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NEW INTERVIEW: Arthur Laurents is responsible for the success of WICKED...
#25re: NEW INTERVIEW: Arthur Laurents is responsible for the success of WICKED
Posted: 8/4/09 at 1:26am
Gypsy.....that's that movie starring Bette Midler, right?
And West Side Story, that's the prequel to East Side Story, right?
Sorry, I've just been too busy watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer and listening to Idina Menzel's solo album that I've lost all sense of history. You know, anything that's before 1990.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
Updated On: 8/4/09 at 01:26 AM
#26re: NEW INTERVIEW: Arthur Laurents is responsible for the success of WICKED
Posted: 8/4/09 at 1:29am
"the VAMPIRE Slayer"
<---- LOL
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#27re: NEW INTERVIEW: Arthur Laurents is responsible for the success of WICKED
Posted: 8/4/09 at 1:31amI'm not gonna lie, pgenre. Your icon totally inspired me to say JUST that. It is 1:35 AM, after all. I need someplace to find inspiration.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
#28re: NEW INTERVIEW: Arthur Laurents is responsible for the success of WICKED
Posted: 8/4/09 at 1:39am
I LOVE IT!
"Sleep well... sleep DEEP!"
A Good Nightmare Comes So Rarely,
I'll Show You Yours,
If You Show Me Mine
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#29re: NEW INTERVIEW: Arthur Laurents is responsible for the success of WICKED
Posted: 8/4/09 at 1:44am
Casey Nicholaw directing WHISTLE.
I don't think we knew this!
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#30re: NEW INTERVIEW: Arthur Laurents is responsible for the success of WICKED
Posted: 8/4/09 at 2:07amArthur ought to know, he convinced L. Frank Baum's grandparents that Baum had a career as a writer.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#31re: NEW INTERVIEW: Arthur Laurents is responsible for the success of WICKED
Posted: 8/4/09 at 2:27amIs Laurents a giver or a taker?
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#32re: NEW INTERVIEW: Arthur Laurents is responsible for the success of WICKED
Posted: 8/4/09 at 2:29amUm....
#33re: NEW INTERVIEW: Arthur Laurents is responsible for the success of WICKED
Posted: 8/4/09 at 2:32amLOL@Him looking like a Garden Gnome, and not knowing if it's a good or bad thing. (Well pretending, at least).
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Updated On: 8/4/09 at 02:32 AM
#34re: NEW INTERVIEW: Arthur Laurents is responsible for the success of WICKED
Posted: 8/4/09 at 8:54amWhat most people don't realize is that Arthur Laurents, not Al Gore, invented the internet.
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#35re: NEW INTERVIEW: Arthur Laurents is responsible for the success of WICKED
Posted: 8/4/09 at 11:09am
"'Arthur is one of the greats.'
Great whats?"
Narcissists.
#36re: NEW INTERVIEW: Arthur Laurents is responsible for the success of WICKED
Posted: 8/4/09 at 11:23amArthur didn't invent the Internet, but he did invent Sex.
#37re: NEW INTERVIEW: Arthur Laurents is responsible for the success of WICKED
Posted: 8/4/09 at 11:27amWait.. Arthur Laurents... was he not that man who got crucified for my sins, and then came back from the dead?
#38re: NEW INTERVIEW: Arthur Laurents is responsible for the success of WICKED
Posted: 8/4/09 at 11:37am
Oh man, who cares whether any of what he says is true? The man is frigging hysterical. I hope I make it to 93 and get to be as crotchety as he is.
Inflated sense of self? Let it ride. I'll read any interview he gives.
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#39re: NEW INTERVIEW: Arthur Laurents is responsible for the success of WICKED
Posted: 8/4/09 at 12:04pm
What's the big revelation? Producers go to other writers/directors for advice on a project all the time.
AL is an old, ollllllllld man.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#40re: NEW INTERVIEW: Arthur Laurents is responsible for the success of WICKED
Posted: 8/4/09 at 12:21pm
Very good point. To suggest AL is responsible for Wicked's success is like suggesting everyone at Sydmonton Festival in 1985/6 was responsible for Phantom's success. Writers and directors chat about projects all the time.
AL really seems desperate just now for attention. What award is he craving?
Good news if Anyone Can Whistle is on its way back though. It's a fantastic score.
#41re: NEW INTERVIEW: Arthur Laurents is responsible for the success of WICKED
Posted: 8/4/09 at 12:29pm
Wait.. Arthur Laurents... was he not that man who got crucified for my sins, and then came back from the dead?
No. Arthur Laurents is the Undead.
He subsists on the blood of former collaborators.
#42re: NEW INTERVIEW: Arthur Laurents is responsible for the success of WICKED
Posted: 8/4/09 at 8:42pm
Regarding the Playbill Radio interview and the quote about Sondheim- "He's wrong."
"He's wrong" about what?
husk_charmer
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#43re: NEW INTERVIEW: Arthur Laurents is responsible for the success of WICKED
Posted: 8/4/09 at 9:04pm
PGenre-
Normally, I don't have an issue with you, however slighting PJ's book recommendations is pretty...lame. Both of them are very well written and fascinating reads.
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#44re: NEW INTERVIEW: Arthur Laurents is responsible for the success of WICKED
Posted: 8/5/09 at 11:09am
Pgenre,
Doll, I've given you a lot (and I'm still waiting on a lot in return, copy that damn thing already 
). But don't diss PJ for any reason. He was there. He knoweth whereof he speakest.
"There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from."
~ Charles M. Schulz
#45re: NEW INTERVIEW: Arthur Laurents is responsible for the success of WICKED
Posted: 8/5/09 at 2:26pm
To paraphrase from PIPPIN:
"PalJoey is an as*hole, my dear"
Don't speak of things you NOTHING about, gvendo and husk.
Though I find it interesting you find his arrogance acceptible but a mere ACKNOWLEDGMENT of said arrogance on his behalf prompts such defense. Birds of a feather...
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Updated On: 8/5/09 at 02:26 PM
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#46re: NEW INTERVIEW: Arthur Laurents is responsible for the success of WICKED
Posted: 8/5/09 at 11:16pm
^I was more criticizing your unwillingness to take a book recommendation than anything.
And I rather resent the arrogance comment...I wasn't aware I came off as such.
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Updated On: 8/5/09 at 11:16 PM
#47re: NEW INTERVIEW: Arthur Laurents is responsible for the success of WICKED
Posted: 8/5/09 at 11:24pm
The arrogance derives mostly from the original post in which the ASSUMPTION is made that I haven't read those books, which, of course, I have. As should any self-respecting theatre fan. Their recommendation in a thread about Laurents is illusory of said arrogance.
That said, neither book is (thanks Namo) anywhere near as entertaining as EITHER of Laurents' tomes, though Hart's is interesting in its own, less dishy, way.
husk - nothing but love, baby.
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Updated On: 8/5/09 at 11:24 PM
husk_charmer
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#48re: NEW INTERVIEW: Arthur Laurents is responsible for the success of WICKED
Posted: 8/5/09 at 11:37pm^ Aha. No harm, no foul.
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FindingNamo
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#49re: NEW INTERVIEW: Arthur Laurents is responsible for the success of WICKED
Posted: 8/5/09 at 11:42pm
P, if you're gonna purple up your prose like a convict trying to impress a parole board with your erudition, you might as well know it's not "That said, neither book are anywhere near..." but rather "is anywhere near...."
The more you know.
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