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| re: NEW MUSICAL INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MICHAEL JACKSON SLATED FOR BROADWAY IN 2020 | |
| Posted by: BruceFH 11:56 am EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: NEW MUSICAL INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MICHAEL JACKSON SLATED FOR BROADWAY IN 2020 - Official_Press_Release 11:51 am EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| Do we know yet how many actors will play Michael Jackson in this one? I know that three is the new standard, but I think this one may require 5, so it can be the Jackson 5. | |
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| re: NEW MUSICAL INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MICHAEL JACKSON SLATED FOR BROADWAY IN 2020 | |
| Posted by: NewsGuy 02:01 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: re: NEW MUSICAL INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MICHAEL JACKSON SLATED FOR BROADWAY IN 2020 - BruceFH 11:56 am EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| Will there be a matinee Bubbles? | |
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| re: NEW MUSICAL INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MICHAEL JACKSON SLATED FOR BROADWAY IN 2020 | |
| Posted by: SRMHAYES 08:22 pm EDT 06/21/18 | |
| In reply to: re: NEW MUSICAL INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MICHAEL JACKSON SLATED FOR BROADWAY IN 2020 - NewsGuy 02:01 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| Yep- Kathie Lee Gifford! ;-) | |
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| re: NEW MUSICAL INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MICHAEL JACKSON SLATED FOR BROADWAY IN 2020 | |
| Posted by: mattyp4 02:30 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: re: NEW MUSICAL INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MICHAEL JACKSON SLATED FOR BROADWAY IN 2020 - NewsGuy 02:01 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| Will there be a matinee Bubbles? That made me LOL. |
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| re: NEW MUSICAL INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MICHAEL JACKSON SLATED FOR BROADWAY IN 2020 | |
| Posted by: NewsGuy 02:52 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: re: NEW MUSICAL INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MICHAEL JACKSON SLATED FOR BROADWAY IN 2020 - mattyp4 02:30 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| ;) There's so many cliches here..... |
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| re: NEW MUSICAL INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MICHAEL JACKSON SLATED FOR BROADWAY IN 2020 | |
| Posted by: Zelgo 04:32 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: re: NEW MUSICAL INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MICHAEL JACKSON SLATED FOR BROADWAY IN 2020 - NewsGuy 02:52 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| Janet Jackson and Michael Jackson should be played by the same person. | |
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| re: NEW MUSICAL INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MICHAEL JACKSON SLATED FOR BROADWAY IN 2020 | |
| Posted by: Pokernight 08:42 am EDT 06/20/18 | |
| In reply to: re: NEW MUSICAL INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MICHAEL JACKSON SLATED FOR BROADWAY IN 2020 - Zelgo 04:32 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| Correction: Michael and Latoya should be played by the same person. | |
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| re: NEW MUSICAL INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MICHAEL JACKSON SLATED FOR BROADWAY IN 2020 | |
| Posted by: NewsGuy 04:40 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: re: NEW MUSICAL INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MICHAEL JACKSON SLATED FOR BROADWAY IN 2020 - Zelgo 04:32 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| Oh that's good. But what about La Toya? |
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| and the younger versions can have duel roles | |
| Posted by: dramedy 12:15 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: re: NEW MUSICAL INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MICHAEL JACKSON SLATED FOR BROADWAY IN 2020 - BruceFH 11:56 am EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| Playing the kids of the pedophile older Michael. I guess we shouldn’t complain since this is not based on a movie!!! | |
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| re: and the younger versions can have duel roles | |
| Posted by: NewsGuy 02:02 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: and the younger versions can have duel roles - dramedy 12:15 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| "The Way You Make Me Feel" -- should be an inspiring scene. | |
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| re: haven't we established that it takes 3 actors to play a pop star? | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 12:41 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: and the younger versions can have duel roles - dramedy 12:15 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| ..although it only takes one to play Hamlet or King Lear. GO AWAY POP STAR BIOS ON BROADWAY GO AWAY!!!!!! | |
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| re: and the younger versions can have duel roles | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 12:32 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: and the younger versions can have duel roles - dramedy 12:15 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| Duel roles? Will there be fight choreography? ;-) | |
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| re: and the younger versions can have duel roles | |
| Posted by: winters 12:22 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: and the younger versions can have duel roles - dramedy 12:15 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| Except the older Michael's young 'friends' tended to be white. Do you suppose that we get a singing and dancing Elizabeth Taylor? His BFF? |
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| re: and the younger versions can have duel roles | |
| Posted by: Pokernight 08:46 am EDT 06/20/18 | |
| In reply to: re: and the younger versions can have duel roles - winters 12:22 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| Elizabeth Taylor will be played by one of the Chers. | |
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| re: NEW MUSICAL INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MICHAEL JACKSON SLATED FOR BROADWAY IN 2020 | |
| Posted by: winters 12:04 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: re: NEW MUSICAL INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MICHAEL JACKSON SLATED FOR BROADWAY IN 2020 - BruceFH 11:56 am EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| Each MJ with a different nose? | |
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| re: NEW MUSICAL INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MICHAEL JACKSON SLATED FOR BROADWAY IN 2020 | |
| Posted by: theaterbear 12:42 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: re: NEW MUSICAL INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MICHAEL JACKSON SLATED FOR BROADWAY IN 2020 - winters 12:04 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| Wow. These comments are gross. Seriously guys. gross. | |
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| re: NEW MUSICAL INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MICHAEL JACKSON SLATED FOR BROADWAY IN 2020 | |
| Posted by: kess0078 04:05 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: re: NEW MUSICAL INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MICHAEL JACKSON SLATED FOR BROADWAY IN 2020 - theaterbear 12:42 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| Agreed, theaterbear, this thread has a pretty gross and off-putting series of comments that I think are a far stretch from “on topic.” Yikes. | |
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| re: SO MUCH SNARK IN THESE POSTS, NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE NOTICED | |
| Posted by: Jax 03:30 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: re: NEW MUSICAL INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MICHAEL JACKSON SLATED FOR BROADWAY IN 2020 - theaterbear 12:42 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| the talent involved. A Tony winning director choreographer and a two time Pulitzer Prize winning writer. A woman of color. It will be interesting to see how Lynn Nottage portrays Jackson. A little lost lamb? A victim of show biz circumstances? Will she be hamstrung by the notoriously protective Jackson family? Will his trials for pedophilia even be mentioned? There are issues here, and a real writer and has been hired. Maybe it will just be a "celebration" or maybe it will be something more. JERSEY BOYS, which dealt with crime, drug overdoses and other difficult matters, proved that a jukebox musical can have gravitas. It might be interesting to wait see what she comes up. But I guess not so much for some folks on this board. | |
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| re: SO MUCH SNARK IN THESE POSTS, NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE NOTICED | |
| Posted by: student_rush 03:54 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: re: SO MUCH SNARK IN THESE POSTS, NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE NOTICED - Jax 03:30 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| I don't think the snark is undeserved. Many talented "serious" writers have attached themselves to otherwise-bleh musicals ... Colman Domingo ("Summer: The Donna Summer Musical") and David Henry Hwang (Disney's "Tarzan") rapidly come to mind. Who knows what this will bode? I'd also mention Katori Hall for her work on "Tina: The Tina Turner Musical," but I don't personally know if the book is good or bad. Either way, an accomplished playwright working on commercial jukebox fare. |
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| re: SO MUCH SNARK IN THESE POSTS, NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE NOTICED | |
| Posted by: singleticket 03:33 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: re: SO MUCH SNARK IN THESE POSTS, NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE NOTICED - Jax 03:30 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| Good point, Nottage is an interesting choice. | |
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| re: SO MUCH SNARK IN THESE POSTS, NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE NOTICED | |
| Posted by: charles1055 06:27 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: re: SO MUCH SNARK IN THESE POSTS, NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE NOTICED - singleticket 03:33 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| This intrigues me more so than the others because Nottage is involved. I can't quite see her writing a book that glosses over the chaos of his personal life, but I can't really see the Jackson Estate wanting a truthful story to be told. | |
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| re: SO MUCH SNARK IN THESE POSTS, NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE NOTICED | |
| Posted by: Pokernight 08:49 am EDT 06/20/18 | |
| In reply to: re: SO MUCH SNARK IN THESE POSTS, NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE NOTICED - charles1055 06:27 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| The "Neverland ballet" should be interesting -- | |
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| re: SO MUCH SNARK IN THESE POSTS, NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE NOTICED | |
| Posted by: singleticket 10:20 am EDT 06/20/18 | |
| In reply to: re: SO MUCH SNARK IN THESE POSTS, NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE NOTICED - Pokernight 08:49 am EDT 06/20/18 | |
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| Michael Jackson is interesting, our own Ludwig II. | |
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| re: SO MUCH SNARK IN THESE POSTS, NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE NOTICED | |
| Posted by: ryhog 06:42 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: re: SO MUCH SNARK IN THESE POSTS, NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE NOTICED - charles1055 06:27 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| I agree with all three things you say but I think the broader question, and the one that leads to what's being labelled snark, is whether there is in this a story worth being told. That, of course, can only be answered after the fact and it is unlikely everyone will agree then but considering that all of the glossy and unvarnished stories have likely been told already, it is hard for some of us to believe anyone no matter how able and talented can find something compelling left to say. Which means that some of us may get a nice evening of entertainment (as we did, frankly, with the terribly written Summer) but without anything on the level of Nottage's existing work. Prove me wrong but I don't give a shit about Michael Jackson in any way other than his talent, and that is represented by a concert. This in the end in the problem with all jukebox musicals for me; I don't care about these people; just their music. | |
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| Posted by: Chromolume 10:03 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
| In reply to: re: SO MUCH SNARK IN THESE POSTS, NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE NOTICED - ryhog 06:42 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| To me the gold standard of any such "songbook" show (I'm not going to say "jukebox" for various reasons here) is Ain't Misbehavin'. No real dialogue - a line or two of introduction here and there, but not often - and what is said, in the flow of the songs, is essentially culled out of phrases Fats Waller said himself. There's no story - the conceit is a 20's Harlem-style revue - but the songs create relationships between the characters that bring the sense of storytelling into the piece. The show doesn't try to explain Fats to a major extent - the music speaks for him. And yet, in its humble, direct, no-frills way, it's one of the classiest shows I know. I wish more modern jukebox shows had the same implicit trust in their material. Just give us the songs, and let us decide for ourselves what we think of the man. Especially in this case, as he led a very controversial life, and no matter what road Nottage ultimately decides to take, I think she'll be taken to task for it - going too far, not going far enough - who knows? I'm ultimately not sure that the jukebox form is the right one to present strong opinions about their subjects - most audiences are not coming for that. They're coming to hear the replicas of the songs Jackson sang, put into some sort of artificial theatrical context. Period. |
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| re: SO MUCH SNARK IN THESE POSTS, NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE NOTICED | |
| Posted by: ryhog 12:34 am EDT 06/20/18 | |
| In reply to: re: SO MUCH SNARK IN THESE POSTS, NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE NOTICED - Chromolume 10:03 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| I agree. I think the process has changed since Ain't Misbehavin'. Now I think it starts with the catalog (will it draw an audience?) rather than the story. Truth is, most of these people don't have compelling stories so our choices are the bio-play, which is hackneyed 9 out of 10 times, and the Mamma Mia model. The root of this phenomenon is the dearth of scores people are willing to sit and listen to, so producers fall back on what they figure will sell. If we had fresh scores as resonant as Michael Jackson's songbook, no one would be thinking about this save the people who can make money off the catalogs, and I'd be willing to bet that if we had enough new scores, no one would line up for the theatrical equivalent of tribute bands. | |
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