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Yet ANOTHER Pirate Queen Press rehearsal VIDEO

Yet ANOTHER Pirate Queen Press rehearsal VIDEO

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#1Yet ANOTHER Pirate Queen Press rehearsal VIDEO
Posted: 2/27/07 at 11:57pm

Saw this posted in the PQ boards, passing it along.
This one from Yahoo! Broadway

Check it out Updated On: 2/27/07 at 11:57 PM

danhattan
#2re: Yet ANOTHER Pirate Queen Press rehearsal VIDEO
Posted: 2/28/07 at 11:30am

Gotta love Broadway on Yahoo! Thanks for the heads up Popular. After watching the clip let me continue to say that the look of this show is absolutely stunning. There is just nothing like it on Broadway! Go PQ!

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#2re: Yet ANOTHER Pirate Queen Press rehearsal VIDEO
Posted: 2/28/07 at 1:18pm

Thanks! All those clips made me excited again. re: Yet ANOTHER Pirate Queen Press rehearsal VIDEO


"Blow out the candles, Robert, and make a wish. Want something. Want something."

Wishes come true, not free.

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#3re: Yet ANOTHER Pirate Queen Press rehearsal VIDEO
Posted: 2/28/07 at 1:37pm

Yay! Thank you!

SayitSomehow
#4re: Yet ANOTHER Pirate Queen Press rehearsal VIDEO
Posted: 2/28/07 at 3:33pm

I cannot wait to devour this production

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#5re: Yet ANOTHER Pirate Queen Press rehearsal VIDEO
Posted: 2/28/07 at 3:36pm

I saw it in Chicago and was, apparently, one of the few who loved it.

Sad to hear that "Because I Am A Wife"/"The Woman That I Am"/etc. might have been cut.

That and "She Who Has All" were the most beautiful and moving songs in the show.


"The nice thing about the rain is that it always stops... eventually."

- Eeyore

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#6re: Yet ANOTHER Pirate Queen Press rehearsal VIDEO
Posted: 2/28/07 at 3:40pm

Just watched it... GOD I love SJB. She's just such a sweetheart and is so passionate about her character and the show!

Hope to catch it in June...!


"The nice thing about the rain is that it always stops... eventually."

- Eeyore

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#7re: Yet ANOTHER Pirate Queen Press rehearsal VIDEO
Posted: 2/28/07 at 3:44pm

I'm sorry, those clips of that chick on an actual pirate ship cracked me up. I hope they are not taking this THAT seriously.

SorryGrateful
#8re: Yet ANOTHER Pirate Queen Press rehearsal VIDEO
Posted: 2/28/07 at 3:51pm

'That and "She Who Has All" were the most beautiful and moving songs in the show.'

Really? I agree with you that "Because I Am a Wife" shouldn't have been cut, mostly for plot's sake and for a great moment in the spotlight for Stephanie Block. But, even though I really disliked the whole show, I thought "She Who Has All" was one of the most boring songs in it. The sentiment in the song was silly and didn't seem to go along with the rest of the show.

Elizabeth: "Oh, woe is me because, even though I am ruler of all I see, I do not have love and because of that, my life is not nearly as important as that dirty Irish girl's because not only does she rule her shirtless, hunky pirate minion, but she also has LOVE, which is all women can hope to have."

Yes, I'm exaggerating, but I thought the show was about strong women, not women who were strong but also lonely because they don't have the greatest thing in the world-- THE LOVE OF A GOOD MAN.


*edited for crappy punctuation*


You promised me poems. ~Tricky
Updated On: 2/28/07 at 03:51 PM

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#9re: Yet ANOTHER Pirate Queen Press rehearsal VIDEO
Posted: 2/28/07 at 3:57pm

I had some trouble understanding what in the hell Linda waws saying when she sang. I just though it sounded pretty, hahaha.

But really, i loved the song.


"The nice thing about the rain is that it always stops... eventually."

- Eeyore

SorryGrateful
#10re: Yet ANOTHER Pirate Queen Press rehearsal VIDEO
Posted: 2/28/07 at 4:05pm

Hell, if it appeals to you, that's great! I just thought it was an unnecessary song.


You promised me poems. ~Tricky

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#11What can I do, I don't do
Posted: 2/28/07 at 4:27pm

Actually SorryGrateful, I think you quite accurately summed up the meaning of "She Who Has All" as it was done in Chicago. When Elizabeth I saw that Tiernan loved Grania enough to come plead for her, she suddenly decided to agree to a prisoner swap because "It's a woman in love who has all".

I was disappointed to see that song still in the recent rehearsal video, but perhaps with some rewritten lyrics or a different context it will make more sense.

It is a pretty melody, in a Martin Guerrish sort of way.


"I have got to have some professional music!" - Big Edie

SorryGrateful
#12What can I do, I don't do
Posted: 2/28/07 at 4:32pm

I'll be honest and say that the lyrics were so crappy that I don't believe I paid much attention to the melody. Ah, well.


You promised me poems. ~Tricky

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#13What can I do, I don't do
Posted: 2/28/07 at 5:36pm

The way Marcus is talking about his character, it doesn't seem he's been deepended and given motive at all, as per his castcom in which he says pretty much exactly that. Maybe he's just trying to be funny, though.


And I think "She Who Has All" will make more sense, if the parallelism between QEI and Grania is played up from the beginning, as Maltby has said they've had happen. Smart move. Now they just both need to sing the same song at different points in the show (a la Valjean and Javert) and we'll be set.


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#14What can I do, I don't do
Posted: 2/28/07 at 5:47pm

Thanks for posting this!

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#15What can I post, I don't post
Posted: 2/28/07 at 6:26pm

"I think "She Who Has All" will make more sense, if the parallelism between QEI and Grania is played up from the beginning,"

This could help the song a great deal, but I also wouldn't mind hearing more profound lyrics than "It's a woman in love who has all". In Chicago we saw Elizabeth repeatedly ordering Grania to be killed, so her sudden sentimentality and willingness to let the imprisoned Pirate Queen go free came out of left field.

In the source novel Elizabeth insisted that Grania not be killed but rather be brought in alive because she was still upset about the death of Mary Queen of Scots.

The other problem with "She Who Has All" is that the last 45 minutes of the Chicago version of Pirate Queen was quite literally a ballad marathon, with one slow low energy song after another. They were all pretty ballads, but there were just way too many of them.


"I have got to have some professional music!" - Big Edie

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#16What can I post, I don't post
Posted: 2/28/07 at 7:27pm

oh my gosh!!!!! i am so excited! all those clips of them in costume on the stage were just what i needed to get me more excited for this show. i can't wait!!!


LET OTHERS RISE TO TAKE OUR PLACE UNTIL THE EARTH IS FREE!

SayitSomehow
#17What can I post, I don't post
Posted: 2/28/07 at 10:47pm

I only know "She Who Has All" from the press rehearsal clips, but I'll say I love it and cannot get it out of my head even if I try.

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#18What can I post, I don't post
Posted: 2/28/07 at 11:08pm

Anyone else notice that the notes to "Sail the Sea of life/ Trav'lers all are we" are the exact same notes that make up the theme in the Martin Guerre Prologue?


-Benjamin
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