Let's chat about older shows!
Let's chat about older shows!
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/03
Let's chat about older shows!#0
Posted: 8/24/03 at 1:58am
In light on another post it has come to my attention that some of the adults on these bored might be a little sick of hearing about our favorite show's Like HAIRSPRAY. I know I tend to get on a Hairspray kick and just can't stop lol. But I know My Mom get sick of hearing me so I can understand I guess.
Well, Anyway I was thinking maybe we could talk about older show we do know past shows we have seen on Broadway or in local theater or maybe even performed in. Maybe we could share a little bit about some of the older shows we enjoy so that other who may not have heard of it, or have but don't know much about it could lean more about it.
I know I always love to lean about new shows and then I look to go see them when they are around in community theater and thing.
OK so I'm not very good at the paragraphing but I'm not writing a paper or anything and you get my point!!
I guess I'll start My favorite show That have done is "Crazy For You" witch is an adaptation of "Girl Crazy." My High school did it my Jr. year there aren't very many girl parts so I had to play a Cowboy but it's was still the most fun I have every had doing a show. well here a little about it
Crazy for You opened at the Shubert Theatre February 19, 1992 to critical acclaim. Four years and 1,643 performances later, the final Broadway curtain dropped. Crazy for You had won 3 Tonys (Musical, Costume Design, Choreography); 2 Drama Desk Awards (Musical, Choreography) and 5 Outer Critics Circle Awards (Broadway Musical, Choreography, Scenic Design, Costumes, Lighting).
The story takes place in the 1930s. Bobby child wants nothing more them to be a star in theater life in NYC. But after another failed audition with Bela Zangler he is gradate bye his mother who is also his boss at the back and Irene his girlfriend who wants him to pick a date for a wedding he doesn't want to happen. He is give the choose to pick a date or go to girlfriend on a theater in a small town in Nevada. His choses Nevada and goes running for the train station. He wind up in Dead rock Nevada 3 days later a town full of cowboys and one cowgirl Polly who Bobby find to be love at first sight. when we are their we meet Lank the owner of the saloon in town who has is eye on Polly and her theater. Bobby come up with a way to save the theater by putting on a show when Polly agrees Bobby iterduces him self. open witch Polly realizes he is from the bank and is really there to close the theater. She is hart broken and Bobby comes up with an idea. Bela Zangler will come to town with is follies to put on a show. But is it really Bela! With the help of his follies friends he get the town of cowboys into a show. Why all this is going on Lank is getting Jealous, Polly is falling for Bobby's "Bela" and then Irene and The real Bela shows up in Dead rock chasing after on of the follies girls and on top of all this no one show's up for the first show.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/12/03
Let's chat about older shows!#1
Posted: 8/24/03 at 5:13pm
My personal favorite older show is "Camelot". I saw Richard Harris as the King and enjoyed him.
It is also the last show I did on stage. I remember standing on stage and being able to see the "Exit" sign at the rear of the theater. I have to say it was the strangest feeling the next time I went to that same theater but was confined to sitting in the audance.
"If Ever I Would Leave You" is an all time favorite of mine as is "Before I Gaze At You Again".
I would recommend both seeing and doing the show if you have the chance. It's great fun on both sides of the stage.
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Posted: 8/24/03 at 5:56pmI love Funny Girl. I have the cast recording and the soundtrack to the movie, and love both. I wish that show would be revived, but it the actress who played Fanny would have to be amazing.
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Posted: 8/24/03 at 6:14pmI have wondered why they have so many revivals. Now I know why. To let young adults like myself experience different styles and to witness shows that are amazing and also were before their time.
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Posted: 8/24/03 at 6:23pm
No shows were considered "amazing" before your generation came along unless it invovled magicians.
Speaking of older shows, I don't know if 1595 or '96 (approximately) counts or not, but one of my favorites is "A Midsummer Night's Dream." I bring this up because I am tingling with anticipation as I prepare to go enjoy a praised outdoor production along a moonlit (or is it Mars-lit?) riverbank this evening. I am slathering on bug repellant as I type.
aefhnnasd*^Y (sorry, it made the keys stick).
I know it's quite the fashion to dismiss Peter Hall's groovy '60s production of AMSND, but what productions of it have other members enjoyed in the past?
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Posted: 8/24/03 at 6:27pmthats good bwaytheatre11 "young adults"....i like it!!!! well anyways...one of personal fav oldies is Bye Bye Birdie!! i thought they did a pretty good job on the film with vanessa williams and jason alexander....but it would have been so cool to have seen it with Chita and Dick VD....I know this has been recently revived....but Music Man with always be one of my fav...i have played tommy djilas and harold hill in the show so it has stuck with me over the years!!! i hated the new movie though...i think kristin did something to piss the costumer off...because her wigs and dresses were awful, and matt. broderick looked like a robot...but that is besided the point!!...and then there is Damn Yankees which i think was one of Fosse's best!!!!!!!
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Posted: 8/24/03 at 6:33pm
In the parlance of the youth community today, only actual young adults are to be addressed as "young adults." Much younger people, commonly insulted by the moniker of baby goats, are addressed as "young people."
Which of course raises troubling questions for the producers of any remake of Bye Bye Birdie with today's understanding of youth issues. What would they do?
"Young people! I don't know what's wrong with these young people today! Young adults! Who can understand anything they say?"
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Posted: 8/24/03 at 6:38pm
Wow! Great point, Finding Namo. You always have the best posts! 
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Posted: 8/24/03 at 6:38pm
I know! 
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/03
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Posted: 8/25/03 at 12:23am
I love Camelot. I did it my sophomore year of high school. I played Guenevere and it was definitely the best experience I had doing theatre in high school. It was a challenging musical for a bunch of high school students to pull off and we worked very hard -- I think we all gave pretty stellar performances for what we were capable of at the time. I would love to play the role again when I'm actually at the appropriate age and have grown as an actress. It would be fun to see the different tactics and ways I'd go about the role as a more mature and experienced performer. I think that's at the top of my list of roles to play in the future.
It's a great musical. Loooong musical, but fabulous if done correctly.
I adore old musicals. I'm a big fan of Rodgers/Hart and Gershwin. I'm an old movie musical buff too! I'm all for the old school musical theatre!!! I say there isn't enough of it on Broadway! Bring it back, dammit!!!
On that note, I'm highly anticipating "Never Gonna Dance." SWINGTIME is probably my favorite Fred and Ginger movie (though, I'm very fond of Barkleys of Broadway... but they're so different... you can't compare their ONE MGM film to their nine RKO's... totally different style and time). I hope Penny wears all the Ginger gowns from the movie... growing up, I wanted nothing more than to own all her gowns.
I so need to play Ginger some day.
~Stewart Gilligan Griffin
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