#1
Posted: 12/16/06 at 11:22am
Casting Completed for National Tour of Chita Rivera : The Dancer's Life...3 days before it opens?
#2
Posted: 12/16/06 at 1:16pm
The official casting notice for a show usually comes out a good deal after everyone has been cast. Often this is due to incompletion of some people's contracts, other times...I dunno, laziness?
#3
Posted: 12/16/06 at 1:19pm
Exactly. Most shows have already been in reheasals for weeks before an offical FULL CAST LIST is released to the media/public, etc.
#4
Posted: 12/16/06 at 1:19pm
Is this tour gonna crash and burn or what?
#5
Posted: 12/16/06 at 1:19pm
Is this tour gonna crash and burn or what?
#6
Posted: 12/16/06 at 2:03pm
ruprecht - please read the post called "Will Chase on Hi Fidelity Closing" before you make another immature comment about something that hasn't even started touring yet.
Some people haven't seen the show and that comment can put a negative light on if they will want to see the show when it comes to their town.
Some people haven't seen the show and that comment can put a negative light on if they will want to see the show when it comes to their town.
This is Harvard, not a stripper bar...
#7
Posted: 12/16/06 at 3:14pm
Of course I will back home during Chita's run in Cincy and will be in production for a show during her Cleveland run. 
CCM '10!
#8
Posted: 12/16/06 at 3:46pm
Is this tour gonna crash and burn or what?
Oh screw you.
Oh screw you.
#9
Posted: 12/16/06 at 3:46pm
Is this tour gonna crash and burn or what?
Oh screw you.
Oh screw you.
#10
Posted: 12/16/06 at 5:33pm
are we going to keep posting in double
#11
Posted: 12/17/06 at 11:32am
I think the question of whether or not this will do well on the road is a fair one. I'll never forget see Patti LuPone's Matters of the Heart on tour in Seattle a couple of years ago and having just 200 or so people in the theatre of 3000.
People can be huge Broadway names, but they just don't draw a crowd on the road. I saw the show on Broadway, and enjoyed it a lot, but the short New York run proved, sadly, that there just wasn't a huge demand for this. While I wish everyone involved the best, I just don't know how they're going to attract people. The whole show is about the history of New York theatre, a topic only a very select niche know about out of town.
People can be huge Broadway names, but they just don't draw a crowd on the road. I saw the show on Broadway, and enjoyed it a lot, but the short New York run proved, sadly, that there just wasn't a huge demand for this. While I wish everyone involved the best, I just don't know how they're going to attract people. The whole show is about the history of New York theatre, a topic only a very select niche know about out of town.
#12
Posted: 12/17/06 at 11:37am
If this show is coming to your city, everyone, SEE IT! Chita Rivera is one of the last living legends of Broadway. She is a *fantastic* storyteller and performer, and to see this generous woman on stage is truly a privilege. And absolutely go meet her at the stage door afterward, if you'd like. She is a kind woman with a frisky, fun personality to boot. Enjoy the show, enjoy Chita, and spread the word!
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#13
Posted: 12/17/06 at 2:10pm
Yea! This is something I'm not going to miss! I don't care how many people come, its CHITA FREAKIN' RIVERA!!
Now all I see are cute boys with short haircuts in a maze of their own...
#14
Posted: 12/17/06 at 2:15pm
I am going to try to catch it while I am hone in Cincy...
"Passion can drive you crazy but is there any other way to live"
#15
Posted: 12/17/06 at 2:18pm
I'm getting Costa Mesa tickets!!!!
#16
Posted: 12/17/06 at 2:20pm
So am I Allentown...so am I!!!
Now all I see are cute boys with short haircuts in a maze of their own...
#17
Posted: 12/17/06 at 4:01pm
Me too! The only show I was interested in seeing in that Curtain Call series...
"Hey, you! You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!"
-Family Guy
#18
Posted: 1/7/07 at 11:20pm
I'm going to see it when it stops in Philly this week.
So excited; I really, really look up to Chita as an aspiring stage performer.
It'll be fabulous
So excited; I really, really look up to Chita as an aspiring stage performer.
It'll be fabulous
callbacks: anita and rosalia, "west side story"
auditions: is there life after high school
Avatar: Me with Olga Merediz
#19
Posted: 1/8/07 at 12:34am
I saw it here in NYC. Chita was INCREDIBLE...and the rest of the performers weren't so bad either! Chita's a wonderful storyteller, whether through words, song, or dance.
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