Big

[broadwayboy430]

Posted: 3/5/06 at 1:57pm

Does anybody remember this musical (Big: The Musical)? I do, It was my first time seeing a Broadway production, and I loved it so much. Pity it went off, but like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a show with a large portion of it being high-school aged children and below is not really practical; however, I still listen to my OBC a lot. It would be great for repretory theaters.

[Katurian2]

Posted: 3/5/06 at 2:24pm

Big? like, based off the movie with Tom Hanks?

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 3/5/06 at 2:55pm

yes

[mrcacou]

Posted: 3/5/06 at 3:02pm

I played in it in South Carolina 5 years ago. One of my best memories while studying in the Sates !

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 3/5/06 at 3:02pm

Yeah, i actually didnt mind the bits and pieces of it I heard on amazon.com, I've been meaning to buy the CD.

[broadwayboy430]

Posted: 3/5/06 at 3:03pm

mr cacu, I totally think that I saw you. I did see Big on Broadway, but I loved it so much, that when we went to our summer home on Hilton Head Island, we saw the community theater there do it. Was that you? How funny.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/5/06 at 3:05pm

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a show with a large portion of it being high-school aged children and below

None of those kids were anywhere near high school age; the oldest were only about 11, I think.

[mrcacou]

Posted: 3/5/06 at 3:16pm

Yes it was me, the Frenchie in Hilton Head. How cool ! It was not the best production but I hope you liked it !

Updated On: 3/5/06 at 03:16 PM

[broadwayboy430]

Posted: 3/5/06 at 6:54pm

Yeah I loved it. Too funny. I know that the characters in Chitty were quite young, but weren't most of the Big kids between 13 & 16

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/5/06 at 6:59pm

Saw it on Broadway & enjoyed it. I love the score especially " Stop, Time"

[BroadwayChica]

Posted: 3/5/06 at 7:02pm

I saw it on Broadway, and barely remember it. I remember there was a huge deal about how great the set was. I know I didn't really enjoy it.

[morosco]

Posted: 3/5/06 at 7:11pm

There is a fascinating book that was written in diary form during the rehearsal process. Think show business is "fun"? You'll think twice after reading the trials and tribulations of BIG.

Making it BIG, the diary of a Broadway Musical Updated On: 3/5/06 at 07:11 PM

[StephanietheStar]

Posted: 3/5/06 at 7:21pm

I was Mrs. Baskins in my HS production of it...

there are a few great songs..and a few NOT so great ones...but definitely not a bad show :)

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 3/5/06 at 8:28pm

I just saw this today. My acting teacher was in it.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 3/5/06 at 8:44pm

I was in the "west coast premiere" of this show, which is funny since is was a bad children's theatre production. They made a big deal about it and it was quite bad. I do like the OBC, but the version available to community theatre is a bad, messed up one. I do have a special place in my heart for it. And a charm on my charm bracelet. And a bag, and a cup, and some pencils, and a snowglobe, and a "zoltar." I love Big.

[broadwayboy430]

Posted: 3/5/06 at 11:39pm

hahahaha. I can relate to all of your paraphanalia (sp?) I was in the Colorado Springs premiere of Les Miserables, and I have a statue, a mug, pencils, a pin, tee shirts, and a backpack. Sorry to threadjack my own thread.

[mrcacou]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 3:44am

In our cast we had kids between 7 and 15. It was such a nightmare for our stage manager. Poor girl. None of us were the right age. I was 22 and playing somebody arround 30. But still I had a taste of the American musical culture, a thing we don't have here in my country. Here is a short article I found about the show when we did it :
French visitor to play American boy in musical 'Big

[broadwayboy430]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 3:11pm

great article!

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 3:15pm

Gene Weygandt who plays the Wizard in Chicago was in Big on Broadway.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 3:18pm

The majority of this music makes me want to shove sharp objects into my ears.

[mrcacou]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 3:28pm

Come on, some songs are quite good in that show. Stop time is an awesome number. Too bad they cut the best song for the road, I want to go home.

[SweeneyPhanatic]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 4:04pm

I was in this show last November. I actually like the libretto they used in the tour better than the original one. I like Mrs. Baskin's song "Say Good Morning to Mom" and I enjoyed having the executives get a full number rather than that sad little bit on the OBC. I was also in the Susan's Friends scene and had a blast with that (I was Tom, the guy who gets covered with champange and has to deal with Josh wrecking his car). My director actually hated that scene when he first saw it on tour, but after we did it it became one of his favorites b/c we were so funny in it (in the way one should be funny in such a scene: dryly).

It was a lot of fun and I wouldn't mind a revival.

[mrcacou]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:02pm

You are right about "Say good morning to mom" but you have to admit that the new version of Fun is very, I mean VERY boring.

[Flahooley]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:22pm

I saw the original broadway produciton. I was seemed so long, and so strained, I just could wait to get home.

The cast recording really preserves the best part of that show.

[SweeneyPhanatic]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:45pm

Actually, our director hated the revised "duet Fun" (as he called it with the original version using the whole cast. Afterall: we had a stage full of people in a toy store with a giant piano. Why should only two guys be singing and enjoying it all?