IN MY LIFE

[Carl Magnum]

IN MY LIFE#0

Posted: 6/27/05 at 4:42pm

Saw the ad in the times on sunday. I haven't heard anything about this musical, which is unusual because someone on this board usually has "insider" info for all of us. Anyone know anything about this musical?

I got rid of my teeth at a young age because... I'm straight. Teeth are for gay people. That's why fairies come and get them

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

re: IN MY LIFE#1

Posted: 6/27/05 at 4:48pm

there WAS a thread on this...where it went is the biggest question...

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

[MargoChanning]

re: IN MY LIFE#2

Posted: 6/27/05 at 4:49pm

Joe Brooks has written the book, music and lyrics and will be directing. In other words it's a vanity project.

"In My Life, according to production notes, concerns "a musician with Tourette's syndrome and a journalist with obsessive compulsive disorder [who] meet cute at a grocery store — with some help from above — and begin an unlikely romance that proves that life's greatest affliction is the one they share — true love."

Sounds like a candidate for the next edition of "Not Since Carrie."

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

[WOSQ]

re: IN MY LIFE#3

Posted: 6/27/05 at 4:50pm

Written and directed by Joe Brooks who wrote and directed the film You Light Up My Life among others and won a Best Song Oscar, the show ought to examine the fate of The Mambo Kings which also had a first time writer-lyricist-director.

Inexperienced people wearing too many hats don't work. Experienced people wearing too many hats don't work either.

"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable." --Carrie Fisher

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

re: IN MY LIFE#4

Posted: 6/27/05 at 4:52pm

well, its either going to be either very good or GAH HORRIBLE RUN!

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

[LaCageAuxFollesFan2]

re: IN MY LIFE#5

Posted: 6/27/05 at 5:00pm

Im pretty optimistic about this one...I think it just might be the Little Show that could. "Light In the Piazzas" lighting designer & costume designer - both Tony Award winners, will be lighting and costuming this production as well.

[MargoChanning]

re: IN MY LIFE#6

Posted: 6/27/05 at 5:01pm

What's Brooks been doing the last 20 years? IMDB lists no credits for him since 1985. He also has no listing on IBDB.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0112072/

Who gave him the money for this (and let him direct it himself)? And there's apparently not going to be an out of town tryout either. A neophyte director/book writer opening cold on Broadway? This is going to be a chapter in the big Broadway book of "How NOT to produce a Broadway show."

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

[LaCageAuxFollesFan2]

re: IN MY LIFE#7

Posted: 6/27/05 at 5:06pm

Unless..IT'S GOOD! Speculating is fun, but condedming before it's even started is pretty hard on something none of us really knows anything about.

[jaded_october]

re: IN MY LIFE#8

Posted: 6/27/05 at 5:55pm

i thought this was going to about les mis

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[B.B. Wolf]

re: IN MY LIFE#9

Posted: 6/27/05 at 6:03pm

I agree completely, Margo.
This IS vanity project.
And Brooks is a little, shall we say, "eccentric."? Anyway, the script is actually pretty cute and has some nice moments. But, expect lots of schmaltz and self-aggrandizement from the music. It will also NOT have a major star to headline it, which is a serious deathknell for any vanity project. I give it a month and a half at the Music Box. Tops.

Word. Word, indeed.

[ashley0139]

re: IN MY LIFE#10

Posted: 6/27/05 at 7:04pm

In my life, there are so many questions and answers... nope. Too easy.

"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife

Updated On: 6/27/05 at 07:04 PM

[dietcherryemma]

re: IN MY LIFE#11

Posted: 6/27/05 at 7:10pm

I have all that I want you are loving and gentle and good? Ok... nevermind, enough Les Mis jokes, for serious

[RentBoy86]

re: IN MY LIFE#12

Posted: 6/27/05 at 9:56pm

Well in a previous thread someone said it wasn't doing an out of town tryout because it was coming from Off-B'way and most shows that come from off-b'way don't do out of town tryouts. Anyone know when they'll put up the marquee or when this show starts previews? I'm actually really excited about this musical. I hope its good, it sounds pretty good.

[MargoChanning]

re: IN MY LIFE#13

Posted: 6/27/05 at 9:59pm

It NEVER played off-Broadway. It had two AEA workshops -- that's it. It's NEVER been in front of an audience before or been fully-staged.

NOT a good idea.

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

Updated On: 6/27/05 at 09:59 PM

[MargoChanning]

re: IN MY LIFE#14

Posted: 6/27/05 at 10:02pm

It begins previews Sept. 27 with an official opening set for Oct. 20 at the Music Box.

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

[temms]

re: IN MY LIFE#15

Posted: 6/27/05 at 10:04pm

Whenever I see the title, my first though is that they changed the title of "Lennon" (since "In My Life" was one of his more memorable compositions.) I can't help but wonder if maybe that's intentionally misleading...

[TennesseeTwang]

re: IN MY LIFE#16

Posted: 6/27/05 at 10:08pm

Why am I expecting a Dracula-style critical smackdown?

[broadwaybelter]

re: IN MY LIFE#17

Posted: 6/27/05 at 10:09pm

well we'll see what happens it could be the next mega hit or it could be the next unbelievabally horrible flops....i have faith in it...it sounds interesting...
ric

[RentBoy86]

re: IN MY LIFE#18

Posted: 6/28/05 at 12:09am

oh my bad Margo, just relaying info, guess they were wrong.