Filming Woman in White- Page 3

[chernjam]

Posted: 2/6/06 at 7:41pm

By the way - I got tickets for tomorrow night (Tues) Row G Center Orchestra - I'm psyched - they're better seats than the first time I saw it

[chernjam]

Posted: 2/7/06 at 10:03am

Just heard from someone over at Playbill.com - who hasn't heard anything about the filming of Woman in White... but yet to hear anything from Really Useful Group...

Keep emailing them people: [e-mail]

Jim

[sharon1]

Posted: 2/7/06 at 11:10am

I heard back from RUG and there are no plans at this time. At least that is what they emailed me

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 2/7/06 at 12:25pm

Jim that is where i sat last tuesday... did you use the offer?

[chernjam]

Posted: 2/7/06 at 12:44pm

Yep $65 each- were they good seats? I didn't know how close to get before the Projections would be too close.

Did you hear anything from RUG about the filming?

[bare_nakedlady]

Posted: 2/7/06 at 12:50pm

I'm going Wed Feb 8 @ 2 and got H Center Orch. I can't wait!

[Michelleruth2]

Posted: 2/7/06 at 3:09pm

It would be cool if there was a film available to purchase (legitimate, not bootleg).

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 2/7/06 at 5:48pm

Well Jim i was sitting in seat 115 so i missed the stage left side of the projections because of how the set arcs but the view is incredible.....

they projections aren't fuzzy and the stage floor is slightly under eye leve so every time Marian drops to the floor or Walter Marian and Laura are picnicing they are right in eye site.....

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 2/7/06 at 6:09pm

Thank you for the info! Going to email them now. I just bought tickets to the last show! I can't believe it's leaving. Is anyone else going?

[Mamie]

Posted: 2/7/06 at 6:25pm

SOMEBODY'S got this recorded right now.

I saw the show on 11/15 and I had a seat in the dead center of the orchestra. Sitting next to me was a guy with a huge camera set up on a tripod. He (and his camera) took up 4 seats - two across in our aisle and the aisle in front of us.

That's not the half of it - there were two other guys set up with the same huge cameras in the left and right orchestras as well. The rotten part of this was that the seats they were taking up had been sold to other people. Those people came in to see the show and they were told to go back and see the house manager. They were offered other seats - for other shows. (That particular performance I believe was sold out.) The people sitting behind that camera (in the row behind us) had their views blocked too.

The guy handling the camera would not say who he was working for. He just said "a client". I heard other people say it was being filmed for NY1. I don't know if this was their guessing or if it was true.

I've never seen that done before or since. (It was lousy for the people who lost their seats.)

Personally, I can't think of anyone with the power to do that other than ALW himself. I still wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't show up on a DVD - the way CATS did.

[Piazzaslight]

Posted: 2/7/06 at 6:31pm

That's too bad for those poor people who lost their seats, Mamie.

What did you think of the show?

Updated On: 2/7/06 at 06:31 PM

[Mamie]

Posted: 2/7/06 at 6:38pm

I enjoyed it but I wanted to go back and see it again. The show is complicated and intricate and to be perfectly honest - that guy sitting next to me was very distracting. He didn't make a sound - I was just overly aware of him sitting there, filming the show.

The full cast was in that night so it would have been a good show to film. I'm just terribly sorry I didn't get a chance to see it again.

[Min2]

Posted: 2/7/06 at 6:56pm

I got the same reply from the really useful(?).
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Dear Min



Thank you for your mail.



There are no plans to film The Woman in White at present.



However, please be assured that if the situation changes the latest news will be posted on the www.reallyuseful.com website.



Best regards

Querymaster

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 2/7/06 at 7:20pm

i wonder how many inqueries they have recieved?

[chernjam]

Posted: 2/7/06 at 11:58pm

Just got in from seeing it tonight. I'm really pissed that WIW is closing. It was even better the second time for me. Friedman is such a dynamic actress, she deserves the Tony and to have her run extend till then.

I did miss Michael Ball in - I think it was Norman who played (have to check my Playbill) - he was good, but Ball really played it up far more comically.

It just aggravates me that Really Useful is thinking of letting this talented company get passed over from making a nice video of this beautiful production.

By the way - I was downstairs - the entire orchestra was filled. Don't know about the Mezz.

Jim

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 2:23am

how did Maria look..... she didn't look well last Saturday

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 6:36am

O.K. If only successful shows are filmed why is there a DVD for By Jeeves? As far as I'm concerned that was a flop on Broadway, and it has a reputation (in its original version) as the only outright flop of Lloyd Webber's career. Also, Jekyll & Hyde wasn't exactly a huge smash... even though it ran for four years. Victor / Victoria was a flop too, wasn't it?

And where's the videos for Les Miserables and Miss Saigon? It's perfectly possible for a Woman in White DVD to be made. But I definitely think Lloyd Webber has this idea it will be a movie

If only he would film Whistle Down the Wind

[AlmostFamous]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 7:20am

I'm sooo excited I get to see it two more times before it closes!
Once this Friday (the 10th) and once on closing night! Closing night is going to be super sad though!

[chernjam]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 7:31am

Maria looked and sounded fantastic to me - The show did seem to move a little faster than I remembered, and I'll try to give a more thorough review later, but she looked wonderful. I can imagine this is a hard time for the entire cast though. It's got to be a bit shocking and sad to know you're out of a job in a few weeks when you figured you'd be set till the Summer at least...

Jim

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 4:45pm

Maria is AMAZING!!!

[chernjam]

Posted: 2/8/06 at 6:45pm

muscle - that she is.

She deserves to have her performance preserved on film - and they could use it to promote her for, at the very least, a Tony Nomination. What a powerhouse.

Did anyone else email Really Useful and NOT get a response? I figure I was one of the first to email them and never heard a word - not even their "Form letter" email.

[Min2]

Posted: 2/9/06 at 12:23am

By the way, who's those who were filming that night?

[C is for Company]

Posted: 2/9/06 at 1:00am

I'm seeing it a second time with WickedGeek for closing night. Do they generally allow photographs like during curtain call? I mean what are they gonna do, kick you out taking a shot of their final bow? And Michael won't be in right?

[CarolynW]

Posted: 2/9/06 at 1:02am

Just an FYI to all those who are emailing RUG to film WIW. You are sending it to the wrong producer. RUG is not the main producer in NYC and could not film the Broadway production. The man who posted the press release Boybette (something like that)is the producer of record in NYC.

Also, "By Jeeves" was not filmed while on stage. They took the cast to Toronto and filmed it there, no audience.

I doubt they will film WIW to distribute to the public at this time, becuase they are planning on reworking it. When the show closes Maria goes into breast cancer treatment, MB is still sick, etc.

I know the QueryMaster will not be happy with all those emails that do not pertain to the RUG. :)


Yours,

CarolynW
Global Forum Moderator for RUGs messag boards
(not an employee of RUG, but I do know that the QueryMaster is not the person to email.)

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 2/9/06 at 1:17am

C Is for Company ~ I have taken photos at curtain calls before.... but normally it is when press have been there. So if a million and 1 cameras are going off they won't care. Also if you have a digital camera simply turn off the flash then no one will be the wiser.

And yes Michael will not be returning.