Yes, I know this has been mentioned in previous threads, but I find it odd that the production is two months away and we know nothing.
I am very much looking forward to it, but NYCC has already announced the Off-Center season and there is nothing about this which is hotly awaited. Is there any word on the street about this?
I have that same question! I'm assuming that since the Hey, Look Me Over cast list came out 2-ish months before the show that it'll be the same for this and it'll come out pretty soon?
It's not announced on the Encores web site, but apparently Josh Rhodes is directing and choreographing Grand Hotel. Slightly disappointing for those of us hoping for a recreation of Tommy Tune's brilliant original production, but I did think Rhodes work on Bright Star was very good, so he might be a good choice.
“I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.”
Mr. Nowack said: "Umm any casting?? Anybody?? 5 weeks till the show. The Hey Look me Over press is done. What in the heck are they waiting for?!"
Someone I know works at city center, apparently the audience from Hey Look Me Over fell asleep from being so bored at the last performance. They're still trying to clear them out. They got Carolee Carmello to bang that drum from Wildcat but it just made it worse.
I'm guessing Stephanie Styles is Flaemmchen and Natascia Diaz is Raffaela.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
If Irina-Dvorovenko is Elizabeta, we get a real Russian ballet dancer in the role, which is great. And I assume they can drop the line that they added for Liliane that 'she is french - only her name is Russian.'
“I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.”
Irina Dvorovenko is Elizaveta, as stated in the press release.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Thanks for pointing that out. Actually, as I look at it more, this cast seems entirely appropriate. The show is the star. I just hope Josh Rhodes can capture the Tommy Tune magic doing his own thing.
“I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.”
The idea of Jane reprising Flaemmchen is ludicrous.
I'm happy with the casting overall but would have preferred Danny Burstein as Otto.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
I love Danny Burstein but, physically at least, he would be a big departure from the way the role was originally played in the musical. Most of this casting seems more or less in line with how this was cast in the Tommy Tune staging. Except that Natascia Diaz is tiny and the women who played Rafaella in the original were all over six foot tall.
“I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.”
Uranowitz is certainly slighter, which is physically in line with Michael Jeter, but I don't think Burstein would be considered a radical departure. And besides, the point of a revival/new staging is not to slavishly reconstruct the original.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body