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| could have lived without the slight towards musical theater performers... | |
| Posted by: NoPeopleLike 08:25 pm EST 01/11/22 | |
| In reply to: Tony Kushner dishes about working with Spielberg and Sondheim on 'West Side Story' (spoilers!) - WaymanWong 03:47 pm EST 01/11/22 | |
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| ...not thinking of themselves as actors (Josh Rivera in Hamilton, now playing Chino) | |
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| re: could have lived without the slight towards musical theater performers... | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 12:03 am EST 01/12/22 | |
| In reply to: could have lived without the slight towards musical theater performers... - NoPeopleLike 08:25 pm EST 01/11/22 | |
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| I have been amazed, when I ask my college students if they're studying acting, how many of them say, "No, musical theater", and I go, "that's also acting". Wherever that stigma comes from, it's bred into them early. | |
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| re: could have lived without the slight towards musical theater performers... | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 02:51 am EST 01/12/22 | |
| In reply to: re: could have lived without the slight towards musical theater performers... - Singapore/Fling 12:03 am EST 01/12/22 | |
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| Are there two different programs at the school though? They may still be studying acting. It’s just the exact name of the major. I don’t know. I majored in musical theater and we took acting classes. | |
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| re: could have lived without the slight towards musical theater performers... | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 08:42 pm EST 01/11/22 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 08:41 pm EST 01/11/22 | |
| In reply to: could have lived without the slight towards musical theater performers... - NoPeopleLike 08:25 pm EST 01/11/22 | |
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| What I heard: Kushner voiced an expanded -- rather than reductive -- appreciation of Rivera, whose experience in Hamilton struck him as less of an opportunity to demonstrate acting chops sans singing. Chino's scenes in this film are an entirely different use of Rivera's skill set. And arguably, Tony Kushner, who penned Caroline or Change and hugged its latest star on stage this past Sunday afternoon at the brilliant revival's closing performance, hardly thinks less of musical theater performers. | |
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| re: could have lived without the slight towards musical theater performers... | |
| Last Edit: WaymanWong 09:11 pm EST 01/11/22 | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 09:09 pm EST 01/11/22 | |
| In reply to: re: could have lived without the slight towards musical theater performers... - Delvino 08:41 pm EST 01/11/22 | |
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| Just to add to Delvino's thoughts: I didn't get the impression that Kushner was dissing musical-theater performers at all. He was praising Jose Andres Rivera and possibly alluding to Rivera's humility because Rivera ''didn't think of himself as an actor.'' Here's Kushner's quote: ''We got so lucky with casting. Josh shocked me after the first couple days of filming. I went up to him and said, 'Josh, you're an absolutely astonishing actor.' He was in the road company of ''Hamilton.'' His training is all musical theater. He didn't think of himself as an actor. But he is an absolutely brilliant actor with an immense heart. He'll go anywhere you ask him to go. ... What Josh does with Chino is phenomenal.'' |
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| re: could have lived without the slight towards musical theater performers... | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 02:49 am EST 01/12/22 | |
| In reply to: re: could have lived without the slight towards musical theater performers... - WaymanWong 09:09 pm EST 01/11/22 | |
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| I don’t know. Sounds like he’s saying musical theater training doesn’t include acting training which, of course, it does. And he probably acts up a storm in Hamilton. | |
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