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#1

about BKLYN's saturday eve show.

Posted: 2/20/05 at 12:18pm

Romelda Benjamin learned the show in 4 hours. She performed with a script in hand. Julie Reiber the swing stepped in to do all of the set and prop moves. Two of the most professional actors I've ever seen.
Together they helped save an evening of live theater. I am in awe of their abilities.
#3

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Posted: 2/20/05 at 12:29pm

wow, props to them.
"Chicago is it's own incredible theater town right there smack down in the middle of the heartland. What a great city! I can see why Oprah likes to live there!" - Dee Hoty :-D
#5

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Posted: 2/20/05 at 12:43pm

yea that must have been interesting..
ohh script in hand, that's rough but commendable that she was able to go on and bascically save them.
A dancer might dream to see her name in lights and mean it, but all she really dreams is to make someone else feel the way she did when she first saw a dancer. And that is so beautiful-Anonymous
#6

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Posted: 2/20/05 at 12:44pm

I loved Ramona's performance and would have felt bad missing her, but it sounds as if the show was amazing last night---a true Broadway experience!!
#7

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Posted: 2/20/05 at 12:46pm

i was there last night as well. i thought that romelda was wonderful. it takes guts to go up there on stage barely knowing the show. it was still amazing. good for her. julie as well.
"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions." ~The one and only John Lennon
#9

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Posted: 2/20/05 at 12:54pm

So who of the regular cast WAS on? Julie went on for Eden, Ramona was out AND Kevin is still gone?
A work of art is an invitation to love.
#12

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Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:09pm

but Eden was out? why wasn't Sara on?!?!?
Will: They don't give out awards for helping people be gay... unless you count the Tonys. "I guarantee that we'll have tough times. I guarantee that at some point one or both of us will want to get out. But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life..."
#13

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Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:09pm

Maybe I missed something, but why didnt the understudy know the part? Isn't her job to know the part and be ready to go on?
#15

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Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:18pm

i hope she was on. i sent my niece to that show last night (she's on a NYC field trip).
Will: They don't give out awards for helping people be gay... unless you count the Tonys. "I guarantee that we'll have tough times. I guarantee that at some point one or both of us will want to get out. But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life..."
#17

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Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:24pm

"Maybe I missed something, but why didnt the understudy know the part? Isn't her job to know the part and be ready to go on? "

The producers realized that the only way they can keep this show running was to keep cutting costs and only giving Ramona one understudy. If you take shortcuts, eventually it comes back to bite you. The missed revenue for the matinee is gonna hurt them.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#18

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Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:25pm

maybe, maybe not...the sitch is getting A LOT of press, for free...
Will: They don't give out awards for helping people be gay... unless you count the Tonys. "I guarantee that we'll have tough times. I guarantee that at some point one or both of us will want to get out. But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life..."
#19

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Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:33pm

Wow, bklyn really is amazing...I just hate those who diss it. This shoes how much everyone on the bklyn team has broadway in there heart.
"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999
#20

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Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:36pm

Yea, emo geek you're so right - their heart is just so full.

Give me a break.

You do not send an understudy onstage with a script in her hand. It's abominable - the performance should have been canceled if they're too cheap to have more than one understudy. If I were in that audience, I would have demanded a refund if one of the actor's onstage had a script in her hand. PLEASE.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

Updated On: 2/20/05 at 03:36 PM

#21

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Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:39pm

well, they know people are traveling from far and wide to see Bklyn, and they alrady let down a sold out performance once...they wanted to go with the famouse saying: The show must go on.
"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999
#22

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Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:41pm

They did not have Broadway in their heart.
They have money on their mind.
They were too cheap to hire another understudy for Ramona.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#23

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Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:41pm

1) Eden was on last night.
2) munk, apparently the producers offered everyone in the sold out audience tickets to see the show again.
JOHN LITHGOW I just realized, your last name is Butz! Both "Norbert" AND "Butz" are in your name! You must have gotten picked on a lot as a child!
#24

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Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:43pm

"offered everyone in the sold out audience tickets to see the show again."

That's not surprising because they have been papering the audience like mad anyway. This was just a more effiecient way to do it. a bet at least 1/3 of that audience were brought in by papering in the first place.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#25

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Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:44pm

yeah, and I don't call it too cheap. They are new to broadway. I bet you know they are setting up for more understudies.
"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999

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