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Post by BurlyBeaR on Apr 17, 2017 11:07:35 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2017 11:36:53 GMT
Jessie Mueller. Very talented, will certainly do a good job. But miscast in my opinion.
Josh Henry though, yaaaas.
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Post by argon on Apr 18, 2017 23:17:09 GMT
Now that's how it should be done |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 7:20:35 GMT
Well at least Jessie Mueller can act it...
Certainly more tempting than seeing it here!
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Post by Sari on Apr 19, 2017 10:08:44 GMT
OH THE HYPE, why is Broadway that far awaaaaaaay. I love love love Jessie and Joshua, they're so talented!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2017 16:03:50 GMT
Gosh. The artwork makes it look like Rodgers & Hammerstein do the Bayeux Tapestry. Hope no-one gets it in the eye. Betsy Wolfe is in it too. At the Imperial Theatre apparently.  |
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Post by couldileaveyou on Sept 11, 2017 17:13:09 GMT
Gosh. The artwork makes it look like Rodgers & Hammerstein do the Bayeux Tapestry. Hope no-one gets it in the eye. Betsy Wolfe is in it too. At the Imperial Theatre apparently. I hear they hired the same graphic designer of the Parthenon |
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Post by ali973 on Sept 11, 2017 18:23:29 GMT
I bought my ticket already. It's going to be a very revival-heavy season with My Fair Lady, Once On This Island, perhaps Dreamgirls and Hello, Dolly still going strong with a good reason to see it again with its new star.
I'm very nervous about Jack O'Brien. He's the epitome of mediocrity with Hairspray being pretty much the height of his recent resume, followed by the misconceived Catch Me If You Can, a WTF version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Love Never Dies which was so misdirected and so unfortunately unattractive it took Bill Kenwrithght, yes, Bill Kenwright, to fix it. So yes, I have my reservations.
And I have no time for an imaginary carousel. I want a full goddamn machine that goes round and round in circles.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2017 19:42:19 GMT
And I have no time for an imaginary carousel. I want a full goddamn machine that goes round and round in circles. They can recycle Groundhog Days revolve. |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 11, 2017 21:08:40 GMT
Renee Fleming will sing the heck out of You'll Never Walk Alone - but Carousel is still Carousel. It is just so difficult to make the plot palatable for modern audiences.
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Post by tmesis on Sept 12, 2017 6:44:43 GMT
Renee Fleming will sing the heck out of You'll Never Walk Alone - but Carousel is still Carousel. It is just so difficult to make the plot palatable for modern audiences. What luxury to have Renee! |
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Post by Mr Snow on Sept 12, 2017 12:00:45 GMT
Funny I've never thought of Nettie as glamorous. Hitchcock used to moan that they'd set up an actress to be a plain Jane and then she'd make friends with the make up ladies and a week later she’d be unrecognisable.
Renee? Plain. Perish the thought.
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Post by tonyloco on Sept 14, 2017 15:10:51 GMT
I may have the wrong slant on this but surely Renée Fleming will look gorgeous as she always does and despite the fact that she is fast approaching 60, doesn't this mean that there will be three female leads in this "Carousel" (Julie, Carrie and Nettie) all looking young and scrumptious? Is that a problem? I guess not!
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Post by ali973 on Sept 20, 2017 18:30:52 GMT
Betsy Wolfe dropped out of Carousel for scheduling conflicts. And BroadwayWorld Lost. It. And Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family, Spelling Bee) took it upon himself to do dramatic readings of the very lengthy and dramatic thread on the BroadwayWorld Message Board (that I've been following like crazy too, but not posting like a crazy person). I was cry laughing:
Post #100
Another Dramatic Reading
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2018 12:10:25 GMT
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Post by ali973 on Aug 8, 2018 12:17:30 GMT
It was such a misdirected and lazy attempt to revive the show. Jack O'Brien's solution to revive this relic was to over-stage, over-choreograph it and cut out the problematic parts. At least it gave us a pretty good cast recording with its current stars, though quite a shame it has no reprise of If I Loved You.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2018 12:21:37 GMT
But it did give us my favourite version of 'June Is Bustin' Out All Over'. When Renée teases us with a little bit of opera diva towards the end, I was bustin' out all over too!
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Post by ali973 on Aug 8, 2018 12:25:24 GMT
The cast is top notch.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2018 18:55:21 GMT
Annoying - I was hoping to see it in November to make up my own mind as to whether it is as bad as many people seem to think! Oh well, now I have a free slot!
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Post by raider80 on Aug 29, 2018 3:37:36 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2018 7:46:51 GMT
It's just Jigger, not *the* Jigger. Supporting role, probably fair to say he's considered the villain of the piece.
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