Posted: 6/17/16 at 8:31am
You don't think they'll release it to cinemas one week a year, a la NationalTheatreLive? After they screen it for a week, they put it "back in the vault," so to speak, never intending to release it for private ownership.
Updated On: 6/17/16 at 08:31 AM
Posted: 6/17/16 at 9:50am
I'm still waiting on the release of A Year with Frog and Toad that was filmed over a decade ago. Kate Reinders even used to mention the video as a credit in her Playbill bio, though she doesn't anymore. I'm guessing it'll never happen at this point.
Posted: 6/17/16 at 10:21am
bandit964 said: "You don't think they'll release it to cinemas one week a year, a la NationalTheatreLive? After they screen it for a week, they put it "back in the vault," so to speak, never intending to release it for private ownership.
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No, I don't.
Posted: 6/17/16 at 11:40am
best12bars said: "Phantom of the Opera and Chicago both had film versions released, and both shows are still going strong.
The Phantom movie flopped, but Chicago was a huge hit that won Best Picture. In either case, neither result hurt the stage show. If anything they helped with wider recognizability."
Apples and oranges. No one is talking about a movie version of the property; this is about releasing a film captured at a live performance with the OBC. As I said above, the conventional wisdom among producers is that a real movie version sells tickets to the stage show, but that is obviously at least 5 and more likely 10 years away.
Posted: 6/17/16 at 12:44pm
What are the chances that Groff and the original ensemble members with reunite for this?
Posted: 6/17/16 at 1:24pm
The sound of Hamilton is contemporary for a successful Broadway show, but intentionally dated. I don't think it draws on any cultural-musical reference later than Beyoncé's "Crazy in Love" album; in fact, it's so back-thinking that Jefferson's "What'd I Miss" seems to draw on "Cleanin' Up the Town" from the first Ghostbusters movie.
Posted: 6/17/16 at 2:02pm
darquegk said: "The sound of Hamilton is contemporary for a successful Broadway show, but intentionally dated. I don't think it draws on any cultural-musical reference later than Beyoncé's "Crazy in Love" album; in fact, it's so back-thinking that Jefferson's "What'd I Miss" seems to draw on "Cleanin' Up the Town" from the first Ghostbusters movie."
^Myopia, or the act of not seeing the forest for the trees. The amount of pseudo-analytical misapprehension on this board is reaching fever proportions.
Posted: 6/17/16 at 8:40pm
TotallyEffed said: "What are the chances that Groff and the original ensemble members with reunite for this?
Jonathan Groff is going to be on the TODAY show on June 28th. Maybe while he's in town he'll drop by to film a little part of a musical he was in.... 
Posted: 6/17/16 at 10:17pm
I've heard the adage repeatedly that to sound contemporary on Broadway, think what still works from popular music twenty years ago. That's what LMM did- there's no cringeworthy dubstep sequence that will immediately be "too 2016" in a decade like "Contact" sticks out in RENT.
Posted: 6/17/16 at 10:32pm
Have you heard the adage that adages are BS?
And where did you get the idea Contact "sticks out"?
Pseudo-analysis lives on BWW!
Posted: 6/17/16 at 10:37pm
So does pretension and ill-placed superiority uguyz!!!
Posted: 6/17/16 at 11:13pm
Contact really is a terrible song.
Nowack, you changed your icon!
Posted: 6/17/16 at 11:23pm
Added some lovely Barbara-Cook-as-Amalia flair!
Posted: 6/18/16 at 12:09am
It's always been said Broadway is about 10 years behind popular music. Wicked kind of took off from the pop power ballads of the 90s, Rap has been around since the 70s... So not a revolutionary contact.
I do do wonder how the Tupac musical would do now that Hamiilton is such a success..
Posted: 6/18/16 at 2:21pm
^
Holla If You Hear Me would have a slightly longer run because people seem more open to the idea of such different musical styles in a show, but it would not run long because the book was paper thin. Nothing made you really care abut the characters and their actions. Talented cast, but they had zilch to work with.
Posted: 6/20/16 at 1:56pm
did you guys hear it's allegedly being filmed today??
Posted: 6/20/16 at 2:09pm
the show is dark today, no?
Posted: 6/20/16 at 2:13pm
https://mobile.twitter.com/sold_inc/status/744890630913073152
wow I can't believe the day of the week totally slipped my mind! lol why are these people insinuating it then??
Posted: 6/20/16 at 2:17pm
Not that I know anything...but perhaps an invited only audience?
Posted: 6/20/16 at 2:20pm
YOU WERE INVITED WEREN'T YOU MAMA
Posted: 6/20/16 at 2:23pm
Perhaps Jonathan is there then?
Posted: 6/20/16 at 2:29pm
gypsy101 said: "YOU WERE INVITED WEREN'T YOU MAMA
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Lol....don't I wish?! (Or am I getting my credentials right now......)
Posted: 6/20/16 at 3:26pm
gypsy101 said: "https://mobile.twitter.com/sold_inc/status/744890630913073152
wow I can't believe the day of the week totally slipped my mind! lol why are these people insinuating it then??
The Cancellation Line thread would be the folk to ask since they live on that line for 88 hours or more. Maybe they saw some moving and action--unless they are so tired they didn't notice.
Posted: 6/20/16 at 3:33pm
There are rumors swirling that Leslie might not be in the filming :0(
Posted: 6/20/16 at 3:39pm
CAMEAN02 said: "There are rumors swirling that Leslie might not be in the filming :0(
Yes, that is what he said "small chance" discussed below yesterday
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1094067&dt=173
