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From: davidf@HQ.Ileaf.COM (David Fristrom)
Subject: Re: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are on PBS
Keywords: great performances 
Reply-To: davidf@HQ.Ileaf.COM (David Fristrom)
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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 18:31:32 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.120948.20486@nuscc.nus.sg> smoliar@iss.nus.sg (stephen smoliar) writes:
> [Discussion of movie deleted]
>
> I agree with Peter that the film is not simply a
> transcription of the play, and there are some things about the film which
> work very well.  However, I wish Stoppard the director had realized that
> the script by Stoppard the writer needed quite a bit of cutting.

Perhaps, but in fact screenplay did cut out quite a bit of the play.
Stoppard tried to play up the visual at the expense of the verbal, but
there is only so much he could do.  R&G remains an essentially
theatrical idea, and I don't think a really great movie could have
been made out of it.  Still, it's an ok movie, and the play is still
great. 

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From: aku@leland.Stanford.EDU (Andrew Chia-Tso Ku)
Subject: Movie version of SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 10:49:53 GMT

Today's NY Times mentions that after Stockard Channing reprises her
role in SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION in London this summer, she will star
in the movie version, to begin shooting in September.  The movie is to
be directed by Fred Schepisi.

I think Schepisi is a competent choice for director, given that he's
"proven" himself with a comedy (ROXANNE), a play adaptation (PLENTY)
and even a "ripped from the headlines" movie (A CRY IN THE DARK).
He's certainly talented (although I still think his best work came
early in his career in Australia) but I wonder if his movie version
will lose some of the play's New York flavor and edge.

If I had a choice I'd prefer to see someone like Paul Mazursky or
Mike Nichols or Robert Altman or even Barbra Streisand directing.

Andrew
From: rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: Re: McKellen's Richard III
Date: 8 Apr 92 15:39:14 GMT
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Francisco

> VBSTOKES@pucc.Princeton.EDU writes:
>I see that the Royal National Theatre is doing a tour of McKellen's
>Richard III, with performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in
>June. Does anyone know where else the tour will be going?

It's coming to San Francisco at some point.  There was a
fascinating profile of Sir Ian in last Sunday's (4/5/92)
New York Times Magazine, by the way. 
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From: sws8n@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Stefan William Sittig)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: Re: Favorite Musicals
Date: 13 Apr 92 18:15:02 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia

In article <1992Apr11.035125.6793@leland.Stanford.EDU> quito@leland.Stanford.EDU (Marco Quito Perlman) writes:
>My list would be:
>
>1) Les Miserables
>2) Aspects of Love
>3) Phantom 
>4) Miss Saigon
>5) Chess
>
>Quito Perlman
>quito@leland.stanford.edu
>

WELL, mine happen to be quite different.  Just quickly, by favorite, do you
mean favorite to watch or to perform in?  There is a big difference, and being
a musical theatre student and lover I hae two lists:


PERFORM IN:  1) A CHORUS LINE, PIPPIN, CABARET, WEST SIDE STORY, GREASE

WATCH: 2) PIPPIN, WEST SIDE STORY, SWEET CHARITY, LES MISERABLES, HAIR


just my 2 cents....
				-Stefan
From: ahsiung@bbn.com (Anita Hsiung)
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Subject: LOCAL:  David Gaines
Date: 8 Apr 92 17:45:38 GMT
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Last night, David Gaines (current Phantom at the Ahmanson) sang the
national anthem at a Dodger game.  Then he hurried off to do his
regular performance...  He looks very clean-cut, all American, with an
awesome voice!

	-- Anita --

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From: murray@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Thomas Murray)
Subject: Re: City of Angels
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Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 14:20:09 GMT

In article <126@rd1.interlan.com> pape@rd1.interlan.com (Donna Pape) writes:

>>   Does anybody know where the touring company of COA is now?

CITY OF ANGELS will be in Chicago May 5 - 17.

-tom
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From: jpenovic@wizard.Berkeley.EDU (Jan Penovich)
Subject: Buddy (was Re: musical choices)
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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 18:54:31 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.152146.12104@ecst.csuchico.edu>,
arussell@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU (ANNE RUSSELL) writes:
> 
> I also rec'd one very enthusiastic recommendation for Buddy, a foot-stomping
> rock & roll tribute to Buddy Holly. Anyone care to rate this musical?

  I saw it when the touring company was at the Perf. Arts
  Center in Ft. Lauderdale.  It was really enjoyable.  People
  were dancing in the aisles.

  Not much story, but lots of good musical numbers if you like
  Buddy Holly music.

  Though the people who run out when they show was over missed
  a great encore. (I was an usher there and tried to tell people it
  wasn't over, but some of them were in such a rush to get to
  the parking lot, that they didn't hear me.  Their loss.)

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From: quito@leland.Stanford.EDU (Marco Quito Perlman)
Subject: Re: Favorite Musicals
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 03:51:25 GMT

My list would be:

1) Les Miserables
2) Aspects of Love
3) Phantom 
4) Miss Saigon
5) Chess

Quito Perlman
quito@leland.stanford.edu

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From: dsy@psych.toronto.edu (Desiree Sy)
Subject: Re: High-school play suggestions?
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 13:03:32 GMT

In article <1992Apr4.205923.1@acad3.alaska.edu> fsrla@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
>Does anyone out there have any suggestions for a good play
>that could be performed by a small high-school group.  Most
>of the cast female with very little scenery?????

THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE.

UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE.

Hmmm.  I'll think some more.

-desiree
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From: nmaria@bass.bu.edu (Nancy Wallace)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: Re: Michael Crawford on TV!
Date: 7 Apr 92 17:42:01 GMT
Reply-To: nmaria@bass.bu.edu (Nancy Wallace)
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In article <1992Apr3.103610.29841@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> rs54@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Richard Sucgang) writes:
>I saw a fleeting moment of Mr. Crawford on the telly
>tonight, crooning out the last bars of "Tell me on a Sunday"
>(is it in any of his albums?).
>
Yes. It's on "Michael Crawford Performs Andrew Lloyd Webber," which is an 
Atlantic release, and it's available at Tower, and probably any other large
record store.

What you saw was probably Michael on the Tonight Show. I missed it, so I
don't know what else he did. :(  Does anyone out there know, or better yet,
have a tape that they might be persuaded to share?


>
>-rich
>Richard Sucgang : Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology
>Columbia University (sucgang@cuhhca.hhmi.columbia.edu; 
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Subject: Lea Salonga as Eponine
Date: 6 Apr 1992 19:29:19 GMT
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I wish I had heard her talk at UPenn....I think she would make a fabulous
Eponine, who is my favourite character in Les Miz. Is it just me, or are
the women who play Eponine in stage productions uniformly undistinguished?
I've seen Les Miz 5 times and I have to report with sadness that the best
of the lot was Debbie Gibson - who would actually have been a lot better
if she had tried to forget that she wasn't in a stadium belting out technopop
to teenyboppers. I haven't heard the Broadway recording, but I didn't like
the Eponine in the symphonic recording. I think most of them are way too
whiny. The only Eponines that have appealed to me, IMHO, are the ones in
the original London and Vienna recordings. I am still waiting for the
definitive Eponine. What do people think?
From: adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: Re: Favorite Musicals
Date: 10 Apr 1992 22:39:06 -0700
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In article <kucmi2INNaa@aludra.usc.edu> 
jameskau@aludra.usc.edu (James Kaufman) writes:

> Here's a question:  What are your favorite (top five, top ten) musicals?

Favorite?  Hmmmm.  What I've been listening to *a lot* lately are:

1.  Gypsy
2.  Happy Hunting
3.  Panama Hattie
4.  House of Flowers
5.  Sail Away
6.  Company
7.  She Loves Me
8.  High Spirits
9.  Funny Girl
10. Annie Get Your Gun

Arne
From: conrad@brahms.udel.edu (Jon Conrad)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: Re: LOCAL:  David Gaines
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:46:17 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware

His name is Davis Gaines.

Jon Alan Conrad
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From: dsy@psych.toronto.edu (Desiree Sy)
Subject: Re: High-school play suggestions?
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 20:54:03 GMT

In article <1992Apr6.170717.19295@apollo.hp.com> betsyp@apollo.hp.com (Betsy Perry) writes:
>>In article <1992Apr4.205923.1@acad3.alaska.edu> fsrla@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
>>>Does anyone out there have any suggestions for a good play
>>>that could be performed by a small high-school group.  Most
>>>of the cast female with very little scenery?????
>
>THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, Oscar Wilde.  
[...]
>THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH, Thornton Wilder.  

I nearly suggested these two as well, but if you don't have much
scenery, I assume you don't have a huge costume budget either
(correct me here if I'm wrong), and I don't see you doing EARNEST
except in period, or SKIN OF OUR TEETH without dinosaurs.  (I
love that last play, BTW.)

*Not* OUR TOWN, tho' (If I see more school prod'n....)

-desiree


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From: ewf2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Eric "JUICE" Fritzius)
Subject: Les Mis in St Louis
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 22:31:15 GMT



I saw Les Misrables in St Louis Missouri this weekend.

It was at the Fox Theatre and was an absolutly outstanding show.

I saw it on Broadway last year and, except for ValJean, most
of the performers were, IMO, better than those I saw on
Broadway.  (Actually most of them were of about the same
caliber.)  Javert, played by Chuck Wagner, was great!

JSA

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From: randyc@autodesk.com (Randy Clark)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: Re: Scientists' Plays Summary
Keywords: Russian
Date: 8 Apr 92 00:56:51 GMT
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA

In article <1992Apr3.033947.1@oread.cc.ukans.edu> kychin@oread.cc.ukans.edu
writes:
>Here is the summary of the plays and productions on science. I originally
>posted it  in rec.arts.books.

	Thank you.  It's intriguing, and looks fairly thorough.
>>>   20. I. Personov and(?) G. Dobrzhinskii    Velikii eretik: drama v 4
>>>          deistviiakh   published  by Moskva: Gos.izd-vo Iskusstvo 1937
>>>          (a play about Galileo. Could somebody translate the title
>>>           for us?)                

I haven't studied Russian for something like 17 years, but
even I got this one: Great (or Grand) Heretic.

With that title and the publication date, I'm afraid the
odds are that it's a Stalinist / social-realist horror,
but one never knows.  You've piqued my curiosity.

>>>> 
>>>> Again, thanks.
>>>> Please find more, will you?
>>>> 
>>>> CHIN/K.U.

Cheers, -R


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From: goldman@mbcl.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: Re: Short NYC Theater Weekend
Date: 8 Apr 92 16:17:08 GMT
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In article <1992Apr3.194507.29255@cbnews.cb.att.com>, gwb@cbnews.cb.att.com (gregory.blum) writes:
> I know that this is rather a wide open question, but......
> 
> I'll be getting to NYC for just a weekend stay in the early part of
> May; probably just a Thursday, Friday and Saturday, so 4 plays max.
> What would you all recommend? 
> 
> I tend to like "serious" drama rather more than musicals, but I do
> enjoy a good musical too.  I'd prefer a bit of variety in the choices,
> and off-Broadway things are certainly of interest.
. stuff deleted..

Well, I think you're in luck.  I think B'way is at its most interesting
in ~ 5 years.  The plays that we intend to go to over the next few months
(in no particular order of preference) are:

STRAIGHT PLAYS.
"Two Trains Running"  by  August Wilson.  I've not seen any of his stuff,
but he certainly has developed a fine reputation as a serious dramatist.

"The Price" by Arthur Miller.  I've directed this play, and I think it's
one of his very best.  It may or may not have opened at the Roundabout by 
the time you pass through.  If it hasn't, they're doing "Hamlet" with
Stephen Lang; it got poor reviews in the NYT.

"A Small/Serious? Family Business" (can't quite remember the title) by 
Alan Ayckbourn.  I think Ayckbourn is quite an interesting playwright;
I think his early comedies (How the Other Half Loves, Norman Conquests, etc)
are truly brilliant.  His later work is - well - interesting.  We saw his
"Trouble in Mind" at the McCarter theatre in Princeton a few years ago; it
was quite powerful about a woman suffocating in a suburban environment.  Then
we saw his latest 2-play piece in London last summer; it was truly awful. 
(Don't ask me for the title: I've forgotten it, but it isn't the one that's
coming up on B'way.)

I'd stay a mile away from the Ibsen "Master Builder" at Tony Randall's 
"Actor's Theatre".  It got creamed in the NYT by two separate reviewers.  

MUSICALS
"The Most Happy Fella" (Loesser) got incredible reviews.  We're going to 
see it - if we can get tickets.

"Falsettos" (Lapine) is a conflation of his two one-act musicals about
gay life ?in Manhattan?  I always meant to see the two separately, so 
now we're going to make the effort to see them together.  Maybe it'll be
cheaper that way ?! :-)

	Well, that's my 2c.

				Adrian
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From: larry@bradley.bradley.edu (Larry D. Stratton)
Subject: Re: Favorite Musicals
Organization: Bradley University
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 17:06:40 GMT

In <kucmi2INNaa@aludra.usc.edu> jameskau@aludra.usc.edu (James Kaufman) writes:

>Here's a question:  What are your favorite (top five, top ten) musicals?  I'd
  1) Chorus Line (I'm a dancer)
  2) 42nd  Street (I'm a dancer)
  3) Show Boat   (Blacks were no longer the humming chorus in the cotton
                  fields)
  4) West Side Story (I'm a dancer)
  5) Les Mis (have seen it 9 times and I still cry)

Others: Oklahoma (overdone but historically significant), Once Upon a
Mattress (my first professional show), Candide (sentimentally significant),
and Chicago (never had so much fun in my life).  Ther are probably others
and many that were mileposts in musical theatre but these are my
favorites.


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From: rs54@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Richard Sucgang)
Subject: Followup on Metro
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 23:31:06 GMT

Something I couldn;t include in my review of Metro:

More than 40 Polish/German/Russian actors/actresses
showed up in Metro. did you hear a peep out of Actor's
Equity? Wow, after the ruckus over Lea Salonga and
Jonathan Pryce...This is getting fishy.
-rich
Richard Sucgang : Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology
Columbia University (sucgang@cuhhca.hhmi.columbia.edu; 
de slime god         rs54@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu)
From: fritz@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (frederick.sitter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: Re: Favorite Musicals
Date: 14 Apr 92 22:03:37 GMT
Organization: AT&T

In article <kucmi2INNaa@aludra.usc.edu> jameskau@aludra.usc.edu (James Kaufman) writes:
>Here's a question:  What are your favorite (top five, top ten) musicals?  I'd
>probably go with:

I'm not particularly well-read (well-viewed?), but these send a
pleasant shiver up my spine at their conclusions:

1.  The Music Man
2.  1776
3.  Les Mis
4.  The Fantasticks
5.  Man of La Mancha


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From: galecristijo@bvc.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: Re: Favorite Musicals
Date: 12 Apr 92 20:59:28 CDT
Organization: Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA

In article <kucmi2INNaa@aludra.usc.edu>, jameskau@aludra.usc.edu (James Kaufman) writes:
> Here's a question:  What are your favorite (top five, top ten) musicals?

Living in Iowa, I don't get to see many musicals.  These are my favorite 
productions...
        1) Les Mis
	2) Sweeney Todd
	3) Cats/ The King and I
	4) Chess
	5) Into the Woods

Based solely on the music and what I know of the story... 
	1) Phantom
	2) Les Mis
	3) Miss Saigon
	4) Secret Garden
	5) Chess

Least favorites... gosh that's hard (just based on ones I've seen)
	1) Oh Calcutta
	2) Ken Hill's Phantom

Guess everything else I've watched, I've enjoyed.

Cristi
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From: myrab@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (myra.bronstein)
Subject: Re: Favorite Musicals
Summary: Favorite Musicals
Organization: AT&T
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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 21:13:59 GMT

> In article <kucmi2INNaa@aludra.usc.edu>, jameskau@aludra.usc.edu (James Kaufman) writes:
> > Here's a question:  What are your favorite (top five, top ten) musicals?...  

Hasn't anyone ever heard of "Oliver"?
It's excellent.  Words and music written by the same person
(can't recall the name).  
Even the movie was great.

Myra
From: sws8n@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Stefan William Sittig)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: Re: Favorite Musicals
Date: 13 Apr 92 18:20:27 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia

In article <kucurqINNato@mizar.usc.edu> adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson) writes:
>In article <kucmi2INNaa@aludra.usc.edu> 
>jameskau@aludra.usc.edu (James Kaufman) writes:
>
>> Here's a question:  What are your favorite (top five, top ten) musicals?
>
>Favorite?  Hmmmm.  What I've been listening to *a lot* lately are:
>
>1.  Gypsy
>2.  Happy Hunting
>3.  Panama Hattie
>4.  House of Flowers
>5.  Sail Away
>6.  Company
>7.  She Loves Me
>8.  High Spirits
>9.  Funny Girl
>10. Annie Get Your Gun
>
>Arne

Wait!  Are we now talking about "listening" as in the soundtracks?  Cause
that's different as well.  I've listened to over 100 different Broadway MusicalsSoundtracks, but only seen 6 performed live in my life.  So my lists are obviously going to be dependent on this fact.  

The top 10 original cast recordings of musicals IMHO:

1) INTO THE WOODS
2) THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
3) JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
4) STARLIGHT EXPRESS
5) LES MISERABLES(London Cast)
6) COMPANY
7) CABARET
8) HAIR
9) ANYTHING GOES(1968 version with Hal Linden and Eileen Rodgers-ok, it's OFF
Broadway but it's still Delovely.)
10)PIPPIN
From: ahsiung@bbn.com (Anita Hsiung)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: Re: City of Angels
Date: 6 Apr 1992 16:33:42 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Reply-To: ahsiung@labs-n.bbn.com (Anita Hsiung)
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Donna Pape writes:
>
>What kind of audience reaction did COA receive in other cities?  We
>were really mortified at how rude our audiences here were.  The
>show was excellent - every time we saw it!

For the Los Angeles opening, the audience laughed, applauded, gasped,
and generally enjoyed the show.  There was no standing ovation, but I
think people liked it.

Why doesn't anyone laugh at the line "nobody gets a hole in one their
first time at bat"??

	-- Anita --

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From: davidf@HQ.Ileaf.COM (David Fristrom)
Subject: Re: NEWSIES
Reply-To: davidf@HQ.Ileaf.COM (David Fristrom)
Organization: Interleaf, Inc.
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 15:56:22 GMT

In article <1992Apr6.185708.18957@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> sws8n@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Stefan William Sittig) writes:
> In article <1992Mar31.180951.7600@psych.toronto.edu> dsy@psych.toronto.edu (Desiree Sy) writes:
> >
> >Yes... usually.  Sometimes dance sequences in films exist for
> >"filmic" reasons as well as choreographic ones.  The best example
> >I can think of is ALL THAT JAZZ -- any of the dances in that film
> >carry thematic content.  And some of them are shot in unusual
> >ways to heighten effects.  That is, these dances were conceived
> >for the camera.  But by and large, I agree; many dance shots are
> >poorly framed, and shot too close.
> 
> I am AMAZED that all this talk about filming dance has gone on this long
> and no one has mentioned the two most important words on how to film 
> dance numbers.....BOB  FOSSE.
> 

I would have thought that Desiree's mention of ALL THAT JAZZ was
sufficient (and in any case I mentioned him by name in my follow up to
her post).

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