Liat in South Pacific
Liat in South Pacific
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#2re: Liat in South Pacific
Posted: 12/10/07 at 7:22pm
*At this post, I will assume the role of Diva*
Bruce Vilanch!
#3re: Liat in South Pacific
Posted: 12/10/07 at 7:30pmSince she doesn't sing or talk, probably an unknown, gorgeous, model-wannabe-actress.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#4re: Liat in South Pacific
Posted: 12/10/07 at 7:40pm
And she gets to do it with Matt, not a bad gig.
Just to be controversail and realistic, they should cast a very young looking actress, like 16 or younger than you know what...
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#5re: Liat in South Pacific
Posted: 12/10/07 at 7:43pm
Doesn't sing?
No "Happy Talk"?
I like that silly song.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#6re: Liat in South Pacific
Posted: 12/10/07 at 7:46pm
Bloody Mary sings that, Liat just gestures.
I think her lines are
Liat: oui
Liat: no
Liat: oui
That "silly song" is about a Woman trying to sell her underage daughter to an American.
Updated On: 12/10/07 at 07:46 PM
#7re: Liat in South Pacific
Posted: 12/10/07 at 8:10pmI wouldn't be surprised if Happy Talk was cut.
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#8re: Liat in South Pacific
Posted: 12/10/07 at 8:29pm
No no no!
Don't cut "Happy Talk."
It's about having a dream, it's just sweet.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#9re: Liat in South Pacific
Posted: 12/10/07 at 8:39pm
"*At this post, I will assume the role of Diva*
Bruce Vilanch! "
Ouch from the laughing pain!
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#10re: Liat in South Pacific
Posted: 12/10/07 at 9:06pmIt's a politically incorrect song that does nothing to further the plot.
#11re: Liat in South Pacific
Posted: 12/10/07 at 9:11pmThank you. I said that on a thread six months ago and people tried to tell me that I shouldn't be judging the characters, because it was a different time period. I was actually judging Rodgers and Hammerstein- and any creative team who includes the song in their production without a second thought as to what it reflects.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#12re: Liat in South Pacific
Posted: 12/10/07 at 9:14pm
That is completely absurd.
There is NOTHING politically incorrect about that sweet song.
The mother wants her daughter to end up with Cable and get married to him, and typically Polynesian the mother wasn't hung up about sex, though there is no sex in that song.
"Political correctness" is b.s. regarding that song.
#13re: Liat in South Pacific
Posted: 12/10/07 at 9:27pm
You got to have a dream, if you don't have a dream, how you going to have a dream come true?
#14re: Liat in South Pacific
Posted: 12/10/07 at 9:30pm
Double Post, I haven't been so excited for a revival in ages. As a kid this was the one movie musical that I loved the most, above Carousel, Sound of Music, Oklahoma, West Side Story, you name it.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#15re: Liat in South Pacific
Posted: 12/10/07 at 9:33pm
"It's a politically incorrect song that does nothing to further the plot."
Have you even paid attention to most of the musical theatre songs within the last 40 years? Most of them are.
Laugh at it, the get over it.
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-whatever2
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#17re: Liat in South Pacific
Posted: 12/11/07 at 1:27pm
tila tequilla
Other than that, did you enjoy the play Mrs Lincoln?
Updated On: 12/11/07 at 01:27 PM
#18re: Liat in South Pacific
Posted: 12/11/07 at 1:35pmLet's have Lea Salonga do it, and Rodgers and Hammerstein can be resurrected to write a show-stopping 11 0'clock number for her:)
#19re: Liat in South Pacific
Posted: 12/11/07 at 1:48pmLea can't-she's doing the Asian tour of Cinderella.
Other than that, did you enjoy the play Mrs Lincoln?
#20re: Liat in South Pacific
Posted: 12/11/07 at 1:52pm
I would say Alec Mappa for Liat but I don't think he is butch enough.
(just a joke, Alec Mappa is great)
Updated On: 12/11/07 at 01:52 PM
#21re: Liat in South Pacific
Posted: 12/11/07 at 8:55pmThe role actually is cast. There was a call held a few weeks ago in chinatown and someone was hired from that audition.
Other than that, did you enjoy the play Mrs Lincoln?
TheEnchantedHunter
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/27/05
#22re: Liat in South Pacific
Posted: 12/12/07 at 12:10am
If you had an iota of insight, bobbybubby, you would realize that Bloody Mary sings the song to seduce Cable into marrying Liat. Nothing is done in Rodgers and Hammerstein without dramatic purpose.
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