New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
#0New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
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
--Aristotle
#1re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
Posted: 1/22/05 at 10:33pmlord.
Allie
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#2re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
Posted: 1/22/05 at 10:33pmDidn't something like this take place in "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen"?
#3re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
Posted: 1/22/05 at 10:35pmSounds completely unecessary.
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#4re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
Posted: 1/22/05 at 10:35pmSuzanne DePasse? Uh oh...I'm seeing Aahanti...ugh.
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#5re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
Posted: 1/22/05 at 10:37pmWe 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
--Aristotle
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#6re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#7re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
Posted: 1/22/05 at 10:39pmYes lol!! it was called "ELIZA ROCKS" and took place in a ghetto grocery store.
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#8re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
Posted: 1/22/05 at 10:46pm
"Jes you wait,
Motha-F*ka,
Jes you wait."
TonyaFanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 12/29/04
#9re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
Posted: 1/22/05 at 11:20pmall 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/03
#10re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
Posted: 1/23/05 at 12:11amI smell an ebonics flame war!
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#11re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
Posted: 1/23/05 at 12:22amAS 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/03
#12re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
Posted: 1/23/05 at 12:37amOh, please. This board is predictable. You know that, and I know that, and that was why I made the comment I did.
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#13re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
Posted: 1/23/05 at 2:12amyes it is predictable...predictably ignorant for the most part...
#14re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
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.
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#15re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
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
--Aristotle
#16re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
Posted: 1/23/05 at 11:04amGod no!
#17re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
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.
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Updated On: 1/23/05 at 02:21 PM
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TonyaFanatic
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#18re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
Posted: 1/23/05 at 2:27pmdont 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
#19re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#20re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
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
#21re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
Posted: 1/23/05 at 4:47pmI know that nothing is original, but how about remaking something that isn't a beloved piece of musical theatre history?
#23re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
Posted: 1/23/05 at 5:20pmExcellent 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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#24re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
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
--Aristotle
#25re: New Musical Heading to Broadway: ELIZA (a la Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
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!
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