New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)

[CapnHook]

New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)#0

Posted: 1/22/05 at 10:30pm

This is from a message boards on Saycon's website:

"I am the author and composer of a Broadway bound musical called ELIZA (a revisioning of Pygmalion/ My Fair Lady featuring a New York ghetto girl a la Eliza Dolittle). Suzanne DePasse is the lead producer (Image Awards, Essence Awards, Showtime at the Apollo, Sister Sister, Smart Guy, former Motown Chief)."

"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

[CATSNYrevival]

re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)#1

Posted: 1/22/05 at 10:33pm

lord.

[Allie]

re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)#2

Posted: 1/22/05 at 10:33pm

Didn't something like this take place in "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen"?

[shira467]

re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)#3

Posted: 1/22/05 at 10:35pm

Sounds completely unecessary.

Deet: Shira, I Love You!

[Rathnait62]

re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)#4

Posted: 1/22/05 at 10:35pm

Suzanne DePasse? Uh oh...I'm seeing Aahanti...ugh.

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

[CapnHook]

re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)#5

Posted: 1/22/05 at 10:37pm

We have Pygmalion, and we have My Fair Lady. Why is there a need for this? One word: "ORIGINALITY!"

"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

[Gothampc]

re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)#6

Posted: 1/22/05 at 10:38pm

Just you wait Henry Higgins till I cut you.
You'll be sorry, and my father's gonna sue.
Pickering knocked me up
and I'm gonna have a pup
Boy you really f*cked it up
Just you wait.

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.

[Amneris]

re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)#7

Posted: 1/22/05 at 10:39pm

Yes lol!! it was called "ELIZA ROCKS" and took place in a ghetto grocery store.

[Unknown User]

re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)#8

Posted: 1/22/05 at 10:46pm

"Jes you wait,
Motha-F*ka,
Jes you wait."

[TonyaFanatic]

re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)#9

Posted: 1/22/05 at 11:20pm

all this streotyping is really offensive to me. why since black people are involved does violence have anything to do with it. and please stop saying "ghetto". that word is a geographical area, not an attitude or a state of mind.

"Girl, this cupcake is the jumpoff"- Adriane Lenox

[Musetta1957]

re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)#10

Posted: 1/23/05 at 12:11am

I smell an ebonics flame war!

[Marquise]

re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)#11

Posted: 1/23/05 at 12:22am

AS SOMEONE WHO HAS SOME "BLACK BLOOD" RUNNING THRU HIS VEINS I AM OFFENDED BY WHAT HAS BEEN POSTED. (AND YES THE CAPS ARE INTENTIONAL..SO YOU GET OVER IT..OKAY?) THE EBONICS COMMENT, THE USE OF THE WORD GHETTO...THE VIOLENCE WAS REALLY UNECESSARY.

[Musetta1957]

re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)#12

Posted: 1/23/05 at 12:37am

Oh, please. This board is predictable. You know that, and I know that, and that was why I made the comment I did.

[Marquise]

re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)#13

Posted: 1/23/05 at 2:12am

yes it is predictable...predictably ignorant for the most part...

[shira467]

re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)#14

Posted: 1/23/05 at 2:19am

"Ethnic jokes might be uncouth, but you laugh because they're based on truth"

I agree with Musetta, in that this board is extremely predictable. However, we should also be more openminded and acknowledge that media representation of people aren't always correct.

Deet: Shira, I Love You!

[CapnHook]

re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)#15

Posted: 1/23/05 at 10:27am

"Everyone's a little bit racist, sometimes."

Nothing stated was meant to be offensive. It was to play along with a stereotype that pre-exists, and that this new musical suggests.

I also meant to say - this is sort of reminding me of THE WIZ.

"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

[My Fair Lady]

re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)#16

Posted: 1/23/05 at 11:04am

God no!

[orangeskittles]

re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)#17

Posted: 1/23/05 at 2:21pm

"Yes lol!! it was called "ELIZA ROCKS" and took place in a ghetto grocery store. "

I think it was a LES grocery store, not the ghetto. Completely different. /sarcasm

For those that complained about the use of the word "ghetto", it was pulled from the quote on Saycon's website. The posters here are just using what was given to them.

Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how

Updated On: 1/23/05 at 02:21 PM

[TonyaFanatic]

re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)#18

Posted: 1/23/05 at 2:27pm

dont tell me who to get upset with. if u say something i find a offensive as a black person im gonna say something. im so tired of people of thinking its okay to say offensive things. IT'S NOT! SO STOP! IM BLACK AND ITS OFFENSIVE. IF U KEEP SAYING THINGS THAT I FIND OFFENSIVE, I WILL REPORT IT. PERIOD POINT BLANK.

"Girl, this cupcake is the jumpoff"- Adriane Lenox

[Thetruth]

re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)#19

Posted: 1/23/05 at 4:22pm

"We have Pygmalion, and we have My Fair Lady. Why is there a need for this? One word: "ORIGINALITY!"


Nothing is original.

[Mr Roxy]

re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)#20

Posted: 1/23/05 at 4:42pm

The critics will have a field day with it. no matter how good it is.

Tampering with My Fair Lady . They will be merciless

Poster Emeritus

[musicgal04]

re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)#21

Posted: 1/23/05 at 4:47pm

I know that nothing is original, but how about remaking something that isn't a beloved piece of musical theatre history?

[shira467]

re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)#23

Posted: 1/23/05 at 5:20pm

Excellent point Gaellon! I forgot about where the word "ghetto" originated. It was drilled in my head when I learned about Medieval Jewish History.

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[CapnHook]

re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)#24

Posted: 1/23/05 at 6:26pm

Oh, please! The problem, as I see it, is not the person using the phrase "That's so ghetto" - it is with the person BEING offended!

In most cases, when someone using the term "ghetto" of many other "racist" terms - they do not meant to be offensive. They say it because it is a phrase commonly used. People say it all the time: white or black or yellow or green.

If you are black, or white, or yellow, or green - and you are offended - that is YOUR problem. Again, only YOUR problem is the person using the phrase doesn't meant to be offensive.

"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

[CastAlbumFan]

re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)#25

Posted: 1/23/05 at 9:46pm

I'm not reading this. I'm just not reading this.

WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!