Calli, I'm having the same reaction you are.
Willow, check you out! Witch-Fu!
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Steph L. - Jan 03, 2015 10:34:59 am PST #28189 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
quester - Jan 03, 2015 10:43:56 am PST #28190 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I never got the Into the Woods love. I never have listened to the music, so I'm finding myself reluctant to see it.
Gris - Jan 03, 2015 11:52:29 am PST #28191 of 30000
Hey. New board.
I really do think it is worth it, though perfect it is not. I am significantly more satisfied than I was with Les Miz and Sweeney Todd, and I thought those were both worth it too.
Dana - Jan 03, 2015 11:59:10 am PST #28192 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
It's so much better than Sweeney Todd, which I was not happy with.
Tom Scola - Jan 03, 2015 12:04:01 pm PST #28193 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Holy crap. Nothing Lasts Forever made in 1984 but never released, is on TCM tonight. The film, by SNL’s Tom Schiller, is definitely worth checking out.
Hil R. - Jan 03, 2015 12:40:05 pm PST #28194 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I loved Les Mis, if I could mentally recast Javert. I thought Into the Woods was entertaining, but I missed a lot of the stuff they cut, and I disagreed with a lot of the choices made of how to stage things, and there are several casting choices I didn't like. Sweeney Todd, I thought was OK, but I haven't really had any urge to see it again after seeing it once.
Dana - Jan 03, 2015 12:40:59 pm PST #28195 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Sweeney Todd's more vocally challenging than Into the Woods, and they didn't cast fucking singers.
Gris - Jan 03, 2015 2:58:43 pm PST #28196 of 30000
Hey. New board.
I liked every single casting choice in Into the Woods, but did not really like anybody in Les Mis except Ann Hathaway. Different strokes.
Jessica - Jan 03, 2015 3:30:16 pm PST #28197 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I feel like the Les Miz movie got that show in a way that neither of the recent Sondheim adaptations have. Both Sweeney and ITW drained most of the humor out of two very very funny shows (and as a result neither felt to me like they'd earned their crypoints).
I also thought the ITW production design was lazy as fuck. "The woods are just trees" is not meant to be a suggestion for the location scout.
Consuela - Jan 03, 2015 7:30:38 pm PST #28198 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I just got out. I liked it well enough, and thought the staging of Agony was hysterical. The casting (Depp aside) was quite good, although I missed Bernadette Peters. Emily Blunt was very good.
Definitely missed Agony reprise and No More. The line about your thing about dwarfs/dwarfs are very upsetting is one of my very favorite in any play, so I was sad to lose that.
But my niece and my father both really enjoyed it, without knowing the play, so I can't say it wasn't a success.