Mario Lopez in A CHORUS LINE?- Page 6

[verynewyorkcurious]

Posted: 4/15/08 at 12:41am

I remember posting something in this thread but for some reason it's not here..

I was talking about Grant Turner. He's a very solid actor that can also dance pretty well. I don't remember Beresse much, but I loved Grant Turner's Zach. He doesn't hide his accent either which is awesome. I've also seen him as Greg, and he was the best Greg out of the three Gregs I've seen. It'd be a shame to let him go.

Is anyone going to see Slater tonight?

[blaxx]

Posted: 4/15/08 at 12:42am

How tall is Mario Lopez?

[LimelightMike]

Posted: 4/15/08 at 12:54am

blaxx, I wanna say ... 5'9"-5'10"?

[blaxx]

Posted: 4/15/08 at 1:35am

Yeah, 5.9' seems right, thanks Mike.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 4/15/08 at 5:25pm

Is anyone seeing the show tonight???

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 2/17/13 at 1:05pm

Happened to run across this and it made me laugh. Posters thinking that Michael Bennett would have loved Lopez's casting because they met Bennett at a cocktail party once. Others thinking Bennett would have hated it because relatives of Bennett's said so years after his death.

The show was bastardized for Lopez. Costumes and blocking changed even though NO changes of any kind had been allowed before. The show closed within 3 months after he took over. Sales plummeted 20% shortly after he took over.

Oh well. At least he got a baby out of the deal.





Updated On: 2/17/13 at 01:05 PM

[PalJoey]

Posted: 2/17/13 at 2:35pm

Michael would have loved Mario...until the ticket sales plummeted, at which point Michael would have taken great pleasure in firing Mario.

Publicly and humiliatingly.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 2/17/13 at 2:41pm

And it was not a "cocktail party." It was a housewarming. Michael and Donna's housewarming.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 2/17/13 at 2:46pm

Ticket sales plummeted almost immediately after Mario arrived, by 20%.

As to the rest, I don't see how much difference it makes whether it was a "'cocktail party" or a "housewarming". It was a one -time meeting. Seems silly to think you could know, after a single meeting, what Michael Bennett would have done or felt about anything.

[darreyl102]

Posted: 2/17/13 at 3:06pm

how much of the whole Mario Lopez Nick Adams thing was true?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 2/17/13 at 3:07pm

Seems silly to think you could know, after a single meeting, what Michael Bennett would have done or felt about anything.

Silly enough to have pestered you for five years?

Yes, that's pretty silly.

And it was twice, actually, but never mind.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 2/17/13 at 3:29pm

"how much of the whole Mario Lopez Nick Adams thing was true?"

Hard to answer that question without specifics, but it was true that Lopez had Adams wear a hoodie so as not to have to compete with Adams' muscles, had Adams dance behind him so his dancing wouldn't be compared, encouraged Adams to exercise with him behind the audience during the show, and (not to do with Adams specifically), Lopez had his own costume changed to show off his biceps and had blocking changed so he was onstage with Cassie when she should have been alone on the stage, with him firing questions at her from the darkness.

"Silly enough to have pestered you for five years?

Yes, that's pretty silly.

And it was twice, actually, but never mind."

Pestered me? Hardly. I was looking for something else and this thread popped up (BWW's search engines leave a bit to be desired). It amused me to see how wrong some of the predictions were, so on this chill Sunday, I bumped it for fun. I hadn't posted in it, and didn't even remember it was you that made the Bennett mind-reading claim (being as you knew him so well since you'd met him all of two times) til you pointed it out.







Updated On: 2/17/13 at 03:29 PM

[ACL2006]

Posted: 2/17/13 at 7:33pm

I doubt Bennett would have cast Lopez at all. his acting was terrible, and he wasn't singing during the finale either(both times I saw him in the show - not that it mattered).