Favorite/least favorite changes and cuts to shows- Page 2

[jackieoh]

Posted: 6/22/13 at 1:38am

Costco is great! I also loved Growing Up Unstable. Kitt performed it at the Times Center in August 2010 when they were holding events to introduce the new cast. It's more angsty than anything else Natalie has in the show but I missed it.

There were lots of little pieces of the show that were cut when it transferred, definitely for the better. The off-Broadway soundboard has a lot of fun little exchanges in the beginning of the show with Diana and her family. In My Psychopharmacologist and I, there's a little flashback and Diana's says "Happy 21st birthday, Dan Goodman! Guess what your present is okI'lltellyou. We're going HELICOPTER SKIIING! They take you up and they drop you on a mountain and you ski down... And I know we don't know how to ski but how hard can it be?" Alice played crazy well and just her vocal affectations when delivering those lines makes me miss them. The off-Broadway version was a little lighter and showed a playful essence of Diana when she was manic but when they cut things like Costco and those silly exchanges, it made her illness more potent and obvious. The emotional intensity of the Broadway incarnation of this show still blows my mind.

[Musical Master]

Posted: 6/22/13 at 1:39am

Favorite: Making every single revision to the new Cinderella, by the time the opening night came, the show truly improved magnifincently over previews.

Least Favorite: Putting an intermission in Follies, despite the placement, still kind of stops the show (and it's pacing) cold in a way.

[mikey2573]

Posted: 6/22/13 at 8:37am

The changes made to the London production of THE SECRET GARDEN. Some really terrible choices that robbed the piece of its mystery. And then they had the nerve to dis the Broadway production in the London Cast Recording's liner notes!

[CJ N2N]

Posted: 6/22/13 at 9:38am

Not sure if this counts but the fact that they cut the Heaven septet and completely removed every bit of the "God Has Seen Your Sinning..." theme from "The Destruction" in the revisal of Carrie is just weird. They were both powerful parts (well, the septet was pretty damn good in my opinion), and it just made sense to have that theme repeated while she kills everyone!