Scottsboro Back Stage
Scottsboro Back Stage
sondheimsnob2
Swing Joined: 10/18/07
#1Scottsboro Back Stage
Posted: 10/29/10 at 3:33pm
A friend of mine got a hold of some backstage footage of Scottsboro Boys. I think its from the Guthrie production. I haven't seen it on Broadway yet, but I've heard it was fantastic.
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Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#2Scottsboro Back Stage
Posted: 10/29/10 at 3:40pmI'd seen it Off-Broadway last season and saw it again last Saturday. The show has been tightened, some already-good numbers expanded and at least one dud eliminated. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for this one, as I feel that it's Kander and Ebb's best score, barring Cabaret and Chicago. Hope that Brantley can overcome his infatuation with Benjamin Walker et. al. and give this one a fair shake.
BroadwayEd
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#2Scottsboro Back Stage
Posted: 10/29/10 at 4:11pm
Well Ed, Josh Henry does take his shirt off for quite a while, so there is no doubt in my mind that Mr. Brantley will love it.
That said, I saw the production the other night. It's extraordinary.
#3Scottsboro Back Stage
Posted: 10/29/10 at 6:18pm
Ed, what was the song (dud) that was dropped?
My copy of the Off-Broadway cast album arrived today and I'll be sitting down to give it a full listen tonight.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#4Scottsboro Back Stage
Posted: 10/29/10 at 7:59pmCan't wait to see this at Sat's matineee.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
notabb
Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
#5Scottsboro Back Stage
Posted: 10/29/10 at 8:47pm
The dropped song was It Gonna Take Time.It needed to be dropped The rest of the score is great especially Go Back Home.
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#6Scottsboro Back Stage
Posted: 10/29/10 at 8:59pmAs has already been noted, It's Gonna Take Time is the one that was cut -- it was really a stinker. You said that you just got the Off-Broadway version today -- does that mean that there's a possibility that the revised version will be commercially recorded? The reprise of Alabama Ladies sung by Victoria Price really was beefed up -- Christian Dante White really goes to town on that one -- got one of the biggest ovations at the performance I attended -- really stopped the show (in the good sense of the term).
BroadwayEd
#7Scottsboro Back Stage
Posted: 10/30/10 at 6:47am
Thanks for the info...The CD I got was the one recorded last April and as far as I know no other recording is planned.
However we MAY get a new CD of PRISCILLA to accommodate all the changes in the song line-up.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
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