Robin DeJesus in LaCage?- Page 2

[Pgenre]

Posted: 1/26/10 at 10:22pm

I know this is probably opening a huge can of worms since you asked the original question at all, but what difference does it make when judging the value of anything besides audibility and the relative vocal timbre of an actor? I'd love to have been there, but I bet I can be more of an authority based on having the ability to review the production at will than some distant memory from 25 years ago and the rose-colored glasses that time provides.

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[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/26/10 at 10:47pm

Arthur's direction must look less pedestrian on your bootleg.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 1/26/10 at 10:56pm

I saw the original many times and the show in productions around the world, I don't think Jacob has any scriptal ethnicticity.
DeJesus is a possibly great choice.
As far as the original, Laurents had an amazing creative team for This show, besides Herman and Feirstein, Scott Salmon's choreography, Theoni V. Aldridge's costumes, David Mitchell's sets and Jules Fisher's lighting helped create that amazing opening number where Aldridge's costumes flew into air and then chamged yet again, her lingerie, all perfect, and with Mitchell and Laurents the MASCARA moment was a keeper, but I still went for SUNDAY as Best Misical and it is a special taste.

Zack's production lacked any vision whatsoever.

[Felm_heart]

Posted: 1/26/10 at 11:31pm

Anyone care to describe this magical moment in "Mascara" ?

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 1/26/10 at 11:33pm

LA CAGE 2k10 WOOOOOO

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 1/26/10 at 11:34pm

A moment of levity for all you embittered people in message board world.

[Smaxie]

Posted: 1/26/10 at 11:36pm

Hearn was at a dressing table, getting made up as Zaza. At the moment when he sings, "When Albin is tucked away and Zaza is here," he stood up, fully transformed, the dressing room set pulled away and he was on a wagon, which brought him downstage toward the audience, which made an instant transition to him being "onstage".

[frapperia]

Posted: 1/26/10 at 11:39pm

Re ethnicity: There is a line (in this production) just before the Dindons arrive, Georges is trying to negotiate with Jacob and, hoping to be put in the show, Jacob says something about 'the moment when a single lavender spot will reveal this ebony goddess'. I assume they will cut that for Robin de Jesus. I can see him being an interesting choice, if very, very different from Syrus Lowe and Jason Pennycooke's interpretations.

Smaxie - a WAGON? Everything I've heard about this production smacks of overkill! It sounds so glitzy and high-rent and, probably because the Playhouse one is my first La Cage and I thought it was wonderful, that just doesn't sit right with me. A wagon?! Updated On: 1/26/10 at 11:39 PM

[Smaxie]

Posted: 1/26/10 at 11:44pm

Actually, I just watched it - the wagon with the dressing room traveled upstage, and Hearn walked downstage onto an illuminated staircase. I knew something moved, but had it backwards.

Updated On: 1/26/10 at 11:44 PM

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 1/27/10 at 12:47am

^IIRC the revival did something similar, and it was pretty fantastic. And there was a drop dress involved.