The Visit Has A Life After Broadway

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/3/15 at 1:12pm

Just heard  that The Visit will be going to Beijing & Singapore & maybe London. Chita said this at a press briefing re her upcoming PBS special. In addition, she has a word for those who lip sync as they cannot sing and dance at the same time. Her advice was simply learn to do it.

No idea if she is doing it overseas. I think it would be to strenuous but I definitely see her doing it in London if it makes it. I think if it is doing the other 2 cities, going to London is a no brainer. 

I believe it was on  MSN

Updated On: 8/3/15 at 01:12 PM

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 8/3/15 at 2:42pm

http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/chita-rivera-tells-young-performers-to-lose-the-lip-syncing/ar-BBllx0f

[Ado Annie D'Ysquith]

Posted: 8/3/15 at 5:29pm

THANK YOU, CHITA! It's about time somebody called them out on this. I think it's beautiful...we are all free to admire her even more now! Lol

[somechrysanthemumtea]

Posted: 8/3/15 at 8:55pm

Wow! This is so exciting, I live in Singapore and really hope that an announcement comes through soon!

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 8/3/15 at 9:17pm

i hope in 20 years we get a big production of this show with Patti Lupone. I think we can make the numbers really big with dancers in the chorus a la chicago and cabaret

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 8/3/15 at 9:25pm

That wouldn't be in the spirit of the show. Chita's restrained and incredibly subtle performance was perfection. Patti in The Rink, however...

 

I do have a secret dream of seeing Liza do The Visit, though.

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 8/3/15 at 9:28pm

so every time we do a revival, it has to be in the spirit of the original? who cares! thats the beauty of theatre!! It can change!! why should we put restrictions on shows

[Fantod]

Posted: 8/3/15 at 9:31pm

Because you wouldn't do a revival of The Phantom of the Opera that looks like Our Town.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 8/3/15 at 9:36pm

Why not? They did Sunset blvd with a carpet and a lamp, and people loved it. 

[Elfuhbuh]

Posted: 8/3/15 at 9:36pm

"i hope in 20 years we get a big production of this show with Patti Lupone. I think we can make the numbers really big with dancers in the chorus a la chicago and cabaret"

 

If you want that, check out the German-language musical "Der Besuch der alten Dame." It's the same story (both shows having been based off the same play). I haven't watched a whole lot of it, but from the commercials and clips I've seen on Youtube it looks like it's the big, splashy musical that you're hoping for from this story. (If "The Visit of the Old Lady" were to come back to Broadway in musical form, I would love to see them give this one a shot.)

[Fantod]

Posted: 8/3/15 at 9:36pm

I just read you Patti Lupone suggestion again and I just realized how dumb it actually was. Have you actually seen the show????? It's almost Brechtian in its sparseness, and if people were to dance like A Chorus Line in The Visit, they would be laughed off stage. Also, Patti is way too much of a physical presence on stage to do the role. Plus, she looks all wrong for the part.

 

Oh, and I've listened to the cast album for the German musical, and it sounds so processed. Like Dr. Zhivago but worse.

Updated On: 8/3/15 at 09:36 PM

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 8/3/15 at 9:40pm

i was thinking fosse but okay. and you people are clearly closed minded and have no imagination lol

[Elfuhbuh]

Posted: 8/3/15 at 9:40pm

"Oh, and I've listened to the cast album for the German musical, and it sounds so processed. Like Dr. Zhivago but worse."

 

I've liked a lot of what I've seen/heard from the show, but part of that may be because Pia Douwes totally rocks the insane old lady persona. 

[somechrysanthemumtea]

Posted: 8/3/15 at 9:44pm

Philly, with all due respect, have you even listened to the music?

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 8/3/15 at 9:48pm

yeah i saw the show. We would need somebody to arrange the dance music, but my production would be fabulous :)

the show isnt just ballads. there are some great uptempo songs

Updated On: 8/3/15 at 09:48 PM

[binau]

Posted: 8/3/15 at 9:51pm

I could see LuPone belting the **** out of "I Walk Away". 

[ljay889]

Posted: 8/3/15 at 9:55pm

 Donna Murphy will eventually be much more appropriate than Patti LuPone for a future production of this musical. 

[Fantod]

Posted: 8/3/15 at 10:23pm

Well, let's all pray that Phillypinto is never given the opportunity to direct the worst production the world will ever see of The Visit. Clearly you have no concept of Epic Theatre or what Dürrenmatt was attempting with the play. Use your brain, Philly. I know you have one somewhere.

 

 

and ljay, Donna would be fabulous in 20 years. Or, hear me out, Isabelle Huppert.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/3/15 at 10:31pm

The very thought boggles the mind.

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 8/3/15 at 11:47pm

fantod, YOU clearly have no imagination. A big Broadway musical does not have to be happy sailors tap dancing. Cabaret is a big Broadway musical with dancing and that's in the same style as the visit. What is your issue with that. In case you haven't noticed, shows are scaled down all the time and blown up and reimagined and everything. 

[oncemorewithfeeling2]

Posted: 8/3/15 at 11:51pm

Isabelle Huppert is inspired casting, but I like the idea of it. Similar to Chita, she has a look to her...I can't explain just what is, but it's almost a look of mystery in her eyes. On top of that, she's consistently good. I would have loved to have seen her in back in '05 in Hedda Gabbler.

[Fantod]

Posted: 8/4/15 at 12:48am

She is the best actress alive today. 

And pinto, I may lack imagination, but I don't lack a brain.

[gypsy101]

Posted: 8/4/15 at 12:49am

"Patti in The Rink, however..."

This is one of my dream revivals, although by now she's getting a little old for it. Patti was one of the (many) actresses considered for Liza's role in the original Broadway production, but couldn't do it due to (I believe) her role in the London revival of The Cradle Will Rock.

[icecreambenjamin]

Posted: 8/4/15 at 1:10am

The Visit was perfect the way it was.  I don't want to see any dancers added for no reason.

Patti would be fantastic in the Rink (Encores! Please), but I'm not so sure about Claire.  She would have to wait a few years, but I could see her and Patinkin as Claire and Anton.  I wonder how Bernadette would play her.  She'd probably play her a tad bit sexier than Chita which could work, but I'd like to see it.  As much as I absolutely adore Donna, I don't think she has the restrained larger than life stage presence that Claire needs.

I still wonder what Angela would've been like. 

[VintageSnarker]

Posted: 8/4/15 at 1:17am

"Well, let's all pray that Phillypinto is never given the opportunity to direct the worst production the world will ever see of The Visit."

Well when you put it like that... #IfItOnlyEvenRunsAMinute