Thoughts on The Pirate Queen (11/16 & 11/17)- Page 2

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 11/24/06 at 12:02am

P, we will!

[ChicagoAmy]

Posted: 11/24/06 at 12:10am

Popular, oh it totally doesn't sound like that, I know what you mean! Heh, I was one of the first to talk to her that night since I ended up right up by the doors.

[Popular]

Posted: 11/24/06 at 12:14am

OK good :) I'm glad to hear that. I thought it might've sounded like I snubbed the others when that's really not what happened at all.

[ChicagoAmy]

Posted: 11/24/06 at 12:31am

No! And I'm sorry if it sounded like I was accusing you of snubbing them, I was just curious since you said you didn't get to meet Hadley if that was why!

[Popular]

Posted: 11/24/06 at 12:35am

No, not at all. Perfectly valid question and you were right. I missed him cause I had left by the time he came out. I missed quite a few people

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 12:13am

Only a few more performances!

[Popular]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 12:58am

But you'll be at one of them with your son, so cheer up! :)

[StephanietheStar]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 2:50am

Saw the Friday Matinee (Nov. 24th)....ahmazing....:)


Cutest pics EVER with Stephanie and Hadley...I'm sure you will see them soon....



le sigh...I will miss Hadley...


p.s. Most awkward conversation with Hadley EVER...it was...weird...lol

[Popular]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 1:08pm

So I take it the plans to move to London with him have changed?
How exactly are you so sure we'll see these CUTEST EVER pics soon? Updated On: 11/25/06 at 01:08 PM

[StephanietheStar]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 2:38pm

Because I'm ridiculous and will of course post them here!!

I still don't understand this whole posting pics thing but here I go if it doesn't work, tehy are in my Fanphots...:

[StephanietheStar]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 2:39pm

P.s. I might be in the background of a CastCom...because they were filming NEAR me. And I was talking with Stephanie, or should I say the group of friends I was with was I was listening...lol...

but nothing like the other one i'm in :)

[Popular]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 3:31pm

Cuteness, indeed. Thanks for sharing those.

[Act0r721]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 3:33pm

Haha. I saw the Friday night. My picture didn't turn out quite so nice. . .

[B3TA07]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 3:57pm

Actor you're so cute
omg
<3*die*

[StephanietheStar]

Posted: 11/25/06 at 5:20pm

You are really cute!!!

damn, should have been at the night show

-Steph

[bardolator]

Posted: 12/13/06 at 3:23pm

I've not posted here about this since seeing the show. I had so many thoughts that it was difficult to boil them down, as it were!

I believe the show I saw on November 10th and 11th would have quite a respectable run on Broadway.

I believe that, with the right changes, it can be a HIT on Broadway.

Agreed--no casting changes need be made (unless they want to ADD people). Agreed that the costumes are amazing (Especially Elizabeth's, plus Dubhdara's leather coat and chieftain cloak--but I really covet Grania's "Here On This Night" outfit, her tartan plaid (I'm talking "played," not "plad," here!), and her traveling dress. And the wedding cape.). I left the theatre humming/singing some of the songs. I was able to understand almost every word of every song.

All that said--I'm glad they're still working on this, because it DOES still need work. Yes, the pacing seems odd at times (example: just how many years are supposed to have passed during the course of the musical? Because Eoin is born less than two years after Grania marries Donal, but he's only about five or six at the most at the end, which would make Grania about thirty when she's clearly supposed to be much older). The changes they've made so far have all been for the good, bookwise (though I STILL wish we could have "Because I Am a Wife" Back, from a lyric point of view), and they will no doubt continue to improve the show.

So many things were so much BETTER than what I'd anticipated, based on some of the comments I'd read here and elsewhere (though perhaps some of those were based on earlier incarnations). I also did note that it was a very different show when seen from the third row than it was when seen from the Dress Circle. From farther back, I really enjoyed the spectacle, but up close I felt a part of the story. Hopefully they'll figure out a way to draw in those audience members who are farther back.

Speaking of--let me just say that when I sat up close I was absolutely blown away by some of the acting choices made by cast members. If you have the oppportunity, watch Linda Balgord's face in her scenes with Bingham, and Steph's face in the wedding and christening scenes. Just--amazing. Truly. Worth lugging the opera glasses to the theatre for those moments alone.

By the way, someone said earlier "I'd also love to see a song between Tiernan and Donal"--this is a duet I for some reason had never considered, but now the mental image is KILLING me. Please, please, please tell me that Boublil, Dempsey, Maltby, or SOMEBODY reads this and recognizes what a great idea that is!

(And while they're at it, Grania needs another big, belty solo number as well as a more introspective one, the latter preferably incorporating a "choice" similar to the one the character had to make in the novel while at court. I'm just sayin'. Tiernan gets "Each In Time"--how about a "The Choice is Mine" or the like? I think I should write a letter to Santa....)

And, yes, most of the cast (leads as well as ensemble) are quite approachable, as well. Bill Youmans is FUNNY and Steph is, well, Steph. <3

I hope they release a complete cast recording instead of just highlights...and I'm already working on a trip to New York.