Did Merwin Foard ever go on in Sweeney Todd?

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Did Merwin Foard ever go on in Sweeney Todd?

Posted: 9/23/06 at 6:46pm

Just curious. I saw him in "Desperate Measures" yesterday, and he was great.

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re: Did Merwin Foard ever go on in Sweeney Todd?

Posted: 9/23/06 at 6:46pm

wht is dessperate meassures?!?!?!?!

re: Did Merwin Foard ever go on in Sweeney Todd?

Posted: 9/23/06 at 6:46pm

"Have they come yet?"

re: Did Merwin Foard ever go on in Sweeney Todd?

Posted: 9/23/06 at 6:50pm

Too bad. I knew that Cerveris was never out, but I thought maybe he went on as Judge Turpin.

luckbeyourlady - It's a show.

re: Did Merwin Foard ever go on in Sweeney Todd?

Posted: 9/23/06 at 6:51pm

Nope, never. The stage door girl at the O'Neill was giving out Merwin understudy slip packs at the last show. Very rare.

re: Did Merwin Foard ever go on in Sweeney Todd?

Posted: 9/23/06 at 6:56pm

If I remember correctly, Michael called him the "most tallented, least used person on broadway"

"Have they come yet?"

re: Did Merwin Foard ever go on in Sweeney Todd?

Posted: 9/23/06 at 8:09pm

Thank God this show is gone. It was just another awful show occupying a theatre.

re: Did Merwin Foard ever go on in Sweeney Todd?

Posted: 9/23/06 at 8:12pm

^ I'm hoping that was a joke.

re: Did Merwin Foard ever go on in Sweeney Todd?

Posted: 9/23/06 at 8:13pm

I'm not even going to respond to that.

I can't attest to the "least used," but Merwin's definitely very talented.

#10

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Posted: 9/23/06 at 8:15pm

Well to give you some background as to where I come from...

Here are my thought (from the 5th Preview of A Chorus Line thread)

I personally think that shows such as A Chorus Line should not be revived or on Broadway in the first place. Theater is not place where controversial issues should be expressed (Tits and Ass, Pauls Monologue), keep em in the newspaper. Broadway should be a place where everyone can just have a good time. What happened to shows like 42nd Street and Guys and Dolls? Those are the kind of shows that should be on Broadway. Not shows like RENT and Les Misarables, which are so depressing that in the end nobody likes them.

#11

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Posted: 9/23/06 at 8:17pm

You are a douche.

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

#12

re: Did Merwin Foard ever go on in Sweeney Todd?

Posted: 9/23/06 at 8:18pm

Excuse Me?

#13

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Posted: 9/23/06 at 8:18pm

Of course nobody likes Les Miz. That's why it ran for... 17 years?

#14

re: Did Merwin Foard ever go on in Sweeney Todd?

Posted: 9/23/06 at 8:18pm

You're so right

Nobody likes Les Miz, RENT, or Sweeney Todd

If anything, they're the least loved pieces of Musical theater over the past century

#15

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Posted: 9/23/06 at 8:18pm

Coolkid is proably 9 or 10 and does not know what life is. Go have fun living in your fantasy-land.

#16

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Posted: 9/23/06 at 8:19pm

I am not asking for your opinions. I am simply stating mine.

I think that Broadway has become a place with CRAP shows. What happened to people like George Gershwin and Irving Berlin. Now we have Sondheim and Schwartz who can't write music if thier life depended on it. That is why I don't see thier shows anymore.

#17

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Posted: 9/23/06 at 8:21pm

You're right.

Stephen Sondheim, the composer with the most Tony awards ever, cannot write music.

You are a mess.

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

#18

re: Did Merwin Foard ever go on in Sweeney Todd?

Posted: 9/23/06 at 8:21pm

I'm not taking this from a 9 year old.

#19

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Posted: 9/23/06 at 8:21pm

and I asked about Merwin Foard, not your opinion on what should and shouldn't be on Broadway.

#20

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Posted: 9/23/06 at 8:22pm

I am not asking for your opinions. I am simply stating mine.

Yea, and a thread asking for a simple y/n answer about an understudy going on in Sweeney Todd was really asking for your opinion.

You're unbelievable.

#21

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Posted: 9/23/06 at 8:23pm

And I didn't ask your thoughts upon my opinion.

And I should take that back, some sondheim is alright (Into the Woods, The Frogs, Follies, Gypsy, West Side Story, A Funny Thing Happened...)

#22

re: Did Merwin Foard ever go on in Sweeney Todd?

Posted: 9/23/06 at 8:24pm

Logan, there's no reason to be mean to the poster of this topic.

#23

re: Did Merwin Foard ever go on in Sweeney Todd?

Posted: 9/23/06 at 8:24pm

Logan, there's no reason to be mean to the poster of this topic.

#24

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Posted: 9/23/06 at 8:25pm

Right, but he can't write music for his life.

Who gives a shit whose opinion you asked for, its an open forum and your (unfortunate) opinions is as welcome as ours.

#25

re: Did Merwin Foard ever go on in Sweeney Todd?

Posted: 9/23/06 at 8:25pm

Logan wasn't being mean to me. Logan was being mean to the idiot who felt the need to bust in here to trash a show.

*ahem* BACK ON TOPIC

Merwin Foard is amazing. Thank you.

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