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| I walked out of Dr Zhivago.... | |
| Posted by: andPeggy 08:52 am EDT 03/15/22 | |
| In reply to: Theatergoer Walked Out of 'Rent' Because the 'Show Was About Gays' - MockingbirdGirl 12:02 am EDT 03/15/22 | |
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| ...because it was so bad. Where's my Newsweek story? I did wait until intermission and didn't complain to anyone on the way out. | |
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| I walked out of The Little Prince (no, not the current one) | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 11:58 am EDT 03/15/22 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 11:55 am EDT 03/15/22 | |
| In reply to: I walked out of Dr Zhivago.... - andPeggy 08:52 am EDT 03/15/22 | |
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| The one called "Little Prince and the Aviator," with Michael York, young Anthony Rapp, and, embarrassed to admit, the great Ellen Green. And it had a score by John Barry. It's the only time I can recall leaving a Broadway show at intermission. In my defense, it was one of 20 previews for a show that never opened (folding 1/17/82). Anyone else here see it? I still don't understand the impulse to musicalize this story. Who remembers the film? It had Fosse. And now a new iteration. Maybe it will be wonderful. |
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| re: I walked out of The Little Prince (no, not the current one) | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 06:08 pm EDT 03/16/22 | |
| In reply to: I walked out of The Little Prince (no, not the current one) - Delvino 11:55 am EDT 03/15/22 | |
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| I still don't understand the impulse to musicalize this story. I agree. I've done a production of another version out there (by Rick Cummins and John Scoullar) which had an interesting and sometimes really beautiful score, but I think the essential problem is that it's not an active story. Not much actually happens - it's idea-centered, not action-centered. I think it works as a book, where one can imagine it visually in one's head - but as a theatre piece...I'm just not sure it's crying out to be theatricalized. |
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| A few details about that production of Little Prince | |
| Posted by: Showtunegal 04:50 pm EDT 03/15/22 | |
| In reply to: I walked out of The Little Prince (no, not the current one) - Delvino 11:55 am EDT 03/15/22 | |
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| I know that with the experts on this board, some of you may know it already, but I have been told it the show was in trouble from the moment it started performances I know Rapp was hired to play the Fox and got bumped up to the Little Prince when the actor playing the prince was fired. Then the theater owner closed the show before it had opened and been reviewed, because he knew it was a stinker and wanted Little Johnny Jones starring David Cassidy to go in to the theater. So the Prince's producers were able to sue the theater owner for not allowing them to open --on the idea that, without seeing the reviews, how did the theater owner know it wasn't going to be a hit--and recouped their entire investment. | |
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| re: A few details about that production of Little Prince | |
| Posted by: tandelor 12:04 pm EDT 03/16/22 | |
| In reply to: A few details about that production of Little Prince - Showtunegal 04:50 pm EDT 03/15/22 | |
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| I saw the stage musical Lerner and Loewe version at ArtPark in 1979. Talk about a stinker, it was Wagnerian is all the wrong ways. | |
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| re: I walked out of The Little Prince (no, not the current one) | |
| Posted by: EasyToRemember 02:36 pm EDT 03/15/22 | |
| In reply to: I walked out of The Little Prince (no, not the current one) - Delvino 11:55 am EDT 03/15/22 | |
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| I believe that the impulse may come from the original source material (book but not the painting?) falling into the public domain. Although some aspects remain protected by trademark instead of by copyright, so color me confused. | |
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| I walked out of Dr Zhivago.... Were there Gays in the Urals? (nmi) | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 10:06 am EDT 03/15/22 | |
| In reply to: I walked out of Dr Zhivago.... - andPeggy 08:52 am EDT 03/15/22 | |
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