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HELLO people REX , SPIDERMAN, ANYONE CAN WHISTLE , IS ANYBODY THERE, well that was a nice song from 1776.
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Feb 11, 2013 - 8:29 PM
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dan the man
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The whole history of theatre and you guys and girls can't keep this on the board can you just imagine if a thread was called SOUNDTRACK TALK, and it would vanish, There are thousand's and thousand's of things to discuss about theatre BROADWAY OFF BROADWAY WEST END ETC ETC. I get it, your all at the theatre now so no one can comment, Anyway my line producer on a few films of mine who was also an actor who was the lead in EQUS [OFF BROADWAY] ALSO WAS IN FILMS LIKE ROBOT HOLOCAUST , BREEDERS, CHUD etc etc etc, had A DEEP INTEREST IN CHRISTINE LAHTI, she was in a play on BROADWAY BACK IN THE LATE 80'S and many a night when he had free time in his busy life, he would wait outside the stage door and try to get to talk to her. Actually give her a screenplay he wrote called LITTLE DEBBIE'S[YES we talked to the minister who owned that cake brand to get the rights to the character.]the screenplay was based around the cake's character, He wanted CHRISTINE to play LITTLE DEBBIE'S MOTHER.I THINK HE FINALLY GOT TO HER THROUGH HER AGENT, BUT THE FILM NEVER CAME THROUGH.I personally never cared for those cakes.but i would have ate a million of them if the film got made and was a hit.
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I have plenty to say about theater. For example, the pretentious way it's spelled in the thread's title. Seriously, though, I have been going to and performing in theatrical productions, since the 1950s. There is too much to say. If someone mentions a production I saw, I'll add my 2 cents.
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ANYONE CAN WHISTLE-Anyone here ever see it.?.I love the simple sweet main title song, so nice and melancholy, it always touched me, any comments?
Without question, the worst thing I ever experienced. It was absolutely horrible. It had only one moment and that was Lee Remick performing the title tune. I've never seen a show that was so, universally hated by its audience. People booed and walked-out, multiple times. It did have some really good choreography, however. I saw it in previews in Philadelphia, so I have no idea what played in New York. Given that it was a tremendous bomb, I imagine the same crap we saw. The only other show that I recall being as bad (also seen in previews in Philadelphia), was THE WIZ. Given its great success on Broadway, I can only imagine they made lots of changes. It was horrid, in Philadelphia. Like ANYONE CAN WHISTLE, Not something I would even consider seeing again.
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Well, when I saw a tryout of COMPANY in Boston, audiences were likewise walking out. Elaine Stritch was possibly drunk, kind of slurry, and the conductor was cueing her on "The Ladies Who Lunch," and Bobby met a pretty blonde woman in a sheepskin coat at the top of the Empire State Building at the end....
And lots of people were walking out, particularly during the second act, which was interminable.
I bet ANYONE CAN WHISTLE would do well in colleges and high schools. They love to glorify crazy people...
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Well, when I saw a tryout of COMPANY in Boston, audiences were likewise walking out. Elaine Stritch was possibly drunk, kind of slurry, and the conductor was cueing her on "The Ladies Who Lunch," and Bobby met a pretty blonde woman in a sheepskin coat at the top of the Empire State Building at the end....
And lots of people were walking out, particularly during the second act, which was interminable.
I bet ANYONE CAN WHISTLE would do well in colleges and high schools. They love to glorify crazy people...
I kind of found COMPANY interminable when I saw it in NY. Hate the show. Being in it, didn't change my mind about it. I dislike all Sondheim shows, with the exception of FOLLIES (the original, only), which I loved. I kind of liked EVENING PRIMROSE, when it originally aired. However, that had more to do with the fact that it was the very first thing I watched on the color television I had purchased for my bedroom.
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TO PHILLY SON- Didn't you find anything in STEPHEN SONDHEIM'S career you did like?
Yes. I said so, 2 posts above.
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