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Jun 27, 2013 - 9:53 AM
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CH-CD
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Interesting to read that MISS SAIGON will return in a new production at Prince Edward Theatre in the West End next year featuring a new song.
I've seen the show a few times, always enjoyed Act 1 but Act 2 just seems to drag and fizzle out. An average score, too many songs sound alike and go nowhere. Still, hopefully I'll get to see this new production.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22974584
Can't believe they're bringing this show back so soon ? I think the only reason it ran so long first time around was that Cameron Macintosh could afford to keep it running at Drury Lane just long enough to beat "My Fair Lady"'s record run there.
Saw it twice but never liked it.
A musical "by the numbers"......."We had this bit in "Les Mis", so, we need this bit here, and we need another bit here, and, instead of a barricade, how about a helicopter?....", etc.
Both times I came out whistling "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" and "Tangerine" !
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Jun 27, 2013 - 4:49 PM
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Ralph
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I don't know lots of people!
Are we to assume that this is you with Betty Buckley?
Like her too. Thought she was robbed of screen time and the audience’s pleasure by the way Robert Duvall hogged “Tender Mercies.” In an interview with the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service back when the movie was released, he made some outrageous comments — the unsoundest brag being “I’m better than Olivier.” Referring to his function as producer, he peacocked, “If I can’t get things my way, I’ll do anything to get it. It’s all for the good of the film.” Explains why Buckley, playing a country singer and his ex-wife, is so ungenerously served by the editing. When she arrives and sings “Best Bedroom in Town” and “Over You,” this dud ego trip starts clicking, the audience gets a lift from the doldrums. If she’s only a slight bit country in her Loretta Lynn hair and a lot of Broadway belting out the numbers, we get enough of her very satisfying whaling to get really pissed off when we don’t get more. As an obvious ploy to prevent her from stealing the proceedings, Duvall edited himself into her singing; he doesn’t even allow her the decency to finish “Over You.” He might still be deluding himself in believing he’s better than Olivier, but in robbing others of their due he became the embodiment of the title of the song he sings and heard throughout the movie: “It Hurts to Face Reality.”
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Didn't anyone ever ask Mike Nichols to make a movie out of COMPANY? He would've been perfect.
And what about the busy signal at the start of the show. Didn't they take that out because audiences didn't know what the sound was supposed to be?
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