BYU "Defying Gravity" Clip- Page 2

[wickedfiyeroofoz]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 12:22am

I love how they didn't even bother to hide the cherry picker with extra fabric :p

[Urban]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 2:16am

Booo!!!! Don't support the dirty Cougars people! Long live the mighty Utes!!!

[CMoore]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 2:25am

I totally know this girl. Back when I was like 15 we went to a summer camp together at BYU and we did a medley from "West Side Story." I was Tony and she was Maria haha. Good times.

[FlyingMonkey1223]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 2:31am

BYU is so anti-gay. Why do they keep doing musicals? And why are they doing WICKED illegally? Following the laws of the land is an important part of the mormon religion...

[Urban]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 3:33am

^To be fair, they are not doing the whole show, just one song in a revue. They can easily obtain the rights to showcase one song.

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 6:12am

"Innovative staging"?

Uhm... right.

They take the character who's supposed to be the focus of the action, put her in a black costume (which she's supposed to be in anyway, true enough), and then SHOVE HER AGAINST THE BLACK WINGS and make her look not like she's flying but she got caught on the corner of a roof and is hanging there in the wind?

Even for a revue, this is pretty sad, which is a shame because the singing is pretty great.

And what the &^&*^%%&$ was that pink thing???

[DaneSaw]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 8:32am

Good lord, it's a freakin' college showcase. Obviously the girl playing Elphaba was going to wear black, why would the wicked witch wear any other color? I doubt that was just cause to change the shade of the curtains on-stage, to make sure that some girl singing would pop more.

Moreso, since this is some kind of showcase/cabaret-looking thing, I think it's pretty commendable that they used a cherrypicker to get her off the ground. It could have easily been another instance where Elphaba runs downstage and everyone else ducks around her...wow, real sweet?

I swear, some people here expect a Broadway performance no matter what the venue, singers, or budget.

[dramarama2]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 8:40am

UP WITH HOMOSEXUALS BYU!

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 9:56am

She wasn't horrible. Glinda's dress is pretty bad.

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 11:55am

>> I swear, some people here expect a Broadway performance no matter what the venue, singers, or budget.

No, I expect a production that bears in mind thinga like venue, singers, and/or budget... which clearly didnt. Why put in a number like this if you CANT BE BOTHERED TO STAGE IT AT LEAST HALFWAY DECENTLY?

BYU has done far better than this in the past. Sorry, but you cant just explain it all away as a "college showcase", not these days when most major college theatres are better equipped than some Broadway houses.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 12:53pm

why did I click on this over the Legally Blonde Reality Show thread?

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 1:02pm

(ominously There are no accidents..... (demonic laugh)

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 1:08pm

Why go all the way and get a cherry picker and not cover the arm?

How hard would it have been to get a few extra yards of black fabric?

[lusciouslace]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 1:17pm

I was impressed with her voice for sure, but agree...not a fan of the riffing at all...

As for the cherry picker...I agree, it's cool that they did go that far, but yeah...it was distracting to have the arm like that. Even if they would have used the smoke effect more, it would have been better. Make it thicker and use it all the way through the end of the song. That might have helped... Updated On: 1/14/08 at 01:17 PM

[artscallion]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 1:35pm

I think riffing should be against the law, under any circumstance. Granted it's probably written into the song in this case. But really, imagine what this girl could do with her voice if she were actually paying attention to what the song was saying rather than to landing the next impressive vocal acrobatic feat for an ever more demanding public. I'm just sayin'.

[Ourtime992]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 2:10pm

Was this performance in the DeJong Concert Hall? If so, I can't imagine why you'd bother trying to make her fly in there.

[Jonny boy]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 2:18pm

I love the young ambassadors!!! I did thier youth summer camp when I was a young tike up in Provo=-) They are an amazing group. There have actually been a few of them that have made it in NY. One girl ,Mindy Smoot, toured for a while with Les Mis. as Eponine She was AMAZING!!!

Another old friend of mine, Heather Furguson , use to go there also , I believe! Its a great school for Musical theater=-)

[Ourtime992]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 3:57pm

I did the Young Ambassador summer camp as a teenager as well, then had a lot of friends in the group when I was a student at BYU. I never auditioned for the group myself because I wasn't an MDT major and couldn't have justified the time and travel commitment but I did several shows at community theaters with members of the group while there.

It seemed for a while that BYU was a veritable Les Mis ensemble member factory, though several recent BYU alumni have gone on to other projects as well. It's no CCM, Michigan, Carnegie-Mellon, or NYU, but it's a solid program with good training.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 7:35pm

There have actually been a few of them that have made it in NY. One girl ,Mindy Smoot, toured for a while with Les Mis. as Eponine She was AMAZING!!!

And before her there was Candese Marchese.

After Mindy were Dallyn Bayles, Brian Neal Clark, and Kevin Odekirk (actually, he may have preceded Mindy).

The Les Miz "ensemble member factory" thing is too true.