Complete: Burstein & Raines Join Kennedy Center FOLLIES

[Rob]

Posted: 11/16/10 at 11:31am

Click Here to Read Complete: Burstein & Raines Join Kennedy Center FOLLIES Updated On: 11/16/10 at 11:31 AM

[sondheimfan2]

Posted: 11/16/10 at 11:33am

link not working. Takes me back to home page in which I can access the story though. (edited)
Updated On: 11/16/10 at 11:33 AM

[ljay889]

Posted: 11/16/10 at 12:08pm

UGH! Raines played it like 20 years ago. Can't get a more boring choice than him.
Oh well. I'm excited for Burstein.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 11/16/10 at 1:00pm

I think Ron Raines is a good choice actually and will fit well with Peters and Maxwell. He may have done the role twenty years ago but he's closer to the right age for the part now.

Burstein if anything will seem a little young opposite this trio - I hope they keep in some of Buddy's dancing in this production.

[lsnj8]

Posted: 11/16/10 at 2:40pm

I'm such someone will post a audio of this on thesinginstage.com

I'm member there. I download stuff from that site all the time without sharing anything.

you can too.

lsnj8

[Orangesaretuesdays]

Posted: 11/16/10 at 2:44pm

Are you trying to het it shut down?

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 11/16/10 at 2:46pm

Not as bad as when he plugged the site on the thread for Jerry Bock's passing, though still pretty annoying. I'm curious as to what you actually have to do to get banned on this site nowadays. You would think that posting exclusively to shill a site that exists solely for trading bootlegs and pirated audio would be enough, but apparently not.

[ljay889]

Posted: 11/16/10 at 4:47pm

I really don't think this forum is moderated anymore.

[Almira]

Posted: 11/16/10 at 4:53pm

I hope they keep in some of Buddy's dancing in this production

In spite of my being something of a FOLLIES purist (I believe the original book was the best version.. and possible among the best books to a musical ever written) I simply don't buy Buddy breaking into a showy presentational dance break in the middle of THE RIGHT GIRL. Buddy wasn't a performer and - at least with the original production- Gene Nelson's non-performer Buddy burns the stage with his expert hoofing.

Of course during the "Follies" sequence it makes sense, but beforehand it sticks out as a concession to casting a dancer like Nelson.

[binau]

Posted: 11/16/10 at 5:20pm

The segue of my post is from the claims that an 'audio' will be made and shared.

In this interview Tommy Krasker (ps classics) says that the Sondheim show he'd most like to record is "Follies"

http://www.psclassics.com/feature_krasker-interview.html

" I would love to record a great production of Follies sometime: you know, record an expansive 2-CD set of a production that rivaled the original in casting and scope."

I 'feel' like a cast recording will come out of this production :P.