BWW Video Show Preview: COMPANY
BWW Video Show Preview: COMPANY
#1BWW Video Show Preview: COMPANY
Posted: 12/1/06 at 2:17amhttps://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=14106
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
Color and Light
Broadway Star Joined: 10/23/05
#1re: BWW Video Show Preview: COMPANY
Posted: 12/1/06 at 2:22amWonderful! Thanks a ton!
Stop looking at my charisma.
#3re: BWW Video Show Preview: COMPANY
Posted: 12/1/06 at 2:25am
I was just about to go to bed. I'm apparently never going to catch up on the lost hours this week!
Off to watch...
gumbo2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/21/05
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Posted: 12/1/06 at 2:32amThank you! Great video...now I am just reliving what it was like seeing the show.
#5re: BWW Video Show Preview: COMPANY
Posted: 12/1/06 at 2:33amme too.
Somebody sit in my chair, and ruin my sleep, and make me aware of being alive!
#6re: BWW Video Show Preview: COMPANY
Posted: 12/1/06 at 2:34am
Poor Raul Esparza - why was he the only one in the cast who was shot from below - nobody looks good from that angle and he's the star...
I wonder if this production might actually be better on television than in the theatre. I wonder if would actually be considered for such a telecast...
I'm still not sold on this production, but I wouldn't mind my next apartment looking like that set...
#7re: BWW Video Show Preview: COMPANY
Posted: 12/1/06 at 2:34am
Some of the panned angles are a bit dizzying, and sort of disconcerting -- it wasn't meant to be seen from so close.
But, the clips are nonetheless beautiful.
gumbo2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/21/05
#8re: BWW Video Show Preview: COMPANY
Posted: 12/1/06 at 2:36amYeah the woman who plays April (I forget her name) has some pretty bizarre looks when she is really close to the camera.
#9re: BWW Video Show Preview: COMPANY
Posted: 12/1/06 at 2:39amI mentioned that yesterday. It's weird to see the panning. It was carefully staged to be seen in a specific way, so it kind of loses something with all the close-ups and angles.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
#10re: BWW Video Show Preview: COMPANY
Posted: 12/1/06 at 2:41am
I really appreciate seeing Being Alive from that close, for the sake of the facial expressions, but the parts where it's close up AND weaves throughout the cast is a bit much.
I'm so glad the karate and plate-licking clips got put in!
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#11re: BWW Video Show Preview: COMPANY
Posted: 12/1/06 at 2:58amI dare not speak until I see, but that video is not exactly exciting publicity IMHO.
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#12re: BWW Video Show Preview: COMPANY
Posted: 12/1/06 at 2:59amI think it goes without saying that it's probably worth the price of admission just to hear Raul sing "Being Alive"...
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
Shiksa Goddess2
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/05
#13re: BWW Video Show Preview: COMPANY
Posted: 12/1/06 at 3:04amI think they all look great, especially Elizabeth and Raul!
#14re: BWW Video Show Preview: COMPANY
Posted: 12/1/06 at 3:45am
I love the cinematic feel of this preview and really cannot wait to see the show.
This cast looks amazing.
From seeing the production done at my school, and now from this preview, I do have to say that Sherie Rene Scott seems like she could have been a perfectly cast April. Her comic timing would have been amazing in the role. Alas, maybe in a future concert version she can play her.
Kaitlin Hopkins comes to mind as a great Joanne as well..
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#15re: BWW Video Show Preview: COMPANY
Posted: 12/1/06 at 3:50am
Effin' awesome video footage!
Effin' awesome-r "Being Alive"
Shiksa Goddess2
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/05
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Posted: 12/1/06 at 3:51amAnyone else dieing for a cast recording?
#17re: BWW Video Show Preview: COMPANY
Posted: 12/1/06 at 5:32am
Elizabeth Stanley does resemble Sherie Rene Scott physically.
Stanley, Laws, and Walsh all sound quite good. It's nice to see Stanley playing the role more similar to the way Susan Browning sounds on the recording. I hope the show is running in February so I can get a chance to see it. I am not too keen on the funeral-atmosphere the production seems to give off though.
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#18re: BWW Video Show Preview: COMPANY
Posted: 12/1/06 at 6:57amAmazing!
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
#19re: BWW Video Show Preview: COMPANY
Posted: 12/1/06 at 7:22amWhat are the karate and plate-licking gestures all about? It looks strange.
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Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
bwayondabrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/05
#20re: BWW Video Show Preview: COMPANY
Posted: 12/1/06 at 7:33am
That video renewed my interest in seeing this show. Sorry, but after reading the reviews, this went down my list of shows to see, but now...its back at the top :)
The cast looks great, and I would seriously go to this show just to see Barbra Walsh sing "The Ladies Who Lunch." She looks awesome!
#21re: BWW Video Show Preview: COMPANY
Posted: 12/1/06 at 8:16am
I saw them in Cincinnati and did not think I would want to see it again when it moved to Broadway. I was wrong.
"I'm like a helmet without a head" -
Updated On: 12/1/06 at 08:16 AM
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#23re: BWW Video Show Preview: COMPANY
Posted: 12/1/06 at 9:37amMaybe I have high expectation, I'm a little disapointed after watchng the preview, esp. the "What would we do without you" scene.
Somebody sit in my chair, and ruin my sleep, and make me aware of being alive!
#24re: BWW Video Show Preview: COMPANY
Posted: 12/1/06 at 9:46am
DIZZYING???? I thought the staging of the video was BEAUTIFUL!! GREAT direction/cinematography/whatever! It ADDED to the show, IMHO! I can definitely see this televised...and now just pan-shot with three cameras cutting in with close-ups. Just the way Craig shot it.
I'll DEFINITELY be seeing it on my December trip!! Judging by this video alone, it looks as if it works SO much better than SWEENEY TODD.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
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