Oooh! I love musicals! I’ve got Sound of Music and Cats on Video, seen a Swedish rendition (surprisingly good) of Jesus Christ Superstar a couple of times. I also own CDs with a collection of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s best stuff, as well as Phantom of the Opera and Chess. If you haven’t seen or heard anything from Chess, you really need to. It’s got some hilarious stuff within the heartbreak story. Just take Molokov the CIA agent’s grand number during the opening ceremony:
It’s the U.S versus U.S.S.R
Yet we more or less are
(Diplomats: No one can deny that these are difficult times…)
to our predict putting all that aside
We have swallowed our pride
(These are very difficult and dangerous times…)
It really doesn’t matter who comes out on top, who gets the chop
No one’s way of life is threathened by a flop…
But we’re gonna smash their bastard!
Make him wanna change his name
Take him to the cleaners and devastate him
wipe him out, humiliate him!
We don’t want the whole world saying:
“They can’t even win a GAME!”
We have never reckoned
on coming second,
there’s no use in loosing
And all that, mind you, because of the world championship in chess, between the master from America and the master from Russia. Neat. ^^;;
Originally posted by Weiila
[b] If you haven’t seen or heard anything from Chess, you really need to. It’s got some hilarious stuff within the heartbreak story. Just take Molokov the CIA agent’s grand number during the opening ceremony:
It’s the U.S versus U.S.S.R
Yet we more or less are
(Diplomats: No one can deny that these are difficult times…)
to our predict putting all that aside
We have swallowed our pride
(These are very difficult and dangerous times…)
It really doesn’t matter who comes out on top, who gets the chop
No one’s way of life is threathened by a flop…
But we’re gonna smash their bastard!
Make him wanna change his name
Take him to the cleaners and devastate him
wipe him out, humiliate him!
We don’t want the whole world saying:
“They can’t even win a GAME!”
We have never reckoned
on coming second,
there’s no use in loosing
And all that, mind you, because of the world championship in chess, between the master from America and the master from Russia. Neat. ^^;; [/b]
I actually went to see that being performed. It was cool. I particulary liked the ‘The Soviet Machine’ number.
My school did a very excellent musical on “Guys and Dolls” Very big event. I think it brought in quite a few thousand dollars (and we have a tiny school compared to many). I liked Guys and Dolls. Very good and what the school did I think would be worthy of Broadway.
Eh, I don’t care much for musicals. I did like Paint your Wagon, but that was solely a movie musical; from what I heard, it was never made into a play.
I don’t have a great love of musicals. I find them boring. Sure, there are some good ones, but they’re nothing spectacular to me.
Question: Do you have to have a big ego to become an actor, or does the big ego develop when you become one (regardless of skill)?
You need an ego of some sort, to be willing to go out and perform, but you don’t need a big ego. Some of the best actors I personally know have the smallest egos.
Originally posted by d Galloway Eh, I don’t care much for musicals. I did like Paint your Wagon, but that was solely a movie musical; from what I heard, it was never made into a play.
Whoa that was a real musical?? I remember that on The Simpsons… “Gonna paint a wagon, gonna paint it good. Gonna use oil-based paint, cause the wood is pine.”
Actually, I’m pretty sure it <i>is</i> real. Anyway, I’ve seen Cats before … It was pretty good, considering that just about <i>every single freakin’ word</i> was taken from “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” by, I think it was, T.H. White …
I ARE LIKING CATS OF WELL AS.
Yah, I liked watching Cats! Nee~! =^.^=
Not when you were still part of <i>me</i>, you didn’t!
I see the language lessons haven’t had much of an effect yet.
We don’t really have an equivalent to Broadway here. Closest thing we have is Manchester, which only runs a few at any one time. We don’t get many of the big-name production companies either. That’s changing, but we still don’t get enough.