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| Last Edit: Delvino 09:04 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 09:01 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
| In reply to: A CHRISTMAS STORY LIVE! - Valalala 08:33 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
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| See mine in the Geyster thread. Let me start with: why begin a show employing a built-in narrator...with a framing device (featuring a dreadful generic pop song). They hired Broderick as the star but don’t trust him as our point of access? The kids are fine. Way too much Krakowski (and she is a gifted triple threat). And poor Rudolph cannot score many points in the first 90 minutes. She is badly costumed, too. But she’s simple and straightforward and refuses to overcook. Two hours in, the material is finally less aggressively rendered. Holding on for the last chunk. |
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| Last 15 minutes kinda wonderful. | |
| Posted by: Delvino 09:57 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
| In reply to: re: A CHRISTMAS STORY LIVE! - Delvino 09:01 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
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| Tears after all. The restaurant scene was as clever as it needed to be and the final moments - the dropped mitten - Broderick got me. | |
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| I agree there, too | |
| Last Edit: Ann 08:16 am EST 12/18/17 | |
| Posted by: Ann 08:15 am EST 12/18/17 | |
| In reply to: Last 15 minutes kinda wonderful. - Delvino 09:57 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
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| I felt this version was a warmer one, especially because of the ending (that is, the ending without the pop song again). I haven't seen the musical on stage, just the original film. Chris Diamantopoulos was new to me, and quite a song and dance man. |
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| re: I agree there, too | |
| Posted by: Deirdre 10:40 am EST 12/18/17 | |
| In reply to: I agree there, too - Ann 08:15 am EST 12/18/17 | |
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| I know him from "Silicon Valley" but he was the star for me. I thought he was absolutely terrific. We loved the show when it was on Broadway a few years ago. I didn't love this TV version (I haven't loved any of the live TV musicals) - but I really enjoyed him. Thought he was terrific - made the part his own, but paid homage to Darren McGavin too. | |
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| re: Last 15 minutes kinda wonderful. | |
| Posted by: twocents 10:01 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
| In reply to: Last 15 minutes kinda wonderful. - Delvino 09:57 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
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| It was such a special reunion. Gotta love it. | |
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| re: A CHRISTMAS STORY LIVE! | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 09:13 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
| In reply to: re: A CHRISTMAS STORY LIVE! - Delvino 09:01 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
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| Maya Rudolph has been great imho | |
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| re: A CHRISTMAS STORY LIVE! | |
| Posted by: Ann 09:11 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
| In reply to: re: A CHRISTMAS STORY LIVE! - Delvino 09:01 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
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| I missed the first 8 minutes. What was the framing device? | |
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| re: A CHRISTMAS STORY LIVE! | |
| Posted by: Naughty_Rob 09:45 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
| In reply to: re: A CHRISTMAS STORY LIVE! - Ann 09:11 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
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| Before the show started they had a fabulous new Christmas song to get everyone in the holiday mood! Looked like a fun MTV video from the 90s that ended with dancers in the pink bunny costume. Very cute. |
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| re: A CHRISTMAS STORY LIVE! | |
| Posted by: twocents 10:17 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
| In reply to: re: A CHRISTMAS STORY LIVE! - Naughty_Rob 09:45 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
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| Bebe Rexha. Song is so catchy! | |
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| re: A CHRISTMAS STORY LIVE! | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 09:36 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 09:30 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
| In reply to: re: A CHRISTMAS STORY LIVE! - Ann 09:11 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
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| A sort of 90’s GAP commercial (eerily). And: Why send the actors out at commercials, breaking the 4th wall, to talk about the experience? Can’t we suspend disbelief til it’s over? Imagine Mary Martin explaining Tinkerbelle? Lock us in. Let the magic rule til 10. Too old school? Guilty as charged. |
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| re: A CHRISTMAS STORY LIVE! | |
| Posted by: Ann 09:59 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
| In reply to: re: A CHRISTMAS STORY LIVE! - Delvino 09:30 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
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| Ok, I can picture that. I didn't like the interspersing of behind the scenes bits, either. But I loved how they handled the controversial scene -"What were you expecting?" Definitely my favorite of all the Live!s. |
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| re: A CHRISTMAS STORY LIVE! | |
| Posted by: twocents 09:45 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
| In reply to: re: A CHRISTMAS STORY LIVE! - Delvino 09:30 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
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| I'm torn on this. I do love the nuggets of info and the delivery is charming. | |
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| There's a reason curtain calls are withheld until the end. | |
| Posted by: Delvino 06:59 am EST 12/18/17 | |
| In reply to: re: A CHRISTMAS STORY LIVE! - twocents 09:45 pm EST 12/17/17 | |
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| Actors create characters. Our hearts are connected to their plight, not the actors toiling for 2 1/2 months to pull it off. We should see these people as they are in this small town, suspend disbelief until it's over. I started this conversation on my FB page and to a person everyone agreed that the commercial annotations were distracting and only made the whole thing feel meta in the worst sense. We can hear about the production challenges at the end, in a half hour special "Making 'Christmas Story Live'". I loathed this. I feel as strongly about this as almost anything I post. It'll ruin the way the industry sells its wares. I'll say it again: Imagine if Mary Martin appeared to tell us how hard the lost boys had worked for weeks to pull this off. And why, that Tinkerbelle is a light, projected from up there! So much for magic. And yeah, magic counts. Magic is what storytelling is about. |
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| re: There's a reason curtain calls are withheld until the end. | |
| Posted by: twocents 11:43 am EST 12/18/17 | |
| In reply to: There's a reason curtain calls are withheld until the end. - Delvino 06:59 am EST 12/18/17 | |
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| We can hear about the production challenges at the end, in a half hour special "Making 'Christmas Story Live'" I would have preferred this too! Doubt Fox would have tossed us that bone, however. Heck, I'd watch this footage online if they made it available though. I guess I'm too used to being manipulated that I cease to even get my hackles up anymore. |
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| re: There's a reason curtain calls are withheld until the end. | |
| Posted by: Delvino 07:20 am EST 12/18/17 | |
| In reply to: There's a reason curtain calls are withheld until the end. - Delvino 06:59 am EST 12/18/17 | |
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| I wasn't alone. The review: "And as if to painfully wrench the audience out of any suspension of disbelief it may have had, almost every bumper to commercial break featured little Ralphie’s voice describing the behind-the-scenes production of “A Christmas Story Live.” |
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| re: There's a reason curtain calls are withheld until the end. | |
| Posted by: pfolson 08:33 am EST 12/18/17 | |
| In reply to: re: There's a reason curtain calls are withheld until the end. - Delvino 07:20 am EST 12/18/17 | |
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| I tend to agree. However, I find it interesting that people didn't seem to mind as much when they did the same thing during GREASE LIVE, including all those shots of the cast racing from one location to another in their golf carts. | |
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