I forgot when I saw Hairspray in NYC, it had both 90's R&B star Tevin Campbell playing Seaweed, and Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame legend Darlene Love playing Motormouth. she got an ovation during "I Know Where I've Been".
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 04:23 (three years ago) link
I said this on the Tay thread but I still prefer the Hadestown studio album to the cast album
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 04:35 (three years ago) link
Waitress didn't win, I think it's there by mistake, songs I've heard are good tho.
yes a c+p mistake! but uh vote for it if you want
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 04:39 (three years ago) link
deciding between hadestown and the producers, a weird decision I admit
― mozzy star (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 13:04 (three years ago) link
hadestown suffered from a weak sauce lead performance from orpheus imo, otherwise it’s pretty singularly glorious
― mozzy star (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 13:05 (three years ago) link
Kinky Boots was massively, utterly disappointing. The dance numbers were fun but how are you going to have a musical with zero (0) memorable musical numbers? If you offered me a million dollars to sing any of the songs from it, I couldn’t.
Avenue Q and Hairspray are fantastic. I saw the film version of The Producers and my baseline reaction was “someone must squash Matthew Broderick like a bug”. Spamalot was fun but the production I saw was interrupted when one of the dancers slammed into a set piece and had to be carried sobbing off the stage. I’ve only seen about 10 minutes of Spring Awakening but I viscerally loathed all ten of those minutes with a fury unlike any beheld on planet Earth except for when I saw Rent. I really like the songs I know from Book of Mormon and Once but I haven’t seen either show.
Hamilton is literally another level of art from any other Broadway musical I’ve seen, which are words I didn’t expect to say before I saw it. I would have been a lock for Avenue Q but Hamilton on Broadway is straight-up the best musical performance I have ever been to, period.
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link
even from a technical standpoint, it's a landmark, but it's definitely a league of its own in terms of what it is.
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link
have you seen Blindspotting? Daveed Diggs is fantastic in that, and does a lot of rapping
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
DJP definitely seek out Hadestown if only one of the recordings (I guess that's the only option for the foreseeable anyway)
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
I had a friend who was supposed to see Hadestown this year, he was crushed of course.
i guess I should get around to listening to it.
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 15:29 (three years ago) link
sorry about your friend getting crushedimo try the original studio album first if you care more about the songs than the sheen
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 15:31 (three years ago) link
lmao
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
sorry about your friend getting crushed
LOL
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 6 September 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
the only two i've seen are the producers and kinky boots and frankly i can't remember any songs from either
― dyl, Sunday, 6 September 2020 03:36 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 7 September 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
well this was a mistake
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Monday, 7 September 2020 01:26 (three years ago) link
Can we talk about how entirely unhinged Dear Evan Hansen is?
― a gentle push against my Wonder Bread face (DJP), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 17:35 (two years ago) link
The premise, I mean; I haven't seen it and maybe they turn a patently sociopathic idea into something interesting but... it seems like a deeply unpleasant pile of garbage
― a gentle push against my Wonder Bread face (DJP), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 17:36 (two years ago) link
Every time I flash back on Pauline Kael's slam of West Side Story and specifically how hard it allegedly tried to make its dancers athletic efforts the actual aesthetic goal, I muse that she didn't know how good she had it.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 17:49 (two years ago) link
Like, are you in the front rows? Bring a sheet of Gallagher plastic with you.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 17:55 (two years ago) link
when my girl friend bites my dick off pic.twitter.com/RuIEcY0Ddo— alison rumfitt (@hangsawoman) September 24, 2021
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Friday, 24 September 2021 21:37 (two years ago) link
I won't link because who cares, but Arm0nd's pan carries a nugget that I kind of agree with? (Taking what I presume he actually means by "universal (in fact, unified) moral sensibility" out of the discussion.)
Transferring a Broadway show to Hollywood was traditionally the convention of a cohesive society — when a showfolk subculture spoke through a universal (in fact, unified) moral sensibility and a film adaptation would bring that artistic expression to a larger popular audience.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Friday, 24 September 2021 23:06 (two years ago) link