This is the third go-round for "Annie," and as much as the first one screwed it up, this one promises to make that one look like "Singin' in the Rain." (The second one -- the TV one -- was okay; it was just low-budget and kinda dull).
I used to share PGage's feelings about "Annie" until I did the show (tripled as Bundles the laundryman, Jimmy Johnson (the Masked Announcer), and FDR), and then I realized how brilliantly constructed and written it is. It's not one of my favorites, but I have great respect for it. There are far worse musicals (one of which was just on NBC last week). --Dave Sikula On Thursday, December 12, 2013 1:24:54 PM UTC-8, PGage wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Joe Coughlin > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> If you wanted to do a show set at Christmas that is good for families, >> I'd say do "Annie". >> > > I am a fan of movie musicals, but have only had the chance to see a few > stage versions. I can think of several that I would like to see done on TV > - Guys and Dolls, as has been mentioned, is almost idiot proof, as Brando > proved; Fiddler is a winner, though more easily spoiled by a bad > production, and West Side Story. I guess we had a Music Man some years ago, > but it was not done live. > > All that so I can say this though: I hate, hate, hate Annie, which set > musicals back about 100 years. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
