Topic: LEAVING THE ANIMAL OUT OF THE ANIMAL FRIES (Read 5911 times)

singdaw · « **Reply #150 on:** November 17, 2023, 08:05:52 PM »

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singdaw · « **Reply #151 on:** November 17, 2023, 08:06:06 PM »

Good night, friends.

John G. · « **Reply #152 on:** November 17, 2023, 09:04:59 PM »

Home from the show. The traffic was horrible.

John G. · « **Reply #153 on:** November 17, 2023, 09:06:56 PM »

The choreography was the high point of this staging. That is, until the title song, which suddenly looked like a bad 80s video.

John G. · « **Reply #154 on:** November 17, 2023, 09:11:31 PM »

I hadn’t realized until later that it’s been more than 30 years since I had seen the show live. That was the production that confused JCS with Godspell and had Jesus carry balloons with him. It wasn’t as good as the other production I saw that year. In that one, Jesus was dressed like exercise Jane Fonda, including leggings, and the choreography was all out of an exercise video.

John G. · « **Reply #155 on:** November 17, 2023, 09:12:28 PM »

In both, Christ rose at the end, in direct opposition to the point of the show.

John G. · « **Reply #156 on:** November 17, 2023, 09:15:18 PM »

Needed something silly tonight. Starting Muppet Treasure Island, which has, so far, a couple of interesting Barry Mann-Cynthia Weil songs and a bombastic Hans Zimmer score.

George · « **Reply #157 on:** November 17, 2023, 09:51:25 PM »

Quote from: John G. on November 17, 2023, 09:11:31 PM

I hadn’t realized until later that it’s been more than 30 years since I had seen the show live. That was the production that confused JCS with Godspell and had Jesus carry balloons with him. It wasn’t as good as the other production I saw that year. In that one, Jesus was dressed like exercise Jane Fonda, including leggings, and the choreography was all out of an exercise video.

Oh, my.

George · « **Reply #158 on:** November 17, 2023, 09:51:44 PM »

Quote from: John G. on November 17, 2023, 09:12:28 PM

In both, Christ rose at the end, in direct opposition to the point of the show.

WTH??

George · « **Reply #159 on:** November 17, 2023, 10:08:04 PM »

I'm now home.

George · « **Reply #160 on:** November 17, 2023, 10:08:17 PM »

We had a pretty good show.

George · « **Reply #161 on:** November 17, 2023, 10:09:38 PM »

The stage manager said that a couple people left at intermission, but I wasn't keeping track of how many were there, so I didn't notice. $:-\$

George · « **Reply #162 on:** November 17, 2023, 10:10:05 PM »

Oh, well...we got their money.

George · « **Reply #163 on:** November 17, 2023, 11:56:31 PM »

Otherwise, there were about 25 or so people in the audience tonight...at the most.

George · « **Reply #164 on:** November 17, 2023, 11:56:57 PM »

A couple of people just didn't show up.

George · « **Reply #165 on:** November 17, 2023, 11:57:14 PM »

And one group of people bought five tickets, but two of their group didn't come.

George · « **Reply #166 on:** November 17, 2023, 11:57:35 PM »

Since we're all pretty loose, I said that the two others could come back on another day.

George · « **Reply #167 on:** November 17, 2023, 11:57:47 PM »

We only have two performances left, so there's not much time.

George · « **Reply #168 on:** November 18, 2023, 12:02:36 AM »

Today a package was left on my porch from Amazon.

George · « **Reply #169 on:** November 18, 2023, 12:02:50 AM »

Fortunately, it contained an items that I had actually ordered.

George · « **Reply #170 on:** November 18, 2023, 12:04:27 AM »

And what this item was was the double Blu-ray set of both recorded performances of the two casts for John Caird and Maoko Imai's stage adaptation of Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away.

George · « **Reply #171 on:** November 18, 2023, 12:05:39 AM »

Here's the cover:

George · « **Reply #172 on:** November 18, 2023, 12:07:59 AM »

I had previously <ahem> [SHH!!] obtained

digital copies of both versions, but the subtitle files were based on auto-translate-from-Japan-to-English translations, so they were quite inaccurate.

George · « **Reply #173 on:** November 18, 2023, 12:09:33 AM »

Not only do I now have the officially released (and legitimately purchased) copy of both versions, I'll finally have the official and accurate translations!

George · « **Reply #174 on:** November 18, 2023, 12:12:48 AM »

Both casts are individually available from Amazon Prime Video, so that's convenient for those who like to rent/purchase videos that way.

George · « **Reply #175 on:** November 18, 2023, 12:13:56 AM »

THIS ONE is the one with Kanna Hashimoto as Chihiro.

George · « **Reply #176 on:** November 18, 2023, 12:14:56 AM »

And THIS ONE is the one with Mone Kamishiraishi as Chihiro.

George · « **Reply #177 on:** November 18, 2023, 12:18:31 AM »

Here's a YouTube trailer for when both versions were shown in theaters (like Fathom Events, but not through Fathom Events):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED5Y8mz8P8g

George · « **Reply #178 on:** November 18, 2023, 12:20:13 AM »

And if you click here:

https://gkids.com/films/spirited-away-live-on-stage/

you'll get a lot of information from when it was shown in the theaters, including the cast lists and pictures and interviews and articles and just a lot more information.

bk · « **Reply #179 on:** November 18, 2023, 12:22:08 AM »

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