Toughest Musicals To Do- Page 2
Toughest Musicals To Do
FosseBoi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
#25re: Toughest Musicals To Do
Posted: 4/4/05 at 4:50pm
I would imagin that it would be pretty hard to belt those notes in DG, by just being held by a harnest and a string.
I just gt done with "Carousel", and believe me that is a hard thing to pull off for community theatre. Luckly, we pulled it off though. I think "Cats" would be hard. And B&B. I agree with the ones that have already been said.
"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread.
~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line
#26re: Toughest Musicals To Do
Posted: 4/4/05 at 4:55pm
"Oh! Calcutta! Do you know how tough it is to perform bad material in the nude?"
I'm going to have to agree w/ Gothampc on this one... hahah....
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#27re: Toughest Musicals To Do
Posted: 4/4/05 at 5:12pm
Follies just might be the toughest Sondheim to pull off. It requires a huge cast of featured performers spanning in age from 20s to 70s (even 80s), a large ensemble, tons of glittery costumes and the whole Loveland sequence is incredibly demanding from a technical standpoint. It was the most expensive show ever mounted on Broadway when it opened in 1971 and is very difficult to revive in a first clas production.
Dreamgirls is also very demanding technically, as well as casting-wise.
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#28re: Toughest Musicals To Do
Posted: 4/4/05 at 5:16pmdefinetly West Side Story and Peter Pan.
Kristin Chenoweth could barely control a Great Dane she trotted onto the stage. "Great, they gave me a dog that weighs five times what I do", she quipped. For the record, she weighs 93 pounds, and has a Maltese.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#29re: Toughest Musicals To Do
Posted: 4/4/05 at 5:17pmFunny Girl is also a very difficult show for the lead actress. Fanny hardly has a moment to breathe in the show, there are tons of costume changes, she has to be vaudeville funny as well as dramatic and the songs are killers.
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#30re: Toughest Musicals To Do
Posted: 4/4/05 at 5:19pmFollies. Sweeny.
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cathyhyatt
Broadway Star Joined: 10/20/04
#31re: Toughest Musicals To Do
Posted: 4/4/05 at 5:25pm
"Tech-wise: Beauty and the Beast, Wizard of Oz (if you want it to lok good)"
trpguy...im doin the wizard of oz now and its damn good...its a comm. theater...
we have fire and smoke...and just beautiful hahah it makes me sooo happy...ohhh yes and the wizards balloon really flies hehe...like up in the stage with him in it hahah...sorry guys it just makes me so happy...we jsut opened this past weekend
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Hollowed out hope that no time can restore."
NYC_or_Bust
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/8/05
#32re: Toughest Musicals To Do
Posted: 4/4/05 at 5:51pm
Tech wise : Peter Pan, Beauty and the Beast, Barnum, Follies, and The Lion King
Acting: GYPSY, Follies
Singing: 42nd Street, GYPSY, CATS, MILLIE
Dancing: 42nd Street, CATS, CHICAGO,
I adore the black band holding on the Phantom's mask. ~ Jenna2
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