about BKLYN's saturday eve show.
about BKLYN's saturday eve show.
#0about BKLYN's saturday eve show.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 12:18pm
Romelda Benjamin learned the show in 4 hours. She performed with a script in hand. Julie Reiber the swing stepped in to do all of the set and prop moves. Two of the most professional actors I've ever seen.
Together they helped save an evening of live theater. I am in awe of their abilities.
BROADWAYFAN3
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#1re: about BKLYN's saturday eve show.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 12:25pmThe show must go on., The actors in BKLYN are fantastic. way to go.
#2re: about BKLYN's saturday eve show.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 12:29pmwow, props to them.
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#3re: about BKLYN's saturday eve show.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 12:32pmWould have been interesting to see. That girl better be getting one heavy paycheck!
#4re: about BKLYN's saturday eve show.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 12:43pm
yea that must have been interesting..
ohh script in hand, that's rough but commendable that she was able to go on and bascically save them.
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but all she really dreams is to make someone
else feel the way she did when she first saw a dancer.
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#5re: about BKLYN's saturday eve show.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 12:44pmI loved Ramona's performance and would have felt bad missing her, but it sounds as if the show was amazing last night---a true Broadway experience!!
ponine24601
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
#6re: about BKLYN's saturday eve show.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 12:46pmi was there last night as well. i thought that romelda was wonderful. it takes guts to go up there on stage barely knowing the show. it was still amazing. good for her. julie as well.
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#7re: about BKLYN's saturday eve show.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 12:46pm
The show must go on! :)
This show how terrific the BKLYN cast is.
#8re: about BKLYN's saturday eve show.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 12:54pmSo who of the regular cast WAS on? Julie went on for Eden, Ramona was out AND Kevin is still gone?
#10re: about BKLYN's saturday eve show.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 1:01pmThat was quick.
TxTwoStep
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/24/03
#11re: about BKLYN's saturday eve show.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:09pmbut Eden was out? why wasn't Sara on?!?!?
Will: They don't give out awards for helping people be gay... unless you count the Tonys.
"I guarantee that we'll have tough
times. I guarantee that at some point
one or both of us will want to get out.
But I also guarantee that if I don't
ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for
the rest of my life..."
BWayBoy88
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/04
#12re: about BKLYN's saturday eve show.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:09pmMaybe I missed something, but why didnt the understudy know the part? Isn't her job to know the part and be ready to go on?
#13re: about BKLYN's saturday eve show.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:10pmI thought Eden was on. Didn't someone say she came out to explain what the deal was?
TxTwoStep
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/24/03
#14re: about BKLYN's saturday eve show.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:18pmi hope she was on. i sent my niece to that show last night (she's on a NYC field trip).
Will: They don't give out awards for helping people be gay... unless you count the Tonys.
"I guarantee that we'll have tough
times. I guarantee that at some point
one or both of us will want to get out.
But I also guarantee that if I don't
ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for
the rest of my life..."
#15re: about BKLYN's saturday eve show.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:21pm
"Maybe I missed something, but why didnt the understudy know the part? Isn't her job to know the part and be ready to go on? "
The u/s for Paradice was sick too, so they got Romelda (who was an u/s in Denver that never went on) to play her.
http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/5667
#16re: about BKLYN's saturday eve show.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:24pm
"Maybe I missed something, but why didnt the understudy know the part? Isn't her job to know the part and be ready to go on? "
The producers realized that the only way they can keep this show running was to keep cutting costs and only giving Ramona one understudy. If you take shortcuts, eventually it comes back to bite you. The missed revenue for the matinee is gonna hurt them.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
TxTwoStep
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/24/03
#17re: about BKLYN's saturday eve show.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:25pmmaybe, maybe not...the sitch is getting A LOT of press, for free...
Will: They don't give out awards for helping people be gay... unless you count the Tonys.
"I guarantee that we'll have tough
times. I guarantee that at some point
one or both of us will want to get out.
But I also guarantee that if I don't
ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for
the rest of my life..."
#18re: about BKLYN's saturday eve show.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:33pmWow, bklyn really is amazing...I just hate those who diss it. This shoes how much everyone on the bklyn team has broadway in there heart.
"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999
#19re: about BKLYN's saturday eve show.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:36pm
Yea, emo geek you're so right - their heart is just so full.
Give me a break.
You do not send an understudy onstage with a script in her hand. It's abominable - the performance should have been canceled if they're too cheap to have more than one understudy. If I were in that audience, I would have demanded a refund if one of the actor's onstage had a script in her hand. PLEASE.
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Updated On: 2/20/05 at 03:36 PM
#20re: about BKLYN's saturday eve show.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:39pmwell, they know people are traveling from far and wide to see Bklyn, and they alrady let down a sold out performance once...they wanted to go with the famouse saying: The show must go on.
"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999
#21re: about BKLYN's saturday eve show.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:41pm
They did not have Broadway in their heart.
They have money on their mind.
They were too cheap to hire another understudy for Ramona.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
TheGaIsSilent
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/25/04
#22re: about BKLYN's saturday eve show.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:41pm
1) Eden was on last night.
2) munk, apparently the producers offered everyone in the sold out audience tickets to see the show again.
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#23re: about BKLYN's saturday eve show.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:43pm
"offered everyone in the sold out audience tickets to see the show again."
That's not surprising because they have been papering the audience like mad anyway. This was just a more effiecient way to do it. a bet at least 1/3 of that audience were brought in by papering in the first place.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#24re: about BKLYN's saturday eve show.
Posted: 2/20/05 at 3:44pmyeah, and I don't call it too cheap. They are new to broadway. I bet you know they are setting up for more understudies.
"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999
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