Marc Shaiman Speaks About 1st Full Hairspray Screening

[Craig]

Marc Shaiman Speaks About 1st Full Hairspray Screening#1

Posted: 3/16/07 at 6:14pm

https://www.broadwayworld.com/pulse/

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka

[Phantom2]

re: Marc Shaiman Speaks About 1st Full Hairspray Screening#2

Posted: 3/16/07 at 6:17pm

Where's Rob?

"I'm learning to dig deep down inside and find the truth within myself and put that out. I think what we identify with in popular music more than anything else is when someone just shares a truth that we can relate to. That's what I'm searching for in my music." - Ron Bohmer

"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher

[best12bars]

re: Marc Shaiman Speaks About 1st Full Hairspray Screening#2

Posted: 3/16/07 at 6:26pm

Marc sounds SO excited! And well he should be. I've heard really good buzz too.

I'm trying NOT to get my hopes up, because we know how that can go around here.

Still, I must say I'm really looking forward to seeing it.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[mateo]

re: Marc Shaiman Speaks About 1st Full Hairspray Screening#3

Posted: 3/16/07 at 6:29pm

yes, I am very happy for marc and the Hairspray team.

cant wait!

"Zac is sweet as can be. He's very much just a sweet kid from California who happens to have a face that looks like it was drawn by Michelangelo, (if Michelangelo did anime)."
-Adam Shankman.

"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"

"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"

[colleen_lee]

re: Marc Shaiman Speaks About 1st Full Hairspray Screening#4

Posted: 3/16/07 at 6:31pm

It's good to hear Marc so excited about this project. I definitely can see the potential for this to be something pretty great. I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but reports like this certainly sound promising!

"You just can't win. Ever. Look at the bright side, at least you are not stuck in First Wives Club: The Musical. That would really suck. " --Sueleen Gay

[best12bars]

re: Marc Shaiman Speaks About 1st Full Hairspray Screening#5

Posted: 3/16/07 at 6:47pm

Well, if the wind is blowing the right direction in Summer 2007 America, this could potentially be another "Grease" as far as films go.

...which was HUGE.

It could conceivably tap into that same summer movie audience... which was... pretty much EVERYBODY.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[Greekmusicalfan]

re: Marc Shaiman Speaks About 1st Full Hairspray Screening#6

Posted: 3/16/07 at 6:50pm

I am really happy for Marc and everyone involved ! Hairspray the show is fantastic and I hope the movie has the same huge success !! If movie-goers get the same pleasure and happiness as those who saw it live got, then it will blow the roof of every cinema in the world !!

[Dark_Angel]

re: Marc Shaiman Speaks About 1st Full Hairspray Screening#7

Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:00pm

Wouldn't that be something? For HAIRSPRAY to be this millenium's GREASE? And with two "Grease" stars in it: John Travolta and Michelle Pfeiffer

[best12bars]

re: Marc Shaiman Speaks About 1st Full Hairspray Screening#8

Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:03pm

And one of them has a secretary named "Kennedy"... and the other one "Lincoln"...

Coinkidink?

I. Don't. Think. So!

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[TheatreDiva90016]

re: Marc Shaiman Speaks About 1st Full Hairspray Screening#9

Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:13pm

"Even teenaged boys liked it!"


Gay teenage boys....

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[StickToPriest]

re: Marc Shaiman Speaks About 1st Full Hairspray Screening#10

Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:14pm

Ah, Michelle.

If you really want to know
What I want in a guy...
Well, I'm lookin' for a dream on a mean machine
With hell in his eyes.
I want a devil in skin tight leather,
And he's gonna be wild as the wind.
And one fine night, I'll be holdin' on tight...

"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

[Marc Shaiman]

re: Marc Shaiman Speaks About 1st Full Hairspray Screening#11

Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:24pm

TDiva, that's not true! I hardly saw a single gay in the entire audience. Maybe they don't have a gay in the Vegas village. No, these teenage boys were with girlfriends. Who were lusting after Zac Efron. The girlfriends that is.

[best12bars]

re: Marc Shaiman Speaks About 1st Full Hairspray Screening#12

Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:28pm

Yay for "straight musical love!"

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[vmlinnie]

re: Marc Shaiman Speaks About 1st Full Hairspray Screening#13

Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:28pm

Haha, nice one Marc. And TD, I laughed at both.

Just to add that I am looking forward to it, but liked it on stage. Not a reference to the gay boys jibe just above!

The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.

Derek Mahon

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

Arthur Miller

[StickToPriest]

re: Marc Shaiman Speaks About 1st Full Hairspray Screening#14

Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:32pm

"No, these teenage boys were with girlfriends. Who were lusting after Zac Efron. The girlfriends that is."

Obviously. The guys were clearly lusting after Travolta.

"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

[mateo]

re: Marc Shaiman Speaks About 1st Full Hairspray Screening#15

Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:32pm

hehehe. god marc I should have been there, gotta get that missing quota up.



anyway, Zac is one of the nicest guys for real. He was a pleasure to meet.

I have many straight guy friends who will like Hairspray. No sarcastict retorts!

"Zac is sweet as can be. He's very much just a sweet kid from California who happens to have a face that looks like it was drawn by Michelangelo, (if Michelangelo did anime)."
-Adam Shankman.

"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"

"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"

[best12bars]

re: Marc Shaiman Speaks About 1st Full Hairspray Screening#16

Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:33pm

I have many straight guy friends who NEED hairspray.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[vmlinnie]

re: Marc Shaiman Speaks About 1st Full Hairspray Screening#17

Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:34pm

The show, or the accessory?

The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.

Derek Mahon

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

Arthur Miller

[Phantom2]

re: Marc Shaiman Speaks About 1st Full Hairspray Screening#18

Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:34pm

Too bad Scott Nevins wasn't in the house.

"I'm learning to dig deep down inside and find the truth within myself and put that out. I think what we identify with in popular music more than anything else is when someone just shares a truth that we can relate to. That's what I'm searching for in my music." - Ron Bohmer

"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher

[TheatreDiva90016]

re: Marc Shaiman Speaks About 1st Full Hairspray Screening#19

Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:41pm

You know it was a big ol' joke Marc.

I'm thrilled for you and am looking forward to seeing the film.

Now spill, why didn't J.T. shave his brows?

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[dididda]

re: Marc Shaiman Speaks About 1st Full Hairspray Screening#20

Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:48pm

this makes me excited about a project id been losing excitment for.

""the gays love their presents. just wave something shiny in front of their faces, you can get whatever you want. Thats how we got manhattan from the gay indians" -Karen (W&G)"

[GreenGirl22406]

re: Marc Shaiman Speaks About 1st Full Hairspray Screening#21

Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:53pm

I really want some reviews on Efron. I want to know if he can really sing! Personally, I find no appeal in him whatsoever, but I know some of my friends will go just so see him.

"In the rain, the pavement shines like silver
All the lights are misty in the river
In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight
And all I see is him and me forever and forever."

[mateo]

re: Marc Shaiman Speaks About 1st Full Hairspray Screening#22

Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:54pm

he can! I heard him sing live at ShoWest. He was great.

"Zac is sweet as can be. He's very much just a sweet kid from California who happens to have a face that looks like it was drawn by Michelangelo, (if Michelangelo did anime)."
-Adam Shankman.

"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"

"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"

[Craig]

re: Marc Shaiman Speaks About 1st Full Hairspray Screening#23

Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:54pm

"Now spill, why didn't J.T. shave his brows?"

TD - because every movie needs to have SOME CGI fx in it.. I hear they used CGI to remove his eyebrows

kidding of course

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka

[vmlinnie]

re: Marc Shaiman Speaks About 1st Full Hairspray Screening#24

Posted: 3/16/07 at 7:56pm

There are rules about flying planes if you haven't got good enough eyesight. Surely they would count as a visual impairment.

The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.

Derek Mahon

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

Arthur Miller