I'm so excited to see this! I can't believe I got a 15 dollar ticket.
I'm a professional. Whenever something goes wrong on stage, I know how to handle it so no one ever remembers. I flash my %#$&.
"Jayne just sat there while Gina flailed around the stage like an idiot."
The Lion is James Monroe Iglehart, who I have seen in a few productions and enjoyed his singing and acting in each of them.
'"Contrairiwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."'
~Lewis Carroll
I'm glad to hear the show was enjoyable. Now I am even more excited to see it next Saturday.
"I don't want the pretty lights to come and get me."-Homecoming 2005
"You can't pray away the gay."-Callie Torres on Grey's Anatomy.
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Encores did Purlie in 2005 (not as long ago as I remembered...but I guess it is four years ago). Blair Underwood was Purlie. Here's the cast list.
Purlie Music by Gary Geld ? Lyrics by Peter Udell ? Book by Ossie Davis, Philip Rose, Peter Udell ? Based on the play Purlie Victorious by Ossie Davis ? Artistic Director: Jack Viertel ? Music Director: Rob Fisher ? Starring Blair Underwood, Doug E. Doug, Lillias White and Anika Noni Rose. Also starring Lynda Gravátt, Christopher Duva, Carol Dennis. With Christine Clemmons, Mamie Duncan-Gibbs, Duane Martin Foster, Danielle Lee Greaves, James Harkness, Derric Harris, Kathleen Murphy Jackson, Trent Armand Kendall, Monroe Kent III, C. Mingo Long, Krisha Marcano, Christopher L. Morgan, Darrell Grand Moultrie, April Nixon, Monica Patton, Stacey Sargeant, Carolyn Saxon, Levensky Smith, Cornelius White, Lisa Nicole Wilkerson, Kenny Redell Williams, Laurie Williamson. With special guest star John Cullum as ?Ol? Cap?n.? Directed by Sheldon Epps ? Guest Music Director: Linda Twine with The Encores! Orchestra ? Choreographer: Ken Roberson ? Casting: Jay Binder/Jack Bowdon ? Scenic Consultant: John Lee Beatty ? Sound: Scott Lehrer ? Costume Consultant: Paul Tazewell ? Lighting: Ken Billington ? Concert Adaptation: David Ives ? Orchestrations: Garry Sherman ? Additional Orchestrations: Luther Henderson ? Company Manager: Michael Zande ? Production Stage Manager: Tripp Phillips ? Music Coordinator: Seymour Red Press
a lot of actors in the regular Encores productions are off-book, too. which, honestly, always impresses me.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
