Make Me a Song Snags the Zipper
Make Me a Song Snags the Zipper
#1Make Me a Song Snags the Zipper
Posted: 2/23/07 at 9:12pm
Great news! Perhaps the Zipper will become the official home of the off-broadway review.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/105978.html
#2re: Make Me a Song Snags the Zipper
Posted: 2/23/07 at 9:23pmSounds like a great night at the theatre.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#2re: Make Me a Song Snags the Zipper
Posted: 2/23/07 at 9:25pmI'd love to hear more of his trunk songs...or maybe they can just do In Trousers (I wish!).
#3re: Make Me a Song Snags the Zipper
Posted: 2/23/07 at 9:26pmAlso, Vanessa Williams will be playing the piano.
#4re: Make Me a Song Snags the Zipper
Posted: 2/23/07 at 9:28pm
She's going to be doing the whole combo.
--In whiteface, of course--
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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#5re: Make Me a Song Snags the Zipper
Posted: 2/23/07 at 10:37pmIts a phenominal show and I would reccomend it to all. So much talent in that cast.
#7re: Make Me a Song Snags the Zipper
Posted: 2/24/07 at 12:00pmIs there a list of musical numbers for this show?
#8re: Make Me a Song Snags the Zipper
Posted: 2/24/07 at 12:05pmAhh, I love the Zipper. Such a wonderful space. This sounds like it's going to be a fun show.
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-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#9re: Make Me a Song Snags the Zipper
Posted: 2/24/07 at 12:09pm
they listed some stuff that they did in the past production on Playbill. here's what they listed:
"Why We Like Spelling," cut from Spelling Bee, made an appearance at the end of Act One of Make Me a Song, with the cast in full middle-school drag. Act Two opened with a "suite" from Falsettos, including "Four Jews in Room Bitching," "A Tight-Knit Family," "Trina's Song," "March of the Falsettos," "The Games I Play," "The Baseball Game," "Something Bad," "Holding to the Ground" and "Unlikely Lovers."
Make Me a Song is not comprised of the "greatest hits" of William Finn, however. That idea didn't interest Ruggiero.
"Dear Reader (or, How Critics Kill Art)," a vocally ambitious exchange between an author and a critical consumer of her book, was a discovery for many listeners. "How Marvin Eats His Breakfast," from In Trousers, was included, and so was I Have Found, from Finn's take on Kaufman and Ferber's The Royal Family, an unproduced musical.
"Hitchhiking Across America" (sung by Cassidy) is an orphaned song from a show that was never completed. It surfaced in the revue.
Make Me a Song is not a chronological look at Finn's output over the years, and doesn't address Finn's shows in sections (except for Falsettos).
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