WOMEN ON THE VERGE - both versions- Page 6

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/25/11 at 1:13pm

I'm trying not to break our cover, Phyllis! I MEAN JORDAN!
Remember when we filmed that movie? Or rather, I filmed that movie?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/25/11 at 1:13pm

We do remember that!!! Updated On: 5/25/11 at 01:13 PM

[roseaddams]

Posted: 5/25/11 at 1:29pm

I'm so behind. I'm still trying to figure out how eggs are funny.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 5/25/11 at 1:58pm

Only when they're cracked!

[JRybka]

Posted: 5/25/11 at 3:21pm

What I dont understand is how someone would want to compare a movie to a stage production. They are completely different. In an interview with Maury Yeston about the movie "Nine", an interviewr asked him if he was upset with the cuts and changes to the movie from the stage production. He said he was fine with it as he still has the stage show as it is and that the movie is just another version.

Women... in movie form is not the same as the stage show. If you wanted to see the movie on stage then rent the movie put it on mute and listen to the cast recording.

Women did not succeed becuase sometimes you have all the prefect parts and it just doesnt succeed.
Split it into sections and pieces are there are moment and parts of sure wonderful-ness... but as a whole it does't. It can get nominations all over the place. Patti was great. Laura was at her best. The music was wonderful. The set was creative but somehow it just doesn't work.
It's like love. You may have perfection but it just wasnt meant to be...
And that is the state of the art.....

Updated On: 5/25/11 at 03:21 PM

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/25/11 at 11:24pm

Jrybka I kinda get your point, and do get your attitude--at least I think--but while some people find these kinds of threads annoying, and they always become ridiculous, I think it's always more than valid to compare different versions of a work, or its source. Although the title of this thread made me think there wwere two vastly different versions of the musical I didn't know about and that was the comparison.

Maury Yeston's point is valid, although I expect the mediocre (to put it nicely) reaction to Nine won't make a lot more theatre groups perform his musical, not that it was a big community favorite anyway. But of course if someone likes the source materail of something they're going to judge the new version in some way...

As for Women on the Verge--I love the movie and Almodovar in general, and I admit I actually had high hopes for the musical. I'm not even a big Yazbek fan (I enjoyed Full Monty and Dirty Rotten but didn't love them like some), but he seemed to me like a good fit, as did the cast and everyone involved. So I was pretty disappointed when I heard the general reactions from friends and critics who saw it. Now listening to the CD my reaction is pretty meh. But not having seen it, I can't quite say where they went wrong. Still, I think the movie seemed like it could be a good fit for the stage...

(Rambles on and on...)

[chewy5000]

Posted: 5/26/11 at 12:49am

We aint goin nowhere

[JRybka]

Posted: 5/26/11 at 10:26am

Eric. I understand exactly what you are saying.

I guess what i was saying is that you can have everything you would want in a show. An amazing composer, a cast to rival casts of any show, sets and money and a backing from the lincoln center itself and still somehow not gel. It just for some reason just wont work.

and then you have something you never thought would go....

And then you have something like Avenue Q that started out as part of the fringe festival. Puppet Nudity! A cast of unknowns! I mean on paper it shoud not have worked in any way shape or form for the masses and it is STILL playing...