Goodbye ALL SHOOK UP (3/24 - 9/25)- Page 5

[cathywellerstein]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 12:59pm

i did! and the sizes of the people weirdly changed too. so you like it in black and white? i can't imagine it being that great. but maybe that's just because of what it means when playbills go black and white...

[Conor]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 1:02pm

I never noticed the people thing but now in comparing I think they are a little bigger in my framed black and white one than my framed color one. I REALLY like the Black and White, I always found teh yellow to be...too much, especially when it drifted into like mustard yellow territory, I feel like this show might advertise better with a simpler, more recognizable logo like les mis or phantom. Maybe like a guitar , or blue suede shoes or something.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 1:06pm

Well, it looks better than the blonde guy logo:

[Conor]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 1:11pm

lol imagine if Cheyenne had been blond. Not really a great look for him, just look at the RH pics. definetly much hotter w/ teh black hair.

[cathywellerstein]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 1:12pm

right you are! i saw one of those posters up a few months ago and i was shocked. aparently he wore a blonde wig in the beginnging. then they finally came to their senses and realized it looked ridiculous.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 1:12pm

I know...it was smarter I think.

I know they wanted to move away from Elvis, but, it just doesn't seem right.

Chad isn't a blonde hair kind of person.

[cathywellerstein]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 1:13pm

and he has that funny line about his jet black hair that i love.

[Conor]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 1:16pm

I heard him talking about wearing teh blond wig in a parade or something and he said it didn't look bad, and I can understand why they would have liked to get away from teh Elvis image. Twice when I've been at the show people have remarked that Elvis had a "really funny life, but I thought he was married to a Priscilla not a Natalie" lol. I was cracking up.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 1:21pm

Conor - hahaha.

That's ALMOST as bad as the ladies in starbucks (the one that looks out onto 51st and the Gershwin marquis):

Lady 1: So, so-and-so just saw Wicked and said it was good.
Lady 2: Which show is that?
Lady 1: The one over there..
Lady 2: What's it about?
Lady 1: I dunno. I think it is about Gershwin.
Lady 2: The composer!?
Lady 1: Yeah, like a bunch of his un released songs put together into a show.

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 1:22pm

He wore a blond wig in the Chicago try-out and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I've read or heard him interviewed where he said he was glad that he didn't have to wear it. Can't remember which.

I need to figure out when I can to see this show again.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 1:28pm

He mentioned it on Chatterbox.

Also, the original, Manley Pope is blonde:

Vs.

http://www.tdf.org/PlaybyPlayOnline/pp9305/elvis.png


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"To begin with, the book by Joe DiPietro (I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, The Thing About Men) is Shakespeare compared to the book of Mamma Mia!. No, really, it literally is because the main premise, in which a woman poses as a man to win the love of a man, is taken from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night."

http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/chicago/ch51.html

Except, I didn't like the part where he said, "Most of the transitions between DiPietro’s book scenes and the Elvis songs in act one are as abrupt and awkward as they are in Mamma Mia!."

I mean, it was abrupt - but it was done so well...and made it so funny.

[Conor]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 1:31pm

has anyone watched the footage with Manley Pope at the Goodspeed? AWFUL! I thought he was terrible and the arrangements were horrendous! They put so much work into making it the amazing show it is now!

[cathywellerstein]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 1:33pm

BSoBW, that story about wicked is priceless. i've heard similar conversations that just made me cringe...and then laugh pretty hard.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 1:33pm

I agree, Conor.

I know, cw, I know

[Conor]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 1:36pm

yeah that Wicked story is priceless. My only story involving Wicked was this woman who was convinced that Wicked was playing in Phantom's theatre and was like at the box office trying to buy her tickets, and then trying to inform the man at the ticket window that Phantom had closed and Wicked was playing there now, it was hysterical. We couldn't convince her that Wicked wasn't there, until finally I offered to walk her up to the Gershwin at which point she demanded to know when it had changed theatres... ahh tourists.

[liotte]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 1:57pm

That blonde wig was horrible.

Hooray for posting syzygy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 1:58pm

Welcome to a new day of ASU love, Liotte!

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 2:00pm

Manley is naturally blonde, though, is he not?

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 2:01pm

He is.

He was in Rent...so...

But he was horrible in the role.

[Conor]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 2:02pm

he sounded so bad in what i heard on the goodspeed site, how does he have a career in musical theatre?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 2:03pm

I found that surprising; that he was so bad. He's not ALL that much of an actor, but I think he has a lovely voice.

He's another one of those guys who got lucky, Conor. Decent actor, randomly went in on an audition, and happens to be able to sing.

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 2:04pm

I forgot Manley did this at some point. I saw him in Rent. Didn't care for him at all.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 2:05pm

He was my first Roger.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 2:05pm

He was my first Roger.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/8/05 at 2:06pm

Mine too.