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| Posted by: CamMacFan 06:17 pm EDT 08/16/21 | |
| In reply to: Encores! has announced some casting - MockingbirdGirl 02:50 pm EDT 08/16/21 | |
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| I'm really interested in what Billy Porter is doing with The Life. With Chuck Cooper (who I LOVED in the original) being billed as "Old JoJo," I am guessing the show is being told in flashback. Or perhaps it was always set up as a flashback and my memory is failing me. | |
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| re: Encores! has announced some casting | |
| Posted by: larry13 09:57 pm EDT 08/16/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Encores! has announced some casting - CamMacFan 06:17 pm EDT 08/16/21 | |
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| Unless my memory too is failing, THE LIFE was not told in flashback, although JoJo(Sam Harris)functioned as a kind of narrator. I agree about Cooper being terrific; it was the of what has proved to be a great many times I've had the pleasure of seeing and hearing him. |
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| re: Encores! has announced some casting | |
| Last Edit: BroadwayTonyJ 10:21 pm EDT 08/16/21 | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 10:20 pm EDT 08/16/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Encores! has announced some casting - larry13 09:57 pm EDT 08/16/21 | |
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| When I saw The Life on Broadway in '97, the show began with Sam Harris as JoJo addressing the audience about how Disney and Mickey Mouse have cleaned up Times Square so the time is apparently 1997. Then we are taken back to the 1980's when things were quite different. | |
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| re: Encores! has announced some casting | |
| Posted by: CamMacFan 06:03 pm EDT 08/17/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Encores! has announced some casting - BroadwayTonyJ 10:20 pm EDT 08/16/21 | |
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| I definitely remember the line about Disney and Mickey Mouse. So perhaps, they are just keeping that beginning in the "present day." That would mean the a 40 year "flashback" However they do it, I'm excited just to hear that score again. Lilias White did her cabaret act at my theatre before the shutdown and did "The Oldest Profession" as her character from "The Life." She is such a powerhouse |
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