Any Broadway fans out there?

iserlohn · Post by **iserlohn** » Thu May 29, 2003 7:02 pm

I'm a huge theatre geek, have a bunch of official CDs as well as a good stack of audio and video bootlegs (handy when shows get retooled or close...). Some of my favorite shows are Hedwig and the Angry Inch (stage version), Cabaret (new version), Forbidden Broadway (all incarnations), The Who's Tommy, Hairspray, and Linie 1 (a German musical that I've never seen but have most of the songs from...anyone in Germany want to make me a copy of the movie or pick up the script in Berlin for me?).

Some shows that I've only gotten to see on bootleg but would love to see in person:
Ragtime, tick, tick...BOOM! (would rather see as a concert but whatever)

Shows I've seen the most times live:
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (7 times)
RENT (4 times)

Shows I've got the most recordings of:
Joseph (I lost count, but I've got all the major US productions legit recordings, the swedish and hungarian editions (still need the German) as well as at least 15 bootlegs...Deborah Gibson is KILLER as the narrator)
RENT (US and German legit, stack o bootlegs both audio and video)

Shows I'd like to be in most:
Man of La Mancha (the Barber)
The Who's Tommy (Cousin Kevin)
Hairspray (Corny)
RENT (Mark)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Hedwig)

Well, I can dream...

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Fri May 30, 2003 11:06 am

BishounenStalker wrote:En bien, raise your berets
Toooooooooo
Those Caaaaaanaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaays!

Hehehe. That song was the show-stopper for us. The applause we got...

I was a brother, but I also doubled as Potiphar. Had hottie egyptian slave girls doing my nails and giving me a shoulder massage onstage... those were the days. Then I caught Joseph with Ms. Potiphar. I think during the first show as I'm dragging him off of this 10-foot-tall platform to the stage, his loincloth falls off... was v. bad.

iserlohn · Post by **iserlohn** » Sat May 31, 2003 10:49 am

I always found Those Canaan Days quite annoying, especially in the newer versions of the show where it's been padded to twice its original length. Hell, most of the show's been padded, just look at Song of the King (originally sung through once, sung through twice in full during the 1991-1996 productions, and still sung through 1.5 times during the 99-2001 tours.)

The little dance after One More Angel is more tolerable, but it doesn't change the fact that I've only seen *ONE* production where the guy playing Reuben did it right (as in hit every note, all the emotions, etc.)

re: my favorite song in Joseph, it's either the prologue or Pharoah Story. Same tune, different words, and usually the best part of the show if the narrator's on (and hearing it sung by the Little Mermaid is definately cool.) Strange as it seems...