LENNON (8/14 - 9/24) LOVE — Page 3

I didn't say I was going to this show because I love peace and I love love. I'm going because I think it'll be an enjoyable show with a marvelous cast.

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i love lennon and i thank everyone for their positive comments!

Yesterday, I met this lady who said she was a big Lennon fan but didn't want to pay so much to see the show.

I told her to find some student and have him get her student rush tix - front row.

And she knows someone who can do that for her.

Go me!

The cast of Lennon comments on the show:

"The difference between this and other 'juke box musicals' is that he actually wrote a musical about his life without actually writing a musical about his life, which is really exciting."
Chad Kimball

"Give peace a chance. That's why everybody stands up at the end because it so resonates today, give me some truth."
Mandy Gonzalez

"Most of the music we sing, I'm singing, and I'm thinking, this is what's happening right now. I honestly can't pick a song in the show that is not relevant to what is happening in 2005 right now."
Marcy Harriell

Julie Danao-Salkin (she likes peace)

"Before I got involved in this, The Beatles were like ..ehh. John Lennon, ok, well he wrote 'Imagine' so I guess it's pretty cool, but you know, whatever. Now, I'm like...this brother was bad!"
Chuck Cooper

"You could tell that [Yoko Ono Lennon] was removed from it in the best sense in that she understood what it was, what it meant to generations before, what it can now mean to these generations."
Terrence Mann

"Sean Lennon, his son, came today and told our director after the show, he said 'it was a very surreal experience, but I think it's what my father would have wanted."
Julia Murney




These quotes from cast members of Lennon are from Broadway.com's video of the show's opening night.
EDIT

Updated On: 9/13/05 at 01:24 PM

i'm only posting about lennon because i love it, and i want it to stay open because i believe that it's a good show that people should experience.

Personally, I think your enthusiasm for the show is great. But the comments from the cast members are, to me, a stark reminder of the fact that most people in the acting profession make a living speaking other people's words for a reason.

I was aware of it in the publicity for the show too. Those who came of age after Lennon died really sounded vapid in the interviews. Like listening to a 16 year old giving an "expert" opinion about what the soldiers in the first world war went through. Their intentions are all well and good, but, very often, their words are just off.

""Peace is one of the most incredible words that still exists today..."

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Updated On: 9/13/05 at 01:15 PM

thanks for accepting my enthusiasm.

the comments were spoken ones...so it's different when people speak and it's put into word, rather than writing out quotes for the press. forgive them if they didn't use scholarly language, but they spoke these words during a party right after their opening night.

You have to admit, spoken or written, "Peace is one of the most incredible words that still exists today..." is really one of the stupidest sentences ever. It puts the "um" in "dumb."

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Poor Julie

i'm pretty sure it was one of those, em.

Cathy - you removed her quote!

i removed it because i didn't want someone i admire from one of my favorite shows to be mocked like that.

thanks for creating that off topic thread namo. i think it's really funny.