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Maria moved around ....

Posted by: jdm 06:33 am EST 12/06/13
In reply to: re: When will Rob Ashford's reign of terror end? - Chazwaza 03:51 am EST 12/06/13

so much singing the title song, I feared for her running into a fake tree. And as someone mentioned below, the Rolf and Liesl tumbling down the hill was not effective. And Rolf looked like he was 30 yr old chasing after a 16 year old.

Jim


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EVERYONE moved way too much

Posted by: Chazwaza 10:34 pm EST 12/06/13
In reply to: Maria moved around .... - jdm 06:33 am EST 12/06/13

It's like a Directing 101 no-no… movement needs to not only be motivated organically but it needs to not be a distraction. Ashford forgets this all the time.

In SOM especially, he is not choreographing/directing a heightened reality besides that they are singing, he is doing a scene with a song in it. Yes he choreographs even as a director in a scene without the song as if he is interpreting everything through dance… but not in an interesting experimental kind of way, just in the worst kind of "broadway" way. That's what I kept thinking while watching SOM, that this will only reinforce how silly most of the country thinks musicals are, always and by their nature, because of the way he stages and choreographs so much of it. It's like community theater but with much better performers.


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re: Maria moved around ....

Posted by: hitbycab 10:55 am EST 12/06/13
In reply to: Maria moved around .... - jdm 06:33 am EST 12/06/13

didn't Carrie/Maria slip a bit during the opening number. I noticed that...and felt bad...but she carried on

Carrie was not a good actress but she gets an A+ for taking this on and getting through it!!
Plus a beautiful voice.


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And why did the Captain ....

Posted by: jdm 08:37 am EST 12/06/13
In reply to: Maria moved around .... - jdm 06:33 am EST 12/06/13

have a British accent? Yes, I know that Stephen Moyer is British, but when only one character has an accent, it sounds like he is a foreigner out of all the people there. I felt the same with the original Broadway Evita - Peron was the only one in the cast with a Spanish accent, such an odd choice even back then.

Jim


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re: And why did the Captain ....

Posted by: Chazwaza 10:37 pm EST 12/06/13
In reply to: And why did the Captain .... - jdm 08:37 am EST 12/06/13

I have ALWAYS wondered that about Evita and it has always bothered me. It seems like lazy acting because acting is much easier when you can employ an accent. I don't even mean that in an insulting way… it helps you quickly get into another person, but it is very odd when you're the only one. I never think accents are necessary when the entire play takes place in the same place where all the people would be speaking the same language. Like Evita. In something like Cabaret, it's harder because do we assume everything is in English? We have to, and then it is appropriate for everyone to have their appropriate accent when speaking to each other (German, British, American).


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