Bare: A Pop Opera- Page 4
Bare: A Pop Opera
#75re: Bare: A Pop Opera
Posted: 2/10/08 at 12:57pmIt should be revived with Lea Michelle as Ivy. Pronto.
snl89
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/05
#76re: Bare: A Pop Opera
Posted: 2/10/08 at 1:17pm
^THANK YOU. just yes. Lea would make a most excellent Ivy. Not that Jenna wasn't awesome. I just tend to like the sound of Lea's voice a little bit more.
and I really would love to actually see Matt Doyle's and James Snyder's takes on Peter and Jason too :) I don't think anyone could ever really beat Michael and John, but Matt and James seem like they'd be pretty great.
(I'm tempted to say Jon Groff would be a really good Jason- or even Peter, for that matter- too, but like, if Lea was Ivy that would be WAY too "oh look, it's Spring Awakening all over again!" haha)
I don't need a life that's normal. That's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Something next to normal is what I'd like to try. Close enough to normal to get by.
#77re: Bare: A Pop Opera
Posted: 2/10/08 at 1:29pm
Sure, let's just transplant the entire Spring Awakening cast. This time, we can plague a good show with bad acting! 
jake6970
Broadway Star Joined: 9/21/07
#79re: Bare: A Pop Opera
Posted: 2/10/08 at 1:35pm
ny_broadway2 i love the new poster art for bare in texas. It looks so good, and honestly if i had a way to get to texas i'd be there but sadly i live in cleveland and that's a REALLY long drive, and i don't really want to have to pay for a hotel either. But i definitely look forward to hearing how u like it.
I do think lea michelle would be good as Ivy, i never would have thought of her to play it but it's a good idea. but if it ever does make it to NYC again, matt and james really need to play peter and jason!!!
#80re: Bare: A Pop Opera
Posted: 2/10/08 at 1:39pmI think the best casting choice to make, if it ever does return to NYC, is to have a cast full of unknowns. Fresh, new talent, I believe would benefit the production.
East Village
Leading Actor Joined: 9/23/07
#81re: Bare: A Pop Opera
Posted: 2/10/08 at 1:42pm
It's nuts if it doesn't. You could easily build an audience for it if you ran it downtown, kept the top price in the $50 dollar range and promoted it using the club/event/party model.
4 or 5 years ago, I'd say no. The NYC theater world was still a fairly insular community and it was pretty hard to get folks in the club world looking past their next free drink ticket. Back in 2004, you'd still get eye-rolls from folks if you dared mentioned anything theater.
It seems like since the mid-80s every art form underwent a popular resurgence -- it started with film and painting, performance art, even dance and photography. But sadly theater never quite caught on and became hip with the 20-30 crowd. (And forget about trying to get the club crowd anywhere before midnight.)
That's not the case today. There's a new, younger audience out there willing to give theater a try. The right vehicle in the right price range just hasn't come along. Someone is going to cash in once they figure out how to reach them. Bare is a pretty sexy piece. Its kind'ov genius in the way Degrassi is -- it doesn't give a **** what anyone outside the age range of its cast thinks. I'd say, forget about the theater world -- those folks are going to come. Market the hell out of this to 20 crowd and you'll fill a theater.
Updated On: 2/10/08 at 01:42 PM
snl89
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/05
#82re: Bare: A Pop Opera
Posted: 2/10/08 at 1:43pm
"Sure, let's just transplant the entire Spring Awakening cast. This time, we can plague a good show with bad acting!"
lol! Well.. I think we have general differences in opinion on the acting, but like I said, I WOULDN'T want Lea and Groff to both do it- at LEAST not in the same production :) That would be very very bad since the show would be inevitably compared too much to SA as it is. I just think that, in theory, Lea would make an excellent Ivy and Groff would make a good Jason. But between the two, I say Lea for Ivy.
I don't need a life that's normal. That's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Something next to normal is what I'd like to try. Close enough to normal to get by.
#83re: Bare: A Pop Opera
Posted: 2/10/08 at 1:49pmI think she would sound great. But unfortunately, what would be good enough on a CD wouldn't be in a production. I love her voice, I just wish her acting would catch up to her singing.
#84re: Bare: A Pop Opera
Posted: 2/10/08 at 2:13pmcrzyray - i told the girl who is playing ivy what you said and she thought it was so sweet and she was glad you liked it. yeah it's too bad you can't make it down here but i don't blame you b/c that is a really long drive. i don't think i would drive up to cleveland either just to see something no matter how badly i wanted to see it. it costs too much to do all that. but i will definitely let you know what i think about the show and everything about it.
If you hide from yourself, be someone else for someone else's sake, that would be the greatest mistake - bare
#85re: Bare: A Pop Opera
Posted: 2/10/08 at 2:37pmYeah, I don't really see Groff for Jason. He's a little too wholesome looking. He's doesn't look like a golden boy jock, I guess is my problem. I think he'd do a great job singing the role though.
snl89
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/05
#86re: Bare: A Pop Opera
Posted: 2/10/08 at 2:52pm^yeah, I can't decide if I can see him more as Jason or as Peter. The more I think about it, the more I actually think maybe Peter, because you're right, it's a "wholesome" thing. But he'd sound great in either one :)
I don't need a life that's normal. That's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Something next to normal is what I'd like to try. Close enough to normal to get by.
#87re: Bare: A Pop Opera
Posted: 2/10/08 at 3:04pm
I think Skylar would be a good Matt, too, fyi.
Okay, I need to stop doing this. lol
mollyml05
Chorus Member Joined: 3/12/07
#88re: Bare: A Pop Opera
Posted: 2/10/08 at 3:36pmI saw Bare a few weeks ago in Chicago and it was amazing. I had been a fan for about a year and was so excited that it was finally playing somewhere I could see it. I saw it with my best friend who's gay. This show had a lot to do with him finally coming out to his parents, so needless to say, lots of tears were shed. My boyfriend also came with us. He was skeptical going into it, but was sobbing with both of us by the end. It is such a moving show and I hope that it gets all the acclaim and success that it so rightfully deserves.
#89re: Bare: A Pop Opera
Posted: 2/10/08 at 3:41pmI would give my right arm to see it with Matt Doyle
"I told you, NO Rodgers and Hammerstein!"- Bart Simpson
#90re: Bare: A Pop Opera
Posted: 2/10/08 at 4:39pmI'd prefer to see Bare with people who have never been a part of it before. Don't get me wrong, I love a lot of those who have, but I feel like people are beginning to confuse the performers with the show. It shouldn't be the Jenna Leigh Green show, or the Matt Doyle show, it should be Bare. I'm not saying that the people associated are bad, they're extremely far from it, but I think people should love Bare for Bare, and not for Matt or Michael or whoever's in it.
East Village
Leading Actor Joined: 9/23/07
#92re: Bare: A Pop Opera
Posted: 2/10/08 at 10:20pmFor anybody in the Indianapolis area, All Alike Theatre will be presenting the Indiana premiere of "Bare" this summer (most likely late July)! Woo and hoo for me!
#93re: Bare: A Pop Opera
Posted: 2/11/08 at 12:21am
Anyone know anything about The University of Delaware's production. Like dates or something. I saw the dates a few weeks ago, now I cant remember when its being performed and I cant find the dates on-line.
Thanks a lot
-Jeremy
"I'd rater be nine peoples favorite thing, than a hundred peoples ninth favorite thing"
DaneSaw
Stand-by Joined: 5/31/07
jake6970
Broadway Star Joined: 9/21/07
#95re: Bare: A Pop Opera
Posted: 2/11/08 at 5:55pmEmcee- I don't know if you've seen her or not lately, but Lea has really grown into Wendla and she is become an awesome actress.
#96re: Bare: A Pop Opera
Posted: 2/12/08 at 1:33pm
As much as I love the music from this show I have to say that I hate one song: Birthday, B**ch. The song seems so out of place to me. I especially hate what Nadia says at the end of that song. It seems unnecessarily vulgar.
DaneSaw
Stand-by Joined: 5/31/07
#97re: Bare: A Pop Opera
Posted: 2/12/08 at 3:38pmI'm not sure why they thought it was necessary to change Nadia's line at the end of that song for the studio recording...I feel like it was fine the way it was, and it does kind of seem out of place and overly-vulgar the way it is now.
snl89
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/05
#98re: Bare: A Pop Opera
Posted: 2/12/08 at 3:45pm
YES. omg. That's like the ONE thing that really bugs me on the recording. I'm fine with Birthday B*tch in general- actually I think it's quite amusing haha- but I SOOOO much prefer it ending with Nadia just doing to big "she's the biiirthday f*cking b*iiitch". I don't mind vulgar when it makes things funnier, but in that instance the less vulgar actually makes it funnier! It makes it like she's just being a drama queen rather then saying some really gross vulgar thing that makes her seem almost too mean to Ivy.
So yeah, that def bugs me too.
That said, CUTEST moment of the whole show (especially when it's Michael and John doing it):
"I wish your pinata were that big!!"
"you do realize those are pot brownies, right?"
"...oops! *giggle*"
"wonderful!"
it makes me so happy
I don't need a life that's normal. That's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Something next to normal is what I'd like to try. Close enough to normal to get by.
#99re: Bare: A Pop Opera
Posted: 2/12/08 at 3:52pmIf that CD doesn't come soon, I don't know what I'm going to do. It's like waiting for Santa. If Santa were a dark coming-of-age musical of course.
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