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re: Most overdone audition songs right now
 Dec 17 2008, 12:02:54 PM
Hmm there's some obvious ones to avoid - Les Mis, Phantom, Cats is still overdone, JCS, Joseph, Miss Saigon, Grease, Blood Brothers (at least in the UK), Jekyll & Hyde, Maria (WSS), Cabaret, Anthem (Chess), Fame & Out Here On My Own (Fame), Hairspray, Wicked, ACL, Rent, Disney, Showboat, Sunset Boulevard, Summertime (Porgy), Kiss of the Spider Woman, Oklahoma, Adelaide's Lament (G & D).... and more...

Songs For A New World is the most overdone of JRB, but his other work is quite popular

re: And The Director Of Wicked (Movie) Will Be...
 Nov 27 2008, 01:49:34 PM
I am excited if this is true, but more perturbed about the horrendous typo on the Australia poster on the other page. "The director of Moulin Rogue?!" I thought it was Moulin rouge...
re: Sherie Renee Scoot leaves Little Mermaid
 Nov 25 2008, 05:11:32 PM
That clip from broadway.com is beyond funny. I think I'm in love with her, her sarcasm, her wit, she's just not scared to not be Disney-nice to everyone.

"It's the only thing that hasn't been in fashion... a giant Ass". I love her.

Also, at the beginning when she's like, "Yay, a camera filming me, just what I want at 10am before a two show day".

re: Legally Blonde Tour photos
 Oct 17 2008, 04:56:40 PM
The photos look really good, so glad to see Coleen Sexton not understudying, though she deserves a bigger role. And she looks in better shape than she did in 2001, a la Jekyll & Hyde. She looks awesome.
re: Brittney Spears and Broadway? OH NO!
 Oct 7 2008, 06:19:19 AM
She was rumoured in one of the newspapers in the UK to be going into the West End in a Streetcar Named Desire revival. I'm a (not so secret) britney fan, and it would be hilarious to see her on Broadway. If you search some of her (really old) videos as a kid, she had quite a voice on her, but she nearly always mimes nowadays. Who knows if she still has got a voice.
re: What is the next long running show to close?
 Jun 28 2008, 07:06:43 PM
I do kind of wish Phantom would close. Tired, much?

Also, in response to some stuff about Anne Hathaway... I read that she accepted Phantom but then had to pull out at the last minute because she was contractually obliged to do the Princess Diaries sequel, which she reportedly hated doing.

re: I Don't Care What Anyone Says, I Love...
 Jun 4 2008, 10:39:41 AM
Footloose (the UK production)
The Wedding Singer
Legally Blonde
All of Frank Wildhorn
The Little Mermaid. Most Disney in fact.
I'm unashamed to admit that I do like some ALW also... though Cats is not in that list. Namely Evita, JCS and Phantom.
Wicked?
And these above musicals I probably listen to more than some of the ones that are praised consistantly on this board that I do enjoy but probably only talk about so people think I like good theatre! hahaha

re: What is your LEAST favorite musical ever?
 May 20 2008, 01:21:30 PM
Surprised no one has said Jekyll & Hyde yet... I like it, but it's usually an unpopular one.

For me? Grease. and Cats. Ugh.

re: Beauty and the Beast vs. The Scarlet Pimpernel (March Madness, Round 3,
 Mar 25 2008, 03:49:07 PM
Beauty & The Beast. Though I love Pimpernel.
re: Jekyll & Hyde vs. The Life (March Madness, Round 2, game 15)
 Mar 25 2008, 03:47:11 PM
Jekyll & Hyde
re: Stephanie J Block to be replaced by Kerry Ellis in WICKED this summer
 Mar 2 2008, 04:24:23 PM
I want Coleen Sexton to be Elphaba on Broadway. Well I'd prefer West End 'cos that's where I am...:P.

You guys are lucky to be having Kerry Ellis, she's bloody good..:)

re: biggest mistake you've witnessed on stage.
 Feb 13 2008, 05:33:19 PM
Not really a huge mistake but whatever!

I saw Wicked in London about a month into Idina's run and it was the scene where Elphaba makes Nessa's chair move etc and i can't remember the lead up to the line but one of the students says to Galinda, "You should say something!" which instead of being answered, there was (literally) over a ten second pause before Helen Dallimore realised and said, "...Should I?". Blondes... :P

re: A Stylized HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL? Help!
 Jan 29 2008, 12:42:08 PM
I agree with JoeKv99 - people want to see a more or less direct transfer. Your audience (a lot of young children) won't appreciate their favourite film being completely changed, I doubt.
re: Adam Pascal on the closing
 Jan 19 2008, 12:50:52 PM
Well he put it perfectly, to be quite honest.

I love the show, and wish I live in New York (and not the UK) so that I could have seen a decent production of it (Not Rent Remixed, thankyou), before it closed.

It's a shame it's kind of fizzling out, a show like that should have gone on a high. Maybe they'll surprise us...


re: You think there should be a Little Shop Of Horrors revival?
 Jan 19 2008, 12:48:33 PM
The production last year in London was excellent. I saw it before it transferred to the West End, at the Menier Chocolate Factory, and the setting and intimacy of the venue was perfect. The show was faithful to the original incarnations - none of the script was changed, but the humour was updated and the actors were so talented that they incorporated excellent character traits and funny bits that aren't in the stage directions. It didn't run for long enough, in my opinion.

Little Shop

re: Ashford and Block Set to Play Wicked's Witches
 Aug 28 2007, 09:39:58 AM
If CHGriffiths is right about Block coming to London, I shall be a very happy man :)
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