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Big musicals you'd like to see done small
#25re: Big musicals you'd like to see done small
Posted: 6/6/06 at 2:42pm
I hate to say but Wicked scaled down with a darker feel to it might be really cool.
I second Evita though.
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CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#26re: Big musicals you'd like to see done small
Posted: 6/6/06 at 2:46pmBIG the Musical done Small, really small.
#27re: Big musicals you'd like to see done small
Posted: 6/6/06 at 3:19pmMinimalism is the way to go with CARRIE. An overblown production equals camp instead of chills, comedy instead of pathos.
#28re: Big musicals you'd like to see done small
Posted: 6/6/06 at 4:16pm
Kiss of the Spider Woman would work exceptionally well smaller. I'd also like to see the show reworked into one act. I don't think that Molina, Valentin, The Mother or Aurora should play instruments though. A band of 3 prisoners, plus the Warden should play the insturments. Marta should also be cut since she has little to do.
Prisoner 1: Piano
Prisoner 2: Percussion
Prisoner 3: Violin
The Warden: Guitar
Gimme Love and some of Aurora's material should be cut to concentrate on Molina and Valentin, but I think that Good Times should be a recurring theme throughout Act 2 giving a sense of irony to the show.
I'd also like to hear the title song constantly reprised by the Warden at first and then by the Spider Woman herself.
#29re: Big musicals you'd like to see done small
Posted: 6/6/06 at 4:27pm
I'd also like to see KOTW done small - but I'm not sure if I agree with the Warden and prisoners playing music.
Plus, I just love "Gimme Love".
Fridmanlam
Swing Joined: 1/23/06
#30re: Big musicals you'd like to see done small
Posted: 6/6/06 at 5:15pm
I think
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN
RAGS
ZORBA
KISMET
CABARET
A MY NAME WILL ALWAYS BE ALICE
KISS ME KATE
icantbelive
Featured Actor Joined: 5/5/06
#31re: Big musicals you'd like to see done small
Posted: 6/6/06 at 5:25pmWicked, Les Miserables, Miss Siagon (w/o Helicopter, Mamma Mia, any Disney Show
#32re: Big musicals you'd like to see done small
Posted: 6/6/06 at 5:34pmI saw the scaled down production of Ragtime at the Paper Mill, and I was blow away. While I have never seen a full blown production of the show, I think that more directors should attempt to make thier shows about characters and not the sets.
Fridmanlam
Swing Joined: 1/23/06
#33re: Big musicals you'd like to see done small
Posted: 6/6/06 at 9:10pmAlso what about Urinetown?
eatlasagna
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#34re: Big musicals you'd like to see done small
Posted: 6/7/06 at 2:00am
personally i thougth the scaled down tour of miss saigon that closed a few months back was awesome... and i've seen regional theaters do a great job... makes the musical so much more better... although i do love the spectacle of it...
bjivie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#35re: Big musicals you'd like to see done small
Posted: 6/7/06 at 2:42amPippin with only the players necessary to play all the leading roles and also acting as ensemble members.
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alwy15
Stand-by Joined: 4/26/04
#36re: Big musicals you'd like to see done small
Posted: 6/7/06 at 2:56am
could a scaled down showboat work? a scaled down titanic? i dont know if thats possible because the sets are characters in the show... but i dont know. interesting to think about what a director might do with that.
ChrisLK
Understudy Joined: 6/7/06
#37re: Big musicals you'd like to see done small
Posted: 6/7/06 at 4:23am
I don't know how it was originally staged, but I'd LOVE to see a very minimalist Floyd Collins. Of course, I'd love to see that show period.
And I too would like to join the ITW bandwagon. (Maybe John Doyle will get around to that one eventually!)
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Miracle."
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#38re: Big musicals you'd like to see done small
Posted: 6/7/06 at 5:14amI wonder what a scaled-down Les Miz would be like...only if there was a way to do it properly, of course.
#39re: Big musicals you'd like to see done small
Posted: 6/7/06 at 10:26amJohn Doyle did a production of ItW in London which I've heard was veyr well-received. I read somewhere that he'd like to revisit the show after Company opens.
#40re: Big musicals you'd like to see done small
Posted: 6/7/06 at 1:51pmPhantom (or should I say Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera). I would have died to have see it at Sydmonton before it even hit the West End.
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#41re: Big musicals you'd like to see done small
Posted: 6/8/06 at 2:29pm
I don't understand how you would make Into the Woods more minimalist... there is very little set... and all the characters are all the characters... there is NO chorus to eliminate... and in the original and revival productions the actors doubled... Same with A Little Night Music... there is no chorus to eliminate... except for the five singers... but how would you even do that?... and Floyd Collins IS a minimalist show... there were only 13 or so people in the original cast... the Cabaret revival WAS a minimalist version of the show... with actors playing instruments and eliminating chorus numbers...
Half of Kiss of the Spider Woman works well scaled down... but you NEED the spectacle of his fantasies or else it sorta misses the point... the whole Aurora aspect misses it's mark if it isn't HUGE... obviously my opinion.
kmc
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#42re: Big musicals you'd like to see done small
Posted: 6/8/06 at 2:37pmPARADE
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
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