Nine
Nine
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#0Nine
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?
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#3re: Nine
Posted: 10/13/05 at 8:32pmI 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.
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
hypertruffle
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/22/05
#5re: 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!
#13re: Nine
Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:56pmJK1Fan-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.
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#16re: Nine
Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:59pmAnd, 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".
Doogie
Broadway Star Joined: 8/4/03
#18re: 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
#20re: Nine
Posted: 10/14/05 at 8:25amLoved 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!
#21re: Nine
Posted: 10/14/05 at 10:09amI 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.
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#23re: Nine
Posted: 10/14/05 at 11:12amI 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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