Posted by Donald @ 11/04/2002 07:42 AM PST

Great chat - everything talked about from Dorothy Provine to Barnaby Tucker's understudy.

Several of us WOOT (way out of towners) don't get to see a LOT of Broadway, but a tour of Phantom of the Opera came through here with a very good lead named Michael O'Leary...I think he went on to do the role in NYC. But he was terrific - a younger Eric was more touching.

Posted by Jrand55 @ 11/04/2002 07:52 AM PST

I don't know from younger Broadway performers.

Still and all, there are some exciting talents out there. I've seen some who will be going to Broadway in early December -- they're in Baz Luhrmann's "La Boheme" and not a few of them are going to be considered MAJOR finds!

I think Anthony Warlow, however, is one talent -- even if he is a very developed and experienced one -- who ought to give Broadway a try!

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 11/04/2002 08:45 AM PST

I really like Brian D'Arcy James. He was certainly the best thing about SSOS, and his "Giants in the Sky" on BK's Sondheim Album is the best I've heard.

Posted by Pam @ 11/04/2002 09:18 AM PST

There are so many more young talented performers than there are shows for them that I don't know where to begin. Both Christopher Fitzgerald and Kirk McDonald were in SATURDAY NIGHT; Fitzgerald was also in Encore's BABES IN ARMS and the recently closed AMOUR while McDonald was in PARADE and outshone his material in BOYS FROM SYRACUSE. A wonderful performer who has yet to apper on Broadway but has been is shows at Encores and Mufti is Mellisa Rain Anderson. She has a Merman-like voice and would be an ideal replacement when Marissa Jaret Winkover leaves HAIRSPRAY. I also like Sarah Uratte Berry who was in the Washington NIGHT MUSIC and starred in Eisner's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST on Broadway (which I did not see). She was most memorable however in a reading of a memorable new musical MEMORABLE which she did with David Staller at the York.

Posted by William E. Lurie @ 11/04/2002 10:05 AM PST

Well, after lurking and creating and creating and lurking--alternately--I finally read through the weekend's exquisite posts, and I was most saddened by not being able to partake in the exquisite chat.

I also think that François's suggestion should be adopted and "Luckie, Be a Lady" should become our newest Kanine Kimlette's official theme song.

But I must step into the end-credits discussion of Saturday or Friday or whenever it was. This is something that has been bugging my Joe and me for some time--along with the hideous practice of televison stations and networks squeezing the credits into nothing and drowning out the end-title theme with their own commercials for their very own selves. Egregious! Why don't the Unions protest? Isn't having their names visible during the credits written into contracts these days?

Anyway, Joe and I have noticed the music decisions of the studios for at least a decade, from the first time we saw some beautiful medieval-fantasy sword-and-sorcery epic with a mood-setting score, only to be treated to heavy metal during the credits. Now heavy metal has morphed into rap. That's all.

But, did we all not hear the most egregious news of all? That is that Janet Jackson, mind you, has been retained to write and perform and end-title song for the film of Chicago. Although the film itself is entirely Kander and Ebb's score, some Sheckel-brain has determined that the demographics would be improved.

If Janet is smart, (which I doubt she is) she will run, not walk, over to Kander and Ebb's assorted abodes and beg them on hand and knee to ghost it for her. But she may not believe in ghosts.

Ah! I feel so much better after a good rant.

Posted by William F. Orr @ 11/04/2002 10:30 AM PST

Six count them six Unseemly Comments is unseemly. Let us get off our collective butt cheeks and show these other interet sites the stuff we're made of. I, for example, am made of rubber and foam. What the HELL am I talking about? I need posts to read - plus I think today's topic of discussion is a lovely one.

Posted by bk @ 11/04/2002 11:46 AM PST

I agree with William F. Orr's comments about end credits, but what is just as bad is opening credits that are superimposed over the picture for the first five or six minutes of a show so you have to watch and read at the same time. Also, these credits are often just a list of names so you have no idea who is who. It's bad enough to see a familiar face and not be able to connect it to a name, but many ensemble cast series don't bother identifying which characters the regular cast members play so you can watch a series week after week and not know who the regulars are.

Posted by William E. Lurie @ 11/04/2002 12:18 PM PST

Sorry that I couldn't participate in the live chat last night. MIL and I are very busy here lately.

The new talent I'm hoping to make it big is a young man named Joey Sorge, who was in Saturday Night and Follies on Broadway. We saw him as Sparky in the Las Vegas production of Forever Plaid.

Posted by Laura @ 11/04/2002 12:54 PM PST

The same "voice overs" promoting other TV station programmes are very evident here too. The mood of the film is sometimes quite abruptly shattered. Likewise the credits are often not seen in full. Sometimes two episodes of a programme are shown and as a result the credits for only the second ares shown. Maddening.

For some strange reason I don't get to see much of Broadway either!
I am amazed at the depth of talent that has appeared on those wonderful BK albums. Of Oz talent (which we have some), our "would be stars "sometimes get their break in the West End. You at least have now had the chance to see David Campbell and Caroline O'Connor. I hope Broadway gets to see Hugh Jackman. I suspect Warlow will not venture there. He had quite a fight with cancer a few years back and the strain and stress of Broadway may well be avoided. We don't see that much of him either and he has not been in the recording studio for some time.

Posted by Tom from OZ @ 11/04/2002 02:00 PM PST

Tom---
NYC is supposed to be able to see Mr. Jackman next season but he has cancelled before if a movie role comes up, so we won't hold our breath. However I can't picture Hugh Jackman --- big, butch and masculine --- as Peter Allen --- not big, not butch and certainly not masculine. However to see the wonderful Ruthie Henshall play Judy Garland (the woman who discovered Allen and his lover passing as brothers and brought him to Liza) will be worth it.

BK---
That label which won't be mentioned is now offering a free 5 track CD of unreleased tracks from THE GRAND TOUR if people will buy two of your CDs from a select list. Something tells me that these tracks would have been included on the cast album if you had still been there. As much as I would like those tracks, I refuse to buy from them (and I have almost everything they are offering anyway).

Posted by William E. Lurie @ 11/04/2002 03:34 PM PST

I received the email from that label too. I would not bother!

Re: "Boy From OZ" The production here was OK but I really can't see a future for it on Broadway. I hope Jackman does not do it. He was a great Gaston, did a good job in Sunset B and was a successful Curly (though I find the video of the London production Of Oklahoma totally lifeless!).
Peter Allen was without doubt a competent song writer but was his life really that interesting? So he married Liza!

Henshell is wonderful. I saw her in "She Loves Me". A delight.

Posted by Tom from OZ @ 11/04/2002 05:26 PM PST

Well, BK already discovered one of my favorite performers from her Carnegie-Mellon days: the divine Emily Skinner.
Also from that CMU facility, a few poised for greatness:
Donna Lynne Champlin
Patrick Wilson
Matthew Stokes
Christian Borle
Jim Stanek
Julie Hera DeStefano

others:
Michael Cerveris
Martin Moran
Christopher Chew

Posted by td @ 11/04/2002 07:24 PM PST

It is will a heavy heart that I must inform everyone here that Jonathan Harris (aka Dr. Smith of Lost in Space fame) has passed away...

Posted by Craig @ 11/04/2002 07:30 PM PST

I saved the major portion of the chat and if anyone is interested I can email it to them.

Posted by Michael Shayne @ 11/04/2002 07:43 PM PST

But what a long and full life he had!

On another note (Ab), why is it that whenever I say we've had the "best" month, or the "most" traffic, that the day I say it, we have the least amount of posts and the lowest traffic. It's almost perverse. Let's at least have some dirt on this wretched-looking TV remake of Carrie, which I'm about to start watching.

Posted by bk @ 11/04/2002 07:43 PM PST

Andre De Toth, the Director of Noted 3-D Film, Is Dead. Andre De Toth, a Hungarian-born movie and television director whose loss of an eye as a youth robbed him of depth perception yet didn't prevent him from making the most highly regarded of all 3-D films, died on Sunday at his home in Burbank, Calif

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/01/obituaries/01DETO.html

Posted by Michael Shayne @ 11/04/2002 07:56 PM PST

Well, I half-watched CARRIE, I have several new reviews up at dvdlaunch - which were taking up my time.
IF Holly Hunter had played Carrie, the NBC movie shows what she would have looked like. There's nothing new (and hardly anything nude) about this CARRIE; Margaret isn't a fanatic as portrayed in the book and the excellent film. She's just a spinsterish Patricia Clarkson. There is more destruction in this CARRIE, but MORE survivors as well.
I agree with the critic from USA TODAY who said that they should have filmed the musical, at least its something that most viewers haven't seen.
Strange structure, too. The novel, IIRC, used a lot of newspaper reports to make points, but this reporter played by David Keith is just WRONG! What I did like: the rain of stones, the overhead shot of the burning town, Margaret's demise - all quite true to the source novel.

Posted by td @ 11/04/2002 07:58 PM PST

"Post me once, and post me twice and post me once again.. it's been a long... long.... time"

Posted by Craig @ 11/04/2002 08:21 PM PST

Wow, I can't believe I actually missed a day on HainesHisWay! (-that sounds like a jingle.)

I had a crazy weekend which was made even more crazier by a pilot light that went out late Saturday night/early Sunday morning. So, as of right now, I've had eight hours of sleep, which normally would be good, but these eight hours have been over two days. So, I'm gonna type, type, type away, and get a good night's sleep tonight.

*The one really nice thing was how this whole three day marathon ended earlier tonight. I had the pleasure and honor to be in a room with Larry Marshall and Baayork Lee for four, fun-filled hours of preliminary Carmen Jones work. Great spirits. Nice people. Wonderful senses of humor. Their energy was contagious - which was a good thing since my day had started at 6:00AM, and I had already been through two performances and a production meeting. -And I get a whole week more with both of them, plus another month with Baayork on SOUTH PACIFIC - which starts at 11:30 tomorrow - I actually cheered when I found out I could sleep in a little bit!

As for today's "future Broadway stars"...

Kristin Chenoweth - Let's hope she does come back to the stage. She has been very successful so far, but I'd really like to see her in a major starring role. Hopefully, Wicked will stay on track.

Hugh Panaro - Yes, he's sung both the Phantom and Raoul, but he's another one I'd love to see in a meatier role.

Mark Price - He was the Toby in Sweeney Todd this past summer at the Kennedy Center. He's had a couple of Broadway shows to his credit - and he's currently in Dance of the Vampires. He's an amazing dancer, a great comic (at least offstage), and he does one of the best Liza's I've ever heard.

Other actors from the Sondheim Celebration I'd love to see more of: Danny Gurwin, Miriam Shor, Anastasia Barzee, ...

-Off to dreamland...

Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 11/04/2002 08:53 PM PST

Twenty count them twenty posts - I would be lying if I said that wasn't disappointing after our wonderful live chat last night. That is just going in the wrong direction, post-wise. How will we remain the most popular site on all the internet if we slack off? We must not slack off, because to slack off is unseemly. Let us have a burst of posting activity, say I. Tomorrow, if you want my full report on this thing I'm watching called Carrie, then we simply must have a few more posts. I haz spoken.

Posted by bk @ 11/04/2002 10:08 PM PST

To comment on the label we don't mention here, I've recently added it to my list of stores or whatever that I refuse to patronize because of their poor service or bad following. My decison was set today when a teacher I work said it took months for him to get his order. I decided to purchase all items through a third party or from eBay. I've said my piece, thanks for listening.

Posted by Matthew @ 11/04/2002 10:28 PM PST

Um...I think you guys have overlooked a HUGELY TALENTED up and comer--ME!! :-)

I had a very VERY long day at the Met today so this post will be short. In short...I worked 14 hours and in the process got to hear Arthur Miller do a lecture about his upcoming opera "A View From the Bridge" and I managed to make about $250. Yes...in one day. Cool...isn't it?

Anyway...I'm beat and I am fading...so I'm gonna hit the sack and hope it doesn't hit back.

Let's hope that Danny Gurwin...Hunter Foster...Kerry Butler...Marissa Jaret Winokur...Kirk McDonald...and my little Kristi Chenoweth all have fabulous careers in their futures. :-)

'Night....

Posted by Jason @ 11/04/2002 10:31 PM PST

I did not watch Carrie. How was it? I did watch the rebroadcast of the first episode of the second season of 24. So far, I've only seen the first four episodes of the first season, but I did buy the complete season on DVD, so I will see them all.

Young up and comings: I love Klea Blackhurst, Emily Skinner and Kristen Chenoweth. Although I've never seen them live, I've loved everything that I've heard from them.

Also, I saw the Seattle production of FOLLIES a few years ago with Judy Kaye, Walter Charles, Maxine Andrews, etc., and Brian D'Arcy James. He was wonderful!

Posted by George @ 11/04/2002 10:37 PM PST