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Post by 49thand8th on May 17, 2017 15:06:44 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 15:37:56 GMT
I just... I feel like there's a precedent been set somewhere for putting King Kong on Broadway, and it ended up with fighter planes being deployed and a giant ape dead in the streets...
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Post by Dawnstar on May 17, 2017 18:56:44 GMT
@theatremonkey Will you be auditioning?
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Post by kathryn on May 18, 2017 8:02:36 GMT
Kong's an ape! Don't go calling him a monkey....
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Post by Dawnstar on May 18, 2017 8:54:12 GMT
But race-blind casting is all the rage nowadays, so why shouldn't a Theatre Monkey play a gorilla? ;-)
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 8:59:13 GMT
Ladies and Gentlegerms I take you back to the best entry from this year's Eurovision Song Contest. I think we can safely say that we've found a lead actor.
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Post by kathryn on May 18, 2017 10:28:23 GMT
But race-blind casting is all the rage nowadays, so why shouldn't a Theatre Monkey play a gorilla? ;-) Depends whether it'd be considered ape-face. And now I think we've probably stretched this metaphor far enough.... |
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Post by Dawnstar on May 18, 2017 12:58:27 GMT
so why shouldn't a Theatre Monkey play a gorilla? ;-) This is why: and it ended up with fighter planes being deployed and a giant ape dead in the streets... !!!!!!! It's only acting though. I don't think they're actually going to kill a gorilla in the theatre every night or they'll be firebombed by the US equivalent of PETA! |
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 13:10:54 GMT
It's only acting though. I don't think they're actually going to kill a gorilla in the theatre every night or they'll be firebombed by the US equivalent of PETA! ..... so PETA then?  |
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Post by raider80 on Oct 2, 2018 1:07:01 GMT
Previews start in four days.
I was back in NYC last week for some business and I heard absolutely no buzz except it is going to be an ape sized flop.
I have a gut feeling that the puppet is not going to work properly the first week of previews and that will create a bad word of mouth. With a cast of mostly no-names the puppet is going to be a selling point and if it is broken... then the show will have some trouble on its hands.
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Post by viserys on Oct 2, 2018 6:03:55 GMT
Even if the puppet isn't broken, it will probably not work as there is no buzz about good songs or anything.
I mean, for all the flaws of the "mega musicals" of the 80s where big special effects like "the falling chandelier", "the helicopter" or "people on roller skates pretending to be trains" mattered a lot, those shows were stuffed to the brim with great tunes and people went in wanting to hear "Phantom of the Opera", "All I ask of you", etc. as much as witnessing the chandelier.
I'm presently trying to make up my mind what to see on Broadway next spring and I feel absolutely no excitement about this one, whereas I'm already sold on Beetlejuice due to the source material and the casting and I'm now getting more and more interested in Tootsie thanks to the positive word of mouth coming from Chicago. A big ape puppet alone isn't going to cut it and I think it was (is) wrong of them to promote only the puppet so far instead of 1-2 really good songs that would also showcase their indubitably talented leads.
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Post by crabtree on Oct 3, 2018 9:13:52 GMT
Is this on at one of the larger theatre. Kong must take up much space backstage when he's not onstage. I'll be interested to see the stage, and since there won't be much space for running and jumping, I'm assuming it will be the projected space around him that moves and changes perspective. Did it need to be a musical? About ten years I wrote a play about the making of Kong, and the people involved. It never got produced of course, but maybe one day. I think we solved the staging issues nicely, and how to recreate the TRex/Kong fight. It also began with Ginger rogers astride a biplane as in Flying Down to Rio which was being shot around the time.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2018 11:53:52 GMT
Is this on at one of the larger theatre. Kong must take up much space backstage when he's not onstage. I'll be interested to see the stage, and since there won't be much space for running and jumping, I'm assuming it will be the projected space around him that moves and changes perspective. Did it need to be a musical? About ten years I wrote a play about the making of Kong, and the people involved. It never got produced of course, but maybe one day. I think we solved the staging issues nicely, and how to recreate the TRex/Kong fight. It also began with Ginger rogers astride a biplane as in Flying Down to Rio which was being shot around the time. There are a couple of videos from tryouts etc online. Not sure how much further its been adapted since for this run. As the scenes are projections there's no scenery to fly in and out and the bulk of the puppetry mechanism for Kong is flown, therefore not taking up room back/offstage. Video here shows the Kong, projections and the flown 'trolley' for Kong: |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2018 11:15:56 GMT
It looks okay, I just do not see how puppets would not have worked?
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Post by crabtree on Oct 4, 2018 15:04:19 GMT
I wonder if the tRex makes an appearance, or the bi planes, or whether they are suggested by the projections
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Post by sf on Oct 4, 2018 17:31:44 GMT
Unless ABBA's King Kong Song is in it, I won't be going. So there.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2018 4:15:52 GMT
has anyone heard any news?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2018 6:56:27 GMT
has anyone heard any news? Its opens tomorrow. Be patient. |
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Post by david on Oct 5, 2018 10:01:27 GMT
After the show was announced, it peaked my interest so I've booked a ticket to go and watch it in a fortnight as part of my NY trip.
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Post by 49thand8th on Oct 5, 2018 14:13:05 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2018 16:04:20 GMT
That's what I was meaning, as in 5th Oct. Which at the time of Wormwoods posting was Tomorrow (4th). |
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Post by 49thand8th on Oct 5, 2018 16:16:24 GMT
You said "opens," though, which is still wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2018 16:26:53 GMT
You said "opens," though, which is still wrong. I am aware. What I said and what I meant were two different things. It was 7am. I hadn't had a coffee and was still waking up. Cut me some slack. |
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Post by raider80 on Oct 6, 2018 1:59:28 GMT
The early reports are in. Praise for the puppet and everything else is not that great. So it looks like it's going to be a visual spectacle.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2018 12:59:48 GMT
Why didn't the producer produce moulin rouge instead?
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