My apologies for not posting earlier this week - am currently in the midst of a mire of law firm interviews for what will hopefully be a summer associate position next summer. So, let's go over the significant theater stuff...
-Hunter Foster in the Off-Broadway FRANKENSTEIN? This actually brings some credibility to the enterprise, which I understand is a Frank Wildhorn style project being produced Off-Broadway in an attempt to cash in on the popularity of YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.
-A MTC revival of COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA - what is this being done in place of? Are they still set on doing CLOUD 9, which probably be a far more interesting production?
-Fringe goes on..... I've attended two shows as far, BUKOWSICAL and THE WINTER'S TALE PROJECT. Neither was great, but each showed some promise, a tad of commercial potential, and a hard-working non-equity cast. I'm not sure if I have the stomach to endure many more, but since it's going on for another nine days or so, I'm sure I'll catch a few more productions here and there.
-As I write this, I've watched about 15 minutes of HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2. Now while I might not love HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL as much as my sister, or millions of other young teens, it's a very likeable property that keeps alive the young teen spirit of musical theater also found in GREASE, BYE BYE BIRDIE, ANNIE and so on. Nothing wrong with that. No complaints.
I went back to RENT last night. I've seen the show probably ten times over the past nine years, but had never seen Adam and Anthony as Mark and Roger. Surrounding me in the sold-out theater were tons of teens who had obviously not seen them either. But just like them, I grew up listening to their voices on the original cast recording. And I remembered how though I had seen the show before, even when I had, I could still hear the voices of Adam and Anthony cause I had listened to the CD so often. So, to finally see/hear them live was plain surreal. And not only did they still look young in the roles, their voices sound better now than before.
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Never seen Grease on concert, I was not going to see it, Grease tickets got sky rocked thanks to stupid brokers. But even if I had seen it, I wouldn't buy it. I'd rather wait and see it on DVD. Well suprise I changed my mind and I got 2 tix for the Grease show I was looking for tickets thanks god there sites like Ticketwood which work as comparators here is the site
Grease Tickets http://www.ticketwood.com/theater/Grease-Tickets/index.php . So any body going to the Grease concert ??