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re: Donna Murphy as Norma Desmond?

Posted by: enoch10 04:05 pm EST 11/19/14
In reply to: Donna Murphy as Norma Desmond? - kieran 10:34 pm EST 11/18/14

depending on how "scaled back" i'd love to see this. i feel like alw and i have parted ways permanently but SB, especially with her in it, could get be back in a seat.

i don't why but it never felt like SB was done "right." i can't really explain that. it would require more thinking than i'm willing to give it but for once scaled back might actually be an improvement.

or not.

to be honest - just having her in the role would get there.


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re: Donna Murphy as Norma Desmond?

Posted by: WaymanWong 01:38 am EST 11/20/14
In reply to: re: Donna Murphy as Norma Desmond? - enoch10 04:05 pm EST 11/19/14

''Scaled back''?

Does this mean the grand staircase will be represented by a kitchen step ladder? ;)


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Everything is 'scaled back' these days

Posted by: schauspieler 06:49 pm EST 11/19/14
In reply to: re: Donna Murphy as Norma Desmond? - enoch10 04:05 pm EST 11/19/14

imo, in spite of the spin usually put on it, it's rarely a good thing. And what happened at THE BANDWAGON? 12 musicians? I thought one of the big trademarks of Encores was the full orchestra treatment.


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re: Everything is 'scaled back' these days

Posted by: larry13 11:29 pm EST 11/19/14
In reply to: Everything is 'scaled back' these days - schauspieler 06:49 pm EST 11/19/14

And I thought another "one of the big trademarks of Encores was" reviving stage musicals. Here was not, however, the Fred and Adele Astaire original version, as seen on B'way. in 1931, but a very different movie adaptation that was itself very heavily adapted by Encores.

Of course, the big difference was that the "regular" Encores presentations, as Jack Viertel claims over and over again, are not being mounted in the expectation of a transfer to the Great White Way. BAND WAGON was being done for no other reason than that hope.


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I'm with ya, schauspieler!

Posted by: DistantDrumming 07:39 pm EST 11/19/14
In reply to: Everything is 'scaled back' these days - schauspieler 06:49 pm EST 11/19/14

Scaled back, intimate, chamber...

They're just like a "cozy" or "charming" apartment listing.


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