#1
Posted: 12/16/05 at 7:26pm
Is this going to be the most expensive show in Broadway history? And can you imagine the power that Ben Brantley must be feeling right now?
Tale of Two Cities musical: $18 million budget? Wow...
#2
Posted: 12/16/05 at 7:27pm
out of control.
#3
Posted: 12/16/05 at 7:28pm
...and the music ain't even that good.
Wow.
A big, colossal... mediocrity.
Wow.
A big, colossal... mediocrity.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#4
Posted: 12/16/05 at 7:28pm
I'll have to go read the book now.
#5
Posted: 12/16/05 at 7:28pm
I'll have to go read the book now.
#6
Posted: 12/16/05 at 7:29pm
Captain_Obvious --- The book is one of my all-time favorites.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#7
Posted: 12/16/05 at 8:54pm
the music is wonderful....THIS will get me to NYC this Fall.....if only to fly in Friday and fly back Saturday
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#8
Posted: 12/16/05 at 8:58pm
I had no idea it was gonna be such a huge production. Well, if it sucks, no excuses because clearly they have the resources. I'm insanely excited to see how this turns out.
#9
Posted: 12/16/05 at 9:34pm
One of my students just told me that his uncle wrote the music for some show about "two towns or something" that's coming to Broadway. :)
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
#10
Posted: 12/16/05 at 9:50pm
Well a woman wrote the music and libretto so I guess there's another show about two towns...
"Billy, put down that phylactery...we're Episcopalian." - Spelling Bee
#11
Posted: 12/16/05 at 10:51pm
There was another musical version of the novel created recently--maybe that's it. However, it looks like Ms. Santoriello beat him to it.
#12
Posted: 12/16/05 at 11:45pm
Maybe - I don't know - he just said "my Uncle Ed"
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
#13
Posted: 12/17/05 at 1:44am
Is this in response to the Playbill article that came out today announcing the creative team?
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Updated On: 12/17/05 at 01:44 AM
#14
Posted: 12/17/05 at 1:58am
And jasonf, "uncle ed" would be Edward B. Kessel. He is one of the orchestrators of the show.
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#15
Posted: 12/17/05 at 5:07pm
I would love to see this if it came to Broadway. I just read the book for English and loved it. I also listened to what they have of the Concept CD on the TTC site (even though I think "If Dreams Came True" sounded a lot like "I could write a book"). I hope James Barbour plays Sydney, he is my second self. :)
If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
#16
Posted: 12/17/05 at 5:15pm
Son - do you know if they're still going to use Mr. Krogstad's orchestrations?
#17
Posted: 12/17/05 at 5:42pm
I hope the creative team does justice to the source material.
A Tale of Two Cities certainly contributed to my life long love of reading...
Talk about sweeping sagas and noble impulses!!!
I wonder if they will incorporate the computer techniques used in WIW for creating time and place.----I know not everyone is a fan of this technology.
A Tale of Two Cities certainly contributed to my life long love of reading...
Talk about sweeping sagas and noble impulses!!!
I wonder if they will incorporate the computer techniques used in WIW for creating time and place.----I know not everyone is a fan of this technology.
#18
Posted: 12/17/05 at 8:45pm
As far as I know Bob Krogstad and Ed Kessel have written the orchestrations and arrangements. All I can tell you is at the most recent reading in New York this is how the program reads...
"Arrangements & Concept CD Orchestrations by Edward B. Kessel & Bob Krogstad"
You might know more on this than I do if you have heard anything different though.
"Arrangements & Concept CD Orchestrations by Edward B. Kessel & Bob Krogstad"
You might know more on this than I do if you have heard anything different though.
My avatar is a reminder to myself. I need lots of reminders...
#19
Posted: 12/19/05 at 1:50pm
Any word on the Pre-broadway run? Which city are they looking at?? Any ideas?
"It's like children's theatre for 40-year old gay people!" - XANADU THE MUSICAL
Updated On: 12/19/05 at 01:50 PM
#20
Posted: 12/19/05 at 4:31pm
I had to read this over the summer for English and well... I just couldn't. It was painful to read (as Dickens tends to be for me). Just my opinion...
Am I cut out to spend my time this way?
#21
Posted: 12/24/05 at 5:17am
I'm a little late getting back to this but here you go...
"The show has canceled its announced winter tryout in Chicago and is currently considering two West Coast cities for a summer pre-Broadway premiere, according to a production spokesperson."
http://www.broadway.com/Gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=521158
That is from the article before the current one that announces the creative team. That is all I can tell you....
"The show has canceled its announced winter tryout in Chicago and is currently considering two West Coast cities for a summer pre-Broadway premiere, according to a production spokesperson."
http://www.broadway.com/Gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=521158
That is from the article before the current one that announces the creative team. That is all I can tell you....
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#22
Posted: 12/24/05 at 12:00pm
I did a musical version of this almost 7 years ago. It was written by a playwright in residence at a theatre I used to work at, Wendy Kesselman (she adapted the Natalie Portman 'Anne Frank' for the Broadway revival). It was a wonderful production and we got lots of positive feedback and some commercial interest but it has sort of languished ever since. I guess with the advent of this production, that one should officially be put to bed (at least in my mind). I am anxious to see how this stakcs up.
#23
Posted: 12/24/05 at 12:25pm
The music is wonderful especially the songs with Madame DeFarge. I love Out of Sight and The Tale!
#24
Posted: 12/24/05 at 3:48pm
it's hard to be optimistic about this...
and a note on the source:
as almost every dickens' scholars will tell you, the book isn't even close to Dickens' best; it is taught in school becuase it is historical - so it covers a history lesson and a literature requirement - and is one of the only works of his that students could get through.
and a note on the source:
as almost every dickens' scholars will tell you, the book isn't even close to Dickens' best; it is taught in school becuase it is historical - so it covers a history lesson and a literature requirement - and is one of the only works of his that students could get through.
#25
Posted: 12/24/05 at 6:18pm
Don't forget the other standard, Great Expectations which would also make a fabulous musical
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