And let's not forget that it was back before "Superman" that we had a paradigm-busting Broadway musical version of "Romeo and Juliet." That's a wrap, John ...
Jcrwth@...
Dec 4, 2009 6:14 am
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Bill, Your points about the tv show, based on the part of the first part I watched, are well-taken. I wasn't going to watch the rest of it. The show's been...
"The Musical, imho, was geared toward the lowest denominator of Broadway audiences. The tourists. And lord knows, you have to take into consideration the...
... Point made, point taken, Conrad. I remember reading the play by Frank Wedekind wayyyyy back in grad school. Who have thought that a play from 1891 which...
Bill Smith
Bill491@...
Dec 4, 2009 12:15 am
10557
... True, but who would have ever imagined a Broadway musical from "Spring's Awakening"? I think 'Lear!!!" isn't far off. Actually, I saw "Spring Awakening"...
The Independent Eye
eye@...
Dec 4, 2009 12:06 am
10556
... David, pleased that I am that you are the first to respond. You are one of the few optimists on this group. And the muses know, this group needs voices to...
Bill Smith
Bill491@...
Dec 3, 2009 11:58 pm
10555
I wouldn't judge the musical based on the television production. The score and lyrics are pretty witty and, while maybe not top-drawer Strouse and Adams,...
Hi folks, Wanna see a really bad musical? In 1966 the musical "It's a Bird...It's a Plane....It's Superman!" debuted on Broadway. It was a flop - only running...
Bill Smith
Bill491@...
Dec 3, 2009 6:42 pm
10553
Can't see how you'd disagree. If life has exceeded the absurd then the form has no bite and becomes merely comedy. Realism is required when the world has...
Robert stated that "only strict utter realism today could possibly break through the sugar induced coma civilization is in. When life is real art can be...
I don't think that "target" is just another term for "objective." Rather, if I understand Donnellan correctly, "target" + "stakes" equals what Robert...
... under imaginary circumstances. When the "imaginary circumstances" do not correspond to "consensus reality" - let's say in something like Ionesco's The Bald...
This is a very professional, straight forward, serious attempt at a great play that, at times, presents the surface of the play and the characters quite well...
I don't think that "target" is just another term for "objective." Rather, if I understand Donnellan correctly, "target" + "stakes" equals what Robert suggests...
Actually, the usual translation of "zadacha" is objective and not task at all. Benedetti's new translation of the books hopes to replace objective with task...
May I remind those who have forgotten that the usual translation of KS's famous "zadacha" is "task," a good old English word meaning "a difficult or tedious...
Robert Ellerman quotes Gippius: "The attention of the actor when he is in a scene should be in every moment focused on a particular, correctly found,...
More Gippius. This comes from his chapter "How to Classify the Exercises? The first problem which faces an author of a collection of actor's training...
Well, Gippius just keeps getting better and better. I am beginning to think that maybe the St. Petersburg Stanislavky tradition might have been in a better...
... John, your Thanksgiving cartoon WAS truly amusing. Your theme rings a bell.... A confession: when I host Thanksgiving, I always play with tradition. Yes,...
Bill Smith
Bill491@...
Nov 26, 2009 6:16 pm
10540
... Both as an actor and also as an agent.>> Happy Thanksgiving to you too, Bill, and to all. For my "take" on turkey day, check out my cartoon: ...
Jcrwth@...
Nov 25, 2009 10:38 pm
10539
Dear folks, I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving. Hope you all get to celebrate with family and close friends. All my family members live in NY or England....
Bill Smith
Bill491@...
Nov 25, 2009 8:03 pm
10538
Fascinating spin, Norman but like all spin it fails to honestly address the qustion. No one is creating or questioning God or gods. Scholarship by its very...
I am always delighted to read the latest bulletins that dribble in on occasion from the seminaries of the Church of the Latter Day Saint Strasberg. Ever since...
There is a lovely paragraph in Gippius' book in the chapter "Inner Vision and the Mechanism of Inner Speech" which reads: "Stanislavsky demanded that for...
This looks like fun.... here's the trailer for "Me And Orson Welles." http://www.meandorsonwellesthemovie.com/us/ The film deals with Orson Welles's 1937...
Bill Smith
Bill491@...
Nov 21, 2009 9:42 pm
10534
I found this article from Hollywood Reporter fascinating. Will Ferrell tops Forbes' 'overpaid' list Shia LaBeouf cited for generating most 'bang for the buck' ...
Bill Smith
Bill491@...
Nov 19, 2009 4:33 pm
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Please see the e-mail below about the creation of a new resource based on the work of acclaimed UK theatre compnay 'Theatre Alibi'. If you are interested,...
Somers, John
J.W.Somers@...
Nov 19, 2009 1:04 pm
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Indeed! Glad you enjoyed it, I thought you would! ox anne On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Arlene Schulman ... -- "Writing has laws of perspective, of light...
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