Favorite ALW Narrator?

[Unknown User]

Favorite ALW Narrator?#0

Posted: 8/17/06 at 4:40pm

It occurred to me last night when I was listening to JCS that a lot of ALW shows have narrators who break the 4th wall, so who's your favorite?

Che
Narrator (Joseph...)
Judas
Joe Gillis

Am I missing anyone?

[Jimmcf]

re: Favorite ALW Narrator?#1

Posted: 8/17/06 at 4:43pm

Che

My mother always used to say, "The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana." - Rose Nyland

[WickedGeek28]

re: Favorite ALW Narrator?#2

Posted: 8/17/06 at 4:44pm

Che. The character is so complex, it's exciting to watch.

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird

[EponineAmneris]

re: Favorite ALW Narrator?#3

Posted: 8/17/06 at 4:46pm

Che... Especially Mandy Patinkin!Che

But I love the Narrator in JOSEPH, too.

"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES--- "THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS

[Piazzaslight]

re: Favorite ALW Narrator?#4

Posted: 8/17/06 at 4:49pm

Che and the Narrator in Joseph. I can't decide which one!

MARGARET: "Clara, stop that. That's illegal." - The Light in the Piazza

"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel

[muscle23ftl]

re: Favorite ALW Narrator?#5

Posted: 8/17/06 at 4:57pm

Joseph's

"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one". -Felicia Finley-

[CATSNYrevival]

re: Favorite ALW Narrator?#6

Posted: 8/17/06 at 4:59pm

Munkustrap in CATS.

[jv92]

re: Favorite ALW Narrator?#7

Posted: 8/17/06 at 7:14pm

Che

[Marguerite Chauvelin]

re: Favorite ALW Narrator?#8

Posted: 8/17/06 at 7:35pm

Che and Joseph girl. Mainly Che... when played by Keith Byron Kirk or Mandy Patinkin.

If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....

Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)

[All_For_Laura]

re: Favorite ALW Narrator?#9

Posted: 8/17/06 at 7:37pm

MARIA FRIEDMAN!

Okay,

...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...

[gavrochegirl]

re: Favorite ALW Narrator?#10

Posted: 8/17/06 at 7:42pm

Definitely Che.

What the puck?!

[americanboy99]

re: Favorite ALW Narrator?#11

Posted: 8/17/06 at 8:39pm

Judas doesn't really ever break the fourth wall. I wouldn't really call him a narrator.

I love the character of Che, but I guess the Narrator in Joseph is really the biggest part in that show. But Che is just so much more cryptic.

[singtopher]

re: Favorite ALW Narrator?#12

Posted: 8/17/06 at 8:45pm

I thought this thread was asking who is our favorite Narator. For me that would be Stephanie J. Block. I saw (and met) her when I was 13.

To answer the real question, Che without a doubt.

"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert

[ThankstoPhantom]

re: Favorite ALW Narrator?#13

Posted: 8/17/06 at 9:56pm

All_For_Laura, I'm right there with you!

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[C is for Company]

re: Favorite ALW Narrator?#14

Posted: 8/18/06 at 3:15am

Definitely Che in first and I am quite fond of Sunset Boulevard so Joe would be a second.

[spiderdj82]

re: Favorite ALW Narrator?#15

Posted: 8/18/06 at 3:31am

I really wouldn't put Judas as a "Narrator." He never breaks the 4th wall. All the "My mind is clearer now" and "I only want to know" is directed at Jesus, not the audience.

I would say The Narrator in Joseph--Maria Friedman, of course . . . and then Che--Antonio Banderas.

"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2

[bare_nakedlady]

re: Favorite ALW Narrator?#16

Posted: 8/18/06 at 9:26am

What about Bertie Wooster in 'By Jeeves', a personal favortite of mine. I would have to say though, that the narrator on 'The Likes of us' CD takes the prize over them all. If you've listened to it you know what I mean.

"It's like children's theatre for 40-year old gay people!" - XANADU THE MUSICAL

[Hawker]

re: Favorite ALW Narrator?#17

Posted: 8/18/06 at 9:36am

Didn't the character of Alex in "Aspects of Love" break "the fourth wall" three times: when he first appears singing "Love Changes Everything) which is clearly addressed to the audience by his position on the stage; at the end of Act II as a soldier when he sums up the status of George's marriage as he ostensibly reads a letter; and when he sings a short refrain of "Love changes Everything" before the final curtain?

[WonderBoy]

re: Favorite ALW Narrator?#18

Posted: 8/18/06 at 11:51am

Laurie Beechman as The Narrator in JOSEPH...

"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds." ~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns

[jo]

re: Favorite ALW Narrator?#19

Posted: 8/18/06 at 12:05pm

Hawker,

I think you're absolutely right! Alex does break the fourth wall and basically addresses the audience in those instances. ASPECTS OF LOVE is my favourite ALWebber musical and I saw it at the West End and on Broadway.

Jo

[jo]

re: Favorite ALW Narrator?#20

Posted: 8/18/06 at 12:11pm

The character of Joe Gillis in SUNSET BOULEVARD as the Narrator however came originally as a concept from the movie classic on which the stage musical was based.

[DottieD'Luscia]

re: Favorite ALW Narrator?#21

Posted: 8/18/06 at 12:21pm

Sharon Brown as the Narrator in the 80s Joseph revival.

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[JoMarch]

re: Favorite ALW Narrator?#22

Posted: 8/18/06 at 7:11pm

Does Alex really break the 4th wall? I always considered those examples as introspective and not at all addressed to the audience.

[coolphantom919]

re: Favorite ALW Narrator?#23

Posted: 8/18/06 at 9:59pm

CHE! Mandy Patinkin is awesome!