Zach's methods in ACL (SPOILERS)
Zach's methods in ACL (SPOILERS)
K8eeyore
Stand-by Joined: 8/24/04
#1Zach's methods in ACL (SPOILERS)
Posted: 3/8/07 at 6:54pmI'm curious if anyone has any thoughts about the way Zach chooses his final eight. He reads some names, has those people step forward, then tells them thanks, but no thanks. The ones who make the chorus are the ones he didn't name. Maybe it's just me, but doesn't this seem rather sadistic, to have those whose names are called think they're the ones picked, only to crush them?
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#2re: Zach's methods in ACL (SPOILERS)
Posted: 3/8/07 at 6:56pmJust adds to the drama! Haha. A characature of the cut-throat world of theatre, just in the way he names his 8!
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
singingbackup
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/06
#2re: Zach's methods in ACL (SPOILERS)
Posted: 3/9/07 at 11:54am
They do that alot on reality TV shows like Idol and Grease..it sure adds drama.
I would like to think that in calling them forward, they at least get a brief moment of recognition "you were all so good, but we can only choose so many so take a step forward as we recognize that, but unfortunately we can not use you at this time..."
The other way reads "The following people are really great so come on down and be loved, the rest of you can just slink away cause you suck..."
Updated On: 3/9/07 at 11:54 AM
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#3re: Zach's methods in ACL (SPOILERS)
Posted: 3/9/07 at 12:30pmIf you take the show literally the entire audition is rather sadistic.
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
singingbackup
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/06
#5re: Zach's methods in ACL (SPOILERS)
Posted: 3/9/07 at 1:42pmZach has become attached to them. He's cares. He's nervous about having to tell them who made it and who didn't. And that's true: auditions are by nature sadistic.
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
keen on kean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/06
#6re: Zach's methods in ACL (SPOILERS)
Posted: 3/9/07 at 5:00pmIt gives each of the actors a chance to express the pleasure they would feel if they were chosen - then the disappointment and surprise. Nice touch, actually.
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