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| Posted by: Chromolume 05:08 pm EDT 05/17/18 | |
| In reply to: re: surprised it is off broadway - keikekaze 03:52 pm EDT 05/17/18 | |
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| Kate's a much better show--though it is true that it may suffer in revivals The last big revival being a case in point, at least musically speaking. Bring back the original score!!! |
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| Posted by: lowwriter 05:32 am EDT 05/18/18 | |
| In reply to: re: surprised it is off broadway - Chromolume 05:08 pm EDT 05/17/18 | |
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| Hartford Stage did a lovely production of Kiss Me Kate not too long ago. I think it was done in cooperation with the Old Globe. | |
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| re: surprised it is off broadway | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 09:48 pm EDT 05/17/18 | |
| In reply to: re: surprised it is off broadway - Chromolume 05:08 pm EDT 05/17/18 | |
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| Yes, that's exactly what I was referring to, obliquely. I hope the next revival will resist the temptation to turn Lois into a gum-chewing bimbo with a squeaky voice, and the other temptation to just throw everybody into another huge tap number when the director/choreographer can't think what else to do. I don't believe there was any tapping in the original Kate--unless there might have been just a step or two in "Too Darn Hot"--and given the period there's no particular reason why there should have been. | |
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| re: surprised it is off broadway | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 11:30 pm EDT 05/17/18 | |
| In reply to: re: surprised it is off broadway - keikekaze 09:48 pm EDT 05/17/18 | |
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| Hanya Holm was an important person in the history of Labanotation. The first two Broadway shows for which the complete choreography was preserved in Labanotation were My Fair Lady and Kiss Me, Kate so if someone wanted to do it, we could see the KMK choreography, and the MFL choreography, too. I believe it was not recreated in the Australian production directed by Andrews. | |
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| re: surprised it is off broadway | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 12:34 am EDT 05/18/18 | |
| In reply to: re: surprised it is off broadway - AlanScott 11:30 pm EDT 05/17/18 | |
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| I'd love to see the original Kiss Me Kate choreography, if only to see for myself how it compared to the first production of the show I ever saw on stage, as a child in Los Angeles in 1959. I wonder if the original MFL choreography is very different from the movie? I've always had the impression that the MFL movie was practically a photograph of the stage show, except for the differences in casting. | |
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| re: surprised it is off broadway | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 10:56 pm EDT 05/17/18 | |
| In reply to: re: surprised it is off broadway - keikekaze 09:48 pm EDT 05/17/18 | |
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| I don't believe there was any tapping in the original Kate--unless there might have been just a step or two in "Too Darn Hot"--and given the period there's no particular reason why there should have been. There's also no reason, given the period, that the revival version of "Too Darn Hot" starts off sounding like West Side Story lol. |
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| re: surprised it is off broadway | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 07:49 pm EDT 05/17/18 | |
| In reply to: re: surprised it is off broadway - Chromolume 05:08 pm EDT 05/17/18 | |
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| As far as I'm concerned, most everything about the last revival was disappointing, including the revisions from John Guare, whose work as a playwright on his own stuff I admire so greatly. And despite the presence of so many extremely talented people in the cast, I really disliked the direction. I think the Roundabout is doing that revised version. Yech! KMK is an example of a show that I would be happy to see Encores! do — with the original orchestrations and book. Well, maybe not the really original originals as there are various issues involved with that. Some sort of choices would have to be made. But that awful 1999 version should be put in the garbage somewhere. |
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| Posted by: Chazwaza 05:40 pm EDT 05/17/18 | |
| In reply to: re: surprised it is off broadway - Chromolume 05:08 pm EDT 05/17/18 | |
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| The Michael Blakemoore revival with Marin and Stokes? Wasn't that super acclaimed? It and Blakemoore won Tonys for it (in fact he won two for directing a musical and play that year). | |
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