Lorrell loses her solo in DG movie

According to Dreamguy over at imdb, Henry Krieger was interviewed on Sirius and this is what he said:

Here is what Krieger said in his interview.

"Filming ends April 7"
"All the girls are Dolls"
"Heavy is in!"
"The fight scene before AITYING is not going to be sung"
"I wrote 4 new songs for the movie... one for Effie, one for Deena, one for Jimmy and Lorell, and one new 'jackson 5' style song."
"One Night Only is absolutly in the movie"
"Aint no party is gone. It is the only song from the original not in the movie"

I think it sucks too. Anika deserves to have at least one solo in the flick. And now Deena has one? She already sings the majority of the score. SMH.

I STILL CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS MOVIE.... I am so thrilled! Even more so then Phantom, Rent, and Chicago all put together

I won't miss "Party" a bit. Never much liked the song and liked it even less after Heather Headley's version on the Actors' fund benefit recording.

I'm going to miss "It's All Over", too.
"You're lying, you're lying, I've never been so thin!"

Exactly what I was expecting...

Make Lorell's role tiny, make Effie's role into supporting and turn Deena's role into a leading part just because Beyonce is the most famous of all of the actresses playing the Dreams. I had a feeling they would do this, and now it's pretty obvious they are.

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I liked the sung fight before "And I am Telling You...", but I do realize why it has to be cut. I have total faith in the success of this movie.

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If this is factual, I'm wondering what the definition of "song" is here. To say "the fight scene before AITYING is not going to be sung" indicates a song cut right there, so with the omission of "Ain't No Party" that makes at least two that are mentioned right there.

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OMG Heavy is IN.

I've never seen the show before but thats my favorite song (i love the concert recording)

oh and thats sad about Ain't no party and the fight before AIATYING not being sung. I love both of those.

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From what I now hear, Dreamworks is planning to campaign Beyonce for Best Actress and Jennifer Hudson for Best Supporting Actress.

This ain't right. Effie is NOT a supporting character. She is just as much a lead as Deena.

It seems as though "It's All Over" is not considered a song. I'm wondering when the line "only one song has been cut" keeps being repeated if it really means "only one song from the original cast album has been cut."

Eh, I'm still excited for the movie. I'm just starting to get the same weird feeling I started to get before Rent opened.

Every time a movie musical comes out the old hackneyed bs about how "audiences won't accept people bursting into song" and that there "has to be a reason for the singing" appears. It's just odd to me that the powers that be think that cutting recitative somehow makes the raison d'etre for singing to be more acceptable. One would think that recitative would ease a viewer in the more full blown songs, thereby giving them the "justification" that seems so damn important.

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Updated On: 3/26/06 at 01:56 AM

Perhaps Condon is a student of the Columbus School of Movie Musical Direction - Why get the point across with two minutes of music when you can see stretch it out into four interminably boring and (and music free!) scenes?

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No matter what Dreamworks executives say, this is Effie's show.
Deena hardly ever sings in the show, and the point is actually, that Effie is more dynamic, vocally and personality wise, but that Deena is the face of a more commercial crowd.

Effie has the most compelling story, and if they shift the primary focus to Deena, then who the hell will care about AIATY, or even more, I am Changing? They'll just be there as really good songs, but they'll miss the emotional build, therefore less pay off.

Unless they keep it as is, and they just want Beyonce to be considered a lead, and not Hudson, which is absurdly rediculous.

I kind of figured this would happen with Beyonce in the picture though, which is why I had major doubts about casting.

That's the show-biz.

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