Topic: SPEAKING VOLUMES (Read 20315 times)

MBarnum · « **Reply #30 on:** June 06, 2005, 06:49:57 AM »

I enjoyed watching my first ever Tony awards, of course the funnest part was reading the posts of those who were in the earlier time zones and then watching for the items they had posted about.

I honestly have to say that I don't recall a single commercial...I must have gotten up during each one and missed 'em.

Little by little I am expanding my horizens and now I know a bit more about current Broadway, and it is making me look very forward to getting to New York sometime this year!

vixmom · « **Reply #31 on:** June 06, 2005, 07:07:40 AM »

We were having computer problems this weekend... we are still on dialup and for some reaso we could not get online all weekend. (well at least at night which is when I was trying, the days are too full on the weekend!)

I logged oin this morning from work and found EIGHTEEN PAGES from last night!!

Gosh! I may never catch up!!

TOD: #1 is really a "concept album" I suppose but Chess still stands as my favorite

then there's (in no particular order)
Les Miserables
West Side Story
Into the Woods
Wicked
Joseph And the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
La Cage Aux Folles
Phantom of the Opera
Jesus Christ Superstar (well actually I guess this is the concept album as well....)

well off to read... see you in a week or so!!

MBarnum · « **Reply #32 on:** June 06, 2005, 07:15:08 AM »

Congrats to JRand54 and BK, who both have several reviews in the upcoming Scarlet Street issue!

vixmom · « **Reply #33 on:** June 06, 2005, 07:17:38 AM »

Quote from: S. Woody White on June 06, 2005, 06:47:09 AM

Almost forgot:

Believe it or not, today is National Cow Day!

I'm not sure whethere we're all supposed to have one, or just celebrate them. My calendar doesn't specify.

I celebrated National Cow Day this weekend by grilling and eating a lovely steak on Saturday and grilling and eating sirloin burgers on Sunday with cheddar cheese melted on top of course... and we always have milk in our tea

I am not sure if the cows involved felt particulary honored but we did indeed appreciate their contributions to the meals

( I hope Jane still speaks to me after this post

)

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #34 on:** June 06, 2005, 07:37:53 AM »

I am all caught up drip-irriagation-system-wise for now. So today I can catch up on my own stuff. Isn't that just too-too?

I stayed awake for the entire Tony show. Seemed to me there was an awful lot of wasted time. And I know about wasted time. I'm on the church board.

Matt H. · « **Reply #35 on:** June 06, 2005, 07:44:51 AM »

Last night, DR TCB wrote: "Jesse L. Martin's performance tonight was even better than I remember his work being in RENT."

Except his last note was god-awful: way off pitch. If you reocrded the show, go back and listen to the last note he sings past the end of the song. He's not on pitch AT ALL.

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #36 on:** June 06, 2005, 07:52:18 AM »

Quote from: Matt H. on June 06, 2005, 07:44:51 AM

Last night, DR TCB wrote: "Jesse L. Martin's performance tonight was even better than I remember his work being in RENT."

Except his last note was god-awful: way off pitch. If you reocrded the show, go back and listen to the last note he sings past the end of the song. He's not on pitch AT ALL.

Not only off-pitch but over extended. Was he attempting an American Idol howl? Was it rehearsed that way?

And what a way to honor those who passed--with a song that contains the line "How can they spot you got no talent?" Sheesh!

JMK · « **Reply #37 on:** June 06, 2005, 08:06:20 AM »

Re: Piazza hand-held mic. I was wondering the same, Pogue--but did anyone else hear the frequent backstage chatter, as if the control room board had an open mic? Right before the Piazza segment, I heard some very quick chatter that sounded like Clark's lavalier might have died so they probably just tossed her the hand-held, then when she got far enough downstage to be picked up by the floor mics, she handed it back. Just a guess.

Re: Jesse L. Martin. Yes, that last note made me think, "Is someone running ProTools as he sings and they turned it off one note early?"

Biggest Tony question of the night: How in hell did Harvey Fierstein do that quick change to become Kathleen Turner? It was amazing, I tells ya, amazing.

JMK · « **Reply #38 on:** June 06, 2005, 08:07:19 AM »

BK's coming to Portland? Oy!! Better send out some press releases.

vixmom · « **Reply #39 on:** June 06, 2005, 08:15:48 AM »

Quote from: Dan (the Man) on June 06, 2005, 07:52:18 AM

And what a way to honor those who passed--with a song that contains the line "How can they spot you got no talent?" Sheesh!

I was thinking the same thing...

vixmom · « **Reply #40 on:** June 06, 2005, 08:16:28 AM »

Ok, I caught uo with the rest of Friday and Saturday.. now to attempt the Sunday posts......

Matt H. · « **Reply #41 on:** June 06, 2005, 08:25:07 AM »

Most played OCRs:

DREAMGIRLS
FOLLIES (Papermill)
MAME
COCO (believe it or not)
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN
GREENWILLOW
CITY OF ANGELS
THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD

Matt H. · « **Reply #42 on:** June 06, 2005, 08:29:07 AM »

The same thing happened to John Leguizamo a few years ago when he was doing an excerpt from his nominated one man show on the TOnys. His body mike went dead, and a stagehand handed him a hand mic for the rest of the routine.

On a live show, things like that happen at the last minute. Didn't bother me in the least.

Matt H. · « **Reply #43 on:** June 06, 2005, 08:32:48 AM »

And FLOWER DRUM SONG I also meant to have in my OCR list.

The show album I've played the most in recent weeks, however, is not an OCR but that marvelous studio album of BRIGADOON with Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy which finally came out on CD. I have loved it for over 40 years, and still I play it constantly. Even though the Brent Barrett/Rebecca Luker studio version is most complete and is beautifully sung, there's something about this version that has just captivated me from a very young age.

Matt H. · « **Reply #44 on:** June 06, 2005, 08:36:48 AM »

Another strange thing is that once I've done a show (and listened to the cast recordings for practicing at home, etc.) I don't go back to those shows much any more.

I haven't played COMPANY, GUYS AND DOLLS, FORUM, NUNCRACKERS, FOREVER PLAID, AND THE WORLD GOES 'ROUND, THE SOUND OF MUSIC, etc. much at all since appearing in versions of those shows, and I used to play each of them a lot. I suspect LA CAGE will fall into that category very soon, too.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #45 on:** June 06, 2005, 08:48:21 AM »

Good Morning!

I'm up! I'm up!

And I'm basically off until next Saturday!

Hmmm.... What to do? What to do?

-Well, there are those "boxes o' stuff" I've been mentioning, so...

What to do? What to do?

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #46 on:** June 06, 2005, 08:52:34 AM »

...Yep, Jesse L. Martin's last note was a bit "scary"... Who knows? Maybe one of the chorus girls goosed him or something like that.

MBarnum · « **Reply #47 on:** June 06, 2005, 08:53:01 AM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on June 06, 2005, 08:48:21 AM

Good Morning!

I'm up! I'm up!

And I'm basically off until next Saturday!

Hmmm.... What to do? What to do?

-Well, there are those "boxes o' stuff" I've been mentioning, so...

What to do? What to do?

And a Bollywood movie to watch.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #48 on:** June 06, 2005, 08:56:46 AM »

...Maybe DR Ben can clear up the microphone issue during The Light in the Piazza sequence. I just figured it was a framing device. She was being "interviewed", and then once the "world" was established, the microphone disappeared.

And, yes, the number may have been "busy", but at least the whole cast got to perform on the Tonys! -And, possibly, received a little financial bump from AFTRA.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #49 on:** June 06, 2005, 08:57:34 AM »

...And didn't Norbert end up editing himself during the break in "Great Big Stuff"?

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #50 on:** June 06, 2005, 08:58:54 AM »

...As I was watching last night, my friend, Andy, IMed me about Lauren Bacall. Lauren Bacall?? -Then he realized it was Kathleen Turner.

bk · « **Reply #51 on:** June 06, 2005, 09:06:36 AM »

I'm up, I'm up. I was posting whilst most of the commercials were on, but I did "hear" the one about "vaginal bleeding" soon after they had bleeped the word "ASS" in the Scoundrels number.

The parade of death was indeed deadly and disrespectful, and the people who produced the show really SHOULD try listening to the lyric of Razzle Dazzle before using it as a "salute".

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #52 on:** June 06, 2005, 09:08:23 AM »

DR vixmom - Thanks for the reminder...

I listen to Chess a lot too. However, I usually listen to the US cast recording - with David Carroll, Philip Casnoff and Judy Kuhn. But that double LP concept album got a lot of play too.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #53 on:** June 06, 2005, 09:13:34 AM »

RE: Christina Applegate's entrance - Stunt double?

Ginny · « **Reply #54 on:** June 06, 2005, 09:13:42 AM »

Wonderful morning-after Tony comments!

TOD - Here are the shows I've taken time to load into my iPod (as good an indicator as any, I guess):

1776
As Thousands Cheer, bk's version
Chicago
A Chorus Line
Company
Hairspray
The King and I, bk's version
Mamma Mia
Oklahoma, 1980 revival, which I was glad to see in DR elmore's list, because we saw it together in NYC
The Producers
Ragtime
West Side Story
Wonderful Town, revival with Donna Murphy
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #55 on:** June 06, 2005, 09:16:09 AM »

Most-listened-to OCRs:

She Loves Me
Into the Woods
Sweeney Todd
A Little Night Music (both Johns and Dench)
Mack and Mabel
Dear World
The Music Man
Candide (1974 version)
Follies
I Do! I Do!
Fiorello!
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Woman of the Year
Applause
Phantom of the Opera
Wicked

MBarnum · « **Reply #56 on:** June 06, 2005, 09:17:02 AM »

It seems like the "in memoriam" section of all the awards shows have gone downhill in the last few years.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #57 on:** June 06, 2005, 09:17:16 AM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on June 06, 2005, 09:13:34 AM

RE: Christina Applegate's entrance - Stunt double?

No, not in my opinion.

Matt H. · « **Reply #58 on:** June 06, 2005, 09:19:53 AM »

On the matter of "Somewhere," Aretha sounded fine in her soul-drenched manner. Hugh sounded fine as a show singer. But they should never do a duet of a show song. Their styles are too divergent, and it ended up a mess. The song's beautiful, they're wonderful performers, but they should each have done a verse ALONE and let one of them end it, but not both.

Years ago when "Beauty and the Beast" was up for the Best Song Oscar, the producers let Angela Lansbury, who introduced it in the movie, sing the first verse, then the duo (Peebo Bryson and someone else) who made a pop version of it that sold big sang a verse. Unwisely, they brought them together for the finale, and the song lessened in impact because their styles were just not compatible.

Stuart · « **Reply #59 on:** June 06, 2005, 09:21:20 AM »

I, too, am amazed at the number of posts from yesterday. I will have to go back to them shortly, but wanted to chime in on the TOD:

FOLLIES (I agree with every word DR ELmoore appended to this title)
1776
MAME
PROMISES, PROMISES
SCARLET PIMPERNEL
FIDDLER
DREAMGIRLS
PIPPIN
CHORUS LINE
COMPANY
GYPSY (Various versions)
FUNNY GIRL (OBC)

I used to listen to the Brynner/Towers KING & I an awful lot, but I have never gotten around to getting it on CD. Ditto for NIGHT MUSIC.

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