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Bobby Steggert, Santino Fontana to Lead New York YANK! Workshop; Aiming for Broadway Run!

Bobby Steggert, Santino Fontana to Lead New York YANK! Workshop; Aiming for Broadway Run!

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#2Bobby Steggert, Santino Fontana to Lead New York YANK! Workshop; Aiming for Broadway Run!
Posted: 9/21/11 at 4:40pm

A workshop?
Geez, just do the dang show already.

The title of this show is taking on a new meaning.

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#3Bobby Steggert, Santino Fontana to Lead New York YANK! Workshop; Aiming for Broadway Run!
Posted: 9/21/11 at 5:07pm

I bet they'll get it right by the 2041 workshop; but Bobby will probably break his hip attempting the tap dancing.

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#4Bobby Steggert, Santino Fontana to Lead New York YANK! Workshop; Aiming for Broadway Run!
Posted: 9/21/11 at 5:08pm

It'll be the hit of te '16-'17 season.

Brick
#5Bobby Steggert, Santino Fontana to Lead New York YANK! Workshop; Aiming for Broadway Run!
Posted: 9/21/11 at 5:29pm

This is the same one announced a few months ago, guys. And I believe the first since the rewrite, correct?

Calm down. Musicals take 10 years to write and produce nowadays. And with the unlikely commercial prospects of this one, it's like an independent film making the festival circuit.

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#6Bobby Steggert, Santino Fontana to Lead New York YANK! Workshop; Aiming for Broadway Run!
Posted: 9/21/11 at 6:35pm

The workshop will run from October 24 through November 17, 2011.

How does Equity treat these repeated workshops? Do the actors receive simple salaries when they work on them? Or do they receive salaries and percentages of future profits?


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#7Bobby Steggert, Santino Fontana to Lead New York YANK! Workshop; Aiming for Broadway Run!
Posted: 9/21/11 at 6:37pm

This is purely conjecture, but by looking at the producers listed on the show's website, it appears that many of them have little-to-no experience producing a commercial Broadway run. Could it be that the producers found themselves in over their heads and are stalling with endless "workshop productions"?

I thought at one point they were trying to get Roundabout to produce the show. Now The Old Globe is getting involved. Maybe they're trying to get a NFP interested in order to alleviate a financial burden? Again, this is all purely conjecture based on the information available.


"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

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#8Bobby Steggert, Santino Fontana to Lead New York YANK! Workshop; Aiming for Broadway Run!
Posted: 9/21/11 at 6:42pm

PJ--I'd assume that a workshop of that length would be required to operate under an Equity Staged Reading Contract. Maybe someone with more experience can expound on the particulars of such a contract.


"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

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#9Bobby Steggert, Santino Fontana to Lead New York YANK! Workshop; Aiming for Broadway Run!
Posted: 9/21/11 at 7:23pm

It didn't take 10 years to develop HELLO DOLLY!
I said shaking my cane at the youngsters on my lawn.

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#10Bobby Steggert, Santino Fontana to Lead New York YANK! Workshop; Aiming for Broadway Run!
Posted: 9/21/11 at 8:44pm

I think because of the re-writes that have occurred, they can get away with continued workshops as long as there is interest, which miraculously, there still appears to be.

Brutus2
#11Bobby Steggert, Santino Fontana to Lead New York YANK! Workshop; Aiming for Broadway Run!
Posted: 9/22/11 at 2:40am

Hello Dolly was based on a pre-existing play. Yank is not. It is exceptionally difficult to create a piece from scratch.

It's good they are taking their time.

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#12Bobby Steggert, Santino Fontana to Lead New York YANK! Workshop; Aiming for Broadway Run!
Posted: 9/22/11 at 9:38am

Yank is a cute silly piece of fluff with no more depth than any episode of The Guiding Light. Saying it needs 10 years of development is disingenuous at best, witless at worst.

If, however, you're saying that it takes 10 years to get people to invest $$ in it, you may be right on the nose.

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#13Bobby Steggert, Santino Fontana to Lead New York YANK! Workshop; Aiming for Broadway Run!
Posted: 9/22/11 at 9:50am

'Yank is a cute silly piece of fluff with no more depth than any episode of The Guiding Light. Saying it needs 10 years of development is disingenuous at best, witless at worst'

I sometimes wonder why you watch theatre at all



Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna

Mattbrain
#14Bobby Steggert, Santino Fontana to Lead New York YANK! Workshop; Aiming for Broadway Run!
Posted: 9/22/11 at 9:51am

^ This.


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#15Bobby Steggert, Santino Fontana to Lead New York YANK! Workshop; Aiming for Broadway Run!
Posted: 9/22/11 at 10:16am

"I sometimes wonder why you watch theatre at all"

Really? I had no idea that you were sitting there thinking about me all this time. How sweet.

I have to confess, I don't use my spare time to think about you, but if I did, I might wonder why you ever leave a theatre, except of course when the piece goes way over your tiny head.

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#16Bobby Steggert, Santino Fontana to Lead New York YANK! Workshop; Aiming for Broadway Run!
Posted: 9/22/11 at 10:58am

Oh, newintown.

The Freida Claxton of Broadwayworld.

I wonder who's going to kick the coffin at the funeral.

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#17Bobby Steggert, Santino Fontana to Lead New York YANK! Workshop; Aiming for Broadway Run!
Posted: 9/22/11 at 11:06am

Arcane reference there...

And hey - I'm not the one who first insulted someone personally just for expressing an opinion (in this thread).

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#18Bobby Steggert, Santino Fontana to Lead New York YANK! Workshop; Aiming for Broadway Run!
Posted: 9/22/11 at 11:14am

Oh but you were, Blanche:

"Saying it needs 10 years of development is disingenuous at best, witless at worst."

For someone with the breadth of knowledge that you clearly have, I'm surprised that you don't realize just how misanthropic and joyless you come across in your posts. Or maybe you do realize, and you just don't care. Which is fine. But don't clutch the pearls when people react to your tone here.

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#19Bobby Steggert, Santino Fontana to Lead New York YANK! Workshop; Aiming for Broadway Run!
Posted: 9/22/11 at 11:18am

I have no pearls to clutch - I gave 'em to the poor ages ago.

I can see how you might think the comment about 10 years of development for Yank (which I acknowledged to be cute, which isn't entirely an insult) was personal insult. However, I was directing that more at the production team, rather than any one specific person here; it certainly had nothing to do with songanddanceman2.

If you're so negative as to only focus on one aspect of my (or anyone's) posts, that's your character flaw; I've said many positive things on here as well as negative. But you seem to be one of those Gloomy Gerties who only like to focus on the negative. Or maybe it's just your mood today.

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#20Bobby Steggert, Santino Fontana to Lead New York YANK! Workshop; Aiming for Broadway Run!
Posted: 9/22/11 at 11:21am

Saw it off Broadway, and loved it... well, not IT, loved it's potential... wish I could get my hands on the script and make my own changes, lol. At the York it was staged with no set, as an intimate musical... but it really should be a 42nd st style big tap dancing musical...

Not sure how the hell you'd sell it to a tourist.... Not even things like Priscilla last very long... It would probably be smarter for them to open at New World Stages.... , transfer to Broadway for a month.... then go back to New World Stages, lol.

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#21Bobby Steggert, Santino Fontana to Lead New York YANK! Workshop; Aiming for Broadway Run!
Posted: 9/22/11 at 11:27am

I've said many positive things on here as well as negative.

You have?


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#22Bobby Steggert, Santino Fontana to Lead New York YANK! Workshop; Aiming for Broadway Run!
Posted: 9/22/11 at 11:28am

I see you're in one of your bitchy moods again, Mitchell.

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#23Bobby Steggert, Santino Fontana to Lead New York YANK! Workshop; Aiming for Broadway Run!
Posted: 9/22/11 at 11:32am

Oh, I'm far more a C*nty Connie than a Gloomy Gertie.

But I did enjoy your rather remarkable attempt to deflect and turn the negative critique right back 'round on me. I mean...it didn't work...but I appreciate the effort.

As for Yank, I think it needed quite a bit of work, but contained a lot of strong ideas and some really exciting musical work. It's an important story to tell, as many feel the seeds for modern gay rights movement were planted during and after WW2, with young men free of the constraints of their former provincial lives and forging new identities after seeing death...and the world.

It's also, in a way, a companion piece to South Pacific, showing just another way in which people fall in love and take chances (somewhat foolish ones) when it seems that the end of the world is near. The cuteness, as you describe it, was one thing that I hope they keep in check. It undercut the central love story, which I found compelling and moving. And Steggert was simply magnificent. There is certainly a place for lightheartedness, and the Nancy Anderson role really added to that in a way that didn't detract. And, unlike everyone else in NYC, I loved the dream ballet. And I'm not afraid to admit it.

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#24Bobby Steggert, Santino Fontana to Lead New York YANK! Workshop; Aiming for Broadway Run!
Posted: 9/22/11 at 11:43am

I appreciate your appreciation of the piece; I wish I could share your enthusiasm. I found it cute, superficial, occasionally entertaining, and rather shallow. The topic, of course, is none of those negative things. The writers' exploration of that topic, however, seemed to me to be jejune. If you think I'm a terrible person for holding that opinion, so be it; I certainly wouldn't call you indiscriminate for liking the show.


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