Saw the HIGH FIDELITY dress rehearsal yesterday . . .- Page 2
Saw the HIGH FIDELITY dress rehearsal yesterday . . .
#25re: Saw the HIGH FIDELITY dress rehearsal yesterday . . .
Posted: 9/13/06 at 7:12pmI am quite excited for this. yay.
TenThousandThings
Understudy Joined: 7/19/06
#26re: Saw the HIGH FIDELITY dress rehearsal yesterday . . .
Posted: 9/13/06 at 11:06pm
Thanks, Volleyballer.
If I had only had negative things to say, I would have kept them to myself . . . after all, I hope to be performing on Broadway someday and would want my audiences to be kind in the early stages of a show! That being said, it's not that I didn't see room for improvement in High Fidelity -- certainly there is -- I just don't see the point in bashing something that's not yet a finished product.
For those of you who asked about the set: most of what they had yesterday was unfinished pine sheets with signs taped to the front telling the audience what each piece represented. It's not a complicated set, but what they do with the bed and the quilt on top of it is kind of genius (don't want to spoil anything here). Upstage is a platform representing a view of the street and the entrance into the store; downstage, set pieces roll in and out to change between Rob's apartment and the store, mostly (simple stuff like a couch, coffee table and bookshelves). There are, as expected, bins and bins and bins of records . . . and I had to laugh when the front-and-center record in one of them was a Bon Jovi album. I think the guys in that store would kill themselves before they'd sell a Bon Jovi album!
I'd be happy to answer any other questions, just let me know . . .
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#27re: Saw the HIGH FIDELITY dress rehearsal yesterday . . .
Posted: 9/14/06 at 2:08am
"Well, if there is strong opposition to one idea, we might be able to stop bad ideas from even happening."
But who is to say what's a good or a bad idea?
"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions"
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"Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu"
from "Can't Stop The Music"
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"When the right doors didn't open for him, he went through the wrong ones" - "Sweet Bird of Youth"
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"Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.
#28re: Saw the HIGH FIDELITY dress rehearsal yesterday . . .
Posted: 9/14/06 at 3:09amexcellent point.
"My dreams, watching me said, one to the other...this life has let us down."
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#29re: Saw the HIGH FIDELITY dress rehearsal yesterday . . .
Posted: 9/14/06 at 7:42amI don't know... if we could have stopped something like In My Life from happening, would we not have?
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#30re: Saw the HIGH FIDELITY dress rehearsal yesterday . . .
Posted: 9/14/06 at 7:51amPersonally, I'm thrilled In My Life happened. I've never seen anything quite like it in about 35+ years of theatergoing. To see the unified vision of one crazy man on such a grand scale was a unique opportunity.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
#31re: Saw the HIGH FIDELITY dress rehearsal yesterday . . .
Posted: 9/14/06 at 7:58am
After reading through this thread, I discovered there are some rude people on this board who need to be nice to their fellow BWW posters and friends.
Anyway. I know that Will Chase and Matt Caplan are *very* excited about the show. I am, too. I am glad to hear that soneone has seen the show recently and found it fun 
Wish I could get the CD sampler.
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
mejusthavingfun
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/12/06
#32re: Saw the HIGH FIDELITY dress rehearsal yesterday . . .
Posted: 9/14/06 at 10:22amA hit??? I think you are forgetting the "s" in that word.
#33re: Saw the HIGH FIDELITY dress rehearsal yesterday . . .
Posted: 9/14/06 at 11:17amI am going to be a skeptic and wait till the show comes out to pass any judgement. I did see the song that was done for Broadway on Broadway and it wasn't bad. It wasn't great but it wasn't bad. I still don't know why they needed this show to come out in the first place
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