#1
Posted: 12/23/08 at 12:21pm
I would like to see Lupone in the brilliant Gypsy concept staging of Sam Mendes.
#6
Posted: 12/23/08 at 12:51pm
What concept staging? The Sam Mendes GYPSY was lackluster, lifeless, and without much of a concept. It was thoroughly disappointing. And my niece didn't like her only exposure to the show. So there.
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#7
Posted: 12/23/08 at 1:34pm
There's something to be said for the fact that Sam Mendes hasn't been on Broadway since that horrendous production.
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#8
Posted: 12/23/08 at 1:37pm
Not really because neither has Bernadette Peters or Tammy Blanchard.
#9
Posted: 12/23/08 at 2:30pm
>There's something to be said for the fact that Sam Mendes hasn't been on Broadway since that horrendous production.<
What about The Vertical Hour, which he directed?
And what hasn't been said much is that Laurents hampered or jettisoned just about every directorial idea that Mendes tried to incorporate into the 2003 production.
What about The Vertical Hour, which he directed?
And what hasn't been said much is that Laurents hampered or jettisoned just about every directorial idea that Mendes tried to incorporate into the 2003 production.
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#10
Posted: 12/23/08 at 2:36pm
ME NO LIKE CHANGE
ME WANT LAURENTS TO DIRECT GYPSY EXACTLY WAY 1959 PRODUCTION WAS DONE
ME NO WANT TO SEE ESTABLISHED DIRECTORS TRY NEW IDEAS AND NEW TAKES ON CLASSIC WORKS
ME WANT LAURENTS TO DIRECT GYPSY EXACTLY WAY 1959 PRODUCTION WAS DONE
ME NO WANT TO SEE ESTABLISHED DIRECTORS TRY NEW IDEAS AND NEW TAKES ON CLASSIC WORKS
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#12
Posted: 12/23/08 at 2:51pm
Kudos to Mendes for that clever bit having Dainty June whip-out that cigarette and light it after the Miss Cratchitt scene. Seeing her smoking that cigarette in that Dainty June get-up was a visual that spoke volumes about that character.
#13
Posted: 12/23/08 at 3:00pm
Didn't Peters lose her husband towards the end of the run, or was that after it closed?
#14
Posted: 12/23/08 at 3:05pm
I think that was a year or two after the show closed.
#15
Posted: 12/23/08 at 3:09pm
Gypsy closed May 30, 2004 and her husband died in a helicopter crash September 26, 2005. I believe she had quite a few concerts scheduled, which she cancelled (obviously).
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#17
Posted: 12/23/08 at 3:29pm
"Gypsy closed May 30, 2004 and her husband died in a helicopter crash September 26, 2005. I believe she had quite a few concerts scheduled, which she cancelled (obviously)."
I read on this very forum that she still went ahead with some of the shows. (Although never mentioned it during)
I read on this very forum that she still went ahead with some of the shows. (Although never mentioned it during)
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#18
Posted: 12/23/08 at 3:34pm
Dollypop:
There's something to be said for the fact that Sam Mendes hasn't been on Broadway since that horrendous production.
He directed the "The Vertical Hour" in 2006.
There's something to be said for the fact that Sam Mendes hasn't been on Broadway since that horrendous production.
He directed the "The Vertical Hour" in 2006.
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#19
Posted: 12/23/08 at 5:53pm
What did we do to deserve this thread?
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#20
Posted: 12/23/08 at 8:12pm
I think everything about the Mendes production was brilliant. The current production is like community theatre compared to that one, in my opinion. I guess people don't like subtlety and prefer stuff that's blatantly in your face. That goes for the performances and the production itself.
#21
Posted: 12/23/08 at 8:25pm
*Laughs and walks off stage (Ala Laura Benanti). Elphaba3 reaches for Bernadette's TONY, just as Marissa Jaret Winokur steals it away.*
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#22
Posted: 12/23/08 at 8:29pm
I guess people don't like subtlety and prefer stuff that's blatantly in your face.
Clearly when you mention subtlety you're referring to the minimal, character-focused Laurents production, and when you mention blatantly in you face you're referring to the overblown Mendes production.
Clearly when you mention subtlety you're referring to the minimal, character-focused Laurents production, and when you mention blatantly in you face you're referring to the overblown Mendes production.
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#23
Posted: 12/23/08 at 8:31pm
Foster, come on. LuPone, Benanti, and Gaines are community theatre actors, what the hell do they know about subtle character focused acting???
#24
Posted: 12/23/08 at 8:38pm
Those hacks! I mean the have ONLY seven TONYS between them.
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#25
Posted: 12/23/08 at 8:49pm
you do know Sam Mendes was interested in Patti for his production, don't you?
and Elphaba3, you really need to get a new argument other then preferring subtlety. you've trotted it out a few too many times.
and Elphaba3, you really need to get a new argument other then preferring subtlety. you've trotted it out a few too many times.
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