Trevor Nunn's Porgy and Bess Coming to Broadway- Page 2
Trevor Nunn's Porgy and Bess Coming to Broadway
#25re: Trevor Nunn's Porgy and Bess Coming to Broadway
Posted: 7/25/06 at 3:30pma FULL cast recording.
#26re: Trevor Nunn's Porgy and Bess Coming to Broadway
Posted: 7/25/06 at 3:31pmAmen!
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BroadwayGirl107
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#27re: Trevor Nunn's Porgy and Bess Coming to Broadway
Posted: 7/25/06 at 6:47pmBut if it IS infact more of a jazz version on the score, I couldn't imagine Stokes being in it...
#28re: Trevor Nunn's Porgy and Bess Coming to Broadway
Posted: 7/25/06 at 7:20pm
There is a production of Porgy and Bess by Living Arts Inc touring Australia now..
http://porgyandbess.com.au/index.htm
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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Roscoe
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#29re: Trevor Nunn's Porgy and Bess Coming to Broadway
Posted: 7/25/06 at 9:38pmIf Trevor Nunn does to PORGY AND BESS what he did to OKLAHOMA, it won't be pretty. Is he going to radically re-imagine it so that it makes no sense and cast it with high-school kids?
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#30re: Trevor Nunn's Porgy and Bess Coming to Broadway
Posted: 7/25/06 at 9:45pmHe already did a production like this in Glyndebourne or however the heck ya spell that. He stuck to the material for the most part. I understand that this is another production of his where he trimmed it to two hours or so. It's just as well, it's more than 3 hours unabridged. You can get the earlier production on DVD. It's amazing.
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#31re: Trevor Nunn's Porgy and Bess Coming to Broadway
Posted: 7/25/06 at 10:52pm
Finally, I don't have to be upset about being so young (not that I don't love it, it just sucks to feel like you missed so many momumetal productions).
1 year and I get to see so many classic (and favorite) shows revived. I can't wait.
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#32re: Trevor Nunn's Porgy and Bess Coming to Broadway
Posted: 7/26/06 at 12:14amThe other question is, what theatre would be free to house it (given no dates nor theatre were announced)?
#33re: Trevor Nunn's Porgy and Bess Coming to Broadway
Posted: 7/26/06 at 12:23amThis is exciting - clearly one of the best scores ever. Would love to see Stokes as Porgy.
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#34re: Trevor Nunn's Porgy and Bess Coming to Broadway
Posted: 7/26/06 at 1:21am
Stokes and McDonald did some songs from Porgy and Bess at the Hollywood Bowl last summer. Stokes was fantastic, but I thought Audra seemed to be straining a bit with some of the music. I'm curious if the "jazz" version might be better on the voices.
(Oh, one of the revalations of the Hollywood Bowl productions was Wayne Brady as Sportin' Life. He was fantastic.)
#35re: Trevor Nunn's Porgy and Bess Coming to Broadway
Posted: 7/26/06 at 5:46am
This sounds far more radical than what Nunn did to Oklahoma! For one thing I don't think it was ever officially acknowledged that Nunn had done some rewriting on Oklahoma! whereas they're coming right out and saying that Nunn is doing major rewriting.
The only possible defense the Gershwin people can have for allowing this is that they think once the work goes into public domain people are going to be doing this anyway and they might as well have a version that they find relatively acceptable already.
Of course, money is the real reason. Then this version can be licensed and bring in money for another 70 years or more.
Gershwin so wanted Porgy and Bess not to be perceived as a musical with jazz-inflected songs. This is really totally indefensible from any point of view regarding the work's integrity or Gershwin's intentions.
Btw, this clearly is not a retread of Nunn's production from Glyndebourne, which was in the late '80s. That production used a very complete version of the score and produced both a recording and one of those screwy videos shot in a studio but with the stage sets and with a cast (most but not all of whom sang on the recording) lipsynching to the recording.
Dollypop
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#36re: Trevor Nunn's Porgy and Bess Coming to Broadway
Posted: 7/26/06 at 6:10amI can only wonder if Nunn will have Bess wearing bib overalls and eating raw corn the way Laurie did in his production of OKLAHOMA!
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Roscoe
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#37re: Trevor Nunn's Porgy and Bess Coming to Broadway
Posted: 7/26/06 at 7:13amOr will Nunn just settle for Porgy having a gay attraction for Sportin' Life?
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
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#38re: Trevor Nunn's Porgy and Bess Coming to Broadway
Posted: 7/26/06 at 7:23am
So that's why Porgy really wants to go to New York at the end.
Why not? This is the guy who had Jessica intone a Hebrew prayer at the of Merchant of Venice.
Really, I'm all for intelligent reinterpretation but that was ridiculous, especially in what was otherwise a fairly conventional (and awful, though highly praised) production.
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