~Rehersal Video, Set Model~ NEXT TO NORMAL MELBOURNE artwork

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~Rehersal Video, Set Model~ NEXT TO NORMAL MELBOURNE artwork

Posted: 4/6/11 at 8:32am

Interesting Gabe



Still bad.

http://www.mtc.com.au/tickets/production.aspx?performanceNumber=3190

Am going to the first preview + have seen the show on Broadway three times so feel like I'm semi-qualified to report.

EDIT 1:

* A photo of the set model:



EDIT 2:

* 'Behind the Scenes/Rehearsal video'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tq0hujhbSA

Edit 3:

Photos of the cast rehearsing and things posted at the end of the thread.

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Updated On: 4/18/11 at 08:32 AM

#2

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Posted: 4/6/11 at 9:19am

Is Gabe now 40? And Dan looks particularly....gay.

If I were in the family pictured, I think I'd go crazy too.

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Posted: 4/6/11 at 9:28am

Most of the season has sold out.

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Posted: 4/6/11 at 9:34am

Dan has a "Oh honey, no you didn't go crazy!" look on his face.

#5

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Posted: 4/6/11 at 10:21am

They're giving me more Mamma Mia and less Next to Normal in this.

#6

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Posted: 4/6/11 at 11:20am

Looks like some kind of bad production of Angels in America.

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#7

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Posted: 4/6/11 at 12:36pm

Everyone besides Diana look like they should be superheroes protecting the city from the latest villain attack!

#8

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Posted: 4/6/11 at 12:41pm

I saw Gareth Keegan in Jersey Boys and he was pretty much awful. I still can't believe he's playing Gabe.

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Posted: 4/6/11 at 1:03pm

I didn't catch Gareth in 'Jersey Boys'...but saw him as Tony in 'West Side Story' while he was studying at WAAPA and he was brilliant. And also, one of the loveliest guys you could ever hope to meet. I'm so happy for his success.

That said...artwork isn't the best...

#10

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Posted: 4/6/11 at 5:07pm

This is the Dutch art! It's incomplete.. They haven't announced Henrey and Natalie yet. So I think there gonna be at the bottom

On the top left: Simone Kleinsma (Diana)
Right: Freek Bartels (Gabe)
On the bottom left: Rene van Kooten (Dr Madden)
Right: Wim van den Driessche (Dan)

#11

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Posted: 4/6/11 at 5:11pm

"Everyone besides Diana look like they should be superheroes protecting the city from the latest villain attack!"

The filename for the artwork is "hero", could it actually be intentional :-/?

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#12

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Posted: 4/6/11 at 5:12pm

Oh dear...so many things to say, and none of them nice.

#13

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Posted: 4/6/11 at 5:54pm

How is this relevant to the show? People will hear Superboy and the Invisible Girl and get the wrong idea.

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Posted: 4/6/11 at 5:56pm

The old artwork, for those who haven't seen it


(p.s. decided we can't conclude that they are going for a superhero angle based on the filename - they use 'hero' for all of their images - like a placeholder or something? idk)

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Updated On: 4/6/11 at 05:56 PM

#15

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Posted: 4/6/11 at 5:58pm

Some Aussie designer liked the opening titles to last season's BIG LOVE a bit too much.

#16

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Posted: 4/6/11 at 6:01pm

I'd like to see a poster with Diana riding a dinosaur while a dominatrix Natalie is whipping Gabe who is naked and tied to a bed with Dan hiding underneath it laughing like a school girl.

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Posted: 4/6/11 at 6:02pm

Totally LOLing at new artwork, then LOLed even louder at the old artwork of her juggle balancing the pills. I never really liked the Broadway production poster art, but it looks like a masterpiece compared to these.

I did not know that they were doing a Dutch production. Simone is going to be an awesome Diana (loved her in my cast recordings of the Dutch "Chicago" and "Sunset Blvd."). I can live without Freek though (their reality show winner "Joseph...")

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#18

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Posted: 4/6/11 at 6:04pm

Oh, Jordan. You really do almost never disappoint.

#19

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Posted: 4/6/11 at 6:14pm

Jordan, it really depends on who's playing Gabe...

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#20

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Posted: 4/6/11 at 6:22pm

The bway artwork sucked. Those photos that made everyone look like wax dummies sucked and were creepy.

But this is just wierd. It looks like a dance show. I'm reminded of Stomp. But with anti-depressants.

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#21

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Posted: 4/6/11 at 6:23pm

Jordan, please design all posters from now on for everything.

The Dutch casting is hilarious. I mean, they're all talented, but they're in frickin' EVERYTHING that Stage Entertainment does (I know that's how they work but still...) I'm guessing Jasper Stokman and Michelle van de Ven (from Stage Entertainment's SPRING AWAKENING) for Henry and Natalie.

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Posted: 4/6/11 at 7:24pm

Melbourne cast looks fine, but I just don't get the Dutch casting. How can you be familiar with Next to Normal and say to yourself "you know what this show needs? A rape-faced Mr. Smith playing Dan."

And something deep down tells me that Diana would not imagine Gabe to be a booger of noticably different ethnicity with a receding hairline.

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Posted: 4/6/11 at 7:38pm

Heh heh. Dutch Diana has terrifying eyes and Dutch Dan and Dutch Gabe have pin heads.

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#24

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Posted: 4/6/11 at 8:43pm

Diana in the Melbourne artwork... the look is VERY Olivia Newton John a la Xanadu.

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#25

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Posted: 4/6/11 at 8:51pm

@DeNada: I know what you mean about casting the same people. When I see a musical with a middle aged woman as the starring role, I always place a bet with myself on whether Simone or Pia Douwes is going to be starring in it (and in the case of "Chicago" and "Sunset Blvd.", if both are going to be in it).

Anyway, I hope I get a new (probably live) cast recording out of the Dutch cast at least.

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