My Picks for the Sideshow Revival!

#1

My Picks for the Sideshow Revival!

Posted: 6/23/10 at 11:05pm

Well not really, but I thought this was great!

From the N2N show at joes pub tonight!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AwO-dHGpUQ
enjoy

#2

My Picks for the Sideshow Revival!

Posted: 6/23/10 at 11:26pm

I tried to watch it but the rude giggling girls were pissing me off.

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"Broadway...I'll lick you yet!"

#3

My Picks for the Sideshow Revival!

Posted: 6/23/10 at 11:36pm

My picks for the revival remain to be Anika Noni Rose & Nikki Renee Daniels. And yes, I'm aware that their ethnicity is historically inaccurate.

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"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

#4

My Picks for the Sideshow Revival!

Posted: 6/23/10 at 11:42pm

Side Show already plays fast and loose with history (Freaks, for instance, was released in 1932, four years before the 1936 Texas Centennial), but if you change Violet and Daisy's ethnicity to African-American it would certainly cause problems with the Jake storyline.

#5

My Picks for the Sideshow Revival!

Posted: 6/23/10 at 11:51pm

UGH. Fine. Can they at least do a concert? Maybe just one song at a cabaret? Please?

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"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

#6

My Picks for the Sideshow Revival!

Posted: 6/24/10 at 12:15am

Erin Davie and Betsy Wolfe were a formidable pair in the workshop Roundabout produced of the show.

If that incarnation moves forward, it would serve the piece quite well to keep them with it.

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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.

Updated On: 6/24/10 at 12:15 AM

#7

My Picks for the Sideshow Revival!

Posted: 6/24/10 at 12:28am

^ Ohmigod, I'm stumpped. Which one is Betsy?

#8

My Picks for the Sideshow Revival!

Posted: 6/24/10 at 12:30am

The one on the left. :)

(but I agree, they do look kind of scarily similar!)

#9

My Picks for the Sideshow Revival!

Posted: 6/24/10 at 1:54am

"UGH. Fine. Can they at least do a concert? Maybe just one song at a cabaret? Please?"

How could anyone say no to that request when you look at them that way?

#10

My Picks for the Sideshow Revival!

Posted: 6/24/10 at 9:03am

The Joe's Pub concert last night was absolutely fantastic from start to finish. Jen's version of Touch Me was glorious as was the version of Without You she did with Adam. The highlights of the show, though, were Brian Crum singing Faithfully by Journey, Jessica Phillips singing Somebody Stand by Me by Faith Hill, and Kyle Dean singing The Grass is Blue by Dolly Parton. The Side Show song was excellent too, obviously.

#11

My Picks for the Sideshow Revival!

Posted: 6/24/10 at 9:10am

The entire concert was fantastic, though Brian Crum's performance was definitely the highlight. What a voice he has. Jessica's Somebody Stand By Me was excellent too, even if she was a littly tipsy by that point.

A fantastic event.

#12

My Picks for the Sideshow Revival!

Posted: 6/24/10 at 10:49am

I loved tipsy Jessica. They all completely blew my mind. There's no doubt in my mind that Next To Normal is an incredible show, but sometimes the music just doesn't seem to do their voices justice. Brian shocked me. Absolutely shocked me - heavenly.

#13

My Picks for the Sideshow Revival!

Posted: 6/24/10 at 11:20am

I'll never understand why the original production made the Hilton Sisters blondes, when they were brunettes in real life.

Not nearly as bad as the decision to make Evelyn Nesbit a blonde in RAGTIME - especially when Mother was also blonde. For that matter, when was Houdini played by Jim Corti, who was pushing 50, when Houdini was in his 20's when Ragtime takes place?

#14

My Picks for the Sideshow Revival!

Posted: 6/24/10 at 1:53pm

You might think I'm crazy for BOTH of the following statements, but...

1) The two guys were on the wrong sides for which part they were each singing. Still, AMAZING!

2) My picks for a revival would be Leigh Ann Larkin and Leslie Kritzer. I never realized how similar they both are until I saw SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM and A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC back to back!

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<-- Tevye, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, March 2018

#15

My Picks for the Sideshow Revival!

Posted: 6/24/10 at 2:01pm

Betty Buckley and Tovah Feldshuh

Harvey Feirstein and Chris Sieber

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"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello

#16

My Picks for the Sideshow Revival!

Posted: 6/26/10 at 10:16pm

Kristin Chenoweth & Geri Jewell