Mary Poppins is.... — Page 3

#51

re: Marry Poppins is....

Posted: 4/21/06 at 12:19am

If this is true, it's not the best choice... but not the worst either... Sigh. Oh, Disney.

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[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.

#52

re: Marry Poppins is....

Posted: 4/21/06 at 12:24am

Disney is just one big incestuous family isn't it?

#53

re: Marry Poppins is....

Posted: 4/21/06 at 12:24am

I'm in tears...literally......

#54

re: Marry Poppins is....

Posted: 4/21/06 at 12:26am

Here's a tissue. I stole it from Gretch's stash but I'm sure she wont mind.

#55

re: Marry Poppins is....

Posted: 4/21/06 at 12:28am

Honey, Disney is just cheap. I jokingly said they would never pay a star salary to someone like Kate Winslet or Anne Hathaway, but in hindsight it makes sense that they wouldn't pay what Kelli O'Hara or Laura Benanti are currently making in their current shows. They can probably pay Ashley Brown close to what she is making in BATB (i.e. 15 percent above scale).

#56

re: Marry Poppins is....

Posted: 4/21/06 at 12:32am

It's so weird to me that Disney is stingy with performers when they spend SO much on flashy sets and special effects. Talk about style over substance.

#57

re: Marry Poppins is....

Posted: 4/21/06 at 12:35am

cheap Bennet?
How much are they spending on TARZAN?
and remember this is a joint venture.

#58

re: Marry Poppins is....

Posted: 4/21/06 at 12:36am

Ugh. Let's hope they spend more on MP then they did on Tarzan.

Seriously...they couldn't even paint the harnesses green?

Or were they trying to go for the Brecht affect?

Updated On: 4/21/06 at 12:36 AM

#59

re: Marry Poppins is....

Posted: 4/21/06 at 12:40am

who's Brech?

#60

re: Marry Poppins is....

Posted: 4/21/06 at 12:46am

BSoBW2-what was the big news at Wedding Singer? If it was so big it certainly never made any headlines?

#61

re: Marry Poppins is....

Posted: 4/21/06 at 12:46am

I don't mind popular...I have plenty of tissues to spare.

Can they announce the rest of the cast yet??

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#62

re: Marry Poppins is....

Posted: 4/21/06 at 12:46am

All right, I'm tired of reading this -- I just want to know who was cast as Mary Poppins, or who this supposed performer is that Disney is so stingy with! Can someone please just say it? LOL, AP tests are coming up, and I'm stressed as heck! I just need to know.

#63

re: Marry Poppins is....

Posted: 4/21/06 at 12:48am

It's Ashley Brown

#64

re: Marry Poppins is....

Posted: 4/21/06 at 12:53am

And curtain, Disney is cheap with their PERFORMERS. Notoriously so. Famously so. Just go ask Heather Headley what she made in AIDA, even after she won a Tony for it. You would laugh - seriously...

#65

re: Marry Poppins is....

Posted: 4/21/06 at 12:53am

I have a feeling Disney is also going to take advantage of her being in house and work her to death with no break by keeping the poor girl in "Beauty and the Beast" until the day before rehearsels start.

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Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.

#66

re: Marry Poppins is....

Posted: 4/21/06 at 12:55am

If she really is being worked that hard I might have to make a "Free Ashley" t-shirt and wear it to MP.

#67

re: Marry Poppins is....

Posted: 4/21/06 at 12:55am

OK, so since when exactly did people start doing theater for the money?

#68

re: Marry Poppins is....

Posted: 4/21/06 at 12:56am

they think she's the hottest thing in the world...I haven't seen her so I can't judge, but they know that if she goes elsewhere, they'll lose her, so they want to do their best to keep her in-house. They own her.

#69

re: Marry Poppins is....

Posted: 4/21/06 at 12:56am

Of course they will - didn't you read what I said about buying her at an IRS auction? And if she doesn't cooperate they send in Faye Dunaway and a can of Dutch Boy.

#70

re: Marry Poppins is....

Posted: 4/21/06 at 12:57am

scrrrrub! SCRRRUUUUUUB!

#71

re: Marry Poppins is....

Posted: 4/21/06 at 12:57am

"who is brech?"


hahaha...isn't that some kind of shampoo/!! hahahaha

i am very excited for Ashley..i think she is a great talent.
yay ashley! i can really see her do this. she earned it...
i think its best not to discuss pay...no one knows what kind of deal she got. i know lots of people who have starred in Disney shows and they don't complain! Disney sends their actors on cruises!! i would work for disney!!
btw..hasn't it been established that everyone is pajama game is under a LORT contract?
the best person was chosen for the job and i don't think it had anything to do with Disney being cheap.
that being said..i LOVE YOU Michael Bennet...your posts crack me up! LOL! so please don't start a fight with me! i like you, i REALLY like you! LOL!

Updated On: 4/21/06 at 12:57 AM

#72

re: Marry Poppins is....

Posted: 4/21/06 at 12:59am

Wait...I totally heard that Clay Aiken was going to be Poppins. I can't believe they lied to me.

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#73

re: Marry Poppins is....

Posted: 4/21/06 at 1:00am

I may need a few tissues too....

#74

re: Marry Poppins is....

Posted: 4/21/06 at 1:03am

Well, Popular, "what I did for love" and all that jazz, but when you win a Tony for playing the title role in a new Broadway musical and are STILL making less than the Christine alternate in PHANTOM, you'll bitch too!

#75

re: Marry Poppins is....

Posted: 4/21/06 at 1:08am

Now I have this image in my head of a Disney exec in a cape keeping her chained up in a rehearsal room shouting, "Siiiiiiiing for Meeeeeeeeeee"