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Broadway Legend Joined: 1/23/08
CINDERELLA Previews Thread.#375
Posted: 1/31/13 at 9:27pm
"It is Madame telling them about love and its spurs. It was a fun little number. I still wish they would have used "Falling in Love" instead."
Thank you! Can't wait to hear the cast recording for this!
CINDERELLA Previews Thread.#376
Posted: 1/31/13 at 10:48pm
A recording? Are you mad? Let's face it, this is "Rodgers and Hammerstein's CINDERELLA"(TM) in the same way that last year's disaster was called "The Gershwins' PORGY AND BESS"(TM).
And I DO mean (TM) - corporate disasters.
CINDERELLA Previews Thread.#377
Posted: 1/31/13 at 11:10pm
Didn't last year's "disaster" get a 2-CD recording and take home the Tony for Best Revival of a Musical? I'd aim for those sort of disastrous results, personally. Regardless, "Cinderella" would most likely sell more tickets than "Porgy and Bess" regardless of the appearance of a preface in the title anyway. In the same way "Sleeping Beauty" would probably sell better than say, "Mack and Mabel".
CINDERELLA Previews Thread.#378
Posted: 1/31/13 at 11:24pmI found Sondheim taking offense to "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" a little silly, but now that it's happening to a title I'm more familiar with, and remember fondly from my childhood, I sort of wish they would be honest to the public. At least the book I'm familiar with was still based heavily on the original. This is something completely different. They should call it just "Cinderella" or "Douglas Carter Bean's Cinderella." If they're so hellbent on the Rodgers and Hammerstein brand contributing to ticket sales I wouldn't mind if they removed the apostrophe and the "s" and just had Rodgers and Hammerstein above the title, but not specifically refer to it as theirs, because it's not.
CINDERELLA Previews Thread.#379
Posted: 1/31/13 at 11:26pmHaving a show recorded doesn't necessarily speak to a production's worth. Explain WHOOP-UP and ANKLES AWAY. And winning Best Musical didn't help HALLELUJAH, BABY!
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
CINDERELLA Previews Thread.#380
Posted: 1/31/13 at 11:44pm
^
Ankles Aweigh.
And I'm glad it was recorded.
And Hallelujah, Baby won the Tony for best musical after it had already closed.
CINDERELLA Previews Thread.#381
Posted: 1/31/13 at 11:51pmAfter Eight, Are you and I going to finally find common ground with our mutual love of the Ankles Aweigh OBCR?!
CINDERELLA Previews Thread.#382
Posted: 2/1/13 at 12:39amIn any case, my point is that recordings and awards alone are not the measure of a show's value. I love HALLELUJAH, BABY!, but Tony or not, I wouldn't cite that win alone as proving the show's worth. Those kinds of arguments are built on sand.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
CINDERELLA Previews Thread.#383
Posted: 2/1/13 at 8:35am
"Now I'm hearing about a wink-wink political agenda being brought in too.
May seem to be a positive to the folks on this board, but not to those who have grown up with it on TV and who will want to buy ticket to see it on stage."
^
This.
THIS.
What could be more obvious, more plain-as-the-nose-on-your-face obvious? To any rational person, that is, but obviously not to the curdled, dimwitted iconoclasts on this board who wouldn't know their assets from their liabilities.
CINDERELLA Previews Thread.#384
Posted: 2/1/13 at 8:46am
^ Yuck. What a sour apple.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/17/07
CINDERELLA Previews Thread.#385
Posted: 2/1/13 at 10:14am
"they're so hellbent on the Rodgers and Hammerstein brand contributing to ticket sales I wouldn't mind if they removed the apostrophe and the "s" and just had Rodgers and Hammerstein above the title, but not specifically refer to it as theirs, because it's not."
I wonder if the title is an obligation from the estates? If anything, it let's us know it's Disney's Cinderella.
CINDERELLA Previews Thread.#386
Posted: 2/1/13 at 10:30am
The continued discussion about using R&H in the title of the show to borders on the ignorant. There are TWO musical versions of Cinderella. The first was the Disney animated feature, still incredibly popular with kids, which features such well known songs as "Bibbity Bobbity Boo." This was followed several years later by the first R&H production, the TV production starring Julie Andrews, and which, as we all know well, has been remade several times.
If "Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella" was NOT the name of the current Broadway musical, there would have no doubt been boundless criticism that would have alleged deceptive marketing, as many might well have expected to have seen the Disney version brought to the stage. So by using R&H in the title, the producers eliminated any possibility of confusion. THEY DID THE RIGHT THING. But I guess on this board, no good deed goes unpunished, as they say. And by the way, did R&H not write every bit of music and every lyric for this show?
Broadway Star Joined: 2/13/06
CINDERELLA Previews Thread.#387
Posted: 2/1/13 at 12:07pmTo answer the question about Les Mis, the students do seem too liberal for my taste. Hugo was a liberal too, though maybe not socialist although socialist/communist do love his work. Of course we don't know what would have happend if the 1832 revolt seceeded, but historically socialist/communsist governments have turn out awful, though it is uncertain if France would have ended up with that faster(it is basically socialist now) . That is all I will say about that,so we can get back on topic.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/17/07
CINDERELLA Previews Thread.#388
Posted: 2/1/13 at 1:07pm
Is this true "If "Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella" was NOT the name of the current Broadway musical, there would have no doubt been boundless criticism that would have alleged deceptive marketing, as many might well have expected to have seen the Disney version brought to the stage. So by using R&H in the title, the producers eliminated any possibility of confusion." ?
They sure did go the Disney route with the logo.
And despite using the R&H moniker, the show is very different from the original and the logo suggests the traditional tale here (and is VERY DISNEY)
My initial criticism for this show was why bring this show to bway? Now it's about the marketing for the show. It's all so strange.
Updated On: 2/1/13 at 01:07 PM
CINDERELLA Previews Thread.#389
Posted: 2/1/13 at 3:27pm
There are TWO musical versions of Cinderella.
Oh, there's way more than two. Those are just probably the most familiar two.
Yuck. What a sour apple.
A curdled dimwitted hyperbolic constricted melodramatic apple, at that.
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/23/08
CINDERELLA Previews Thread.#390
Posted: 2/1/13 at 3:57pmTo be honest, anyone who thought that this musical would go on Broadway without a vast expansion of the book is incredibly naive. In the end, it is STILL Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella. All the songs are still there. It is still the basic Cinderella story. So, why would you think it is false advertising? There is literally nothing in the original book or remakes that make it significantly different from the basic & other Cinderella tales, so why would you think people would go in expecting what they've seen on-screen? Also, there are THREE different versions of R&H's Cinderella, and each has a different beginning, middle, and end. Which one would people be expecting to see? If it's more like the 1997 version, you would displease people who were expecting the previous versions. If it were more like the 1957 version, you would displease people who would say it was too traditional and simple. Therefore, the happy medium is taking the best out of each version and expanding it with new characters and new motives.
CINDERELLA Previews Thread.#391
Posted: 2/1/13 at 4:13pmdegrassifan, I agree with your points. When I posted earlier that there were two musical versions, I was referring to two versions with completely different music, the Disney animated Cinderella and the R&H Cinderella. I was defending the use of R&H in this show's title from the absurd criticsm that this "is not Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella." I was making the point that the use of R&H in the title would put everyone on notice that this was not a staged version of the Disney animation.
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/23/08
CINDERELLA Previews Thread.#392
Posted: 2/1/13 at 4:21pmDon't worry, RaisedOnMusicals, I understood what you meant. Others were just being difficult. If it were Disney's Cinderella, it would say "Disney's Cinderella." And, they did not go the route of the Disney film with the logo like finebydesign suggested. The glass slipper pictured in the show's poster is different than the one from the Disney film anyway.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/17/07
CINDERELLA Previews Thread.#393
Posted: 2/1/13 at 4:38pmSorry that poster screams Disney. That poster looks a lot like The Princess and the Frog.
CINDERELLA Previews Thread.#394
Posted: 2/1/13 at 11:41pm
According to ATC, all political/topical jokes were missing tonight.
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/allthatchat/d.php?id=2118779
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
CINDERELLA Previews Thread.#395
Posted: 2/1/13 at 11:44pm
I wonder how much they've cut out. Because from what I've read, it seems like the political twist is pretty integral to this "new" take on the story. Does the "revolutionary" (or whatever he is that the stepsister is pining after) still play a major role? I would imagine the show is a little discombobulated now...
If anyone sees it in the next few days, please report back!
Updated On: 2/1/13 at 11:44 PM
CINDERELLA Previews Thread.#396
Posted: 2/1/13 at 11:45pm
There's no curtain call? And where did you get from that post there were no political references?
Updated On: 2/1/13 at 11:45 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
CINDERELLA Previews Thread.#397
Posted: 2/1/13 at 11:53pm
"To be honest, anyone who thought that this musical would go on Broadway without a vast expansion of the book is incredibly naive."
Then there are plenty of naive ticket buyers out there.
What a presumptuous, asinine and offensive statement to make.
CINDERELLA Previews Thread.#398
Posted: 2/1/13 at 11:54pm
The first sentence states
Topical/political jokes? Not tonight. All gone.
CINDERELLA Previews Thread.#399
Posted: 2/1/13 at 11:55pmI love this idea! I always thought that the plot was too thin for an entire show. And Cinderella needs a moral besides the obvious mysoginistic one "find a man"
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