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rockfenris2005 09:09 am UTC 03/15/11 |
| In reply to: | re: Hopefully Not Lost But Sad About Ray Errol Fox - steven_stuart 12:32 am UTC 03/15/11 |
> > > Are there You Tube clips of these two productions? > > > > There's nothing, as far as I know. I once saw the poster > > for the cabaret version on eBay and I wish that I had > > bought it... !!! > > Oh. Was there footage available at one point? Footage of what, the original cabaret version or Smeghead's production? You must > have seen Smeghead's production because you were able to > comment on it but you made no comment about the 1986 > production. Was it any good? BTW, how much was the poster? > I never saw it. But I did hear the live recording that he posted on his website. > > Yes, the VHS is from the 1986 production. The album is not > > the original cast. It's more of a concept album. The songs > > were cast instead of the characters. > > Oh right. Did you read that part of an Amazon review I > posted where someone seems to be complaining about that? > I don't think I saw that, no. But I didn't have a problem with it. I liked that there were a lot of different singers involved. > > Andre De Shields > > I love that guy. Even though I have only ever seen him > playing Hook for the "BOOH" reading. Unfortunately, none > of the performers sang. They just played the album tracks > with new videos. Is he a great singer? What character did > he play in "Rhinegold"? I will reread the script with him > in mind. I love him for his acting. He made Hook's > dialogue sound like Shakespeare. He was particularly > brilliant at Jim's speeches. I believe that he played Albereech, the Nibelung who steals the Rhinegold. > > > The arrangements on the album were based on the original > > orchestrations that Steve Margoshes wrote for the Queen's > > College production. > > You have said before that Steve is a genius. I love all of his work that I've heard. I think you > said that nobody understands how to mix rock and classical > better than him. > > > Has > > > there only beeen a VHS release from the Queen's College > > > production? > > > > No, there hasn't. > > What other VHS releases were there? Anything on DVD? Nothing that has been professionally released. There are a lot of videos of "Tanz" and "Dance" and the videos of the two original productions of "Whistle down the Wind", and this "Confidence Man" VHS that is now being discussed. Beyond that, I don't know. > > > > Why was it cancelled by Papp? > > > > He kept taking all the leads for his other productions and > > finally he said to them he was cancelling the show. I'm > > amazed that he gave Jim the opportunity in the first place > > considering how well "More than you deserve" did... > > Hee hee. I can just see Jim stealing all the leads. Oh, sorry. Joe was the one stealing all the leads. It > sort of reminds me of Meat Loaf's memory of "More Than You > Deserve" when Meat said that Jim hired six choreographers > without telling anyone and he had originally been hired > just to write two songs for a "play". I'm not sure if Meat Loaf's memory is correct. From what Michael Weller said in a letter, he'd written it as a musical and he was searching for a composer. Somebody recommended Jim and he got the job. I don't think it was a play with two songs that was later turned into a musical, although Michael Weller wrote a lot of plays. Meat Loaf and Michael's stories differ, and I don't think either of them would lie. It's a bit confusing. The musical was actually originally called "Souvenirs", according to Michael, but they changed it to "More than you deserve", which was a song that Jim had written previously and incorporated it into the score because he wanted Meat Loaf to have a song. And, of course, the reaction to that song made history and it seems to be the only performance that people remember, because of how famous Meat Loaf is. I think this is a shame, actually. I wasn't all that moved by Meat Loaf's performance when I listened to the bootleg (But this is probably because I'm so used to him. Imagine if he had never been famous. I would have been impressed, for sure.) But I was more moved by Fred Gwynne's performance in the song "If only..." > > > It was a flop. It lasted 63 performances but it was a > > flop. > > 63 isn't bad. If you take into account some of the things > that Meat Loaf and Paul Shaffer have said about it. It actually ran longer than "Dance of the Vampires" on Broadway so technically, previews aside, it is the longest running Steinman musical in New York. I don't think "Kid Champion" ran as long but I could be wrong. Random trivia: Both Paul Shaffer and LaChanze, Steinman "alumni", were in Disney's Hercules, which incidentally featured designs by Gerald Scarfe. I thought I'd mention that since I just watched the DVD :-) | |
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