Well originally I was thinking about Butterfly but than I remembered she's dead so I changed it to Latifah.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
Oh jeez. I mean she's probably too young and a bit underpowered vocally for the role, but for chrissakes, it's musical theatre. Why not have Jennifer Holliday or Lillias or Mary Bond Davis take a crack at Rose? If race has nothing to do with the messages and themes in the show -- i.e. nontraditional casting of certain roles in Dreamgirls or Showboat or Ragtime would confuse an audience -- why not?
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
[http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/]
"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
Egg sackly. But the racists here took that as an invitation to turn this place into one of their klan meetings.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
I still wonder why no one has done JCS with a Afro-American Jesus...
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
Because we all know there were no black people in that part of the world at that time, BorstalBoy. Christ, get yourself a history book and learn something.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
No, we can only have black Judases, not black Jesuses -- it's more historically accurate that way.
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
[http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/]
"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
What about a cute little black baby jesus? They're harmless enough, aren't they?
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
Oh my. I lied. I have a couple others Simonisms I felt were cringeworthy:
On Bare: "Bare is the kind of obstreperous junk that thrives in California, then arrives here in the hope of making it in the wake of successful junk like Urinetown. That show, at least, was shrewd enough to crib from Kurt Weill, and compared with Bare, smells like Rosenkavalier. Avoid it, unless you are a punker or developmentally challenged."
Developmentally challenged? I actually gasped in shock that he'd say something like that. My naivete scares even me sometimes. Holy hell.
On the revival of Kiss Me, Kate: "The ingenue, Amy Spanger, is interesting only insofar as she keeps one guessing how she got the part. Unencumbered by any special talent, she does, however, have a face a nutcracker would envy."
Now . . . that's just mean. "A face a nutcracker would envy"? What the hell does that even mean exactly? He sure doesn't mince words. This man is horribly fascinating.
noday..... there is NO WAY that you can compare "Wicked's" reviews to "Brooklyn's". First of all, "Wicked" had basically mixed reviews, but some were good- very good. "Brooklyn" has basically been panned. Also, both Idina and KC were given mostly favorable reviews, with KC getting a few lovefests... As far as the box office----- first of all, "Wicked" has a familiar story, and the word of mouth was also good. Both helped at the box office. Simply put... there are many people that hate "Wicked", but it belongs on Broadway... "Brooklyn" does not !!!
I would say that Wicked's reviews were better than Brooklyn's, but they're not incomparable. Don't take it as an insult, Wicked fans. Aren't you the ones who usually say that we don't need to listen to critics at all?
Plum, like I addressed you in a different forum, I think they are two types of reviews, one based on fact, the other on opinion. Some of the issues one critic took with Wicked, another one loved. But it seems to be a universal standpoint as of now aspects of Brooklyn are terrible, i.e: the plot and the score. And I think we all saw that reviews for shows like Wicked don't matter because the box office speaks for itself. Reviews for Brooklyn though will matter, just like they did for Taboo last season.
I'm not trying to be funny. I'm not particularly good at it. But when I make a connection between Wicked and Brooklyn fans, I mean it. And just because I don't particularly like either show doesn't mean I intend it as a joking insult of some sort.
C'mon, what was half the reason there was any excitement about Brooklyn at all on this board? Don't you remember what Eden Espinosa's last job was?
We'll see if reviews matter. I personally think they will in this case because this show doesn't even have The Wizard of Oz to prop it up. But really, who foresaw Wicked becoming such an overwhelming favorite among teenage girls?
Reviews are always opinions, NStar. Even overwhelmingly held opinions, like "Michael Jackson is creepy" are still opinions. There's no way to measure how much a book with holes affects an audience's perception of a show. But here's my big point- according to many Wicked fans, the quality of a show is their's to determine, not the critics'. (They say this, of course, because Wicked got mixed reviews but turned into a huge hit.) So like I said- wait and see. I'm not defending BKLYN or denigrating Wicked. I'm trying to show how your love for one show and dislike of the other is affecting how you see the reviews.
We shall see. Meanwhile, I'm getting tickets to see Avenue Q with my sister. She's tempted by BKLYN and I don't want to neglect her theatrical education. :)
Plum, I totally get the whole reviews are opinion thing because of course they are---but I'm viewing this like, on a clear day, we can agree the sky is blue, fact. We may have different opinions about the shade of blue or the other colors mixed in there but we'd all agree for the most part, it's blue. That's how I'm viewing the difference between fact and opinion and therefore, the reviews. Maybe that just might make sense to me but that's how I was structuring my posts. Sorry for the confusion.
As to the reviews, I was one that walked out of Wicked not really completley sold on it, so I saw why critics might of had an issue with it but many of the problems they saw, weren't ones I really thought were that big of a deal. But again, I saw Brooklyn BEFORE these reviews came out and I based my opinion on what I saw, a lot of which happened to match up with the critics. So no, me liking one show and not the other, doesn't influence how I look at these reviews. But enjoy ave q and who knows, if you see Brooklyn with your sister, maybe you'll come out a believer!
If the rest of the songs have even a passing resemblence to the sampler, I probably won't be seeing BKLYN. With my budget level, I have to pick and choose.
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