Dames at Sea Casting
Dames at Sea Casting
Ranger Tom
Leading Actor Joined: 7/6/14
#1Dames at Sea Casting
Posted: 6/25/15 at 2:11pm
Waiting...waiting...I know they have some time but very anxious to hear which six dynamos they've secured. Anyone hearing anything?
#2Dames at Sea Casting
Posted: 6/25/15 at 2:34pm
I hope Laura Osnes and Rachel York are still with the show!
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neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#3Dames at Sea Casting
Posted: 6/25/15 at 2:45pm
Here is their commercial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auKoa3RE9NU
Im excited!!
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Updated On: 6/25/15 at 02:45 PM
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#5Dames at Sea Casting
Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:00pm
ummm no I'm actually excited to see this show. Don't you think its gonna be good?
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#6Dames at Sea Casting
Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:02pm
You seem to be excited over every show Philly
Never having seen the original, I will go in with an open mind. It may be good or it may not be. Times will tell.
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#7Dames at Sea Casting
Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:04pm
I am not excited over every show, only the ones that i want to see, which is almost every musical and a few plays
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Updated On: 6/25/15 at 03:04 PM
peacelovemagic1
Stand-by Joined: 11/18/12
#8Dames at Sea Casting
Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:17pmThat commercial reminds me so much of the On the Town one, with the same vintage style and use of black and white. Interesting tactic, although I'm not sure who they are aiming at, demographic wise.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#10Dames at Sea Casting
Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:21pm
dames at sea is gonna cost a quarter the amount of On The Town. Idk a lot of people love these old fashion sailor musicals
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#11Dames at Sea Casting
Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:23pm
but DAMES AT SEA will likely cost about half the price to run. Much smaller theater, a cast of just 6 and much smaller orchestra. Probably around 400K a week would be my guess.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#12Dames at Sea Casting
Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:24pm
"Idk a lot of people love these old fashion sailor musicals"
They should put that in the investors' packet.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#13Dames at Sea Casting
Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:27pm
"Old fashioned sailor musicals"
Years ago a musical of Billy Budd opened. 1 performance & gone. That was relly old fashioned
As good as OTT is, every revival has lost money. I saw the current one and the one with Bernadette Peters that played the Imperial I believe. Great show but despite your comments, old fashioned sailor musicals are not a draw. Besides, with the exception of OTT, how many old fashioned sailor musicals are there?
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#14Dames at Sea Casting
Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:30pm
Anything Goes ran for a long time, and On The Town would be doing well if it was in the Longacre, or a theatre that size. Disney should just buy the Lyric at this point
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neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#15Dames at Sea Casting
Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:33pmThe recent revival of Anything Goes was not a commercial production.
#16Dames at Sea Casting
Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:34pm
so what they ran for a year and a half. Im sure they made money. Didn't they keep extending the run?
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#17Dames at Sea Casting
Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:35pm
Why would Disney buy a theater that is to big for commercial shows?
Technically, Anything is not an AOFSM musical. The only thing nautical about it is that it takes place on a cruise ship. For the sake of argument, however, I will agree to you including it.
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ILuv2shop531
Broadway Star Joined: 7/12/07
#18Dames at Sea Casting
Posted: 6/25/15 at 4:07pm
I'm pretty sure Laura is doing The Bandstand at Papermill which would make her unavailable for this.
#19Dames at Sea Casting
Posted: 6/25/15 at 5:58pm
I hope she chooses the Broadway show over the out of town which probably won't come to Broadway this season anyway
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#20Dames at Sea Casting
Posted: 6/25/15 at 7:54pm
Dames at Sea is NOT an "old-fashioned sailor" show. It's a spoof of Busby Berkeley movies of the early 1930s, that happens to end with a show-within-a-show staged on a battleship after an earthquake destroys their theater. (Yes, it's a broad comedy.)
The characters aren't actual sailors, but show biz types.
If you want a comparison, look to 42nd Street (not OTT); Dames at Sea tells the same story (star gets injured, chorus girl goes on in her place and becomes a star). The joke is it does it with cast of six rather than a cast of thousands.
The songs are lovely and often hilarious and the overall affect is charming. HOWEVER, its jokes do depend on a knowledge of Busby Berkeley and Ruby Keeler, et al. Do folks still watch those old movies on TV?
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#21Dames at Sea Casting
Posted: 6/25/15 at 8:22pm
>The characters aren't actual sailors, but show biz types.<
Two of the characters, Dick and Lucky, are both actual sailors in Act One, and then play sailors in the musical within the musical in Act Two. The also persuade their Captain to allow them to stage the show on their ship when the theatre gets knocked down.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
Updated On: 6/25/15 at 08:22 PM
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#22Dames at Sea Casting
Posted: 6/25/15 at 8:48pm
Yes, people love those sailor shows like Ankles Aweigh, Sail Away, and Oh Captain!
#23Dames at Sea Casting
Posted: 6/26/15 at 12:18pm
">The characters aren't actual sailors, but show biz types.<
Two of the characters, Dick and Lucky, are both actual sailors in Act One, and then play sailors in the musical within the musical in Act Two. The also persuade their Captain to allow them to stage the show on their ship when the theatre gets knocked down.
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Technically, that is true. But being sailors has nothing else to do with their characters or the plot. It doesn't even inform the songs they sing.
Calling Dames at Sea a "sailor musical" is a misnomer. The sailors are there only so the show can satirize the "Shanghai Lil" number from the Jimmy Cagney/Joan Blondell film called, simply, Dames.
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#24Dames at Sea Casting
Posted: 6/26/15 at 1:16pm
Three out of seven characters are Navy men, and the entire second act is staged on their battleship. It's not a documentary on the life of sailors, no. But there are jokes and songs that rely on the characters being sailors. It's been a while since I've seen it, but what of the title song ("I like a sailor boy, a seaman, who is thoughtful and sweet" etc.), "Star Tar" ("I'm the star tar of the Navy. I'm the hit miss of the sea.") or Mona's line to Dick about how she can't wait to see what else he has stored up his dicky?
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