Light in the Piazza on PBS?
Light in the Piazza on PBS?
#0Light in the Piazza on PBS?
Posted: 8/17/05 at 7:24pmWhat are the odds of PBS broadcasting the closing performance of Light in the Piazza like they did for Contact?
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#1re: Light in the Piazza on PBS?
Posted: 8/17/05 at 7:25pm*sigh* A wild dream, I'm afraid.
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#2re: Light in the Piazza on PBS?
Posted: 8/17/05 at 8:12pmAlthough it would be nice!
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#3re: Light in the Piazza on PBS?
Posted: 8/17/05 at 8:13pm*sigh* don't I wish!
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#4re: Light in the Piazza on PBS?
Posted: 8/17/05 at 8:13pm
maybe if we all write letters to PBS, theyll consider it, but i really doubt it, as much as i want them to. and even if it does happen, it wont be the same b/c odds are by the time theyd get around to doing it, they wont all be original cast members.
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Updated On: 8/17/05 at 08:13 PM
#5re: Light in the Piazza on PBS?
Posted: 8/17/05 at 8:21pmIt would be so great if it were to air on PBS but I'm not getting my hopes up. If only Sondheim were involved somehow then it would be on PBS or be released on dvd.
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#6re: Light in the Piazza on PBS?
Posted: 8/17/05 at 10:18pm
Ohhhhh...that'd be fantastic if it happened 
#7re: Light in the Piazza on PBS?
Posted: 8/17/05 at 10:19pmWhy wouldn't they? Swept the Tony's! I'd kill to see it!
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#8re: Light in the Piazza on PBS?
Posted: 8/17/05 at 10:22pmThat would be amazing. Although, I'd think they'd want the OBC for the final performance.
#9re: Light in the Piazza on PBS?
Posted: 8/17/05 at 10:23pmWe had a thread about this a few months ago. I located the email addresses of Great Performances and Live from Lincoln Center so we could harass them in greater numbers. I'm afraid it didn't have much effect...maybe Adam will just use some of his gazillion dollars to produce a recording...
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#10re: Light in the Piazza on PBS?
Posted: 8/17/05 at 10:35pmWe should be grateful that Great Performances won't get their hands on it. I shudder to think of LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA subjected to the same pack of idiots who brought us that atrocious broadcast of CONTACT a few years ago.
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#11re: Light in the Piazza on PBS?
Posted: 8/17/05 at 10:38pm
Adam is on PBS right now for the Richard Rodgers special. 
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#13re: Light in the Piazza on PBS?
Posted: 8/17/05 at 10:40pmWhen INTO THE WOODS was taped for television, Bernadette Peters returned just for the taping.
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#14re: Light in the Piazza on PBS?
Posted: 8/17/05 at 10:42pmI hope that's the case of the original cast... I would love to see all of them on PBS!
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#15re: Light in the Piazza on PBS?
Posted: 8/17/05 at 10:47pm
This would be too good to imagine.
While the topic is up, does anyone know what became of the Caroline or Change tape?
#16re: Light in the Piazza on PBS?
Posted: 8/17/05 at 10:48pm
If Bernadette came back to record ITW, I don't see why Matt can't come back to record Piazza. Now how do we make it happen?
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#17re: Light in the Piazza on PBS?
Posted: 8/17/05 at 10:59pm
Oh what I wouldn't give...
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AuditioningWaitress
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#18re: Light in the Piazza on PBS?
Posted: 8/17/05 at 11:01pmI'm just guessing, but I'm sure The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization control the rights to the show...You might e-mail them and maybe whisper in there ear (so to speak) that this is something fans want. I think it would be a great addition to GREAT PERFORMANCES...
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#19re: Light in the Piazza on PBS?
Posted: 8/17/05 at 11:04pmthis is the perfect show for great performances and i would kill to have its perfection taped.
#20re: Light in the Piazza on PBS?
Posted: 8/18/05 at 8:43amI don't think they had the original cast for the Contact performance.
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#21re: Light in the Piazza on PBS?
Posted: 8/18/05 at 1:57pm
If this ever happened, I would faint with happiness 
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