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From: ahsiung@bbn.com (Anita Hsiung)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: sort of LOCAL:  UC Santa Barbara Shakespeare
Date: 10 Apr 1992 21:46:03 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Reply-To: ahsiung@labs-n.bbn.com (Anita Hsiung)
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Last weekend we took a jaunt up to Santa Barbara and caught the
American Shakespeare Company of UCSB doing "Love's Labor Lost".  I
don't know much about straight plays, and even less about Shakespeare,
but here are some thoughts I had on the production.

Most of the actors did a reasonable job, Durmaine (sp?) especially
(and he was the understudy).  The women were overplayed, but I do like
Shakespeare's women; they're strong and smart.  It took me awhile to
get used to olde English, but eventually I could understand what they
were saying.  (Can anyone tell me if after weeks of rehearsal, you
start to speak like that to your friends??)

Costuming was terrible, not in the clothes themselves, but in
consistency.  Half the players wore modern double-breasted suits or
skirts half the time.  Everyone ended up in period costume by the last
scene, but I was very confused as to what they were trying to say in
the cross-period dressing.

I guess back in the Old Globe days, no one worried too much about
lighting.  Is Shakespeare supposed to be just generally lighted?  No
follow spots, no changes in colour?  (This is my first Shakespeare
production...)

The play lasted very long, almost three hours, but this _is_
Shakespeare after all.  I liked the way everything was elaborated; if
a man was in love, he spoke long soliloquys about this love, not your
usual half-hour sitcom where the same themes are "developed" in 22
minutes.

Does anyone think the four men would return to their women at the end
of 12 months?  I didn't think so, but some of the romantics in our
group fervently hoped so!

	-- Anita --

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From: ADAVID@UCS.INDIANA.EDU
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: What's on?
Date: 17 Apr 92 13:53:04 GMT

Could you please send a list of the current shows, and or imformation on
tickets/availability for the Secret Garden for summer.  Thanks.

_____________
"Never be the first to believe
Never be the last to decieve." -Florence Vassy
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
From: nal@ais.org (Nancy Leinonen)
Subject: Re: Favorite Musicals
Organization: Confusion, Inc., Howells Household, Somerville, Massachusetts
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 20:42:04 GMT

My ten favorite musicals... hm...

1.  West Side Stry (without a doubt)
2.  Wonderful Life (yes, the musical, by Sheldon Harnick)
3.  Wonderful Town
4.  Sweeney Todd
5.  On the Town
6.  110 In the Shade
7.  Street Scene (though there are some as would call that an opera)
8.  Trouble in Tahiti
9.  Singing in the Rain (ok, I know it's a movie musical, but still....)
10. White Christmas (see above paranthetical comment).

The absolute worst of all musicals, in my opinion?
Dragons - Sheldon Harnick.  Just plain bad.

QUESTION - Do any of you consder opera to be theatre?  I do, but I'm very 
curious as to how everyone else feels.  Maybe I'll try a mini survey.

--Nancy
From: bickle@mitchell.hac.com (Vanessa Bickle)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: Re: What Musical Does "Only You" Come From?
Date: 13 Apr 92 18:04:22 GMT
Reply-To: bickle@mitchell.hac.com (Vanessa Bickle)
Distribution: na
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Company

In article <1992Apr11.231232.744@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, rs54@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Richard Sucgang) writes:
|> In article <1992Apr10.184114.3301@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> marck@nwu.edu (Marck ... high above the kitchen) writes:
|> >i know it's an andrew lloyd webber musical.  i know it's not _cats_ or
|> >j.c. superdude_.
|> 
|>    Starlight Express, maybe?
|> 
Starlight Express, definitely!

Vanessa
bickle@mitchell.hac.com
From: Greta.Grivas@f357.n633.z3.fx.cec.edu.au (Greta Grivas)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: waiting for effie
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 18:18:09 +1000

Has anyone seen the show 'Waiting for Effie'? I am a Mary Coustas fan and am
 looking forward to going along myself. 

 * Origin: SexyLegs Line2 SuperBBs Rego & Support Aust 61-3-318-3455 V3
(3:633/357)
From: edelnantj@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: Re: MORE High-School Drama
Date: 13 Apr 92 10:07:35 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

In article <1992Apr10.102916.1@acad3.alaska.edu>, fsrla@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
> In article <1992Apr9.202131.1@uncavx.unca.edu>, sweeney@uncavx.unca.edu writes:
>> How about inviting the Alaska Rep from Anchorage to do a residency, or at 
>> least a performance and day of classes?  Surely your swollen athletic revenues
>> can afford that!
>> 
>> Paul Sweeney
>> University of North Carolina at Asheville
>> (North Carolina has mandated classes by *drama certified* teachers K-12)
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> I think that would be cool.....but considering that ANY revenues in our school
> are far from SWOLLEN.  It would be a bit hard.  We are not hurting for talent
> or anything.  It's just the school does emphesize sport...(could you emagine
> the out cry if we suggested using sports money for drama......*quake with fear*
> My god, we'd have a riot on our hands!!!!!!!!  Seriously, I wish it were that
> easy.  Our band seems to have more priority then drama....(no offense to any
> musicians, I'm one, too)  The only thing in this school with less priority
> then drama is, perhaps, orchestra.
> And the suggestion someone made, about a booster club, it was a good idea.
> We tried it once.....and, well, like usual......
> Anyway, I do value suggestions, and will try to act on as many as possible....
>                                                                     ROG!

Think about why the band and athletics have the support that they do,  They
convinced the community that it was absolutely necessary to the education of
the children that they begin P.E. and music in kindergarten and that thime be
taken in the training of primary schools students to do music (and visual arts)
and P.E.  By the time these kids get to high school they have participatory
experience in sports and music.

If you're interested in long rang development of high school, college, and
professional theatre, start lobbying now for creative drama and childrens
theatre in the classroom (not just a visit for enrichment)  as part of the
curriculum and have it taught by people who are trained to teach drama.
-- 

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Jay Edelnant                    'Me?  I do not speak well enough to 
Univ. of Northern Iowa           be unintelligible'
EDELNANTJ@ISCSVAX.UNI.EDU                         Jane Austen
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
From: marck@nwu.edu (Marck ... high above the kitchen)
Subject: What Musical Does "Only You" Come From?
Organization: NU ACNS
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 18:41:14 GMT

i know it's an andrew lloyd webber musical.  i know it's not _cats_ or
j.c. superdude_.

please respond via e-mail ... marck@nwu.edu ...


thansk in advansk


mlb
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
From: dsy@psych.toronto.edu (Desiree Sy)
Subject: Re: NEWSIES
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 13:33:07 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:
>>
>>In article <1992Mar30.170220.522@HQ.Ileaf.COM> davidf@HQ.Ileaf.COM (David Fristrom) writes:
[discussion about filming dance abbreviated to...]

>>>As Fred Astaire showed in his best movies, the way you
>>>film dance is with long takes showing the full body.  Long takes,
>>>because it is the dancer who is dancing, not the camera; full body
>>>shots because dancing is done with the body, not the feet.  
>>
>>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.
[...]
>>There is a paucity of brilliant stage choreographers; there are
>>even fewer gifted film choreographers.
>
>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.

Bob Fosse did ALL THAT JAZZ; call it a mention by implication.

I agree; Bob Fosse is my favourite film choreographer.  However,
I also think Astaire, Jerome Robbins, and Gene Kelly each had a
really good understanding of that art, too.

rushing madly off,
desiree
From: rhb@UCS.USL.EDU ("Bird Rendell H.")
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: _Barnum_
Date: 14 Apr 92 13:46:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: world.9204141346.AA29407


The other night I went to see a touring company's version of 
_Barnum_ here in Lafayette. I had not heard any of the music.
I was reasonably impressed, although I thought the show was
rather too long. 

To my question:

Lafayette was the next last stop on the tour. They were trying
to get rid of all their _Barnum_ stuff, including the CD of
the broadway cast performance. I decided to buy it. I must
say that the performances are wonderful, but the sound-quality
of my CD is very thin**. I was wondering if anyone else has the
same CD and the same problem. 


Rendell


** - almost no bass or treble, just mid-range.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
From: dzisson@vax.clarku.edu
Subject: RE: Short NYC Theater Weekend
Organization: Clark University
Date: 8 APR 92 16:28:52 GMT

Well in NYC Griffin Dunne is in the new Howard Korder play, if you know anythingabout Korder you know how good he is although some what twisted.  If you do not
know Korder he is a disciple of Mamet and caries the same style.  But I am in
Korder's first play Boys' Life right now and he is an amazing writer.  Sorry,
but the name escapes me as does where it is playing.
Dan
From: CCD@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (Clare Durst)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: Re: New Show Opening
Date: 14 Apr 92 23:02:37 GMT

I have the STRONG feeling that I've been missing a LOT of postings from
here - haven't seen anything for a couple of months on the list. In any
event, I saw Guys and Dolls last Saturday (the opening's tonight, TUesday,
April 14) . That is some helluva musical. I enjoyed every minute of it,
and that is even though the principals, in some instances, weren't quite
what was expected.  Adelaide (Faith Prince) is GREAT, and so is Nathan
Lee, once one gets used to him being Nathan Detroit. Same for Walter Bobbie
as nicely-nicely. Josie de Guzman is a pretty Sarah, but not quite innocent
seeming enough; Peter Gallagher is darling as Skye, but you have the definite
feeling that he thinks so too!  But the SHOW is the thing. It is really one
of the very best. Of COURSE it's dated, but it was dated in 1950 when it
came out. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
From: sgoldste@wam.umd.edu (Stuart Jay Goldstein)
Subject: Godspell on Video
Originator: sgoldste@rac2.wam.umd.edu
Organization: University of Maryland at College Park
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 19:51:35 GMT

     Can anybody tell me why I can never find the movie version of _Godspell_
in any video stores?  Last year I heard a rumour that it was yanked from the 
shelves.  Is this true?  If so, why?  I know that it has been shown on some
minor cable stations, but that's about it.  Any insight would be much 
appreciated.
From: bickle@mitchell.hac.com (Vanessa Bickle)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: Re: LOCAL: David Gaines
Date: 13 Apr 92 17:58:03 GMT
Reply-To: bickle@mitchell.hac.com (Vanessa Bickle)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Company

In article <uwkeller.702927474@mcl>, uwkeller@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu (William Keller) writes:
|> In <ku6ca2INN60a@news.bbn.com> ahsiung@bbn.com (Anita Hsiung) writes:
|> 
|> >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 --
|> 
|> I say Davis Gaines playing the Phantom last month. I must agree, he has an
|> awesome voice. I only wish that the rest of the cast was as good. Overall,
|> I think that I wasted my money.
|> 
|> 	--William

Is Dale Christian still playing Christine?
I always thought that she was much better than Sarah Brightman.
Unless the cast has changed greatly in the last year, I can't
agree with what you are saying. The current (as of that time)
Marius was great (so much better than Reece Holland).


Vanessa
bickle@mitchell.hac.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
From: mulcihy@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (David Mulcihy 283-4279)
Subject: Re: THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL on record
Organization: nasa-jsc
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 11:50:21 GMT

> The recording stars Linda Eder

She was in "Phantom of the Opera" and "Svengali" at the Alley Theatre in 
Houston. I missed "Phantom of the Opera" when it was here. 
David Mulcihy
mulcihy@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov
From: ahsiung@bbn.com (Anita Hsiung)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
Subject: Re: City of Angels
Date: 7 Apr 1992 16:57:55 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Reply-To: ahsiung@labs-n.bbn.com (Anita Hsiung)
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

jpenovic@encore.com writes:
>I wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>
>  It's good to hear that the S. Florida audience was not typical.
>  Boy, was it a great show, and the cast did not get the
>  respect/response that they deserved.

I remember the press was quite positive in their reviews.  Cameras
were out in force interviewing audience members in all their glitz
before the show; Entertainment Tonight showed parts of the opening
night performance.  They also talked to Randy Graff and James Naughton
after the show, with make-up partially off, as part of their story.
It was quite a big event here.  But then, this IS the City of
Angels...

	-- Anita --

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From: sws8n@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Stefan William Sittig)
Subject: Re: NEWSIES
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 18:57:08 GMT

In article <1992Mar31.180951.7600@psych.toronto.edu> dsy@psych.toronto.edu (Desiree Sy) writes:
>
>In article <1992Mar30.170220.522@HQ.Ileaf.COM> davidf@HQ.Ileaf.COM (David Fristrom) writes:
>>Yesterday I saw a preview of the eagerly awaited (by me, anyway) new
>>Disney movie NEWSIES (opening April 10th).  NEWSIES is an original,
>>live-action musical, Disney's first in years, with music by Alan
>>Mencken (THE LITTLE MERMAID, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST).  
>
>Not just Disney's first in years -- anyone's first in years, it
>seems.  Thanks for the review; I'm looking forward to the film.
>Just a couple of comments...
>
>>Filming dance
>>is an art that appears to be lost, which is strange considering how
>>simple it is.  
>
>Well, I agree with half of this.  I don't think filming dance is
>simple at all.  If it were, we'd have more movies with better 
>dance sequences in them.
>
>>As Fred Astaire showed in his best movies, the way you
>>film dance is with long takes showing the full body.  Long takes,
>>because it is the dancer who is dancing, not the camera; full body
>>shots because dancing is done with the body, not the feet.  
>
>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.
>
>>Of course,
>>while this approach is simple for the camera person and editor it is
>>much harder for the choreographer, who must actually choreograph a
>>full dance, with a definite structure building to a climax.
>
>(1) I'm not at all convinced that these shots are more simple for
>camera operators or editors (surely dances must represent a
>little hell for editors).
>
>(2) I don't understand this -- *all* choreographers must
>choreograph a "full dance, with a definite structure" (tho'
>"building to a climax" as a criterion to judge dances by is open
>for debate).  It is *not any easier* to choreograph in takes --
>in fact, if it's done well, it's considerably harder.  A
>choreographer has to carry the whole vision in her or his head,
>has to have at least a basic (and preferably an extensive)
>understanding of cinematography.  Dances, of all things, cannot
>be improvised on the fly during takes, except perhaps in a solo,
>and even then you'd have to be very careful of what you chose to
>print, because of the potential for error.
>
>There is a paucity of brilliant stage choreographers; there are
>even fewer gifted film choreographers.
>
>-desiree
>(dsy@psych.toronto.edu)
>

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.


				-Stefan

Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
From: bprofane@netcom.com (Gert Niewahr)
Subject: Re: Naked Lunch (Burroughs Acting)
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 92 18:22:14 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In article <1992Mar31.215533.713@desire.wright.edu> lkampf@desire.wright.edu writes:
>O.K., so its not a musical.
>However, it is everything I hoped it would be and more.
>If anyone out in this vast expanse of silicon playland is into William S.
>and hasn't seen Naked Lunch, I strongly encourage you to go. If you haven't
>read anything by Burroughs, do so first and catch it on video. 
>     This film has Mugwumps, black meat and junkies galore. What more could you
>want from a film?

That it be a play, since this is a theatre newsgroup?

Actually, in the early New York days Burroughs used to stage little
scenes in his apartment using some of the other Beats as actors.
Apparently he liked to play a dry, lesbian spinster.  This all had
to do with his sexual gender identity, which was rather, ah,
submissive.  If you're not squeamish, you can read about this side
of WSB in the various Beat biographies.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.theatre
From: ddebry@itchy.dsd.es.com (David DeBry)
Subject: Re: Favorite Musicals
Reply-To: David DeBry <ddebry@dsd.es.com>
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 22:21:01 GMT


	I might as well toss caution to the wind (cliches uber alles)
and post my list:

FAVORITE MUSICALS:
1] City of Angels
2] Return to the Forbidden Planet
3] Sweeney Todd
4] Chess  (British, of course! :)
5] Into the Woods
6] Sunday in the Park With George
7] The Wiz


       	Ok, so it's weird.  But it gets worse!


LEAST Favorite Musicals  (Musicals I Love to Hate)
1] Music Man
2] Anything by Andrew Lloyd Webber
3] Les Miserables


	I wonder how many flame email messages this will spawn?  :)



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From: smoliar@hilbert.iss.nus.sg (stephen smoliar)
Subject: Re: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are on PBS
Summary: director versus author
Keywords: great performances 
Reply-To: smoliar@iss.nus.sg (stephen smoliar)
Organization: Institute of Systems Science, NUS, Singapore
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 12:09:48 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.181733.25674@mahendo.jpl.nasa.gov>
reiher@onyx.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Peter Reiher) writes:
>In article <1992Apr11.204505.15123@leland.Stanford.EDU>
>aku@leland.Stanford.EDU (Andrew Chia-Tso Ku) writes:
>>As part of its Great Performances series, PBS will be broadcasting the
>>recent movie version of Tom Stoppard's play (also directed by him)
>>near the end of April.  [For people in the Bay Area, it will be
>>broadcast on Sunday April 26 at 3pm].  Since there's some variability
>>in PBS affiliate scheduling, I thought I'd post this now.
>
>I just want to point out that this is decidedly a film, not a filming
>of a theatrical performance.  Stoppard worked very, very hard on making
>the play cinematic, and made a number of changes for that purpose.  I 
>personally feel that, while his efforts are obvious and merely filming the 
>play wouldn't have made a satisfactory film, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern 
>Are Dead" works much better on the stage, or even on the page, than it does 
>on the screen.  Still, if you like the play, the movie is worth seeing.
>
I remember when this closed almost as soon as it opened in Los Angeles.
Ironically, I just got a chance to see it in Singapore as part of a European
Community Film Festival.  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.  One thing
the stage production gives you which the film does not is two intermissions,
during which you can stretch both legs and mind and gear up for the next phase
of action.  In the film by the time you get on board the ship, you, as
audience, have lost your sensitivity for the razor-sharp timing which
makes every click so well at the beginning;  and I am not sure if Stoppard
the director lost that sensitivity, too.  Over the long haul, the film simply
does not have the timing necessary to make the script enjoyable.
-- 
Stephen W. Smoliar; Institute of Systems Science
National University of Singapore; Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Kent Ridge, SINGAPORE 0511
Internet:  smoliar@iss.nus.sg