THE WIZ: 2015 NBC LIVE MUSICAL — Page 54

SNAFU, When you work on shows like The Wiz and you mentioned working on Fiddler, if these shows are nominated in the costume category for Tony/Emmy are you included? Or does it depend on the overall contribution you make? I'm not trying to be nosy. I just find it fascinating to kind of know of someone (sure its through the internet) that has the talent to be working in television, Broadway, maybe movies. Its everything I daydreamed about when I was younger. Of course, I knew it would never go anywhere. No talent or skills!!

No, I am hired by the various designers to execute their sketches. Occasionally like with WICKED, a designer like Eugene Lee will give me the idea and lets me run with the design,never really looking at it until it is installed. In both cases my name will not be on the nomination list. When I designed and built The Emperor Jones a few years back, I was indeed nominated for a Drama Desk but lost to La Cage.

I haven't bashed Fiddler at all. Criticizing a show for using stagehands in a crappy way isn't bashing. And the show is in previews, I'm sure they will get it straightened out before opening night.

Updated On: 11/28/15 at 05:08 PM

Do you know if this production will have a live orchestra or a pre recorded orchestra when they sing it live?

Here is an exclusive article explaining the changes of the script. It is quite interesting: http://m.playbill.com/news/article/the-wiz-live-whats-different-whats-new-and-whats-going-to-broadway-373341

"Rather than Dorothy being helplessly swept up into the tornado (against her will), Fierstein imagines her as more of a stubborn runaway, who wishes the whole thing upon herself — "It's her dream after all," he says."

Epic fail, Harvey. Go write your own story then. This is "The Wizard of Oz," not Harvey's biography. You can't improve upon it. That's hubris of the highest order. She is a reluctant heroine who has to rise to the occasion to figure out what is important to her, she's not a rebellious mall girl in charge of her own destiny. And it ain't a dream either.


""It has to come in that mind of what a kid wants," he explains, "and so I started there. I wanted to say her parents are dead — it never said that. I wanted to say, 'I hate living with you' to her aunt. It's never said, right? In the movie, [she wants to leave] because her dog gets in trouble in [Miss Gulch's] garden, but I wanted to [say], 'I hate this school. I hate these kids. I hate living in Kansas. I want to go back to Omaha. That's where I was born; that's where I belong.'""

WTF??

Updated On: 11/29/15 at 07:26 AM

He's completely wrong for this project if that's his approach. And he thinks the flying monkeys are racial (?!?) so he changed them to Winged Warriors?!?

Good god.

""It has to come in that mind of what a kid wants," he explains, "and so I started there. I wanted to say her parents are dead — it never said that. I wanted to say, 'I hate living with you' to her aunt. It's never said, right? In the movie, [she wants to leave] because her dog gets in trouble in [Miss Gulch's] garden, but I wanted to [say], 'I hate this school. I hate these kids. I hate living in Kansas. I want to go back to Omaha. That's where I was born; that's where I belong.'""

Fierstein is describing Dawn Davenport, not Dorothy Gale.

"I hate you, I hate Kansas, and I hate Christmas!"

"Simply click your cha-cha heels three times and say, I hate Kansas!"

Updated On: 11/29/15 at 09:03 AM

In this version, addaperle will have an ipad

Just read the Playbill article and am fumimg.

Why do we now have to be "spoon fed" all of the things our brains and imaginations were able to get in the movie and the show? It's The Wizard of Oz for God's sake! I never found anytging racial about the winged monkeys! So now Emerald City has a bouncer. So Dorothy and her friends are easin on down to da club? I honestly expect that he is going to slip in a gay reference via The Lion. I thought it was a big mistake bringing Harvey on in the first place. He can't be subtle. He shoves his "messages" down your throat in his writing. Unbelievable.

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""It has to come in that mind of what a kid wants," he explains, "and so I started there. I wanted to say her parents are dead — it never said that. I wanted to say, 'I hate living with you' to her aunt. It's never said, right? In the movie, [she wants to leave] because her dog gets in trouble in [Miss Gulch's] garden, but I wanted to [say], 'I hate this school. I hate these kids. I hate living in Kansas. I want to go back to Omaha. That's where I was born; that's where I belong.'"

I love this actually. It makes Dorothy more relatable to teens these days. Lots of teens hate school and hate the kids in their town. It sounds like dorothy will actually be a real person rather than some doey eyed naive 2 dimensional girl that we are used to seeing. Harvey is great with books.

Maybe some of you older people loved school and had no problem getting through it but that's not the case with lots of younger people these days. School is a battle and it's incredibly hard for some people to get through. Harvey is making dorothy a little edgier because kids these days are more edgier

And good god Best12, get off it already,.Go make your own show if you are so mad about this one. Your pearls must be choking you at this point.

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Updated On: 11/29/15 at 11:01 AM