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#25re: Why HBC is doing Lovett...
Posted: 10/19/06 at 9:56pmWell, yeah, I don't think Burton had "no input" - heck, maybe he even spent more time directing Carter's test and made the other women do it in the laundry room in the basement with no lighting -- but its nice to know Carter was Sondheim's pick as well.
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#26re: Why HBC is doing Lovett...
Posted: 10/19/06 at 9:57pmHas that Little Night Music been released on DVD yet?
#28re: Why HBC is doing Lovett...
Posted: 10/19/06 at 10:23pm
Um, I didn't mean to say that Burton had NO say in the casting; he is the director...
To clarify--EVERY party involved, from producers, studios, etc. ALL agreed that HBC is the right choice for this project.
All Sweeney purists should just wait to hate this project because of her...the music cuts (all SS approved) will kill you!
Yet, the movie will, hopefully, slay us all... Remember, just like any Sondheim piece, it's about the story and characters first.
As for Night Music film, that was a long time ago and Hal was mostly responsible for that. He still owned the project at the time. Burton doesn't "own" Sweeney. He's directing it. And his vision is always interesting...
"It's not so much do what you like, as it is that you like what you do." SS
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#29re: Why HBC is doing Lovett...
Posted: 10/19/06 at 10:25pmWell, all I knows is, frontways or backways wigs ain't natural.
#30re: Why HBC is doing Lovett...
Posted: 10/19/06 at 10:30pmBSoBW2 I am soooo in love with you right now...
"It's not so much do what you like, as it is that you like what you do." SS
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
#31re: Why HBC is doing Lovett...
Posted: 10/19/06 at 11:31pm
I don't care if President Bush approved her casting as Mrs. Lovett. That doesn't mean I have to like it!
I still say Tracey Ullman! :)
#32re: Why HBC is doing Lovett...
Posted: 10/19/06 at 11:37pm
I was hopin' more for Catherine Tate...
Or if shot in US- Martha Stewart. Now, that's scary.
"It's not so much do what you like, as it is that you like what you do." SS
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
#33re: Why HBC is doing Lovett...
Posted: 10/19/06 at 11:41pmI am of the Cyndi Lauper school. she would've been quite stunning
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#34re: Why HBC is doing Lovett...
Posted: 10/19/06 at 11:43pm
Yes. Yes. Yes.
But, look! Life goes on, sadly, but on.
#35re: Why HBC is doing Lovett...
Posted: 10/19/06 at 11:45pm
I don't care if President Bush approved her casting as Mrs. Lovett. That doesn't mean I have to like it!
Because I really care about his opinion when it comes to the casting of this movie. You really couldn't think of a better example?
Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
-John Patrick Shanley
#36re: Why HBC is doing Lovett...
Posted: 10/19/06 at 11:49pm
heck, maybe he even spent more time directing Carter's test and made the other women do it in the laundry room in the basement with no lighting
LMFAO!
roquat
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/25/05
#37re: Why HBC is doing Lovett...
Posted: 10/20/06 at 1:15am
Sondheim himself said "A Little Night Music" was a bad idea as a film, because it was such a presentational, theatrical piece. He also wasn't the demigod then that he has become, so he basically just consigned the project to Harold Prince, whom he considered an equal partner in the stage version. I think almost everyone could have predicted that fiasco.
What I still can't believe (or get over) is that "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", which should have made a fantastic movie, was butchered onscreen in the 1960s by Richard Lester (who wasted a wonderful cast, as well.)
I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#38re: Why HBC is doing Lovett...
Posted: 10/20/06 at 1:22am
A FUNNY THING... is a Funny Movie,
it's just not a musical.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#39re: Why HBC is doing Lovett...
Posted: 10/20/06 at 1:26am
I like Burton, Depp and Carter a lot, maybe not my first choices, but Burton has used music in some of his movies so I am gonna wait and see before i pass any judgement.
I hope it's dark, scary and musical.
Updated On: 10/20/06 at 01:26 AM
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