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[TheActr97J]

Posted: 5/14/09 at 9:29am

Unfortunately "NINE" suffers from a dreadfully boring score. There's a reason it was basically forgotten.

Well, that's your opinion.

So it looks as if all the musical numbers take place in Guido's mind as scenes from his movie (as all of Chicago's numbers took place in Roxy's head). I guess I don't hate that...

After seeing that, now I really don't think Daniel looks sexy enough. Who does like sexy though is Penelope freaking Cruz! Did you see that extension!!!

What a way to start the morning! I'm beyond excited for this!

[tazber]

Posted: 5/14/09 at 9:42am

I think the score is perhaps the finest I've ever heard.

But everyone has their own taste and that's what makes the world go 'round.

You know what score I loathe? My Fair Lady. And undisputed classic beloved by many.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 5/14/09 at 9:48am

Taz, NINE was my favorite musical before CAROLINE OR CHANGE came out, so I'm definitely all about this movie too. It looks great and it's too early to judge the musical numbers, but glad you get what I mean, the numbers do look exactly the same from the lighting, the scenery, and the choreography. I'm really looking forward to this. Fergie sounds great, Penelope Cruz looks fantastic, Judi Dench seems funny, and even Nicole Kidman looks radiant.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 5/14/09 at 9:50am

Really, Taz? NINE has perhaps the best score you've heard? Wow.

I can't agree, predictably enough, I guess. I wouldn't put NINE in the same league as Sondheim's best or even weakest scores, or even with AVENUE Q. To be fair, there are a couple of okay songs in NINE, I remember liking "Very Unusual Way" very much, and the Overture performed by the ladies.

Wow. Perhaps the best you've heard.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 5/14/09 at 9:55am

TheActr97J -- this one?

[best12bars]

Posted: 5/14/09 at 9:56am

I'm with Taz and Ray on this one. Nine's score is among the best in the past 30 years. I thought so then, and I think so now. As far as it looking/feeling a bit like "Chicago 2," I see it, too. And yes, the numbers look like they're taking place in "the movie in Guido's mind." But much of 8 1/2 was that way, as was the stage musical, which was set in an abstract spa with all the women in his life gathered together in one spot. Arguably, the entire play takes place in Guido's mind. It's "Midlife Crisis - The Musical."

Regardless, the concept is less of a leap here than it was in Chicago.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 5/14/09 at 10:05am

Ken Mandelbaum wrote about the NINE score once describing it as "a series of showstopping numbers one after the other" and it's true, what a wonderful score. I think it's really a fantastic musical all around.
I'm loving the clips from "A Call from the Vatican." Penelope Cruz said she had to do a lot of things with a string, we can see her swinging on them in the trailer. I haven't been a Kate Hudson fan for a while but she looks fantastic in her musical number, looks like it'll be a fun addition to the piece. I really like the look they gave Fergie in that black and white flashback, though I don't love the red for "Be Italian," I love how they did all black in the original production.
Overall, I'm really excited about the whole thing. What a cast!

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 5/14/09 at 10:10am

Goldie Hawn looks sensational!




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[doodlenyc]

Posted: 5/14/09 at 10:16am

I think it looks fantastic, but I also thought that about "Memoirs..." which I was disappointed in when I finally saw it.

Still, so glad this is being released. I truly hope it makes money.

And, my two cents, it is one of the greatest scores of the past 30 years. The original production was stunning and original. I remember when it won the Tony awards for Musical and Score over Dreamgirls, which was my obsession at the time. I was flabbergasted and angry. I didnt have the cast album as the show had just opened before the Tonys, so everyone knew little about it (I lived in Philly at the time.) Then I got to see it and was blown away and I had another favorite to add the very same year.

Greatest year for scores...competing for the Tony Award:
Nine
Dreamgirls
Merrily We Roll Along (I was at opening night)
Joseph and the Amazing... (saw it with Liz Taylor in the aud.)

[tazber]

Posted: 5/14/09 at 10:22am

See, except for maybe 3 songs I don't care for Dreamgirls' score.

I love the show as a whole, but the music doesn't do it for me.
I do love everything else Krieger has done, including the duckling score.

[best12bars]

Posted: 5/14/09 at 10:26am

Kate is definitely channelling "Mama" Hawn here, and in such a great way. I love the glimpses of her new number. Very Euro-early-'60s groovalistic vibe. Looks like a knockout.

And I like the quick peek at "Follies Bergeres" with Judi Dench surrounded by all the feather fans as well.

But "A Call From the Vatican" with Penelope sliding around all that satin ... wow!

Marshall and Weinstein are no fools. They are repeating the success formula from Chicago: A movie-star cast, sexy chorus ladies, a realistic setting with surrealistic musical numbers, sexy chorus ladies, a charismatic leading man, show-stopping musical numbers, and ... sexy chorus ladies. Did I mention sexy chorus ladies?

[StageManager2]

Posted: 5/14/09 at 10:27am

I like the songs in DREAMGIRLS, but I loathe the recitative -- too much singing! I prefer the film version where they mostly sing on stage, and the recitative is just dialog.

That said, I love the NINE score and I agree that it's one of the finest I've heard.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 5/14/09 at 11:02am

Besty, you are so right, and you know what? I love it. I think NINE is incredibly sexy by nature and I'm glad that Marshall is completely embracing that.
They should shove Cruz down our throats, she looks simply divine. Love her in the glimpses from "A Call from the Vatican" but she looks just as sexy and spectacular when she's wearing that red dress at the train station. There is just something about her that is captivating. I can't wait to see her in this, her as well as all the other great ladies. The more I watch the trailer the more excited I am about this project.

[wickedfan]

Posted: 5/14/09 at 12:46pm

I posted this in the other thread, but I definitely think there is some channeling of "Chicago," which is totally appropriate. I think this film totally calls for it. The entire trailer screams sex, music, and fabulous. Every woman looks absolutely radiant. Even Nicole Kidman, who I thought was damned to forever look like a Madame Tussaud sculpture, looks breathtaking. There's a bit of an anger to the tarantella in "Be Italian" that I'm not too sure I like. But I'm willing to see how it plays out in context. The overture looks like it's going to be fantastic. Now we know what that original production photo was from.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 5/14/09 at 1:02pm

I think Nine has a glorious score. I have a feeling this film is going to be phenominal.