#1
Posted: 4/5/16 at 9:18pm
what should be the next musical to follow in the footsteps of Sunset Boulevard with a semi-staged production?
Minimalist staged musicals
#2
Posted: 4/5/16 at 9:33pm
Wicked. Imagine a defying gravity on a ladder and the producers asking the audience to imagine green skin on the actress playing elphaba.
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#3
Posted: 4/5/16 at 9:39pm
^ Actually, a member of this forum, darquegk, developed a really terrific minimalist version of Wicked several years ago.
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#4
Posted: 4/5/16 at 9:39pm
I think it's more of Sunset following in others footsteps...
#5
Posted: 4/5/16 at 9:46pm
I always thought of all those Forbidden Broadway skits as mini minimalist musical excerpts
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#6
Posted: 4/6/16 at 10:46am
I loved toned down version of Into The Woods from 2 summers ago, that was one show on my list of shows I wanted to see stripped down because there's so much going on. The brilliance of the piece gets ridiculously shafted because of the set being so overwhelming.
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#7
Posted: 4/6/16 at 10:56am
BroadMagTech said: "what should be the next musical to follow in the footsteps of Sunset Boulevard with a semi-staged production?"
Is it less-staged than the production that was already done at the Comedy Theatre several years back (which I saw and was pretty great)?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3793245/Sunset-Boulevard-leaner-sharper-and-just-as-sparkling-as-ever.html
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