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| re: Dear Evelyn Hansen | |
| Posted by: TheHarveyBoy 06:45 pm EDT 07/08/17 | |
| In reply to: Dear Evelyn Hansen - broadwaybacker 02:30 pm EDT 07/08/17 | |
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| WRITE YOUR OWN DAMN MUSICAL! | |
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| So TheHarveyBoy said... | |
| Posted by: broadwaybacker 12:33 pm EDT 07/09/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Dear Evelyn Hansen - TheHarveyBoy 06:45 pm EDT 07/08/17 | |
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| WRITE YOUR OWN DAMN MUSICAL! With due respect, I believe that misses my point, and by a wide mark. I was really asking two questions. First, I was asking that since the themes of the show are not in any way gender specific, would it not be possible to have Evan Hansen be played as a (straight) woman at some point down the road, perhaps after it had been up for three or four years, with what I think would involve very little rewriting. As I said originally, I'm not very well versed in the script, I only saw the show twice, once at Second Stage and once on Broadway shortly after it opened. But I THINK it might be done by changing the sexes of Evan, Connor and Zoe. So, in no way was this an attempt to rewrite the musical into something it's not. It's the contrary, using the identical musical and not change the focus one iota. The second question I was asking is that even assuming that it could be done, would it make sense to do it, possibly from merely a marketing perspective after several years.? Understand that I'm not advocating this at all, it just occurred to me that the possibility might exist and I was interested in the perspective of others here. |
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| Isn't Evelyn kind of an old-fashioned name nowadays? | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 12:55 pm EDT 07/09/17 | |
| In reply to: So TheHarveyBoy said... - broadwaybacker 12:33 pm EDT 07/09/17 | |
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| I don't hear it very often among younger people. I think of Evelyn Wood, Evelyn Keyes, all from long ago, but not among millennials. | |
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| re: Isn't Evelyn kind of an old-fashioned name nowadays?- | |
| Posted by: broadwaybacker 01:12 pm EDT 07/09/17 | |
| In reply to: Isn't Evelyn kind of an old-fashioned name nowadays? - PlayWiz 12:55 pm EDT 07/09/17 | |
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| No, that was only a tongue in cheek title for the thread. My idea would be to keep the name the same, as I said when referring to Evan being either a boy's name or a girls"s name in the OP. | |
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| re: Eva's very popular right now. ;) nm | |
| Posted by: SuzanneR 02:52 pm EDT 07/09/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Isn't Evelyn kind of an old-fashioned name nowadays?- - broadwaybacker 01:12 pm EDT 07/09/17 | |
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| re: Isn't Evelyn kind of an old-fashioned name nowadays?- | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 01:23 pm EDT 07/09/17 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 01:22 pm EDT 07/09/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Isn't Evelyn kind of an old-fashioned name nowadays?- - broadwaybacker 01:12 pm EDT 07/09/17 | |
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| For every Dolly Levi or Mame or Norma Desmond and other big over-the-top woman's parts, there's a much smaller amount of Harold Hills or Sweeney Todds, so I would keep this one as is in the men's column. Of course, going the other way, I'd love to see a "Bells Are Ringing" with an Elliot (instead of Ella) Peterson trying to help his female writer client Jessie (Jeffrey) Moss, with perhaps some variations among the dentist, struggling Marlon Brando-esque actor, etc. | |
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| re: Isn't Evelyn kind of an old-fashioned name nowadays? | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 01:00 pm EDT 07/09/17 | |
| In reply to: Isn't Evelyn kind of an old-fashioned name nowadays? - PlayWiz 12:55 pm EDT 07/09/17 | |
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| How about Eva? (If we can have both Eva and Evan Longoria...why not Hansen?) ;-) | |
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| re: Dear Evelyn Hansen | |
| Posted by: BruceinIthaca 07:58 pm EDT 07/08/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Dear Evelyn Hansen - TheHarveyBoy 06:45 pm EDT 07/08/17 | |
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| I could't agree more. I mean, this starts to sound like the what-ifs my sixth-grade friends and I would play, trying to imagine a Funny Girl in which we could play "Danny" Brice or a show in which we could be "James" Dennis. If a female performer could get cast as the male character Evan, well, that would be a director's choice, but isn't it important that the character is a boy--especially with various relationships (I haven't seen, just listened to and read synopses). I grow weary... |
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| re: Dear Evelyn Hansen | |
| Posted by: JohnPopa 04:22 pm EDT 07/09/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Dear Evelyn Hansen - BruceinIthaca 07:58 pm EDT 07/08/17 | |
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| I can't imagine leaving "Violet," a show I absolutely adore, and thinking 'they should make it with a male lead so it relates to me more.' If the themes are universal, as the saying goes, why do people want to change it so they can relate to it? | |
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