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.
#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--
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Chorus Member Joined: 1/9/07
#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.
-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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