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| BUYER & CELLAR live reading w/Michael Urie ABOUT TO START | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 08:05 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
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| The play is about to start, i'm assuming in a couple minutes after the intro. Youtube or broadway.com i think |
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| Over $52,000 raised | |
| Posted by: mikem 09:57 pm EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: BUYER & CELLAR live reading w/Michael Urie ABOUT TO START - Chazwaza 08:05 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
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| I don't know what the final tally will be, but the indicator on the YouTube site for the stream shows that over $52,000 was raised by this program. Thank you to Michael Urie for his talent and inspiring others to be so generous! | |
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| re: Over $52,000 raised | |
| Posted by: mikem 10:13 pm EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: Over $52,000 raised - mikem 09:57 pm EDT 04/20/20 | |
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| This also seems an argument for trying to keep the streams up for at least a little time. Right after the show, it was about 20% lower than the total listed now. | |
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| So appreciative this was offered to us! | |
| Posted by: bwaynut 11:15 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: BUYER & CELLAR live reading w/Michael Urie ABOUT TO START - Chazwaza 08:05 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
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| A tour-de-force performance by Mr. Urie! Wow! I was glued to the computer screen and laughing myself silly! | |
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| It's still available, at least for now!...nm | |
| Posted by: davei2000 10:10 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: BUYER & CELLAR live reading w/Michael Urie ABOUT TO START - Chazwaza 08:05 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
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| 'Buyer' beware: And bravo to Jonathan Tolins, too! | |
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| Posted by: WaymanWong 01:18 pm EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: It's still available, at least for now!...nm - davei2000 10:10 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
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| I read somewhere that this ''Buyer & Cellar'' is only online for 24 hours. If that's true, it'll disappear tonight from YouTube around 8 p.m. (EST). Meantime, I'll add my bravos to Michael Urie's comic tour de force online, which I also saw Off-Broadway. When he first did it in 2013, he won the Clarence Derwent Award for Actors' Equity and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance. I also went back to see it when Barrett Foa and Christopher J. Hanke took over the role, and they were both wonderful and witty, too. And kudos also oughta go to ''Buyer & Cellar's'' clever playwright, Jonathan Tolins. He took what could've been an easy 10-minute gag and spun it into a roughly 100-minute fantasia full of laughs. Theater lovers might know his plays ''The Twilight of the Golds'' and ''The Last Sunday in June.'' Tolins also has done a lot of co-producing and writing for TV: ''Queer as Folk,'' ''BrainDead'' and ''The Good Fight.'' He even worked on the 2003 Tony Awards and the TV movies of ''Grease Live!'' and ''A Christmas Story Live!'' But my favorite work of his is still ''Buyer & Cellar.'' |
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| Link | Michael Urie in 'Buyer & Cellar' for Broadway.com |
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| Bravo! | |
| Posted by: rossde 01:29 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: BUYER & CELLAR live reading w/Michael Urie ABOUT TO START - Chazwaza 08:05 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
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| Did not think i could sit at my desk watching a 100 minute play but this was just delightful. Could not stop laughing. Bravo to Michael Urie and the army of technical staff that must have put this together. Thank you. |
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| re: Bravo! | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 09:23 pm EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: Bravo! - rossde 01:29 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
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| You know you don’t have to watch streaming productions on a computer. You can relax and watch on your TV connected to a Roku, | |
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| The next one? | |
| Posted by: Busy_Bee 10:48 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
| In reply to: BUYER & CELLAR live reading w/Michael Urie ABOUT TO START - Chazwaza 08:05 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
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| Tonight was absolutely spectacular, start to finish. I’d seen it in the theatre and loved it, and tonight gave me the exact same joy and rush that I experienced seeing it live. What a treat. Broadway.com is really doing amazing work during this time. The Rosie O’Donnell Show, Lips Together Teeth Apart, and now Buyer & Cellar. Does anyone know what their next title is going to be? Busy Bee |
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| re: The next one? | |
| Posted by: schauspieler 11:03 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
| In reply to: The next one? - Busy_Bee 10:48 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
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| agree. Marvelous. Thank you Michael Urie. | |
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| extremely well done! | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 11:05 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
| In reply to: re: The next one? - schauspieler 11:03 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
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| A delightful start to finish, and so polished. We can't expect this kind of thing normally, where the actor is SO comfortable with the role and the entire play, and is entirely off book without even attempting to have a safety script in sight... AND lightly staged with two different cameras switching to two "stage areas"... But this was definitely amazing. |
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| re: extremely well done! | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 11:25 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: extremely well done! - Chazwaza 11:05 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
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| It was really great. Urie's facial expressions and voice inflections when he's channeling Barbra and Brolin are so spot-on, he's absolutely hilarious. I saw this show at Barrow Street on 11/03/13 and the tour in Chicago on 5/10/14. Given Urie's complete mastery of the material, last night's performance was just as entertaining an experience as seeing it live. | |
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| I loved it on stage but this was fantastic | |
| Posted by: ryhog 10:17 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
| In reply to: BUYER & CELLAR live reading w/Michael Urie ABOUT TO START - Chazwaza 08:05 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
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| Excellent play. Bravo Michael and everyone involved. I hope we get to see more plays this well suited to live streaming. (And yes I know that likely means a lot of solo works.) |
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| re: I loved it on stage but this was fantastic | |
| Posted by: stevemr 09:31 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: I loved it on stage but this was fantastic - ryhog 10:17 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
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| One reason this was so much better than many of the other quarantined plays, of course, is that Urie was completely off book. This left him free to roam around the room, and not have to glance at a script. Even the best readings are constrained by the need to read. Was anyone else impressed by Urie's ability to do this non-stop from memory. I know he did it hundreds and hundreds of times, but that was many years ago. (Some of the #starsinthehouse can't remember song lyrics they performed in productions only a year or so ago. |
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| re: I loved it on stage but this was fantastic | |
| Posted by: ryhog 10:47 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I loved it on stage but this was fantastic - stevemr 09:31 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
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| Some actors retain lines better than others, and it would not surprise me if Urie is one of them. Also, this performance seemed more directed and rehearsed than many/most, including all of the starsinthehouse ones. But yes, whatever the combination of factors, this was definitely of higher quality. (And it also doesn't hurt that the play lends itself well to being performed in a living room.) | |
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| re: I loved it on stage but this was fantastic | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 02:55 pm EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I loved it on stage but this was fantastic - ryhog 10:47 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
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| Yeah it's quite a bit easier to rehearse virtually when it's a cast of one, even if it's just with himself only or doing runs with his boyfriend watching (who is also an actor) and on book for him. He's known he was doing this for at least a week, and as an actor he likely has more time than usual to prepare if he wanted to. He clearly wanted to. I doubt he just had the entire play correctly in his head - probably 70% but I've got to assume he spent some time re-memorizing and running it with someone (the director or his bf for example) on book for him. I think this being a chance for thousands of people to see a defining role in his theater career, and him being such a committed professional, would inspire him to be as good as possible. It was just him the whole time, after all. A daunting task for any actor! |
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| re: I loved it on stage but this was fantastic | |
| Posted by: ryhog 03:37 pm EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I loved it on stage but this was fantastic - Chazwaza 02:55 pm EDT 04/20/20 | |
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| I always forget, and then re-remember, that he was the second choice for this role. | |
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| re: I loved it on stage but this was fantastic | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 04:30 pm EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I loved it on stage but this was fantastic - ryhog 03:37 pm EDT 04/20/20 | |
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| Wasn't Jesse Tyler Ferguson originally supposed to do it? | |
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| re: I loved it on stage but this was fantastic | |
| Posted by: whereismikeyfl 04:41 pm EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I loved it on stage but this was fantastic - BroadwayTonyJ 04:30 pm EDT 04/20/20 | |
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| It was written for Ferguson, but I do not know why he did not do it. All the business about Alex's hair color would have made more sense with him. |
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| re: I loved it on stage but this was fantastic | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 04:23 pm EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I loved it on stage but this was fantastic - ryhog 03:37 pm EDT 04/20/20 | |
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| Ha. Who was the first? Joe Jonas? | |
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| re: I loved it on stage but this was fantastic | |
| Posted by: ryhog 05:42 pm EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I loved it on stage but this was fantastic - Chazwaza 04:23 pm EDT 04/20/20 | |
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| you got your answer in the other post but Urie did go into How to Succeed with a Jonas. | |
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| re: I loved it on stage but this was fantastic | |
| Posted by: Quicheo 11:57 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I loved it on stage but this was fantastic - ryhog 10:47 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
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| Not to diminish his accomplishment at all, but Urie has done this play on a few additional occasions, so he not only learned it for the original run and also the tour, but a couple of times sense. From a memory-theory perspective, that increases the likelihood of being retained. That said, I think you are quite right. I remember an interview with Judi Dench a few years ago where she and a fellow RSC actor commented on having entire Shakespeare plays ready to go at a moment's notice and a third actor responded that he couldn't even remember a line from the previous week of filming. Different skill sets, different approaches, and in some cases, different training. | |
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| re: I loved it on stage but this was fantastic | |
| Last Edit: KingSpeed 08:39 pm EDT 04/20/20 | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 08:36 pm EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I loved it on stage but this was fantastic - Quicheo 11:57 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
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| Well with TV/film, you only need to know the scene for a few hours and then you let it go. I personally never put it in my long term memory and if you asked me to run the scene a couple hours later, I wouldn’t be able to. Also- you don’t even to get the scene right at all in the first place because if you mess up a line, you just back up a line and say it again. I’ve had scenes where we never did a perfect take but it was edited so well, you’d never know. | |
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| re: I loved it on stage but this was fantastic | |
| Posted by: mikem 01:25 pm EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I loved it on stage but this was fantastic - Quicheo 11:57 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
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| I went to the final performance of August: Osage County on Broadway. Rondi Reed had last played the part in London about 6 months earlier, and had been performing as Madame Morrible in Wicked on Broadway. When I entered the lobby, I was confused yet elated to see on the understudy board that Rondi Reed was playing her Tony-winning role for that final performance. I later found out that Elizabeth Ashley, who had taken over the role, was sick, and the producers asked Reed to do that final performance that morning. Reed, of course, had done the show for a couple of years in several venues by that point, but she did not miss a beat as far as I could tell throughout the 3.5 hour long show. I was extremely impressed. |
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| Will we get Wit? I Am My Own Wife? Thomas Pain? Constitution? or group monologue plays? (nm) | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 10:52 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
| In reply to: I loved it on stage but this was fantastic - ryhog 10:17 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
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| Love letters would work. Also the Gin Game | |
| Posted by: dramedy 11:50 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: Will we get Wit? I Am My Own Wife? Thomas Pain? Constitution? or group monologue plays? (nm) - Chazwaza 10:52 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
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| WIT and CONSTITUTION aren't solo plays | |
| Posted by: AC126748 08:04 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: Will we get Wit? I Am My Own Wife? Thomas Pain? Constitution? or group monologue plays? (nm) - Chazwaza 10:52 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
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| Not sure why they're grouped in here. Also, CONSTITUTION was filmed before this all went down, and I can't imagine whoever holds the distribution rights would want to be scooped. Plus, Heidi Schreck is currently on the verge of giving birth, so I expect she's going to be busy for a while. ;-) | |
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| re: WIT and CONSTITUTION aren't solo plays | |
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| Posted by: Chazwaza 02:46 pm EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: WIT and CONSTITUTION aren't solo plays - AC126748 08:04 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
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| They basically are... I'm aware there are a few other people in those plays that have small but integral roles... but they would present no challenge for executing a great quarantine broadcast reading. But for the record, I did not categorize them as solo plays I just asked if we might get those, as they are obviously plays that would be MUCH easier to execute in this format than most. |
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| re: Will we get Wit? I Am My Own Wife? Thomas Pain? Constitution? or group monologue plays? (nm) | |
| Posted by: ryhog 11:25 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
| In reply to: Will we get Wit? I Am My Own Wife? Thomas Pain? Constitution? or group monologue plays? (nm) - Chazwaza 10:52 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
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| Wit may be too unwelcome right now. I also think there are a number of two-handers that would work well. One other point here is that while Urie deserves major accolades, there was a LOT of direction in this (whether from the credited director, Urie, or someone else) and it makes a huge difference. |
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| re: Will we get Wit? I Am My Own Wife? Thomas Pain? Constitution? or group monologue plays? (nm) | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 12:23 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 12:07 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Will we get Wit? I Am My Own Wife? Thomas Pain? Constitution? or group monologue plays? (nm) - ryhog 11:25 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
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| I'm going to guess that Urie handled the direction for his acting, having done it SOOO many times for so long, and that Paul Wontorek (the credited broadcast director) did the camera direction between the two cameras Urie had set up. Paul is a Broadway.com reporter, editor, producer (and founder I believe) and host of their "Show People" interview series (he's basically Broadway.com's Andy Cohen) but not, as far I've ever heard or read, a director or known as one. Other quarantine readings have had their original director return to direct the actors and little bits of staging... so I'm not sure why Urie would depend on someone with no professional directing experience to direct him in this ... which is why I assume he handled it himself. Or perhaps the original stage director did work with him on this (even if just to watch him do a few runs, maybe even with Paul directing the cameras but only broadcast to the original stage director)? I'd be curious to know more about how it worked. And of course I dont' want to shortchange Paul if he did actually directed Urie's acting beyond just "cross to this camera at this point", but even those crosses seemed cued entirely by text and performance needs, but who knows! |
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| re: Will we get Wit? I Am My Own Wife? Thomas Pain? Constitution? or group monologue plays? (nm) | |
| Posted by: ryhog 12:20 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
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| there was a director, Nic Cory, who was not the original director (I assume Brackett was not available for whatever reason) and I think there was more than just directing Urie's acting involved because there was a lot of angles, closeups, staging, etc., and someone has to make that happen and I agree it was not Wontorek (who, I think, was just flipping switches). | |
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| bravo director Nic Cory! | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 12:33 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
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| Ah yes, pardon for not looking that up. Extremely good work, Nic Cory! This has so far set a new standard for the visuals of these live play readings. | |
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| Thank you for the reminder! | |
| Posted by: mikem 08:38 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
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| Chazwaza, thanks for the reminder! I completely forgot. I saw Urie in the show, and he was fantastic. | |
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