"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
Bdwybelle, I am SO impressed that you know 'Birds Of Paradise'. I was gonna mention it earlier but I figured nobody would know what I was talking about!
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds."
~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns
Unfortunately I've never seen the show. I wasn't even born when they did it, but I'm a Donna Murphy fan, so when I found out that she was in it, I immediately got the cd. I love it!!! It should be revived.
Well, unfortunately the book is pretty bad but it is pretty good music. I use 'Coming True' as an audition song from time to time.
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds."
~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
Company is a cast of at least 14. Bobby, the five couples, the three girlfriends and if you want, pit singers who can sometimes double as extra characters "described" in the show. There was a revival of Little Me with Victor Garber where it was done with a cast as small as 7 or 8 people.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
Kristin Chenoweth could barely control a Great Dane she trotted onto the stage. "Great, they gave me a dog that weighs five times what I do", she quipped. For the record, she weighs 93 pounds, and has a Maltese.