Broadway

tunatartare · #1 07-14-2006, 09:08 AM

Saw The Producers last night. Loved it.

DeltAlum · #2 07-14-2006, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by KLPDaisy

Saw The Producers last night. Loved it.

It is a funny show! I really liked it, too.

A kid from our middle daughters class in high school was one of the Nazi's in the movie. Now, he's in Mama Mia in NYC.

I keep mentioning these things in hopes that some of this will rub off on the son...

A not so secret agenda.

AlphaFrog · #3 07-28-2006, 07:42 AM

Brilliant!

I just read a story on MSN that said Andrew Lloyd Webber is reviving "The Sound of Music" and the actress that he wanted to play Maria turned it down, so now they're doing a Reality show called "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?" to find the next Maria. I'm pretty much over the whole reality thing...but how cute is that name for that show?? The winner will get a 6-month West-End contract.

I would have posted the article, but it was more about Scarlett Johanssen turning down the role then the reality show. It's on MSN's front page, under entertainment, if anyone cares to find it.

tunatartare · #4 07-28-2006, 09:21 AM

The Sound of Music was on Broadway 9 years ago. I saw it with my mom. It was pretty cute but it got bad reviews and was cancelled pretty quickly.

ASUADPi · #5 07-28-2006, 09:51 AM

See that would be one reality show I would totally want to go for. I can sing, but there is no way I'd want to do American Idol. I'm much more of a musical freak, and I can belt those type of songs much better than rock/pop songs.

I'm surprised that The Sound of Music got bad reviews. It seems odd to me b/c it was a revival and I guess I don't get how a revival of a musical that has received wonderful reviews and spawned a movie could get horrible reviews.

tunatartare · #6 07-28-2006, 09:53 AM

I was only in 7th grade at the time, so I didn't read the reviews. I just remember that it got pulled pretty quickly. A girl in my grade told me that it got bad reviews after the fact.

ASUADPi · #7 07-28-2006, 10:05 AM

Wasn't the revival more recent than 9 years ago?

I could have sworn I read something or heard that it was on broadway like 5 years ago.

I just ask because I graduated from high school 9 years ago and if it was on broadway, there would have been no way we could have gotten the rights to perform it, but when did, in April of my senior year.

Someone told me that if a play is on broadway, there is no way a high school can get the rights to do it because A) it's on broadway and B) the rights are astronomical. Anyone know if that's true or not?

AlphaFrog · #8 07-28-2006, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by ASUADPi

See that would be one reality show I would totally want to go for. I can sing, but there is no way I'd want to do American Idol. I'm much more of a musical freak, and I can belt those type of songs much better than rock/pop songs.

I'm with you on that one. I can do rock/pop, but I prefer not to. My coworkers are always telling me that I need to try out for Idol or Gimmie the Mike Charlotte (local version)...but I don't know what I'd sing. I doubt the Idol crowd would go much for "Defying Gravity" or even better "Ach, ich fühl's, es ist verschwunden".