Sweet Charity in Italy

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Sweet Charity in Italy

Posted: 7/22/05 at 5:51pm

See: http://sweetcharity.musical.it
Next april "Sweet Charity" also in Italy, Milan.

#2

re: Sweet Charity in Italy

Posted: 7/22/05 at 5:53pm

Why do I have a feeling that this is serious?

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#3

re: Sweet Charity in Italy

Posted: 7/22/05 at 5:54pm

Very interesting. Will it be the same as the current Bway revival? Just in Italian?

#4

re: Sweet Charity in Italy

Posted: 7/22/05 at 5:56pm

Lorella Cuccarini is a TV star in Italy. In 1997 she was Sandy in the italian production of "Grease".

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re: Sweet Charity in Italy

Posted: 7/22/05 at 5:57pm

That is what I was afraid of ljay889. Once again, no offense intended babe.

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#6

re: Sweet Charity in Italy

Posted: 7/22/05 at 5:59pm

I don't understand it though. The Weissler's wouldn't be doing this, would they? Why Italy??

#7

re: Sweet Charity in Italy

Posted: 7/22/05 at 6:00pm

I bet they ship the entire set over...

#8

re: Sweet Charity in Italy

Posted: 7/22/05 at 6:07pm

see same people on this tread being rude too. Hmmm must be a trend in their personality.

#9

re: Sweet Charity in Italy

Posted: 7/22/05 at 6:50pm

why Italy and not London? or a national tour... did someone else put up the money to mount the revival version? I'm confused...

#10

re: Sweet Charity in Italy

Posted: 7/22/05 at 6:51pm

The show's been done there before. Maybe if that television personality is a big enough name in Italy, she's co-producing it herself?

#11

re: Sweet Charity in Italy

Posted: 7/22/05 at 6:53pm

Honestly your right, I wouldnt be suprised if they shiped MOST of the set over, they cant send it all over due to the fact that it has English words on the set, so they have to make some new set peices.

#12

re: Sweet Charity in Italy

Posted: 7/22/05 at 6:56pm

Well wasn't the movie Charity was based on - an italian movie? The movie must be pretty big over there.

I'll be suprised if this has the same creative team as Broadway.

#13

re: Sweet Charity in Italy

Posted: 7/22/05 at 6:59pm

Very true, but I mean its still the same play, and obviously its going to be simmilar as the broadway one as can be seen by the ad, if Charity on broadway closes before this opens, why throw away the set on broadway if it just can be reused, if it can due to specifications of both of the theatres

#14

re: Sweet Charity in Italy

Posted: 7/22/05 at 7:05pm

When shows close on Broadway, they often ship the sets to Germany or Japan, etc. for foreign productions.

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re: Sweet Charity in Italy

Posted: 7/22/05 at 7:18pm

There is a chance the show will still be open. The Weissler's will try another star in the role - once Christina leaves. And that should take it through the winter/spring.

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re: Sweet Charity in Italy

Posted: 7/22/05 at 8:22pm

I saw the Italian movie Nights of Cabaria. I saw little to compare it to the Sweet Charity we know of 1966, 1986, or 2005. She is pushed in a river in the beginning, but she comes up fighting mad, not unbelieving of what happened to her.

Cabaria is not very likable, either. She's a grungy, fighting, whore, and the guy (Oscar, as we know the character) is only trying to kill her for her house money. A very sad scene when she realizes it, but the original movie is very different in plot and emotion.

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re: Sweet Charity in Italy

Posted: 7/22/05 at 9:20pm

The company presenting CHARITY in Italy is a company that specialises in musicals, apparently with an emphasis on dance shows. Founded in 1983, they have had great success with productions of GREASE, HELLO DOLLY!,SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS, A CHORUS LINE and LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, the last two choreographed by Baayork Lee. They presented their own original musical version of LE NOTTI DI CABIRIA in 1999, and they have THE PRODUCERS scheduled for production at the end of this year. I gather they do their own versions of the shows based on the Broadway productions.

#18

re: Sweet Charity in Italy

Posted: 7/23/05 at 3:51am

Yes, is so. Is an original production. The Company this year had great success with "The Sound of Music". Wonderful was in 2003 "Pinocchio il grande musical", best italian production of ever.

#19

re: Sweet Charity in Italy

Posted: 7/23/05 at 6:01am

Hmmm... Could be that they're just using the same logo and advertising style. An example can be seen in the attached picture, showing an a poster for a recent European production of Chicago that was different from the Broadway version.

Speaking of European productions of Sweet Charity, follow the link for some horrible artwork for an upcoming production in Stockholm. I want to go see it, but I'm scared to :-/
http://www.wallmans.com/templates/Main.aspx?id=23

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#20

re: Sweet Charity in Italy

Posted: 7/23/05 at 6:13pm

Lorella Cuccarini with Giampiero Ingrassia in the italian version of "Grease", the longest running show in Italy directed by Saverio Marconi.
http://grease.musical.it

Saverio Marconi

Updated On: 7/23/05 at 06:13 PM

#21

re: Sweet Charity in Italy

Posted: 7/23/05 at 6:24pm

Grease was the longest running show in Italy?? Wow...

#22

re: Sweet Charity in Italy

Posted: 7/23/05 at 6:28pm

Grease IS the longest running show in Italy. This is Flavio Montrucchio, Danny Zuko 2005

#23

re: Sweet Charity in Italy

Posted: 7/23/05 at 8:39pm

Listen to some of the audio clips they have. They're really interesting.

#24

re: Sweet Charity in Italy

Posted: 7/23/05 at 10:57pm

Don't forget that at one time, the original GREASE was the longest running show on Broadway!

#25

re: Sweet Charity in Italy

Posted: 7/24/05 at 2:23am

Whoever their Charity is she is GORGEOUS!