CHESS Back to Broadway with Josh Groban?- Page 2

[rosscoe(au)]

CHESS Back to Broadway with Josh Groban?#25

Posted: 2/5/13 at 3:37pm

Keep that screaming banshee that is Idina away from this!

Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist. Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino. This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more. Tazber's: Reply to Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian

[luvtheEmcee]

CHESS Back to Broadway with Josh Groban?#26

Posted: 2/5/13 at 3:48pm

If this happens, I'd love to see Adam back in it too, though I'd also understand if people/the powers that be feel like they're ready for something new. He's expressed interest a couple of times in working on a new or revised incarnation of the show, though, so that could be interesting.

A work of art is an invitation to love.

[Kad]

CHESS Back to Broadway with Josh Groban?#27

Posted: 2/5/13 at 3:52pm

Groban is the only reason this would happen.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[Princeton Returns]

CHESS Back to Broadway with Josh Groban?#28

Posted: 2/5/13 at 3:55pm

I saw it at the Albert Hall and while Groban has the voice he is not an actor. Adam PAscal was very good (despite sound issues during the whole thing) and Idina was pretty bad, she really struggled and that wasnt helped by the sound problems

[LYLS3637]

CHESS Back to Broadway with Josh Groban?#29

Posted: 2/5/13 at 4:13pm

I know I'm in the minority, but I loved Idina in the London concert. At the very least, she's a much more interesting performer than the "Arbiter" and "Walter". Kerry Ellis' voice is gorgeous (arguably more suitable for Florence than Idina) but she's not a very dynamic stage presence.

"I shall stay until the wind changes."

[uncageg]

CHESS Back to Broadway with Josh Groban?#30

Posted: 2/5/13 at 5:55pm

No more Groban.
Just....no more.

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[Mister Matt]

CHESS Back to Broadway with Josh Groban?#31

Posted: 2/5/13 at 6:04pm

Her Nobody's Side is atrocious. It pales in comparison to Julia Murney's version.

I feel the exact opposite. The recording I heard, Murney was constantly struggling during all her belt numbers and severely off pitch. It was painful to hear.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

[Rockyfan2000]

CHESS Back to Broadway with Josh Groban?#32

Posted: 2/5/13 at 6:11pm

No to Josh. No to Idina. There are other actors/singers out there who can do a much better job!

"It's not where you start, it's where you finish!"

[Amalia Balash]

CHESS Back to Broadway with Josh Groban?#33

Posted: 2/5/13 at 6:29pm

Josh Groban is fun to follow on Twitter and I don't have strong feelings either way about him in a Broadway revival of Chess. What I do have strong feelings about is the need for a book that makes sense. I like a lot of the songs, but have never been moved by the underlying story.

[Tateh]

CHESS Back to Broadway with Josh Groban?#34

Posted: 2/5/13 at 11:32pm

Love Groban CD´s, but not him in Chess again please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fingerlakessinger]

CHESS Back to Broadway with Josh Groban?#35

Posted: 2/5/13 at 11:48pm

Idina's "Heaven Help My Heart" is gorgeous IMO.

"Life in theater is give and take...but you need to be ready to give more then you take..."

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

CHESS Back to Broadway with Josh Groban?#36

Posted: 2/5/13 at 11:55pm

Saw the perfect book for this online -- a dramaturge named Wayne Rossi really did a number on the Broadway libretto, making it perfect for use in amateur productions, straightening out many of the more complicated elements. It plays very well. (PM if interested.)

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[Phantom of London]

CHESS Back to Broadway with Josh Groban?#37

Posted: 2/6/13 at 6:01am

You would need a big name to play Freddie and Florence therefore making the project have high weekly running costs.

[EponineAmneris]

CHESS Back to Broadway with Josh Groban?#38

Posted: 2/7/13 at 8:56am

I LOVE CHESS. I LOVE Josh Groban and Adam Pascal. I love Josh and Adam in CHESS.

I... like... Idina. I ... dislike... her in CHESS.

But I am 100% for a revival with whoever LOL

"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES--- "THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS