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dreamcastingbroadway · 2 years

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Dreamcasting Broadway: A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

“I thought that you’d want what I want...sorry, my dear.”

Dreamcasting Broadway: A Little Night Music

Audra McDonald as Desiree Armfeldt

Howard McGillin as Fredrik Egerman

Denée Benton as Anne Egerman

Robert Lenzi as Henrik Egerman

Rita Moreno as Madame Armfeldt

Sydney Lucas as Fredrika Armfeldt

Ben Crawford as Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm

Ruthie Ann Miles as Countess Charlotte Malcolm

Micaela Diamond as Petra

Michael Maliakel as Frid (Carl-Magnus u/s)

Ann Sanders as Mrs. Nordstrom/Ensemble (Desiree u/s)

Elizabeth Welch as Mrs. Anderssen/Ensemble (Desiree u/s, Charlotte u/s)

Hannah Florence as Mrs. Segstrom/Ensemble (Anne u/s, Petra u/s)

Javier Ignacio as Mr. Erlanson/Ensemble (Henrik u/s, Frid u/s)

Paul A. Schaefer as Mr. Lindquist/Ensemble (Fredrik u/s, Carl-Magnus u/s)

Pippa Pearthree as Standby (Madame)

Gabriella Pizzolo as Standby (Fredrika)

Janinah Burnett as Swing (Madame u/s)

Kerstin Anderson as Swing (Anne u/s, Charlotte u/s, Petra u/s)

Nehal Joshi as Swing (Fredrik u/s, Frid u/s)

Travis Waldschmidt as Swing (Henrik u/s)

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musicalcastingideas · 2 days

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Dropout Does The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals

So my theory about overlap of Dropout and Team Starkid seems to be accurate, and people seemed to like my Dropout does Nerdy Prudes Must Die post, so I'm back for another. Same method and criteria as my previous post, you can go see that if you want to know what they are. Also, I have previously done a similar list with Internet Personalities that included a handful of Dropout people, but I'm gonna try to make this one different.

Also spoilers for potentially anything in the Hatchetfield verse

Paul: Ross Bryant

Ross is a great straight man (in the comedy sense, I don't know his sexuality) while being very funny in his own right, and I think, while Paul has a lot of his own funny moments, it's very important that his character is also the more normal guy reacting to the madness around him. Also, he would slay the Jekyll and Hyde homage that is Let it Out.

Emma : Siobhan Thompson

I think one of the essential parts of Emma's character is an underlying exhaustion with the world, and that is very Adaine Abernant and Ruby Rocks, so I think Siobhan would embody that very well.

Charlotte: Vic Michaelis

I don't think I've ever heard them do a transatlantic accent before, but I just have this gut feeling they'd be so good at it.

Ted: Ify Nwadiwe

While I do genuinely think Ify would be great in the part, if I'm being fully honest, this casting is because I (despite my better judgment) find Ted Spankoffski hot, so casting arguably the hottest man in Dropout in this part makes me seem less damaged for being attracted to the self-proclaimed sleazeball. Also him and Vic seem like they would be great playing off each other.

Bill: Brian "Murph" Murphy

He just has "refuses to drink during the apocalypse so he can be the DD" energy.

Mr Davidson: Brian David Gilbert

Since I'm splitting up all the parts, this basically turns Mr Davidson into a Princess Track where the actor just shows up, sings about desire and being choked while he jerks off, but laments how he can never achieve his dreams, and then pretty much leaves, and I don't know why, but that seems right up BDG's alley.

Melissa: Lisa Gilroy

Lisa Gilroy seems nice, but also kinda scares me, and those are the correct vibes for Melissa (#heymelissacore)

Sam: Jacob Wysoki

My only concern about this casting is that he'd go SO HARD in You Tied Up My Heart that he would keep breaking the handcuffs and/or chair, but that's fine, it would be worth it.

Nora: Katie Marovitch

The "Decaf?" parts of Cup of Roasted Coffee already sounds a bit like her TBH.

Zoey: Rehka Shankar

I feel like Zoey is such an underrated, funny side character in the show (I know she's a very small part, but like every line she has is a banger) and I feel like Rehka is a very underrated performer, so this is a good match.

Greenpeace Girl: Persephone Valentine

Making up the Save the Sea Turtles campaign is such a Sam Nightengale move, and also she would eat up Lah Dee Dah Dah Day.

Alice: Surena Marie

She's got a bit of a baby face (I thought she was like 25) and I think she would handle the change from Alice to Hivemind Alice really well.

Deb: Emily Axford

I'm definitely not just casting this because I want Emily to be my protective and caring girlfriend...

Professor Hidgens: Josh Ruben

I don't have an explanation for this one, this is vibes alone.

General MacNamara: Brennan Lee Mulligan

"Wear a Watch" and a song highlighting how the hivemind is essentially fascist and using the military to destroy any resistance to their regime is so Brennan core.

Homeless Man: Ally Beardlsey

I just feel like this is the part they'd want.

Dan Reynolds: Lou Wilson

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Donna: Aabria Iyengar

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Hard Cuts:

Jacob Wysoki as Ted

Mike Trapp as Paul

Emily Axford as Emma

Jess Ross as Charlotte

Lily Du as Zoey

Grant O'Brien as Professor Hidgens

Grant O'Brien as Ted

Ally Beardlsey as Ted

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beautyinsteadofashes · 1 year

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‘princesses don’t marry kitchen boys....’

anastasia dream cast (x)

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theatredreamcasting · 7 months

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Alex Newell as Hermes (Hadestown)

#alex newell #hadestown #broadway #musicals #fancast #dreamcast

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conman167936 · 1 year

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Obviously any stage adaptation of Encanto would have to cast ethnically appropriate actors. Unless it was being done by Starkid. I mean, look at them.

#encanto #encanto broadway #starkid #team starkid #starkid fancast #starkid dreamcast #la familia madrigal #rachael soglin #jaime lyn beatty #mariah rose faith #angela giarratana #meredith stepien #joey richter #janaya mahealani jones #tiffany williams #lauren lopez #james tolbert #jeff blim

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sixcostumerefs · 1 year

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What songs would you most like to hear the current (and incoming, if you're feeling extra wild) Broadway queens cover?

So initially you sent this ask in when I just needed a day of distraction from US politics (whooo) but I had SUCH a good time mulling over all of these answers that I’ve now been working on it for months. Went with all musical theatre songs too.

Adrianna Hicks: I Found A New Baby from Bullets Over Broadway

Bre Jackson: Defying Gravity from Wicked

Andrea Macasaet: Honey, Honey from Mamma Mia

Abby Mueller: Finale/Children Will Listen from Into the Woods

Keri Rene Fuller: Monster from Frozen (@lightleckrereins actually suggested this)

Brittney Mack: either Anything You Can Do from Annie Get Your Gun or So Long Dearie from Hello, Dolly!

Samantha Pauly: I’m Breaking Down from Falsettos

Anna Uzele: Maybe This Time from Cabaret

Joy Woods: On the Steps of the Palace from Into the Woods

Brennyn Lark: I Won’t Say I’m In Love from Hercules (would be killer to hear the other Parrs + either Keirsten or Nicole as the Muses too)

Mallory Maedke: Roxie from Chicago

Nicole Kyoung-Mi Lambert: All I’ve Ever Known from Hadestown

Courtney Mack: Impossible from Cinderella

Keirsten Hodgens: Right Hand Man from Something Rotten!

I would also LOVE to see the alts sing any of the barbershop quarters from The Music Man!

#six the musical #six broadway #my dreamcasts #adrianna hicks #bre jackson #andrea macasaet #keri rene fuller #abby mueller #brittney mack #samantha pauly #anna uzele #joy woods #brennyn lark #mallory maedke #nicole kyoung mi lambert #courtney mack #keirsten hodgens #six musical

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starkiddreamcasting · 11 months

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Starkid Shucked

It’s time for Starkid to get totally Shucked! The bizarre experience of Broadway’s new corn-based musical almost feels like a Starkid musical to me so I was all too ready to create this dreamcast once the cast recording dropped. So I hope you all enjoy this crop just in time for the Tony’s (in which Shucked will likely win one or two of them.)

(Also I realized I’d been writing Davis Hamilton’s name incorrectly, oops)

1. Lauren Lopez as Maizey 2. Britney Coleman as Lulu 3. Curt Mega as Gordy 4. Brian Rosenthal as Peanut 5. Davis Hamilton as Beau 6. Bryce Charles as Storyteller 1 7. Will Branner as Storyteller 2 8. Tyler Brunsman as Ensemble 9. Corey Dorris as Ensemble 10. Ali Gordon as Ensemble 11. AJ Holmes as Ensemble 12. Janaya Mahealani Jones as Ensemble 13. Joey Richter as Ensemble 14. Rachael Soglin as Ensemble 15. Tiffany Williams as Ensemble

Swings: Angela Giarratana, Brian Holden, James Tolbert, Virginia Vass

Understudies: Tyler Brunsman (Gordy, Beau, Storyteller 2), Angela Giarratana (Maizey), Ali Gordon (Maizey), Brian Holden (Beau), AJ Holmes (Peanut, Storyteller 2), Janaya Mahealani Jones (Lulu, Storyteller 1), Joey Richter (Gordy, Peanut), Virginia Vass (Lulu), Tiffany Williams (Storyteller 1)

Make sure to leave any show suggestions or any questions on my casting choices so I can explain them.

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janedances · 1 year

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every six cast announcement ever

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poc-dreamcast · 2 years

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Oyoyo Joi as Satine

#broadway #musicals #poc dreamcast #moulin rouge musical #satine moulin rouge #moulin rouge #satine #oyoyo joi

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poll-tergeist · 1 year

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#poll #vote #polls #tumblr polls #joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat #dreamcast #kinky boots #rent #tlt #the lightning theif musical #chicago #hadestown #be more chill #sweeny todd #musicals #broadway #percy jackson #hades

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dreampoccasts · 2 years

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Frances Mayli Mccann as Jane Seymour (Six the musical)

Dob: September 15,1989

Age: 32

Other roles include: Bonnie Parker (Bonnie & Clyde) Heather Mcnamara (Heathers) Éponine (Lés Miserable) The Mistress (Evita)

#frances mayli mccann #jane seymour six #six the musical #broadway #poc #west end #dreamcast #six

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dreamcastingbroadway · 2 years

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Dream(Re)Casting Broadway: SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET

"Nothing's gonna harm you — not while I'm around."

Dreamcasting Broadway: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Raúl Esparza as Sweeney Todd

Toni Collette as Mrs. Lovett

Patrick Page as Judge Turpin

JD Mollison as Beadle Bamford

Mike Faist as Anthony Hope

Kyla Stone as Johanna

Kennedy Kanagawa as Tobias Ragg

Lucas Steele as Pirelli

Megan McGinnis as Beggar Woman

Anthony Chatmon II as Ensemble

Bre Jackson as Ensemble

Brooke Ishibashi as Ensemble

Bryan Seastrom as Ensemble

Catherine Ricafort as Ensemble (Johanna u/s)

Celia Hottenstein as Ensemble (Johanna u/s)

David Michael Garry as Ensemble (Turpin u/s)

Elizabeth Welch as Ensemble

Eymard Cabling as Ensemble (Beadle u/s)

Felicia Curry as Ensemble (Beggar Woman u/s, Pirelli u/s)

Hannah Clarke Levine as Ensemble

Javier Ignacio as Ensemble (Beadle u/s, Pirelli u/s)

Jonathan Luke Stevens as Ensemble (Anthony u/s, Tobias u/s)

Louis Brogna as Ensemble

Mamie Parris as Ensemble (Lovett u/s)

Nathaniel Stampley as Jonas Fogg/Ensemble (Sweeney u/s)

Satomi Hofmann as Ensemble

Scott Mikita as Ensemble

Veronica Stern as Ensemble

William Aaron Bishop as Ensemble (Anthony u/s)

Alex Joseph Grayson as Swing (Tobias u/s)

Ben Edquist as Swing

Christopher deProphetis as Swing

Connie Bahng as Swing

Hannah Florence as Swing

Madeline Raube as Swing

Adam Bashian as Standby (Sweeney, Turpin)

Jessica Phillips as Standby (Lovett, Beggar Woman)

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musicalcastingideas · 1 month

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The Princess Bride Musical Dreamcast

The fact that with all the new broadway musicals are adaptations and NO ONE has done the Princess Bride yet is absolutely criminal, so if that were to hypothetically happen, here's my dream cast list.

Framing Device:

Grandchild: I can't really put anyone for grandchild, since I don't know many child actors, but I do think there should be a rotating cast, like they had with Mathilda on Broadway.

Grandfather: Mandy Patinkin, aka the original Inigo Montoya.

Mother: Robin Wright, aka the original Princess Buttercup.

I think it would be really sweet and fun to have two of the original movie's cast play parts in the framing device, almost like they're passing the baton of telling the story to the next cast.

Main Story:

Westly: Joshua Henry

I don't know if this is a controversial statement, but Westly is a baritone, and I think Joshua Henry would be absolutely perfect. He's charming as fuck, he's a phenomenal actor and vocalist, and he's absolutely gorgeous. Perfect leading man for a story that is about telling the best story ever.

Buttercup: Maria Bilbao

I think Buttercup would be a legit soprano, and as a big fan of Sweeney Todd and the recent revival, Maria Bilbao, who played Johanna, would be absolutely perfect for it. Just go listen to her Green Finch and Linnet Bird and you'll get it.

Inigo Montoya: Colman Domingo

Does Colman Domingo sing? I don't know. Could he act the absolute SHIT out of the confrontation between Inigo and the Six-Fingered Man? ABSOLUTELY. I have this vision of how to adapt the scene, which would also kinda translate Inigo's arc to a musical version. So in the original, the Six-Fingered Man trying anything to manipulate him, mocking him, that great "you have an overdeveloped sense of vengeance line, and Inigo is just not having it. He just keeps repeating the iconic line over and over again. In the musical, I would have the six-fingered man sing, like he's trying to get Inigo to sing with him, to give in to the performance, but Inigo won't sing, he just keeps repeating his line over and over. He refuses to conform to the typical "rising above" narrative and leave the Six-Fingered Man alive, he will be true to himself and his mission and won't let himself be distracted. Anyway, I don't know if this is a good idea, but Colman Domingo would be amazing either way.

Prince Humperdink: Aaron Tveit

I think Prince Humperdink should be the archetypal tenor boy and who is a better representation of current archetypal tenor boys on broadway than Aaron Tveit? Also he's really talented and I think he would act the shit out of this smarmy bastard role.

Count Rugen aka The Six Fingered Man: Josh Groban

I need Josh Groban on Broadway more, and I think he would do great at a quieter villain role, especially coming off a more angry and bloodthirsty role like Sweeney Todd. Also he looks a bit like the original Count Rugen, so that's a bonus.

Vizzini: Alex Brightman

I don't really have much behind this one, other than Vizzini is a weird little guy and Alex Brightman plays weird little guys really well.

Fezzik: Jason Segal

So ideally, I'd actually be able to cast an actor with gigantism to play the part, but I don't know of any, and couldn't find any while googling, so this is my backup essentially. During the lockdowns, a bunch of celebrities did The Princess Bride over zoom, and the scene with Rainn Wilson as Vizzini, Pedro Pascal as Inigo and Jason Segal as Fezzik is genuinely really great, but Jason Segal's Fezzik impression is spot-on and actually amazing. Also, we know from the Muppet Movie, How I Met Your Mother and Forgetting Sarah Marshall that he can sing so, I think he would do great.

Miracle Max and Valerie: Joey Richter and Lauren Lopez

I assume posting this to Tumblr, more people would know who Joey Richter and Lauren Lopez are than the average social media platform, but they are part of Team Starkid and Tin Can Bros and do some fantastic original musicals (please look up the Hatchetfield Trilogy and Spies Are Forever if you haven't seen them yet). They're both extremely talented performers, and also married in real life, so they would absolutely kill this.

Clergyman(Mawage guy): Brian d'Arcy James

I don't really have much of a reasoning behind this, I just think he'd do a good job.

Backups/Close Calls:

Denee Benton as Princess Buttercup

She's one of the best parts of Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, and that's saying something because that musical is (in my opinion) one of the best of all time

Pedro Pascal as Inigo Montoya

I don't know if he sings, and he would be amazing for this, but I wanted to challenge myself to think outside the most obvious choice. However, sometimes the obvious choice is a good one.

Bernadette Peters as Valerie

If the Witch from Into the Woods found love and inner peace

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sorryiwasasleep · 2 years

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Natalie Llerena is the Satine of my dreams. Her voice is PERFECT for the role.

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theatredreamcasting · 8 months

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Christian Borle as Bruce Bechdel (Fun Home)

#christian borle #fun home #fun home musical #broadway #musicals #fancast #dreamcast

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margridarnauds · 5 months

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Unrelated to the writing asks, have you ever thought about bringing 1789 to broadway? Who would you cast? Any specific staging ideas?

God, I've thought about it so much over the years.

From this post from 2019, here was my dreamcast at the time:

After hearing Reeve Carney in Hadestown, I’m actually curious about what his Ronan would sound like, even though I think that I would never be fully over “OH MY GOD, RONAN’S SPIDERMAN.” But Reeve Carney has the chaotic twink vibes that I feel like Ronan needs. I still feel like he needs more GREMLIN, but I can’t think of anyone who could really give me the gremlin vibes I NEED. I don’t know, I don’t follow Broadway all that much these days since I switched to Toho/Zuka/French musicals. Lazare (1) For a Toho-esque Lazare, I really, really like Norm Lewis as a possibility. I think that he could NAIL Lazare, and he’s already played Chauvelin and Javert, so it’s like…the Trio must be completed. He has the voice, he HAS the stage presence, and he does a PHENOMENAL job at playing authoritarian assholes who nonetheless remain nuanced. Any racists who want to argue about plausibility can and will have a brick-length biography on the Chevalier Saint Georges *delicately* applied to the back of the head. (2) Ramin Karimloo, for a more Carnot-esque bent. Look…I KNOW, I KNOW that he tends to be in everyone’s Top 10 Fancasts For Everything, but…I DO think that he has the voice for Lazare, he has the stage presence, and he has the fanbase. My only concern is whether or not he’d bend my son a little too much towards the dark side. (3), which is obviously dead serious, Patti Lupone. Because she would be TERRIFYING. Marie Antoinette - SPEAKING OF EVERYONE’S MOST OVERUSED OPTIONS, I genuinely do think that Sierra Boggess could do a good job. Look, her enunciation sometimes bugs me and I’m not going to pretend that she’s my ULTIMATE FAVORITE CHRISTINE EVER, but she has a fun, sparky attitude, with the range to also do Antoinette’s more somber moments, she has a high enough range that I wouldn’t be TERRIFIED of her high notes (not to name names, but…you know who), and I just genuinely think she would have a fun time in the role. Olympe - Eva Noblezada Solène -Mandy Gonzales. Artois - Josh Young

And I'll add, since I've thought about this more over the years:

Camille Desmoulins - Derek Klena

Lucile - Philippa Soo

Artois - Tam Mutu

Danton - Josh Young

Robespierre - Aaron Tveit

I would follow the Toho production more than the French -- We want something that feels contemporary and modern, but that isn't too abstract, with a solid 2 act structure. French musicals can be a tough sell to American audiences and I refuse to explain the apocalyptic furry tea party sex nightmare. I honestly think that this would be the perfect time for 1789, just because a lot of things that it was doing 10 years ago are now popular courtesy of Hamilton. I've seen a lot of people, even in French reviews of it, call Molière l'Opera Urbain "French Hamilton" and I'm here like "Okay, clearly they did take inspiration, you can see that from the logo, I'm not saying they didn't, but also, French musical theatre did Hamilton before Hamilton. We're seeing American influences strengthening a pre-existing French framework."

The dancing can stay the same, the overall style can say the same, I would probably borrow and refresh the costuming ideas from the French, making a style that keeps the silhouettes from the time period while also modernizing them and giving them a sleek, luxurious feel. Silks and satins for Olympe and Marie Antoinette, Robespierre can keep his black velvet coat and his red and black color scheme.

We're living in the age of projectors in musicals -- I think we could do more with that. I'd love to see a creative combination of physical staging and projectors to really highlight the extreme highs and lows of France at the edge of Revolution.

My gold standard doesn't actually come from either France, Japan, or America, but from Russia, with the staging of the Anna Karenina musical. (The entire musical just. Looks like this. Legitimately one of the most gorgeous stages and blocking I've ever seen in a musical *anywhere*)

We know that in my ideal world, I would pay Attia and Chouet a hundred million dollars or something so I could totally rewrite 1789 and make Peyronan canon, but since I CAN'T do that, there are a couple of things I would fiddle around with lightly, such as emphasizing the close relationship that Ronan and Solène had before everything went to shit and giving Solène and Olympe the stage together during Pour la Peine. Something that was done really well in a bootleg Japanese production I have was that they did have Lazare getting wounded during the Storming of the Bastille, with Ronan giving Solène the choice on whether to kill him or not. I would cut out the plotline to both Japanese productions on Solène becoming a Respectable Woman and let her stay as a sex worker.

Something potentially controversial, and that I'm not even sold about, is minimizing the historical figures -- it isn't that I don't like them, it's that (1) They create a lot of clutter and (2) They will not mean as much to an American audience. To a Japanese audience who are used to Rose of Versailles (and to an audience of Japanese musical theatre fans, who might have watched the Takarazuka Robespierre musical, Azure Moment, the Scarlet Pimpernel, The Poem of Love and Revolution, and Marie Antoinette) they are already familiar with Robespierre, Danton, and Desmoulins. They are Standard French Revolution Figures, we expect to see them.

...for an American audience? It isn't like I think that they're DUMB, but I'm saying that 1789 would face the same issues that Elisabeth would face on an American stage -- trying to make this part of history that Americans do not know all that much about, that isn't really part of our national identity, and to make it appealing and fun. That's a tall order. There's a reason I always said Rebecca had the best chance of being adapted of all the Kunze and Levay musicals (though maybe Lady Bess, especially on the West End), and it's because it's an adaptation of a book that is required reading for a lot of students. (It also isn't lost on me that it feels like this is only an issue. With American audiences.)

...I don't want to cut any of the three of them, not really. I love Au Palais Royal, I love A Quoi Tu Dans, I love the original staging for Ca Ira Mon Amour, but I feel like Danton is kind of the most expendable of the main cast. He can be cut, while Papa du Puget's role can be slightly emphasized more, both to emphasize Olympe's family life and to shed a little light on what the politics of the Bastille were like, since he was a very interesting man who was involved in a lot. Make Necker a ghost character who's mentioned but not seen. Cut Antoinette's love affair with Fersen, possibly give "Le Temps s'en Va" back to Ronan and Olympe, making it a sort of love at first sight situation before shit hits the fan. Tie the show's two villains, Lazare and Artois, closer together so it doesn't feel like two messy plots.

They're painful changes to make, I'm not sold on them (except for cutting Fersen), but I think they might create a slightly stronger show. In the absence of the audience being really familiar with the show, we have to settle for creating sympathetic, likeable leads and a strong love plot. If we don't have that, the show flops.

#long post #1789 les amants de la bastille

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