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Post by crowschmo on Apr 13, 2020 12:58:48 GMT -5
Edit: Re: Jesus Christ Superstar (this started a new page).
^^^^^ Yeah, it was billed as a concert. They were still moving around quite a bit so they COULD have tried to "act," so, yeah, I agree - it was disappointing. Alice Cooper was there for window dressing, I guess, 'cause he really didn't add anything drama-wise or comedy-wise. And John Legend looked like he was embarrassed to sing or something, he was so blah. If they are going to put these things on, they should at least TRY to make it decent. Stop using "big" names just because someone is the flavor of the month (or flavor of several years ago, heh) and put real singers on these shows to get them some props.
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Post by crowschmo on Apr 15, 2020 14:33:30 GMT -5
Friday's show on The Shows Must Go On channel on YouTube will be Phantom of the Opera.
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Post by crowschmo on Apr 17, 2020 13:54:26 GMT -5
Blech. I can't even watch it. I'm not that crazy about Phantom. Some of the songs are pretty when sung okay, but these people's voices are horrid. I know it's SUPPOSED to be an opera (hence the name, heh), but I really hate that kind of singing.
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Post by crowschmo on Apr 22, 2020 14:07:08 GMT -5
Next up this Friday on YouTube: Love Never Dies. A sequel to Phantom. Can't say I really care, but I might watch bits and pieces because I had never heard of it until just this year when I saw comments about it, so I've never seen it.
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Post by crowschmo on May 1, 2020 12:19:39 GMT -5
^^^^^ I got like half a minute into the opening song and gave up. Today's showing will be a concert of people paying tribute to Andrew Lloyd Webber (I think it was for a birthday or something) and singing different songs from different shows. It's from the late '90's, I think. I saw this when it originally aired on PBS (I think it was PBS). There's a full boot leg version of Hamilton up on YouTube, so if anyone wants to cheat and see it before it's taken down. (Pirates, arrrrRRRR).
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Post by crowschmo on Sept 26, 2020 15:32:53 GMT -5
"The Shows Must Go On" channel is back doing it's thing on YouTube (they took a break for a couple months) and they are showing "Fame" right now until tomorrow, I think until 7 p.m. BST. Holy mother of BLECH!! That was the worst steaming pile of crap yet. I watched a few minutes of the opening, then I fast forwarded around to see if anything was watchable. I gave up. How can someone write something like this and then actually get it produced? And then have it actually shown on a channel promoting the "arts"? I just don't get how things like this get past the concept stage.
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Post by crowschmo on Oct 22, 2020 22:01:59 GMT -5
Next up for tomorrow (starting 2 pm EST) on The Shows Must Go On: A musical version of War of the Worlds. You read that right.
That should be pretty out there. I might give it a watch just to rubberneck.
Might actually be interesting.
Edit: It wasn't. I couldn't sit through it. I sped it up to 2 times the normal speed to see if anything interesting would come and skipped around, but, nah, can't do it.
Interesting concept; it was a live orchestra with filmed segments and live actors telling the story, but the execution wasn't the greatest, wasn't crazy about the music.
Oh, well.
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Post by crowschmo on Dec 2, 2021 16:31:17 GMT -5
Tonight on NBC (I think): Annie! Live. (Why do I keep bothering?)
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Post by crowschmo on Dec 3, 2021 8:32:38 GMT -5
Annie isn't exactly my favorite show in the world, but they did okay with it. Nothing too great, performance-wise, but nobody sucked or anything, heh. The voice of the girl they got to play Annie (I forget her name) conked out on her a few times but overall she did alright. Harry Connick Jr. (Daddy Warbucks) seemed to forget a line toward the end and that kind of screwed him up for some of his subsequent lines, but he sputtered them out in the end, heehee. I saw the play on Broadway when I was younger and I can't remember if there was more to the story or if it was the couple of movie adaptations that I'm thinking of. But, wasn't Sandy a little more prevalent in it and not in just two scenes? And wasn't Annie a little more hands on in the story with her Polly-Anna-ness? Warbucks just seemed to go from being like an old curmudgeon (which he actually wasn't much of really in this version) to falling in love with a little girl in like two seconds. Oh, well. Annie didn't seem to have much personality in this, is all I'm saying. And there wasn't much to the other orphans, either. Oh, and by the way: In the song "I Don't Need Anyone But You", that line "and what's that bathtub tune you always bubba-boo" has to be the stupidest line in a song ever. Like - what?!
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