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Did this ever happen? 2012 OLIVER!?
Posted by: AnObserver 12:49 pm EST 11/22/22

I'm puzzled by this entry on Playbill's website. See link. BSM as Fagin?
Link https://playbill.com/productions/oliver-broadway-sam-s-shubert-theatre-2012
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My Review of this
Posted by: GilBenbrook 01:31 pm EST 11/22/22
In reply to: Did this ever happen? 2012 OLIVER!? - AnObserver 12:49 pm EST 11/22/22

My thoughts in the link below
Link Gil's review of the 2012 OLIVER! benefit concert
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re: My Review of this
Last Edit: Chromolume 08:58 pm EST 11/22/22
Posted by: Chromolume 08:52 pm EST 11/22/22
In reply to: My Review of this - GilBenbrook 01:31 pm EST 11/22/22

Gil wrote: "It should be noted that the two boys were the only members of the cast not carrying their scripts around to refer to, which is not usually the case at a benefit concert. It's nice to see the two of them being so professional."

Actually, no - that's entirely UNprofessional. All members of the cast should be following the same protocol. Either the company all carries scripts (referring to them or not) or they don't. The boys should have had their scripts. Unwittingly, the boys stole focus - and Gil noticed it enough to comment on it. That shouldn't have happened.

Say it was the other way around - that the adults were adamantly off book but the kids weren't. We'd then have to either make excuses for "the poor kids who didn't have the time (or experience/talent) to get their lines down," and/or we'd want to criticize the adults for making the kids look out of place.

Everyone should have had scripts. Even if they never looked at them. Or, the adults should have memorized their damn lines, so as not to make the performance about the boys showing them up. (But frankly, as Gil suggests himself, scripts are not a crime in an event performance like this.)
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One-night concert--benefit for the Irish Rep. (NM)
Posted by: Seth Christenfeld (tabula-rasa@verizon.net) 12:59 pm EST 11/22/22
In reply to: Did this ever happen? 2012 OLIVER!? - AnObserver 12:49 pm EST 11/22/22

Seth, look down
Link PBOL: Brian Stokes Mitchell, James Barbour and Melissa Errico Will Star in Irish Rep's Oliver! Concert at the Shubert
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I think it was an Irish Rep gala
Last Edit: Ann 12:59 pm EST 11/22/22
Posted by: Ann 12:57 pm EST 11/22/22
In reply to: Did this ever happen? 2012 OLIVER!? - AnObserver 12:49 pm EST 11/22/22

Hence the one-day run.
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