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Post by GreenEyesToo on Oct 23, 2007 19:23:41 GMT
boy you all REALLY hate musicals don't you? I don't hate them, Uncorked - but I haven't seen any on stage in a while. I've seen: 42nd Street (with a very young Catherine Zeta Jones, who was extremely good) La Cage Aux Folles Me and My Girl Are You Lonesome Tonight? (and others in London) Kiss Me Kate Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Evita Grease (and others in touring productions) As you can see, it's the lighter type of musical that I like.
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Post by magicallife on Oct 23, 2007 19:32:24 GMT
Maxx, you must be in the film or theater business IRL, eh? I really enjoy your posts. You don't like Paul Giamatti? Even in "The Hawk is Dying?" That was a sad, depressing movie, but I enjoyed watching Paul.
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Post by uncorked on Oct 23, 2007 19:44:19 GMT
Yes ---what is it exactly that you do IRL inquiring minds want to know. I as well enjoy your posts
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Post by maxx02 on Oct 26, 2007 11:12:31 GMT
Maxx, you must be in the film or theater business IRL, eh? I really enjoy your posts. You don't like Paul Giamatti? Even in "The Hawk is Dying?" That was a sad, depressing movie, but I enjoyed watching Paul. I haven't seen The Hawk is Dying, but I haven't seen him in anything to date where I saw much in him. He fairly regularly hammers the same nail and to me quirky nerd or buddy detective/manager/hit man is not an interesting role. He seems to ascribe to the "get up, hit your mark, say your lines" method of acting. Which might make him interesting if you like him as a human being but it makes him pretty dull if don't. I'll confess, to me you have to either have ordinary people doing extraordinary things or you have to have extraordinary people doing ordinary things. Hollywood can't seem to get that together these days. More often that not they have really dull ordinary people doing really dull ordinary things. And you walk out of the theater unable to remember what you saw 10 minutes before. Paul Giamatti seems to end up in quite a few of those pictures. My bell whether is did that person leave an impression on me. Did I come away thinking about what they were trying to tell me? By that standard there are an awful lot of very poor actors out there. Hollywood makes a gorgeous picture like The Black Dahlia and then ruins it with the dullest most inept casting imaginable. Then they say, no one has any interest in those films rather than saying, we made a bad picture--no one has any interest in bad pictures. There are days when I wish for the old studio system. At least someone would take these people in hand and make them better instead of the same dead dull bad performance picture after picture. In those days Paul Giamatti would have honed his craft and become a very good character actor. These days someone is under the impression he's somehow star material which just doesn't work. Not because of his looks but because whatever that indefinable "it" quality is, he doesn't have it. But I'm not sure Hollywood is even capable of recognizing it anymore. 23 year old accounts are running the motion picture business and they know nothing about making movies. The frayed edges are beginning to to tell when your biggest grossing picture of the weekend is a slasher vampire film. Anyway, that's my "FWIW".
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Post by ukelelehip on Oct 26, 2007 21:43:40 GMT
I don't much care for musicals but I would kill to have seen Tom Hollander in The Threepenny Opera. I now have my heart set on Rufus in Cats though...
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Post by herrmannka on Oct 30, 2007 12:51:50 GMT
oops. haven't visited that part of message board for a long time but now I see it was quite occupied well, i'm glad to hear all the opinions..still i think Michael Ball is a great musical singer and would be happy to see him&Rufus in one show..but that would be too perfect:)
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Post by herrmannka on Oct 30, 2007 12:59:31 GMT
just one more thing-I adore Webber's & Schönberg /Boublil's musicals and i guess Roof would be great as Phantom in Phantom of the opera with his tremendous harsh voice haunting the audience ..or another tempting offer for Ruf- to play Engineer in Miss Saigon!
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Post by Tinkerdog on Oct 30, 2007 20:55:29 GMT
Ruf as Lil Abner - what is that song? Oh Put Him Back the Way He Was.
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Post by quoll on Oct 30, 2007 22:58:06 GMT
LOL I just had a vision of Rufus playing Adam Pontipee in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Poor chap - what we would wish for him!!!
I wouldnt mind going to see Billy Elliot which has just opened in Sydney otherwise musicals sort of leave me a bit cold (I guess it must come from being spoiled by seeing the original Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews and Stanley Holloway version of My Fair Lady when I was a kid!)
I also got to see the original Hair which was rather risque for its day. One musical which I did enjoy but seems to have disappeared from everyone's memory was Ipi Tombi - we even got the sound track of that one!
I am definitely showing my age here!
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Post by herrmannka on Oct 31, 2007 11:37:25 GMT
Rufus playing in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers?? hehe-that'd be quite amusing but you're right about one thing-Rufus would be in real troubles if we were directors in London's theatres....me for example-i'm afraid I 'd make him play anything just to be able to see him every night:)
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