Bubbly Black Girl Recording Session

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 10:14pm

http://www.broadway.com/Gen/Buzz_Photo_op.aspx?ci=532007

nice photos over at broadway.com!! Very excited for this CD!!

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 10:19pm

Great news! I really enjoyed the show at Playwrights and thought that with just a bit of fine tuning of the book, it could have had a very successful commercial run. It deserved a better fate and were it not for Brantley's Times review it might have had a chance. So glad the tuneful score will be preserved.

[Effie]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 11:50pm

I enjoyed this show immensely, as well. The score was much more engaging and hummable than most of the stuff that's hit New York in the intervening five or six years.

What's Kirsten Childs been up to since it closed? I hope she's still writing.

[KJisgroovy]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 11:55pm

Didn't she write that show about dolphins? Miracle Brothers... Dream Brothers... whatever it was called.


kmc

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 6/22/06 at 11:56pm

anyone hear of a release date yet?

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 6/23/06 at 12:35am

I didn't even know this was happening. It was a play first correct? Or was it always a musical? I love LaChanze, can't wait for this.

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 6/23/06 at 12:36am

I believe it was always a musical. There's a great article that talks about it, lemme find it for ya
http://www.davidgallo.com/DGA_WEB_PAGES/press/dga_bbgnyt.htm

here's a review which gives a little background Updated On: 6/23/06 at 12:36 AM

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 6/23/06 at 12:39am

Oh okay, thanks. I'll give it a quick read. I remember at SETC (South Eastern Theater Conference) a couple years ago, a high school in Florida entered it and I always rememberd the name of the play because it was such an interesting name. I didn't realize it was a musical though because I thought people only entered plays.

[JackiesBroJoe]

Posted: 6/23/06 at 12:46am

I re-read Brantley's review today, it's positive. Margo?

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 6/23/06 at 12:52am

Yeah, it really was positive. Hm.
Brantley's Review

[jaesdare]

Posted: 6/23/06 at 1:32am

finally, i get to hear the music

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 6/23/06 at 11:03am

always loved this score and this composer. This would make a great follow-up for LaChanze if they ever let her leave COLOR PURPLE.

And yes, the same composer did write the misguided MIRACLE BROTHERS, which was about dolphins who shapeshift into humans to tell a thwarted love and family discord parable. i love Tina Landau usually too, but even her staging couldn't save that....

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 7/3/06 at 2:26am

release date anyone?

[folkyboy]

Posted: 7/3/06 at 10:58am

i'm curious to hear this show as well. Boston is doing it next season for the Speak Easy and i wanna know if i need to go see it or not...

[sh-k-Zan]

Posted: 7/3/06 at 11:36am

We haven't set a release date but once we do I'll let you know...


and folkyboy i think its worth seeing..the music is fab

xoxo

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 7/3/06 at 12:02pm

yay! thank you!

[hortonhearsasam]

Posted: 7/22/06 at 1:30am

Any news yet on a release date?

[Chip1012]

Posted: 11/12/06 at 11:45pm

any info on a release date yet? thanks

[RustyRocketteBoy]

Posted: 11/13/06 at 1:08am

im in the boston prodution. we recently got copys of the new recording......belive me when i say, LaChanze sounds AMAZING!

if u wanted more info about the new england premire or tickets go to: www.speakeasystage.com

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 11/13/06 at 1:44am

Oh how I envy you....

So may I assume, since you received your copies of the cd, that it will be released somewhat soon?
Updated On: 11/13/06 at 01:44 AM

[JBSinger]

Posted: 11/13/06 at 9:12am

I PM'd Sh-k-zan and he told me that it was due out early next year. not too far away.

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 2/8/07 at 2:44am

bump. any news?

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 2/8/07 at 2:56am

I saw Kirsten Childs in Chicago in Atlantic City in the 80's. She was Velma and none other than Chita Rivera was Roxie, along with Harry Guardino as Billy Flynn.

It was a memorable evening, I can certainly say. It was the first time I had seen chicago and it was staged with its original choreography and costumes. I really enjoyed it, I remember really being impressed by the girls in All I need is Love. Just like the album cover.

Sorry for the thread jack, but Childs was incredible, I still remember her Velma Takes the Stand

[mattonstage]

Posted: 2/8/07 at 7:36am

Back in 1995 or thereabouts, I saw a reading for "Bubbly Black Girl..." at the National Alliance for Musical Theatre festival of new musicals. I really enjoyed the score. I'm sorry I didn't see the full production. Can't wait for the CD.