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Posted: 1/25/08 at 3:01am
Just read this on today's Riedel's colum on the Post. It really is tragic that Bennett never got around to doing work on this show, the score isn't half bad (I know it has some big fans on this board, from what I have heard from it, I like some of it, and dislike some of it) but if someone could pull a show together it was Michael Bennett.
I do hope I get to see the Carnegie Hall concert if Rice does get the chance to do it in New York. Wonder if Menzel will play Florence here as well:
"It's just an excuse, really, for me to have the show done by the best possible people, the way I want it performed," says Rice, who's putting up the entire $250,000 production cost himself. (His monthly royalty check from "The Lion King" should cover that.)
"I'm not doing it to make money," he says, "just to satisfy myself and to remind people how good the show is."
If all goes well, he'd like to bring the concert to Carnegie Hall later this year, and he hopes it might lead to a West End or Broadway revival.
Rice's CHESS Strategy
I do hope I get to see the Carnegie Hall concert if Rice does get the chance to do it in New York. Wonder if Menzel will play Florence here as well:
"It's just an excuse, really, for me to have the show done by the best possible people, the way I want it performed," says Rice, who's putting up the entire $250,000 production cost himself. (His monthly royalty check from "The Lion King" should cover that.)
"I'm not doing it to make money," he says, "just to satisfy myself and to remind people how good the show is."
If all goes well, he'd like to bring the concert to Carnegie Hall later this year, and he hopes it might lead to a West End or Broadway revival.
Rice's CHESS Strategy
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
