Forever Yours -- Once on This Island
Forever Yours -- Once on This Island
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#0Forever Yours -- Once on This Island
Posted: 5/28/05 at 9:45pm
This song sounds SO familiar. Does anyone have any idea where I might have heard it before?
#1re: Forever Yours -- Once on This Island
Posted: 5/28/05 at 9:50pmI have no clue, but I ADORE this song.
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#2re: Forever Yours -- Once on This Island
Posted: 5/28/05 at 10:30pm
The Human Heart is a great song, too.
#3re: Forever Yours -- Once on This Island
Posted: 5/28/05 at 10:34pmI really like the whole show. It's just good, plain fun. My school's doing it next year, so I'm pretty excited about that.
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#4re: Forever Yours -- Once on This Island
Posted: 5/28/05 at 10:35pmInteresting. I guess you can use non-traditional casting.
#5re: Forever Yours -- Once on This Island
Posted: 5/28/05 at 10:40pmPerhaps at Standing Ovations 2 with Michael Arden and Jenna Leigh Green singing?
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#6re: Forever Yours -- Once on This Island
Posted: 5/28/05 at 10:40pm
That is probably it...I was thinking through the SO concerts, but did not remember anything.
Thanks, Craig!
#7re: Forever Yours -- Once on This Island
Posted: 5/29/05 at 1:39pmJust saw it with non-traditional casting, and even though it was good and the gods were amazing, it lost some of it's... 'meaning' by having a mostly caucasian cast.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#8re: Forever Yours -- Once on This Island
Posted: 5/29/05 at 5:15pmThat is what I was thinking.
#9re: Forever Yours -- Once on This Island
Posted: 5/29/05 at 5:24pm
i saw a highschool do it with an all caucasian cast- it did lose some of its meaning...cause y'know, black people can SING- im SO jealous...iunno caucasians trying to sing black tunes just doesn't sound the same...
ok don't beat me!!! after all..."everyones a little bit racist; sometimes!!!"
kidding :P
#10re: Forever Yours -- Once on This Island
Posted: 5/29/05 at 5:30pmI am seeing this show this week at a theatre just outside of DC in Bethesda. I am so excited- love the OCR.
#11re: Forever Yours -- Once on This Island
Posted: 5/29/05 at 5:51pm
I've seen it with non-traditional casting, and it didn't bother me a bit.
It just makes the show far more about class than about race.
The meaning was not lost.
Sporti2005
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/04
#12re: Forever Yours -- Once on This Island
Posted: 5/29/05 at 6:00pm
i'm in OOTI this summer!! i'm asaka!!! woohoo!!!
and yeah, we're doing it with non-tradtional casting as well..i mean, i'm about as white as you can get for asaka. but still, i can sing it and i can act it, and i think that even though the race tensions are what the show was built on...class tensions work as well!!!
BWayBoy88
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/04
#13re: Forever Yours -- Once on This Island
Posted: 5/29/05 at 9:01pmI did the show a few years ago with an all white cast. While I prefer it to have an all black cast, I don't think it makes a huge difference with white people. Like FloweryFriend said, its just more about class than race, which still works for the plot.
DivaMommy
Featured Actor Joined: 5/20/03
#14re: Forever Yours -- Once on This Island
Posted: 5/29/05 at 11:12pmI was in a mixed race cast - black, white, asian, American Indian - it was phenominal and it did make it about class. I did also really enjoy the all black version I saw in Southern CA. It's just a great show on every level - beautiful, energetic, moving. Absolutely the best theatrical experience I've ever had.
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