Twyla Tharp's COME FLY AWAY Featuring Sinatra Vocals to Open at Marquis Theatre in March

[Rob]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 4:23pm

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[mywonderwa11]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 4:24pm

One more to add to the list.

I actually don't know a single thing about this show.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 4:25pm

Changed the title?

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 4:27pm

Yep.

[jeffmiele]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 4:28pm

so is this pretty much the same type of thing as 'Movin Out'?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 4:32pm

Yay.

[wdwfreak]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 4:51pm

I do not see any way that this show is going to make it. They better have some great advertising or hope for some major showing at the Tony's for them to survive. The public doesn't know anything about this.

Also, is it me or are they coming up with a musical for singers now. With the success of Jersey Boys, I guess people think a show can match them and stay afloat, sadly I don't see this or Million Dollar Quartet doing well, IMO.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 4:56pm

Just because YOU don't know anything about it doesn't mean that "the public" doesn't. The pre-Broadway production was very positively reviewed by Isherwood in the NY Times.

This isn't "a musical for singers," either. It's a dance piece, like MOVIN' OUT, constructed around dancers. Frank Sinatra's recordings will be used, but there will be a singer who sings along, with band.

[tazber]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 5:10pm

It's a weak year for new musicals too. Her timing is great.

I'm assuming that this will be considered a new musical based on Contact and Movin' Out.

Updated On: 1/4/10 at 05:10 PM

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 5:13pm

Well, it IS a new musical.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 5:20pm

I'm very hopeful for this.

[mywonderwa11]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 5:22pm

Hmmm...

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 5:29pm

I do not see any way that this show is going to make it. They better have some great advertising or hope for some major showing at the Tony's for them to survive. The public doesn't know anything about this.

Or they could just stand outside the theatre and say "Frank Sinatra" and people will go in.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 5:58pm

A live band/singer singing with a track? That sounds awful. But I really liked "Movin Out," so I'm sure she knows what she's doing.

[Pgenre]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 6:07pm

This sounds like something I will hate. That being said, I'm sure audiences will eat it up and I predict Best Musical. If CONTACT can win over THE WILD PARTY, this will have no problem beating TAF and whatever else, even if it is terrible.

Tharp-ography to pre-existing tracks with no set? Pass.

P

[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 7:51pm

I'm looking forward to this, particulary because of John Selya's involvement. Speaking of whom, is it just me or does he look like he's gained a lot of weight? I'm assuming it's the costume, but he definitely looks a lot heavier than I've ever seen him; in his last show, Guys and Dolls, he looked fine. Hopefully, it's just the costume. He is one FABULOUS dancer -- and I avoid using that word unless I feel it's absolutely warranted. Fabulous, I mean.

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 8:50pm

Hope this will work out better than that Bob Dylan mess.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 9:08pm

Naysayers, take a look at two of the pieces from one of the precursors for this project:



Strangers in The Night

http://www.dancerstv.com/esp/viewad.asp?id=50307503273100013


That's Life:

http://www.dancerstv.com/esp/viewad.asp?id=50166517582100013

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 9:10pm

so I'm sure she knows what she's doing.

TIME'S ARE A CHANGIN'...

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 9:19pm

Watch the videos, kiddo.

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 9:21pm

Kiddo from West Side Story??

[ACL2006]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 9:39pm

another show added to my must see list. if only I got paid more.

[PReeves]

Posted: 1/4/10 at 11:48pm

Saw the show in ATL. Been waiting to hear the news of when I can make a trip to NYC just to see it again on broadway! The dancers that did the number 'That's Life' was the hit of the night. It was all dancing no singing except for one female voice singing with Franks voice and with a live band. I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!

[Annas_Priest]

Posted: 1/5/10 at 12:02am

I would never ever pay to see a Broadway show where I listened to a recording of a long dead artist. Bogus.

[MusicSnob1]

Posted: 1/5/10 at 12:05am

^^^ But you pay a church every week to be in the "presence" of a long dead Jewish hippie?

Now THAT is bogus!! xoxoxo

(See: Your "testimony" thread)

Updated On: 1/5/10 at 12:05 AM