Ghost the Musical- Page 2

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 3/3/15 at 11:34pm

Are people in England big Patrick swayed fans? Also it seems to me that lead characters are only good when there are good people in them such as Richard and Cassie. Also what's richard doing nowadays? That guy was/is smoking hot! Also Alison Luff's "With You" is just heartbreakingly phenomenal!

Updated On: 3/3/15 at 11:34 PM

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

Posted: 3/4/15 at 12:13am

Richard's been back in England where he recently starred in a production of Urinetown. He was also dating Samantha Barks for a while, though I don't think they're still together.

[blaxx]

Posted: 3/4/15 at 12:52am

I'm still stunned it didn't last longer on Broadway.

I'm stunned it was open as long as it was. Worst show ever, just awful.

[nasty_khakis]

Posted: 3/4/15 at 10:45am

Richard did the production of "Urinetown" at the St James last spring but did not transfer to the West End with it. I thought he was gorgeous to look at, but his acting left a lot to be desired.

[newintown]

Posted: 3/4/15 at 11:50am

I found Ghost to be an incredibly tacky and stupid piece of work; the score was one eardrum-shattering generic pop-rock tune after another; Oda Mae's "comic" number was one of the least funny songs I've ever heard in the theatre.

Worst of all, this was no adaptation; it was merely the high points of the film set to music. In Ghost's defense, this is pretty much the standard for adaptations today; very few shows (Gentleman's Guide, for example) actually adapt a source into a new creation. Thus, famous lines like "Molly, you in danger, girl," are bellowed face-front, as if to wake the audience up and say "here you are, this is what you want - just the stuff you already know, with some songs thrown in that are so non-specific, you don't even have to listen to them."

Posted: 3/4/15 at 1:01pm

I still think With You is one of the most beautiful theatre songs written in recent years!

[a-mad]

Posted: 3/4/15 at 1:56pm

^ totally agree...

I could see having issues with the musical - but as a standalone song, it is truly a beautiful piece of music.

[perfectlymarvelous]

Posted: 3/4/15 at 4:26pm

I saw it late in previews (I think...) and absolutely hated it. Those awful LED set pieces were literally an eyesore, I was in the mezzanine and they were blinding at times. I also got a case of the giggles at the beginning when they were in the apartment and making out on the couch and then the lights dimmed on them and there were projections of random body parts moving around in black and white on the curtain. Da'Vine Joy Randolph was excellent, but that's about the only positive thing I can say about the show.

[darquegk]

Posted: 3/4/15 at 7:39pm

I'll admit that I never saw the West End or the Broadway version, and that, as I mentioned before, the tour had a vastly tweaked and tightened book and score. The score was still sort of mediocre, although I enjoyed the electronica influences as a fairly fresh new element in musical theatre. Maybe it helps that I wasn't a devotee of the film, but I thought the show worked as a different type of spectacle show. It very clearly blended traditional musical theatre staging techniques with illusion, dance acrobatics and the tech-infused physical performance art that's gained prominence thanks to shows like America's Got Talent.

I went away with an unusual feeling: these stunts don't exist to spoon-feed us a popular movie plot; rather, the movie plot is here onstage to justify these tricks.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 12/8/15 at 12:27am

Bumping this since there's going to be a production at Fulton Theatre and Maine State:

http://www.actorsequity.org/CastingCall/browse_notice.asp?NoticeID=39316&NoticeType=3

"This is a co-production between Fulton Theatre in Lancaster, PA and the Maine State Music Theatre in Brunswick, ME."