since there's no movie version, alas.
There is the version PBS broadcast lo these many years ago.
The next time you decide to stab me in the back... have the guts to do it to my face.
Mal ,'Ariel'
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juliana - Dec 05, 2005 10:53:44 am PST #8922 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Gris - Dec 05, 2005 10:56:20 am PST #8923 of 10002
Hey. New board.
Which is actually available on DVD. Original cast, on a stage, and all, right? I have it. It's fabulous. Available for several of the Sondheim musicals. I have Sweeney Todd, too (though I haven't watched it yet), and Sunday in the Park with George is on my wishlist for this holiday.
DebetEsse - Dec 05, 2005 10:58:46 am PST #8924 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I need to see Sweeney and George. I adore Into the Woods. With that one, I think there are defiantely effects you get from the music that you'd be hard-pressed to convey without. Which sort of makes sense, as there is that larger-than-life-ness about the whole thing (however human the characters may be)
sumi - Dec 05, 2005 11:02:39 am PST #8925 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
The 1938 version of Pygmalian is available on dvd. . . a Criterion edition.
Strega - Dec 05, 2005 11:08:56 am PST #8926 of 10002
When I was in high school, friend A had a copy of Into the Woods on videotape. He went to friend B's house (which was the communal hangout) and started to watch it. When he got to the end of act 1, he thought it was over. So he stopped the VCR off and went to do other things.
Friend B came home later and found a tape in his VCR all cued up. He watched act 2, without knowing there'd been an act 1.
Later, friend A and friend B had a very confusing conversation, because they agreed that they'd both liked this musical, but they had very different ideas about what had happened in it.
Gris - Dec 05, 2005 11:13:25 am PST #8927 of 10002
Hey. New board.
Heh. Yeah, that would happen. My high school actually did a performance of just the first act that went quite swimmingly. Convinced me to check out the whole thing - before that, Sondheim was a name to me, not a god.
ETA Re: Sweeney
I intend to see the new production of Sweeney (which has been getting some seriously RAVE reviews) early next year. I'm very, very excited.
DebetEsse - Dec 05, 2005 11:50:35 am PST #8928 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I don't really get just doing Act 1. It does kinda seem to be missing the point...
Katie M - Dec 05, 2005 11:57:49 am PST #8929 of 10002
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Sure, it misses the point of the musical, but it could be a complete story in and of itself--just a less complex one.
Aims - Dec 05, 2005 12:02:00 pm PST #8930 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
True.
What's even funnier is my sister's high school doing Pippen , but taking all the sex and drugs out.
It was 15 minutes long.
Trudy Booth - Dec 05, 2005 12:06:57 pm PST #8931 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I know a HS that is doing Footloose.
I've never seen the musical. Does it leave in the "I'm not even a VIRGIN, Daddy" thing?