Nine

#1

Nine

Posted: 10/13/05 at 8:25pm

I'm slowly, but surely, becoming attached to Nine. I think the score is wonderful, and I love the revival cast recording. Some of it even makes me cry.

Now I want to play Luisa when I get older!

I also found out my Drama teacher played Stephanie (the critic) about a year back, and my Journalism teacher was a reporter.

Does anyone else love Nine?

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#2

re: Nine

Posted: 10/13/05 at 8:26pm

what's your drama teacher's name>

#3

re: Nine

Posted: 10/13/05 at 8:30pm

It's my favorite show!

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#4

re: Nine

Posted: 10/13/05 at 8:32pm

I am obsessed with Nine. I saw the revival four or five times, including the final show (my post about it is probably still somewhere in the bowels of this board), and own three different recordings of the show, though there are more out there. I love the beautiful score and the fact that there's really not a role in it that doesn't attract me somehow, though the role I want to play most is Luisa. It's really a wonderful show.

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#5

re: Nine

Posted: 10/13/05 at 8:33pm

PM me, and I'll tell you....

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#6

re: Nine

Posted: 10/13/05 at 9:51pm

<---Lo and behold. Carla Albanese from the original production of Nine. (Drawn by me)

Take a good look at it. It's very appropriate for this thread.

Back on topic: I stupidly missed the revival back in 2003. Right now, I'm writing a paper about the libretto for my Drama Lit class. Plus, I get to make a presentation about it!

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#7

re: Nine

Posted: 10/13/05 at 9:54pm

Original on Broadway once.
National Tour in L.A. once.
Roudabout Revival twice. (I don't think I've ever seen anything more beautiful.)

I adore NINE.

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" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

#8

re: Nine

Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:10pm

I'm so glad they released the full 2-CD recording of the original cast. It's one of my favorite cast albums ever now.

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#9

re: Nine

Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:24pm

I saw the revival twice, and loved it both times.

#10

re: Nine

Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:30pm

Me too and the first time I saw the revival I was about four rows away from his Antonio-ness. Radiant!

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" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

#11

re: Nine

Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:51pm

Please don't hurt me, but i've heard so much about Nine and i'd love to know what it's about. Maybe you guys will convince me to buy the soundtrack.

#12

re: Nine

Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:53pm

I love Nine too, and I want to play Luisa or Claudia. And JK1F-CAST RECORDING!!

#13

re: Nine

Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:55pm

Cast-recording? I'm geussing it really good?

#14

re: Nine

Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:56pm

JK1Fan-to put it in a nutshell, because it is very complicated plotwise, NINE is about a film director named Guido Contini who is going through a middle-age crisis and the many women in his life. His marriage is falling apart, his mistress is growing too attached to him, he's signed to directing a film he has not started work on the script for and his producer is pressuring him, and it's just about how he acts so immature for his age and continues to dig himself into a hole.

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#15

re: Nine

Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:56pm

It's cast recording. Please say it next time before we kill you.

It's wonderbar!

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#16

re: Nine

Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:58pm

Thanks, the plot sounds complex and well done. Sorry about my mistakes...i'm new to Nine.

#17

re: Nine

Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:59pm

And, yes, the cast recording is wonderful. Both the original and revival. The revival has cleaner orchestrations and some great performances (with Jane Krakowski and Antonio Banderas as huge stand outs). The original is just wonderful too, though. Especially Anita Morris' "Call From the Vatican" and Lilliane Montevechi's "Folies Begeres".

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"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.

#18

re: Nine

Posted: 10/13/05 at 11:02pm

Thanks for your help!

#19

re: Nine

Posted: 10/13/05 at 11:06pm

I saw the revival of NINE 9 times. I was also at the final performance (actually, I was the guy who "sent the roses" at that one). That production was just MAGICAL! So many images are burned onto my eyelids, like all the beginning, with the screen coming up and the girls all descending.Not to mention a PHENOMENALLY talented cast, all of whom I loved (although my faves were Laura Benanti, Sara gettelfinger, Linda Mugleston and Elena Shaddow.... Sara and Linda have each gotten a bit of fame with subsequent jobs, and Elena...well, girlfriend is a star on the RISE! Go see Woman In White!)

Doug

#20

re: Nine

Posted: 10/13/05 at 11:27pm

I'm listening to "Unusual Way". This makes me want to see The Secret Garden even more. Damn thsoe stupid tech rehearsals!

#21

re: Nine

Posted: 10/14/05 at 8:25am

Loved the original and the revival - Anita Morris & Chita Rivera can do no wrong. I would have liked to have seen Eartha Kitt do LLF Though. Also, Kudo's to Antonio & the great Raul J. - they were both incredible!

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#22

re: Nine

Posted: 10/14/05 at 10:09am

I saw the revival from the front row...It's one of my favorite theater experiences thus far, and I've seen my fair share of shows. I though that the production was gorgeous, Antonio Banderas was amazing, as were ALL of the women. It's a great show, I just wish I had seen it again before it closed.

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#23

re: Nine

Posted: 10/14/05 at 10:13am

Oh my god.

My mom's friend is getting me an autograph from THE John Stamos.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

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#24

re: Nine

Posted: 10/14/05 at 11:12am

I love Nine...it is Maury Yeston's masterpiece (although I also enjoy Grand Hotel and Phantom - the music not the recording of Phantom). The overture is probably the best of any musical I can think of...and "Getting Tall" and of course "The Bells of St. Sebastian"

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#25

re: Nine

Posted: 10/14/05 at 11:59am

Seeing Eartha Kitt in the role was a bit traumatic, especially with the way they reworked Follies Bergeres--I definitely saw more than I wanted to see that evening. :-P

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"Peace! The charm's wound up." --Macbeth