We Will RockYou
We Will RockYou
Leading Actor Joined: 9/4/03
We Will RockYou#0
Posted: 10/1/03 at 7:24pmAny word on this show? Is it coming to Broadway? I heard that cutie from Jesus Christ Superstar on Bway is in it in London. I don't remember his name.
re: We Will RockYou#1
Posted: 10/1/03 at 7:27pmIn the fall of 2004, it will launch a national tour.
re: re: We Will RockYou#2
Posted: 10/1/03 at 7:28pm
Mr. Vincent?
STEVOS
re: re: We Will RockYou#3
Posted: 10/1/03 at 7:29pmHis name is Tony Vincent...and he is great as is the music...but the book...yikes!
Leading Actor Joined: 9/4/03
Leading Actor Joined: 9/4/03
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Posted: 10/1/03 at 7:30pmYes, Tony Vincent.... that's it. What a cutie pie! He does have a bad wig on though in the pics from the London cast CD.
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Posted: 10/1/03 at 7:44pm
No wig at all. He is naturally a dark haired man.
will it be the exact same show? I doubt it since a lot of the jokes are very British oriented.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/24/03
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Posted: 10/1/03 at 7:44pm
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
Leading Actor Joined: 9/4/03
re: We Will RockYou#9
Posted: 10/1/03 at 7:47pmSorry, I didn't do a search... wow lots of info. Tony Vincent sounds great on the CD (recorded live). I can imagine how tough it would be 8x a week.
re: re: We Will RockYou#10
Posted: 10/1/03 at 8:09pmHopefully it won't be the same as in London...because that was the worst piece of theater I ever had the misfortune of seeing.
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Posted: 10/2/03 at 8:45pmactually the tour is starting in august 2004
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
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Posted: 10/3/03 at 9:24amWe Will Rock You opened in Melbourne, Australia in August directed by the book writer Ben Elton. In the press he has said that this is the rvised version that will open in the States next year. The references in the script have been localised. A friend of mine saw it and said it is aimed at the lowest common denominator and is full of (her expression) dick jokes.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
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Posted: 10/3/03 at 9:28am
Alterego,
when one goes to a musical based on the songs of a hard core rock group such as Queen, does one expect Shakespeare? LOL. From what I have heard of the show, it makes Mamma Mia seem like Hamlet. Mamma Mia is a guilty pleasure of mine.. We Will Rock You will not be a pleasure, but I will feel guilty for seeing it if I ever do.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
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Posted: 10/3/03 at 9:33amMamma Mia while not Shakespeare at least is given an attractive production, from what I have seen of WWRY this is not the case.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
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Posted: 10/3/03 at 9:35amOh Geez, I have seen pictures from We Will Rock You.. the physical production is hideous!
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Posted: 10/3/03 at 9:36am
Please. I know that you are a theater queen, but please don't call Queen a hardcore rock group. That sounds like something my mother would say. "Honey, remember when you used to listen to the acid rock and roll music?"
Queen was just pomp pop. Closer to the stuff that has been called "rock opera" since the late '60s than anything else. When I was a junior high fan of Queen and musicals (I know, I know) I thought their song "Don't Stop Me Now" sounded like the 11 o'clock number of a musical. Perhaps, had Freddie Mercury not died, he would have tried his limp wrist at writing songs for a musical (why not, he was always copying Elton anyway?) but, instead, two of the surviving members decided to go the Mamma Mia/Movin Out route.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
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Posted: 10/3/03 at 9:44amSwing Joined: 10/3/03
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Posted: 10/3/03 at 9:58am
The point of WWRY is that it's played "tongue in cheek". Not meant to be taken seriously. I'm a big Shakespeare fan but I'm not about to compare Ben Elton's stageplay (admittedly not his best work) with Hamlet or any other serious piece of theatre.
Seldom have I seen a whole audience rise to it's feet and go wild with appreciation as they do at the Dominion in the West End. Some of you might think it's undeserved, but when so many people enjoy a show that much...it has to have something going for it.
The staging is a lot more effective and innovative than the supposedly spectacular sets of the show with the flying car down the road. Based on the concept of computer screens, the WWRY design doesn't always work. At times it's distracting and overwhelms the action on stage. But mostly, it's effective..cool and dazzles the young audiences with set pieces like "Another One Bites The Dust" played as a computer game. The music is loud (probably too loud) and the humour basic...but the whole thing is enormous fun!
The plot is thin and struggles to tie together the Queen songs...but no-one really cares. WWRY is a show with tremendous pace and energy and it sweeps it's audience along. The characters don't try to be three dimensional...they're simple images like those on the big screens above them. It's all a joke, a laugh and an excuse to have a good time. And the music raises the roof.
I hope it comes on Broadway, so you can all see it. Don't expect great theatre...but don't expect to be disappointed either.
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We Will RockYou#19
Posted: 10/3/03 at 11:03am
Ben Elton is a brilliant talent and I find that this show is not supposed to be taken seriously and he did that on purpose.
My mother saw it in London and enjoyed it. She said it is a nice companion piece to Mamma Mia in the sense that they are just to be taken as fun evenings of entertainment with popular music as the score.
re: We Will RockYou#20
Posted: 10/3/03 at 4:15pm
I would slightly disagree that Mr Elton views the show as merely a piece of entertainment fluff.
He tries to make the point that rock has been replaced by manufactured, safe, commercial pop and the days when the 'kids' (to use his constant expression in the book) just went off with talent and attitude to create music are ending.
Of course he makes this point in an 8 million pound West-End show created as a piece of manufactured, safe, commercial theatre!
Oh well roll on Tonight's the Night to try and totally obliterate the memory of Ben Elton as the brillant talent he once suggested he could be.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
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Posted: 10/3/03 at 5:27pmThis show is the worst show in the entire world. I will continue to tell people as long as it is playing in any corner of the globe. It is diabolical. Go and see it just to witness the death of musical theater as we know it.. if Broadway follows bad reviews then this show will bomb. Sadly the West End doesn't follow reviews and this show is a hit. Awful, terrible.
Leading Actor Joined: 9/4/03
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Posted: 10/3/03 at 7:19pmIt doesn't look like the show is any way pefect but gotta love the Queen songs. I happen to like the voices on the CD with the exception of the Killer Queen. She is just dreadful. Is she American? If not her accent is good.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
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Posted: 10/4/03 at 3:03amLol, the Killer Queen is perhaps the only thing in the show that's worth seeing! Her name is Sharon D Clarke and she was the only attatchment to WWRY to be nominated for an Olivier Award.
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