Posted on 12/17/2012 9:31:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I still can’t see how you can make a musical about a very sad story.
Loved the movie back when!
Thank you! I can’t remember who played the lead in the Boston production, but I was so mightily impressed that I saved everything from the night, including the cocktail napkin from the upscale bar situated conveniently nearby. Just a great experience for me, that play.
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I wouldn’t put it past a Hollywood stage version to inject
a same-sex marriage scene in there somewhere.
Please tell me I’m wrong.
Nope. I saw the first two as a child and while the filming was spectacular, I can’t stand singing in a movie.
***I hate musicals.***
Ever see the movie SONG OF NORWAY? Absolutely the worst musical I’ve ever seen. worse than SOUND OF MUSIC.
I believe the audience spent half their time looking at the beautiful scenery and the other half looking for a place to barf.
I won’t pay to see anything Anne Hathaway is in. So, I will wait to see it someday and may not, even then.
I saw the movie trailer at a theater when I went to see the excellent The Sessions. Yes, bombastic looks to be the word to describe it, if the trailer gave you a taste of what to expect. Too bad, since this show has a few of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard in a musical. I knew this guy Todd McCarthy at the U. of Chicago nearly 40 years ago!
He’s writing well, and has been working for VARIETY for a long time now!
Hoping to see it opening day
Which actually makes it sort of an indictment of the French Revolution, really.
“I still can’t see how you can make a musical about a very sad story.”
Ever heard of operas?
I will not see this movie, after having viewed a news story of Anne Hathaway’s desperate attempt to garner publicity via an unfortunate failure to clothe her nether regions, which was filmed courtesy of our ever-vigilant media during a recent exit from her limousine. If the movie is so dreadful that such tactics must be used to draw the public, I’ll pass.
Yes - however the musical is too “happy” - operas are about tragedies (well some but not all) - if they made a moody, dark, tragic opera about the book I wouldn’t have a problem with it.
I watched this too ! I loved the 1935 version. I don't see why this has to be a musical ??? The 1935 version told the story just fine....
That’s just your definition of a musical. Not a whole lot of difference between a musical & an opera.
Sorry, but it is a Brit musical - I should know - I was there on opening night at the Barbican Centre in London. The music was written by a French composer, lyrics were always in English. It starred Patti Lupone and dragged on for hours. I could not leave because Princess Margaret was drinking in the lobby (smart lady!) and security would not let us leave the building. It was produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company of Great Britain.
P.S. West Side Story has gangs and fighting. It’s a musical.
Saw it in London too, though not opening night. Absolutely loved it - have the CD, DVD, and can’t wait to see the movie.
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