| re: Bette-r late than never? | |
| Posted by: OriginalTopherP 02:25 pm EDT 06/08/24 | |
| In reply to: Bette-r late than never? - WaymanWong 09:41 pm EDT 06/07/24 | |
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| Specifically, Rudin said it was because "both numbers are staged on and around a passerelle, or bridge, which at the Shubert is 3 feet deep and at Radio City, 25 feet deep." “I told the Tony producers that unless they wanted to watch 12 dancers falling into the pit live on CBS, doing either number at Radio City was simply a nonstarter,” he says. The two performances of 'Parade' at the Tony's that I'm familiar with——Jack Albertson in '77 and Carol Channing in '71 & '84——were staged as simply stand and sing numbers, without the ensemble staging, so it sounds that was what Rudin wasn't interested in doing. And worth noting the times that Hello, Dolly has performed ensemble numbers--the Pearl Bailey cast with 'Sunday Clothes' in '68 or the Jerry Herman tribute that included the title number in '84 (which was also very much abridged)——they were in Broadway theaters (Shubert & Gershwin, respectively) that would have been much closer in size to wherever the show was playing. Just an observation! |
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