepburn...in print." -nmartin-
#30re: BOUNCE begins at the Public Oct. 28
Posted: 6/5/08 at 7:40pmThis is a very much revised Bounce. The role Bernadette Peters is expected to play, the mother, has been expanded greatly.
#31re: BOUNCE begins at the Public Oct. 28
Posted: 6/5/08 at 9:00pm
Hooray...although Sondheim himself told me (rather, wrote me) this was happening. Hopefully the cast is solid and the score and book have improved, though I like the score very much.
Gosh, if The Visit and Bounce transfer next Spring will Sondheim win score or will his old friend John Kander (and the late Fred Ebb)? That's a toughie.
#32re: BOUNCE begins at the Public Oct. 28
Posted: 6/5/08 at 9:20pmI thought Bernadette Peters played Nellie?
#33re: BOUNCE begins at the Public Oct. 28
Posted: 6/5/08 at 10:38pmThe character's name excapes me at the moment but whoever the Misner's mother is, Bernadette Peters played.
#34re: BOUNCE begins at the Public Oct. 28
Posted: 6/5/08 at 11:35pmI thought someone mentioned that Peters' role was NOT in the Goodman production and that it was a role from WISE GUYS. Can anyone confirm/dispel this?
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