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Post by Lucas Stark on Aug 22, 2016 16:27:14 GMT
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Post by parspy on Aug 22, 2016 17:44:45 GMT
omg I love this movie so much. I remember seeing it the same summer Moulin Rouge came out and it was just the best summer ever. MOVIE MUSICALS!!!!!!!!!!!! When JCM came back to do the part on Broadway, I DIED. As soon as he started singing,  |
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Post by klaine on Aug 22, 2016 22:23:07 GMT
this is semi-OT because i still haven't watched the movie but i intend to because seeing it on broadway made me fall in love with it. <3 i wish i had gotten to see all the hedwigs before it ended though. sad.
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Post by parspy on Aug 22, 2016 23:21:51 GMT
this is semi-OT because i still haven't watched the movie but i intend to because seeing it on broadway made me fall in love with it. <3 i wish i had gotten to see all the hedwigs before it ended though. sad. I didn't get to see all of them (I missed Andrew Rannells and Taye Diggs) but omg JCM was THE BEST!!!! It was really cool seeing the different colors the different performers brought to it. Like NPH is such a precise performer but lacked some of the bitterness that JCM brought to it. MCH was particularly fragile and brittle, there was a softness even as he was also the most physically commanding. When JCM was in it, it was a full 20-30 min longer because of all the adlibbing he did. Darren surprised me with his performance. with a particularly confrontation take, though he did read a lot younger than the other men in the role. Which ones did you see on Broadway? |
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Post by klaine on Aug 22, 2016 23:49:08 GMT
this is semi-OT because i still haven't watched the movie but i intend to because seeing it on broadway made me fall in love with it. <3 i wish i had gotten to see all the hedwigs before it ended though. sad. I didn't get to see all of them (I missed Andrew Rannells and Taye Diggs) but omg JCM was THE BEST!!!! It was really cool seeing the different colors the different performers brought to it. Like NPH is such a precise performer but lacked some of the bitterness that JCM brought to it. MCH was particularly fragile and brittle, there was a softness even as he was also the most physically commanding. When JCM was in it, it was a full 20-30 min longer because of all the adlibbing he did. Darren surprised me with his performance. with a particularly confrontation take, though he did read a lot younger than the other men in the role. Which ones did you see on Broadway? lmao my dumb ass thought this was a thread specifically for the hedwig MOVIE not the musical so ignore what i said before, i am completely on topic. whoops. i only got to see darren, but i would've loved to see jcm and mch now in retrospect.  the thing is, i specifically planned my trip around darren's hedwig dates so i could see it with my friends over the summer. i went into the show just for him and when i came out of it i was like... wait... i missed a really, REALLY good thing. i wish now i had gotten more into theatre before then because now i kick myself for being so late to the party. there are bootlegs of course but it isn't the same! |
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Post by parspy on Aug 23, 2016 2:59:13 GMT
I didn't get to see all of them (I missed Andrew Rannells and Taye Diggs) but omg JCM was THE BEST!!!! It was really cool seeing the different colors the different performers brought to it. Like NPH is such a precise performer but lacked some of the bitterness that JCM brought to it. MCH was particularly fragile and brittle, there was a softness even as he was also the most physically commanding. When JCM was in it, it was a full 20-30 min longer because of all the adlibbing he did. Darren surprised me with his performance. with a particularly confrontation take, though he did read a lot younger than the other men in the role. Which ones did you see on Broadway? lmao my dumb ass thought this was a thread specifically for the hedwig MOVIE not the musical so ignore what i said before, i am completely on topic. whoops. i only got to see darren, but i would've loved to see jcm and mch now in retrospect. the thing is, i specifically planned my trip around darren's hedwig dates so i could see it with my friends over the summer. i went into the show just for him and when i came out of it i was like... wait... i missed a really, REALLY good thing. i wish now i had gotten more into theatre before then because now i kick myself for being so late to the party. there are bootlegs of course but it isn't the same! I think we are in the movie sub-board (is that what it's called?) but I definitely leapt off-topic immediately because I'm terrible like that. ANYWAY. While I can't advocate bootlegs, the film is a truly excellent representation of what JCM brought to the part. It's not identical to the show, but the guts and gristle are the same. He's a good director, too. And an extra plus - a lot of the singing was done live while shooting - I think he said the only ones they had to pre-record were the screamier songs, just so he didn't blow out his voice with take after take during shooting. But songs like Origin of Love and Wicked Little Town were done live. He has such a pretty voice and it's just lovely. And Miriam Shor, who originated Yitzhak in the Off-Broadway cast, reprises the role, and the composer Stephen Trask is a band member but he's also Tommy Gnosis's voice because Michael Pitt can't sing oops. I'm glad you got to see the show, though - wasn't that set design gorgeous? |
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the thing is, i specifically planned my trip around darren's hedwig dates so i could see it with my friends over the summer. i went into the show just for him and when i came out of it i was like... wait... i missed a really, REALLY good thing. i wish now i had gotten more into theatre before then because now i kick myself for being so late to the party. there are bootlegs of course but it isn't the same!
