Broadway's Most Unexpected Fan...
Broadway's Most Unexpected Fan...
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#2Broadway's Most Unexpected Fan...
Posted: 9/4/10 at 10:01amHasn't he said in the past also how much he loves it?
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#2Broadway's Most Unexpected Fan...
Posted: 9/4/10 at 10:09amKind of frightened how "it's his story".
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#3Broadway's Most Unexpected Fan...
Posted: 9/4/10 at 10:14amIt's fairly well-known that Kanye pursued a career in rap in a bid to rescue his talking-goat history teacher.
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#4Broadway's Most Unexpected Fan...
Posted: 9/4/10 at 10:44amMaybe he wanted a celebration throughout Oz that's all to do with him?
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#5Broadway's Most Unexpected Fan...
Posted: 9/4/10 at 11:03am
In all seriousness, the fact that Kanye West, whose life story has no specific parallels to the storyline in Wicked, thinks it's "his story" goes to a lot of what makes Wicked so popular. An awful lot of people can relate to the storyline and characters -- it's not just tween girls.
"What was the name of that cheese that I like?"
"you can't run away forever...but there's nothing wrong with getting a good head start"
"well I hope and I pray, that maybe someday, you'll walk in the room with my heart"
Updated On: 9/4/10 at 11:03 AM
#6Broadway's Most Unexpected Fan...
Posted: 9/4/10 at 1:00pmHe worked with Kristin on remixing popular :) I saw it a few months ago and thought it was a joke. Kanye REALLY doesnt seem like broadway fan :)
#8Broadway's Most Unexpected Fan...
Posted: 9/4/10 at 2:55pmNot as cool as John F. Kennedy being a musical theater devotee.
With Irma you gotta do something!
#9Broadway's Most Unexpected Fan...
Posted: 9/4/10 at 4:06pmI'm really curious to hear his "Popular" remix
Witty signature to come.
#10Broadway's Most Unexpected Fan...
Posted: 9/4/10 at 4:10pmI don't think he was doing a remix, and he didn't use Kristin herself, just the track from the cast album. I'm pretty sure he was sampling it for his new album.
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#11Broadway's Most Unexpected Fan...
Posted: 9/4/10 at 4:11pm
The full song should be on his latest album.
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PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#12Broadway's Most Unexpected Fan...
Posted: 9/4/10 at 4:15pm
Though all that's official is that he was messing with the sample as a beat in the above video, YouTube is full of unofficial mashups of the song and Kanye's work.
Here's the best one
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jo
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#13Broadway's Most Unexpected Fan...
Posted: 9/4/10 at 7:09pm
Here's another unlikely fan -- he's World #1 now and is in NYC for the US Tennis Open and has said in an interview prior to this that he listens to this song before every match.
http://www.rafaelnadal.com/content/tennis-hot-shot
>Courtesy of ABC News
World tennis champ Rafa Nadal, whose biceps are practically Spanish national treasures, says the music that turns him on is a world away from the Shakira video that features his rippling muscles.
It's the theme song from "The Phantom of the Opera," called "The Music of the Night." Rafa said, "I love the musical. I was there in New York, watching that I think, six times."<<<
Vamos, Rafa!
Updated On: 9/4/10 at 07:09 PM
#14Broadway's Most Unexpected Fan...
Posted: 9/4/10 at 8:29pm
I figured his derrière would be Spain's national treasure. Honestly, I never really noticed his arms, but that boy has an ass that I'd love to bite and call an apple! (I'm a butt man, okay?)
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Updated On: 9/4/10 at 08:29 PM
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#15Broadway's Most Unexpected Fan...
Posted: 9/4/10 at 8:47pmIf there was not already reason enough to hate Wicked..
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Craww
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#16Broadway's Most Unexpected Fan...
Posted: 9/4/10 at 10:17pmLove it. I would even go see Wicked again just to watch it with Kanye. I bet he makes the most beatific faces of awe.
#17Broadway's Most Unexpected Fan...
Posted: 9/5/10 at 1:49am"Mandy, I'm gonna let you get back to your song in a moment, but I just have to say that Eden has the best Defying Gravity ever. Just sayin'."
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
ReiVallejo
Chorus Member Joined: 9/3/10
#18Broadway's Most Unexpected Fan...
Posted: 9/5/10 at 4:50am
Great! Now 'Popular' is gonna end up being a hook in one of his tracks.
I like WICKED but if his remix becomes a single, it'll be overplayed in the radio and I'll hate it.
For example: Imogen Heap "Hide and Seek" sampled for that "Whatcha Say" song... if you can even call it a song. Monstrosity!
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