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| Lea Michele Is Well Aware That the Pressure Is On (NY Times) | |
| Last Edit: Unhookthestars 02:21 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
| Posted by: Unhookthestars 02:19 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
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| Pull quote: The structure of the show itself will see some changes, including a new interlude of a Brice song, “I’d Rather Be Blue Over You,” that Streisand sings in the movie. | |
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| The PR blitz is underway | |
| Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 08:22 am EDT 09/04/22 | |
| In reply to: Lea Michele Is Well Aware That the Pressure Is On (NY Times) - Unhookthestars 02:19 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
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| I've seen several other articles, all of which seem determined to demonstrate how much she's changed. | |
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| Posted by: KingSpeed 06:57 pm EDT 09/04/22 | |
| In reply to: The PR blitz is underway - MockingbirdGirl 08:22 am EDT 09/04/22 | |
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| Why is that a bad thing? | |
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| Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 07:06 pm EDT 09/04/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The PR blitz is underway - KingSpeed 06:57 pm EDT 09/04/22 | |
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| It's not a bad thing. It just feels calculated rather than genuine. | |
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| re: The PR blitz is underway | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 10:33 pm EDT 09/04/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The PR blitz is underway - MockingbirdGirl 07:06 pm EDT 09/04/22 | |
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| Changed from what? (I assume her fans want her as she has always been?) | |
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| re: The PR blitz is underway | |
| Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 10:53 pm EDT 09/04/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The PR blitz is underway - Chromolume 10:33 pm EDT 09/04/22 | |
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| Changed from the person who, after being called out by several of her costars, ultimately apologized for toxic behavior on the set of Glee. I imagine those were the "blind spots" she obliquely references in the NYT piece. | |
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| re: Lea Michele Is Well Aware That the Pressure Is On (NY Times) | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 10:37 pm EDT 09/02/22 | |
| In reply to: Lea Michele Is Well Aware That the Pressure Is On (NY Times) - Unhookthestars 02:19 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
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| Not being in NYC, and when I do get to come to town for a few days in November, I have other shows I'd like to see - but am I the only one who's just kinda tired of the whole Funny Girl thing by this point? I appreciate those poeple who will want to see if Lea can save the show, but I have to say I just have no interest at all. But it can't be just me... | |
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| re: Lea Michele Is Well Aware That the Pressure Is On (NY Times) | |
| Last Edit: KingSpeed 03:45 am EDT 09/03/22 | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 03:45 am EDT 09/03/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Lea Michele Is Well Aware That the Pressure Is On (NY Times) - Chromolume 10:37 pm EDT 09/02/22 | |
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| I can't wait to see her in it (I'm going on the 13th) but I'm sure there are others that think like you. By all means, don't spend the money if you're not interested. There are a lot of choices this season. | |
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| re: Lea Michele Is Well Aware That the Pressure Is On (NY Times) | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 03:55 am EDT 09/03/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Lea Michele Is Well Aware That the Pressure Is On (NY Times) - KingSpeed 03:45 am EDT 09/03/22 | |
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| Do I detect a little condescension there? :-) Honestly, I guess I have to say it's never a show that's interested me much. The score itself is good to excellent, but the show itself? I tend to think that even if Beanie had been sensational, it still wouldn't' have been something I cared to see all that much. It's more the constant hype I'm reacting to, I think. I guess I hope that once Lea's been in for a little while, the show settles into a quiet run like most other shows do. :-) |
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| re: Lea Michele Is Well Aware That the Pressure Is On (NY Times) | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 05:53 pm EDT 09/03/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Lea Michele Is Well Aware That the Pressure Is On (NY Times) - Chromolume 03:55 am EDT 09/03/22 | |
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| No condescension. | |
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| re: Lea Michele Is Well Aware That the Pressure Is On (NY Times) | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 07:30 pm EDT 09/03/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Lea Michele Is Well Aware That the Pressure Is On (NY Times) - KingSpeed 05:53 pm EDT 09/03/22 | |
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| Thank you. Though I probably would have understood if there had been. ;-) | |
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| re: Lea Michele Is Well Aware That the Pressure Is On (NY Times) | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 03:41 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 03:39 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
| In reply to: Lea Michele Is Well Aware That the Pressure Is On (NY Times) - Unhookthestars 02:19 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
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| Another Streisand signature from the film? To create her new Brice. Okay, then. And I say this as someone who saw this production twice (Feldstein, Aardema): this 2 hour and 50 minute entertainment doesn’t need another number. But who knows? I’d rather see the restoration of “Music That Makes Me Dance” as a Ziegfeld torch, scrapping the Ken Russell Boyfriend trappings and reverb aural FX. |
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| More evidence that Michael Mayer doesn't know how to fix this show. | |
| Last Edit: GabbyGerard 04:29 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
| Posted by: GabbyGerard 04:28 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Lea Michele Is Well Aware That the Pressure Is On (NY Times) - Delvino 03:39 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
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| I can't help but wonder what a Funny Girl revival would have looked like had it been directed by Susan Stroman, Tina Landau or Lucy Moss. Others that I think could have done it better than Mayer? Casey Nicholaw, Christopher Ashley, Jerry Zaks, Jack O'Brien, Lonny Price, and even a trio of director-choreographers whom I don't typically think handle libretti well--Kathleen Marshall, Jerry Mitchell, and Rob Ashford. Mayer's leaden direction exacerbates all of the problems in the book without improving any of them even slightly. |
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| re: More evidence that Michael Mayer doesn't know how to fix this show. | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 10:35 pm EDT 09/02/22 | |
| In reply to: More evidence that Michael Mayer doesn't know how to fix this show. - GabbyGerard 04:28 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
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| At this point, there's not much that Mayer can do, unless they want to shut down and totally re-tech the show from scratch. | |
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| ^^^ That's my vote. | |
| Posted by: GabbyGerard 12:39 pm EDT 09/03/22 | |
| In reply to: re: More evidence that Michael Mayer doesn't know how to fix this show. - Singapore/Fling 10:35 pm EDT 09/02/22 | |
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| The production needs the full Scarlet Pimpernel. | |
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| re: More evidence that Michael Mayer doesn't know how to fix this show. | |
| Posted by: Thom915 07:05 am EDT 09/02/22 | |
| In reply to: More evidence that Michael Mayer doesn't know how to fix this show. - GabbyGerard 04:28 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
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| " grabbing a fistful of Jared Grimes’s sweatshirt when trying to convince him of her talent, or hoisting herself on top of the piano," the one hint in the article that maybe things will improve. I don't know about the bit on top of the piano but one thing I found missing previously was Brice's desire to succeed and to be loved. I am a little more curious about seeing the show again now. | |
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| Posted by: chrismpls 04:11 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Lea Michele Is Well Aware That the Pressure Is On (NY Times) - Delvino 03:39 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
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| Intrigued that we have people complaining both about shows being not enough for the money ("Ohio State Murders") and too much ("Funny Girl"). It reminds me of that Roger Ebert quotation about every good movie being too short and every bad one being too long... | |
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| I'd still love see the number with Fanny Brice upside-down wearing roller skates! | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 02:56 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
| In reply to: Lea Michele Is Well Aware That the Pressure Is On (NY Times) - Unhookthestars 02:19 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
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| Yes, just kidding. But the original artwork for this show is classic, with Fanny's dress and left arm spelling out "FUNNY GIRL". | |
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| James McMullan's 2001 take on a FUNNY GIRL poster for the belated outdoor Sundance Theatre in Utah | |
| Last Edit: WeillFan 12:30 am EDT 09/02/22 | |
| Posted by: WeillFan 12:25 am EDT 09/02/22 | |
| In reply to: I'd still love see the number with Fanny Brice upside-down wearing roller skates! - PlayWiz 02:56 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
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| With all of this talk about "Funny Girl" artwork, I thought I should share James McMullan's watercolor take on the show via a 2001 commission by the belated outdoor Sundance Theatre in Utah. Judy Blazer was a wonderfully spry and expressive Fanny Brice in the production, and I think McMullan's illustration certainly captures that quality. It also gives you a "what if?" idea of what artwork might have looked like if Lincoln Center Theater had revived "Funny Girl." I think McMullan was also commissioned to do a Sundance "Fiddler on the Roof" poster for a different summer season, too. |
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| Link | James McMullan's FUNNY GIRL poster via Pinterest |
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| re: James McMullan's 2001 take on a FUNNY GIRL poster for the belated outdoor Sundance Theatre in Utah | |
| Posted by: TheHarveyBoy 06:28 am EDT 09/03/22 | |
| In reply to: James McMullan's 2001 take on a FUNNY GIRL poster for the belated outdoor Sundance Theatre in Utah - WeillFan 12:25 am EDT 09/02/22 | |
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| What an odd collection of images offered as "more like this." Some are McMullan's posters, others are also theatre posters, and some are just bizarre. I;ve never been on Pinterest before? Is that what they do, throw random images at you? | |
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| re: I'd still love see the number with Fanny Brice upside-down wearing roller skates! | |
| Posted by: Delvino 03:40 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
| In reply to: I'd still love see the number with Fanny Brice upside-down wearing roller skates! - PlayWiz 02:56 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
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| (It also matched Marlo Thomas’s That Girl graphics.) | |
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| re: I'd still love see the number with Fanny Brice upside-down wearing roller skates! | |
| Posted by: Thom915 04:08 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
| In reply to: re: I'd still love see the number with Fanny Brice upside-down wearing roller skates! - Delvino 03:40 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
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| "That Girl" premiered in 1966. "Funny Girl" opened in 1964 so the Marlo Thomas graphics actually matched the Funny Girl graphics. I wonder if it was the same artist. | |
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| re: I'd still love see the number with Fanny Brice upside-down wearing roller skates! | |
| Posted by: andyboy 04:41 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
| In reply to: re: I'd still love see the number with Fanny Brice upside-down wearing roller skates! - Thom915 04:08 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
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| That artist was named Talivaldis Stubis. I don't know if he had anything to do with THAT GIRL, but he did design the posters for CAMELOT and ANYONE CAN WHISTLE. | |
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| re: More on Tal Stubis: artist of the "Funny Girl" image | |
| Posted by: Gustave 07:38 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
| In reply to: re: I'd still love see the number with Fanny Brice upside-down wearing roller skates! - andyboy 04:41 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
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| (HealthNewsDigest.com 2009) - Talivaldis Stubis, the prolific graphic designer and illustrator whose works reached millions through some of the best-known Broadway posters, movie posters, and children’s books over the last 50 years, passed away peacefully after a long but painless battle with amyloidosis. He was 83. Perhaps the artist’s most memorable image was for the Broadway musical, “Funny Girl,” an upside-down girl on roller skates whose body spells out the title, but he worked on literally hundreds of other now-iconic posters for stage and screen. His Broadway works included Eugene Ionesco’s “Rhinoceros,” “Camelot,” “The Most Happy Fella,” “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Night of the Iguana,” and “Flower Drum Song.” From 1963 to 1980 Stubis was senior art director for a boutique agency working on many of the best-known movie poster campaigns of the 20th century, including Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange” and “Barry Lyndon,” “Deliverance,” The Sting, and The Exorcist. Later he worked on many of the most popular film campaigns for Paramount Pictures, including “Airplane!” “Elephant Man,” “Reds,” “Ordinary People,” “An Officer and a Gentleman,” “Witness,” “Star Trek,” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” Gustave |
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| re: More on Tal Stubis: artist of the "Funny Girl" image | |
| Posted by: Thom915 10:14 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
| In reply to: re: More on Tal Stubis: artist of the "Funny Girl" image - Gustave 07:38 pm EDT 09/01/22 | |
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| Wow! Well thanks for that information. He did some very fine work and also did some books as well as his posters. | |
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