Company Commentary Thread
Company Commentary Thread
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
Clarinetbiter135
Leading Actor Joined: 6/16/04
#2re: Company Commentary Thread
Posted: 2/20/08 at 9:04pmso exciting!! I haven't been to a musical since the summer.... this is a good fix.....
#2re: Company Commentary Thread
Posted: 2/20/08 at 9:04pm
I was just starting a thread. 
This is just too weird for me, to see it on TV like this. Totally surreal.
I hope everyone loves it.
mauriposa
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/14/05
Clarinetbiter135
Leading Actor Joined: 6/16/04
#4re: Company Commentary Thread
Posted: 2/20/08 at 9:07pmawww! I've never noticed the spotlight at the beginning....
#5re: Company Commentary Thread
Posted: 2/20/08 at 9:08pmKelly Grant, who plays Kathy is Christine u/s on Phantom tour.
#6re: Company Commentary Thread
Posted: 2/20/08 at 9:10pmI love that shot of the entire stage layered under Bobby.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#7re: Company Commentary Thread
Posted: 2/20/08 at 9:10pm
Lonny Price should stick to directing for the screen.
This (and all the other musicals he's directed for TV) is far superior to his stage directing.
barcelona20
Broadway Star Joined: 1/19/08
#8re: Company Commentary Thread
Posted: 2/20/08 at 9:11pmI disagree. Too many close ups and quick changes of tv cameras.
#9re: Company Commentary Thread
Posted: 2/20/08 at 9:12pmIt calms down a bit. This song is a little all over the place because the shots are following all of the movement.
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#10re: Company Commentary Thread
Posted: 2/20/08 at 9:12pmIt's so visually stunning. Which I knew from seeing the show, but as I sat in the first row usually, I LOVE these overhead shots.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#11re: Company Commentary Thread
Posted: 2/20/08 at 9:12pm
Happy COMPANY! grab your Virtual Playbill..... 
Updated On: 2/20/08 at 09:12 PM
#12re: Company Commentary Thread
Posted: 2/20/08 at 9:13pmI love the direction. I think the quick cuts and such work really well. Lots of creative stuff going on, which is needed, because these shows can get really boring played from wide angles on a little box. Really nice work. Very professional.
Clarinetbiter135
Leading Actor Joined: 6/16/04
#14re: Company Commentary Thread
Posted: 2/20/08 at 9:16pmI forgot how much I loved peter and sarah's scene. I actually am good friends with a couple just like them... love it love it love it
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#15re: Company Commentary Thread
Posted: 2/20/08 at 9:16pmThey all looked like they were in a coma, I'm turning it off.
#16re: Company Commentary Thread
Posted: 2/20/08 at 9:19pmThere aren't commercial breaks, are there?
-Benjamin
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#18re: Company Commentary Thread
Posted: 2/20/08 at 9:19pmI think there will probably be a break between acts?
#19re: Company Commentary Thread
Posted: 2/20/08 at 9:20pmNope, this be PBS! If there are breaks, it's for people screaming and crying for your money. But no commercials.
barcelona20
Broadway Star Joined: 1/19/08
Clarinetbiter135
Leading Actor Joined: 6/16/04
#23re: Company Commentary Thread
Posted: 2/20/08 at 9:22pm
"did they just bleep jesus christ?"
Just "Christ". When did that become a dirty word?
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#24re: Company Commentary Thread
Posted: 2/20/08 at 9:23pm
It's Okay. I just had to run check on someone down the hall in my dorm.
Did they really censor "Jesus Christ?"
-Benjamin
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