| re: A few FOLLIES thoughts | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 03:15 am EDT 04/11/21 | |
| In reply to: re: A few FOLLIES thoughts - Chromolume 04:57 pm EDT 04/10/21 | |
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| I posted about this elsewhere in this thread. I think there was no way that those four people were going to be able to learn that in the very limited rehearsal time they had. They did not need to have a complete train wreck happen in performance, and I think there is a very good chance that would have happened. I doubt those four people could have gotten through it once in rehearsal with just a piano and with Gemignani or Paul Ford giving them cues they could see. How long had it been since Comden and Green had performed a song that they did not write? And with a couple of exceptions, the only songs they had performed for a long time had been songs that they had been performing for decades. On the second night, Montevecchi (a former ballet dancer) had trouble staying with the orchestra. In Sondheim & Co., Fritz Holt said that it took the entire first morning of Company rehearsals to get through the first page, and it was scary. In the quote, he starts by saying that the title number was the most difficult to stage of anything he's ever seen, but his comment about the first morning and the first page seems to be specifically about getting the cast to just learn the beginning of the title song, when to come in with their "Bobby baby"s and "Bobby bubi"s. And 15 years (1970 to 1985) is a long time. |
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