hamradio Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Is this some kind of JOKE? LMREO, you can see the cables holding it up! Wonder does it sing? Some idiot stated she screamed. Yeah I would too but it be screaming laughter. Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 I suppose you didn't hear about "War Horse" during its acclaimed run on Broadway several years ago. It's all about using one's imagination. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Sepiatone Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Yeah. Look at how they do "The Lion King" too. But, y'know...... HARVEY, (IMHO), is one of the FEW plays (and it worked for the movie as well...) where the requirement that the audience use it's imagination should come into play. I mean.... I used to(like a lot of other kids) pretend our LEAF RAKE and/or BROOM HANDLE was a horse, but then too, people WEREN'T paying $50+ to SEE me doing that! All in all though, that ape prop in those clips does look WAY better than the one in that horrible '76 remake! Sepiatone Link to post Share on other sites
DougieB Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 The effects look extraordinary, but it's a musical, right? The choreography looked very standard and nothing in the music or lyrics in the clip really stood out. I hope it has more going for it than just the set and the ape. Have any posters seen it? Link to post Share on other sites
Sgt_Markoff Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Feh. I see the ads for it all the time on NYC streets. Pathetic. Not only Kong, but "Kiss Me Kate", "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Oklahoma!" are (apparently) all playing on the Great White Way lately. Strictly for tourists. Link to post Share on other sites
hamradio Posted April 8, 2019 Author Share Posted April 8, 2019 6 hours ago, jakeem said: I suppose you didn't hear about "War Horse" during its acclaimed run on Broadway several years ago. It's all about using one's imagination. I thought that was something like... "Top Secret - The Musical" could work. Link to post Share on other sites
Sgt_Markoff Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 The catastrophic flop of the Spider-Man musical, I thought for sure that was going to kill Broadway. The whole thing is a joke these days. I'm actually glad to see they're doing traditional stuff like 'Oklahoma!' and 'Kiss Me Kate'. But this propensity of Broadway to serve merely as an extension of Disney and Marvel blockbusters is an atrocity. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
hamradio Posted April 8, 2019 Author Share Posted April 8, 2019 8 minutes ago, Sgt_Markoff said: The catastrophic flop of the Spider-Man musical, I thought for sure that was going to kill Broadway. The whole thing is a joke these days. I'm actually glad to see they're actually doing decent stuff like 'Oklahoma!' and 'Kiss Me Kate'. But this propensity of Broadway to serve merely as an extension of Disney and Marvel blockbusters is atrocious. But I can accept Spiderman hanging from his white web (rope) Link to post Share on other sites
EricJ Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 5 hours ago, hamradio said: But I can accept Spiderman hanging from his white web (rope) I found myself thinking of the Spiderman musical too (or at least why the book-based Lord of the Rings musical played overseas and Canada but will never play Broadway), in that they had a wild staging idea, but needed music to make it an actual musical. What little we hear of the music here doesn't sound too bad, I'm just thinking this still seems like a studio-pushed musical: Who's got the merchandising rights for the original 30's Kong at the moment, Warner or Universal? Link to post Share on other sites
rayban Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 The street in front of the theater has been re-named, "King Kong Way". Link to post Share on other sites
Sgt_Markoff Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 and after SpiderMan, there was the friggin' Tarzan musical, which I assume had a similar obsession with aerial acrobatics but using vines instead of 'webs'. Its all just lunacy. Link to post Share on other sites
Sukhov Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 6 hours ago, Sgt_Markoff said: I'm actually glad to see they're actually doing decent stuff like 'Oklahoma!' and 'Kiss Me Kate'. But this propensity of Broadway to serve merely as an extension of Disney and Marvel blockbusters is atrocious. Rodgers and Hammerstein are always entertaining. Though one that I would like to see them revive is Weill's Street Scene. Weill and Marc Blitzstein are my favorite from the golden era of Broadway. It's a shame they don't play their works more often. Link to post Share on other sites
Defenestrator Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 I get the appeal of the "King Kong" show. And if Phil Hartman were still among us to carry on his Troy McClure persona, who wouldn't want to see a Broadway version of "Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off"? Link to post Share on other sites
Sgt_Markoff Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Who's Phil Hartman? Link to post Share on other sites
LawrenceA Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 2 minutes ago, Sgt_Markoff said: Who's Phil Hartman? Link to post Share on other sites
Defenestrator Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 I should have included this article about how the classic "Simpsons" segment all came together: https://www.vulture.com/2017/07/the-simpsons-planet-of-the-apes-musical-oral-history-zauis.html Link to post Share on other sites
EricJ Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 28 minutes ago, Sgt_Markoff said: and after SpiderMan, there was the friggin' Tarzan musical, which I assume had a similar obsession with aerial acrobatics but using vines instead of 'webs'. Its all just lunacy. Actually, Disney Broadway originally envisioned the Tarzan musical as a Cirque du Soleil-style aerial show for a round arena, much like the Vegas Cirque shows--It reportedly played in arena theaters overseas, and did better in its original conception. On Broadway, however, they were stuck with the conventions of square stages, which meant the focus had to be back on the book and musical...Which only brought it up against that Dumbo-remake and Little Mermaid-musical problem of "Why did they even MAKE this??" 1 Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 It can't be all bad if Glenda Jackson is back on Broadway -- this time headlining a production of "King Lear." The Daily BeastVerified account@thedailybeast "Glenda Jackson makes ‘Lear’ her own, while Ruth Wilson brilliantly doubles up as Cordelia and the Fool in a production that shows just how timelessly observant Shakespeare was," writes @TimTeeman https://www.thedailybeast.com/glenda-jackson-in-shakespeares-king-lear-on-broadway-tragedy-and-a-lot-of-trump-era-sighing?via=twitter_page Link to post Share on other sites
Sukhov Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 42 minutes ago, Sgt_Markoff said: Who's Phil Hartman? You may remember him from such nature films as Earwigs: Eww! and Man vs. Nature: The Road to Victory. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Sepiatone Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 15 hours ago, EricJ said: I found myself thinking of the Spiderman musical too (or at least why the book-based Lord of the Rings musical played overseas and Canada but will never play Broadway), in that they had a wild staging idea, but needed music to make it an actual musical. What little we hear of the music here doesn't sound too bad, I'm just thinking this still seems like a studio-pushed musical: Who's got the merchandising rights for the original 30's Kong at the moment, Warner or Universal? "Lord Of The Rings"? Heh.....since there doesn't seem to be ANY "sacred cows", how about... LORD OF THE FLIES( the musical)..... 9/11(the musical).... DON'T CRY FOR ME, ALABAMA( based on the life of former gov. GEORGE WALLACE)... FULL METAL JACKET( the musical)... isn't there one already? Sepiatone Link to post Share on other sites
Sgt_Markoff Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 'Kiss Me, Kate' has a scene in it where the male lead puts his ex-wife over his knee and **spanks** the bejesus out of her. I wonder how that went down with today's tourists on Broadway. Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 3 hours ago, Sgt_Markoff said: 'Kiss Me, Kate' has a scene in it where the male lead puts his ex-wife over his knee and **spanks** the bejesus out of her. I wonder how that went down with today's tourists on Broadway. Wake me when the lead in "Othello" isn't wearing blackface. Link to post Share on other sites
EricJ Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 1 hour ago, jakeem said: Wake me when the lead in "Othello" isn't wearing blackface. (Okay, just because our senior-high English class got to field-trip into the city and watch James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer on tour in the 80's, and I was still a sophomore, go ahead, rub it in... 😡 ) Who's Phil Hartman? Oh, you know Phil--He did the voice of the cat in Kiki's Delivery Service: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lIAaChVWXc 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Sgt_Markoff Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 d'ye mean ...oh! 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch'? oy, so many hipster films ...which turn out to be tee-hee for simpletons. (for some reason I have the impression that this one's 'bout a traveling dentist in Scotland who rides from town to town on a motorcycle) anyway naw honestly never heard of this other dude; and what's more (that graphic!) I detest 'Simpsons' and have avoided it as long as its been on. Link to post Share on other sites
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