Broadway on Broadway review- Page 2

[MeliMel]

Posted: 9/12/04 at 5:46pm

too bad about Drew, but I am SO SO glad you liked Jeremy and that he did well. He is my favoirte cast member/ Roger and an undescribley talented performer.

[TheGirlinTheFrock]

Posted: 9/12/04 at 5:59pm

oy vey, forgot about Drew. Anyway, hope everyone who went had fun!

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 9/12/04 at 6:22pm

Surprised Wicked did FOR GOOD. I was hoping they'd do ONE SHORT DAY. . Cant wait to see it on Tuesday (it IS Tuesday @ 7 right????).

I was so pissed I couldnt go.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 9/12/04 at 6:22pm

Surprised Wicked did FOR GOOD. I was hoping they'd do ONE SHORT DAY. . Cant wait to see it on Tuesday (it IS Tuesday @ 7 right????).

I was so pissed I couldnt go.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/12/04 at 6:28pm

I am glad they did for good, because that is the only song which really gives a good dose of both actors, plus I think One Short Day is on of the worst and most campy songs on the CD (only in my opinion, but I do have to admit it really works in context because that it is supposed to show irony in the future and stuff like that, but anyway).

It said on the website that La Cage was going to perform also, did they?

[Ustadance]

Posted: 9/12/04 at 6:29pm

Two words, people: Eden Espinosa.

[greenifyed]

Posted: 9/12/04 at 6:32pm

So glad Eden did great. She's definitely deserving of all the publicity. She lives up to her hype.

[MeliMel]

Posted: 9/12/04 at 6:41pm

Ditto to greenifyed's comment.
She is an absolutley breathtaking singer and I'm so anxious to see her in Brooklyn when I get to New York again in January ( same with Sutton in Little Women and seeing Jeremy again in Rent)

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 9/12/04 at 6:42pm

Sorry to ask again, but just to be sure, it really is @ 7 on Tuesday on NBC, right? Not tomorrow?

[wicked4life51]

Posted: 9/12/04 at 6:43pm

does anyone know where i can get a recording or a dvd copy or vhs copy of broadway on broadway and last year i tried watching down here where i am but it never came on how do i watch it what channel and what time will it be on on tuesday? and i was in NY today since thursday but my flight was exactly at 11:30am so somebody please please please get back to me im desperat

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 9/12/04 at 7:11pm

Some thoughts: The show was terribly unorganized this year and it was quite obvious. I was surprised (pleasantly, though) that Paul Geminiani's overture contained mostly Sondheim material (and hardly recognizable at that) and wonder what the younger crowd thought they were hearing?LOL...For Good was very unbalanced - those two voices just don't work together, in my opinion. I was happy to finally get to hear Eden's voice - she's far superior to Idina Menzel, but that song from Brooklyn was very uninteresting and reminded me of other material...it just had a very familiar ring to it and didn't impress me in the least. The piece from Dracula (funny - when they introduced it, I could have sworn that Christy Carlson Romano said DREKULA!) was really awful - Tom Hewit is SO much better than the bad material they've given him (at least this number) in this show. If I heard them repeat the lyric Life After Life ad nauseum one more time I was gonna have to kill them and then myself. I won't be seeing THAT show unless someone gives me a free ticket - and then it will only be to see the costumes, sets and affects. Wayne Brady seemed ok as Billy Flynn - but I'm so tired of that show that all I could do was look at the faces of the chorus girls and try to figure out why they were working on Broadway - I think I've figured out at least one thing - all people working on Broadway at the moment seem to have HUGE features - giant lips, big long chins and square jaws and huge popping eyes - I imagine so that the back of the house can read their emotions. I was also very unimpressed with the song from Little Women - the writing is sorely lacking - but Sutton's voice was good as usual. Sorry if I seem negative - but I am not too happy about the state of Broadway theatre at the moment. Christy Carlson Romano clearly cannot sing - she even broke character during her one solo from the show and that, to me is the ultimate in bad taste. Shakalaka Baby has good choreography - but really, did they have to lip synch it? is it done that way on stage 8 times a week? I surely wouldn't be paying good money to see people lip synch on Broadway. All in all - I was very disappointed and wonder if I'll go again next year. But as joeyjoe reminded me - next year we'll have West Side Story and The Wiz to look forward to - and perhaps there will be some good to come out of that. The highlight of today's show, to me, was Harvey Fierstein talking about how Time's Square got its name - he's simply charming.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/12/04 at 7:14pm

"Shakalaka Baby" is always done with lip-synching. On stage, that scene is done with a really big fountain, and the actors can't where microphones; if the mics got wet, that'd be kind of dangerous.

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 9/12/04 at 7:21pm

Ahh - remember the days when Broadway performers could sing loud enough to be heard in the back of the theatre - without MICROPHONES? Perhaps those shakalaka performers could learn to project it, so that it can still be "live" - heard in all its glory without lip synching...what a shame people in Broadway shows have to depend on Mic-ing. If everyone could project as well as Sutton clearly can - then it wouldn't be necessary - we almost thought she could have performed today without the mic - and THAT would have been worth getting out of bed for.

[CJR]

Posted: 9/12/04 at 7:24pm

I was there.... had a fabulous time, but BOY was it hectic!!! Then again, I spent the majority of the morning running around working

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/12/04 at 7:26pm

Well of course, redhot, but this is Bombay Dreams we're talking about... enough said, IMO.

[magruder]

Posted: 9/12/04 at 7:29pm

It wasn't just Sondheim "material" you heard at the top, it was the Merrily We Roll Along Overture.

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 9/12/04 at 7:31pm

magruder - I've never listened to that overture before - but I knew it was music from that show - just didn't realize it was the actual overture- I wonder how many of the younger set on here figured that out?

[secret-soul]

Posted: 9/12/04 at 7:35pm

Overall, I very much enjoyed the show...I was right up near the front so, besides the discomfort in standing for two hours next to a woman who complained loudly....I had a great time. Eden was INCREDIBLE. "Life After Life" was kind of....well.....repetitive....but Tom Hewitt will always be amazing to me, so I was able to get past the pain...Drew Lachey....was so bad...and that's when the ENTIRE audience decided to join in the song which was a great feeling. I enjoyed Wayne Brady in the Chicago number....I DID NOT enjoy the number from Mamma Mia....I really can't stand that show anyway...Darlin' Eileen from Wonderful Town was so cute...you just wanted to get up and jig with them...Avenue Q was great except for the mic problems which went on forever...Sutton was incredible...the song was kind of boring...but it was a great song for her voice...I wish they had done a number from Phantom with the Phantom as opposed to the overused "All I ask of you"...Hairspray made me wanna get up and dance...and I did. Kissy Simmons doing "Shadowland" brought tears to my eyes and was probably my favorite performance of the day. Hunter Foster was adorable in the Producers...but I agree that he DID keep squinting and scrunching his face...the song from Wicked put me to sleep...and CCR singing "A Change in Me" was disgusting. Ehw. I'll admit....she is pretty....but her voice....aaaack...made me want to....I don't know...kill myself. Or her. Put her out of her misery. She kept breaking character and couldn't hit the notes...and kept changing key at random points in the song where it wasn't supposed to happen....ERG. But overall I enjoyed myself...and look foward to seeing how long it took/will take them to clean up all of the confetti. :)

PS. I'm adding pictures of it to my fan photos right now if anyone wants to see.

Updated On: 9/12/04 at 07:35 PM

[magruder]

Posted: 9/12/04 at 7:36pm

Probably very few, though I hope it encourages a few people pick up the Original Cast Recording now...

[greenifyed]

Posted: 9/12/04 at 7:38pm

So, who's winning the Tony this year? Eden or Sutton?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/12/04 at 7:39pm

ahhh! We had a conversation about that today. Tough one.... but definitely too early.

[magruder]

Posted: 9/12/04 at 7:39pm

Probably Victoria Clark.

[BroadwayGirl107]

Posted: 9/12/04 at 7:40pm

I was there today...I enjoyed much of the show, but I think the easy standouts were from Sutton and Eden...though neither of them were singing the best songs around, but they got the chance to do some great belting.

And Hairspray was fantastic as well, which I wasn't expecting at all.

[CJR]

Posted: 9/12/04 at 7:44pm

If anyone was there early enough to see a girl handing out Mario Cantone "Laugh Whore" tank tops, that was me After that, I was running around doing real things. Im waiting for the pictures to come up on getty images... I wound up in about 6 of them lol

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 9/12/04 at 7:48pm

I would have recognized the Merrily overture in an instant-one of my favorite overtures. Those songs are very underrated, and it happens to be one of Sondheim's most fun cast recordings to listen to. Updated On: 9/12/04 at 07:48 PM