| Author | Message: Hey I'm New To The Park! | Posted by: Broadwaywiz
On: 7/25/1999 at 1:45:05 AM GMT
Message #: 74
See headers | Hey Everyone!
I'm new to this list! I thought I'd join because ever since I got the Video on Thursday the
show started to Fascinate even though I had the cast album for two years already! But this
show is great! But what really confuses me Is the second act! How does dot get there and
why does she think the New george is the old one? But it is a great show. Just a question,
How would Amateaurs be able to do this show? I mean Community Theatre and stuff It
would be hard wouldn't? Also, After Bernadette and Mandy left did anyone else take over? I
know the show is long gone now...or is it? Well it's on video and in our hearts So there!
Anyway Glad to be here! Hope this list is alive talk to everyone later!!
Musically Here,
Broadwaywiz
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| | Author | Message: Re: Hey I'm New To The Park! | Posted by: "Scholand"
On: 7/25/1999 at 9:34:36 AM GMT
Message #: 75
See headers | Welcome to our humble list!
Before Marie (old george & dot's daughter) dies, while in the museum, at
the end of the song Children and Art (track 13 on the CD i believe) she
says "listen to Mama." This is foreshadowing... her death makes it
impossible for her to accompany "new george" to La Grande Jatte, but while
George is alone in the park Dot ("mama") appears. --How-- is not really
the issue; it's obviously not something that is possible in reality - a few
minutes later, the whole park is restored to its former grandeur. As for
Dot mistaking "new george" for "old george", that has to do with the advice
that she gives him in and around the song "Move On". He finds it very
comforting and applicable to his life, even though she didn't intend it for
-him-. Perhaps that suggests the universality of the -moving on- advice
she gives in the song.
that's what i think anyway.
i think we should talk about the actual show more often on this list;
like... bring up discussion topics and discuss them via email.
have a great day everyone
regards,
Greg
And crawling on the planet's face, some insects... called
the human race: lost in time, lost in space, and meaning.
-The Rocky Horror Picture Show
"The line dividing good and evil cuts through the
heart of every human being. And who is willing to
destroy a piece of his own heart?"
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"If you can know where you're going, you've gone"
-Sunday in the Park with George
> From: Broadwaywiz <broadwaywiz@c...>
> To: Sunday In The Park List <sundayinthepark@o...>
> Subject: [sundayinthepark] Hey I'm New To The Park!
> Date: Sunday, July 25, 1999 1:45 AM
>
> From: Broadwaywiz <broadwaywiz@c...>
>
> Hey Everyone!
> I'm new to this list! I thought I'd join because ever since I got the
Video on Thursday the
> show started to Fascinate even though I had the cast album for two years
already! But this
> show is great! But what really confuses me Is the second act! How does
dot get there and
> why does she think the New george is the old one? But it is a great show.
Just a question,
> How would Amateaurs be able to do this show? I mean Community Theatre and
stuff It
> would be hard wouldn't? Also, After Bernadette and Mandy left did anyone
else take over? I
> know the show is long gone now...or is it? Well it's on video and in our
hearts So there!
> Anyway Glad to be here! Hope this list is alive talk to everyone later!!
>
>
>
>
> Musically Here,
> Broadwaywiz
>
>
>
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| | Author | Message: Re: Hey I'm New To The Park! | Posted by: abroverman
On: 7/25/1999 at 10:57:19 AM GMT
Message #: 76
See headers | I guess I should say welcome, even though I'm relatively new and have
barely posted before. I hope now this list will be more active!
Anyway, you asked who took over for Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters.
Patinkin left before Peters and Robert Westenberg (the man who plays the
soldier in the video) took over for him, bringing his beautiful baritone
to the role that Sondheim had originally wanted to be sung by a baritone.
I think Harry Groener took over for him later, but I can't remember the
names of the women who suceeded Bernadette Peters. Sorry.
You also asked what other Sondheim videos are out there. My personal
favourite is Into the Woods with Bernadette Peters (again -- I'm a fan!!),
Joanna Gleason (my most favourite actress ever!!), and (again too) Robert
Westenberg (LOVE him). There is also a Sweeney Todd video with George
Hearn and Angela Lansbury (I haven't yet seen it, but I hear it's
definitely worth taking a look at). Oh, and Passion has been recorded on
video too (again, haven't seen it, but I love the score). And back in the
70s, D. A. Pennebaker made a documentary about the making of the Original
Broadway ast Recording of Company -- very interesting (I think it's called
The Making of Company). That's all I know of, though. Hope it helps.
Alison
| | Author | Message: Re: Hey I'm New To The Park! | Posted by: "Jae Hunt"
On: 7/27/1999 at 4:22:31 AM GMT
Message #: 77
See headers | I'd always felt that the ending was sort of symbolising what was going on in
the second George's mind... He never believed that Dot or any of the people
in the painting were real in the way that Marie did, until he went to the
island.
When he read the sort of diary Dot had kept in her writing book, be believed
in her as his ancestor - she became real to him, so she became 'real' on the
stage, as did the other people in the painting, and the park itself. Now he
believes that the family legend is true and the people were as they are in
the painting.
In 'Move On', it's like he's reading about her feelings and applying them to
his life - like Greg said, even though they weren't intended for him. It's
like sometimes you remember something someone said a long time ago (or even
something written by someone you never met), and apply it to something in
your life at the moment, and gain some insight or solve a problem through
it - you could imagine that as a kind of conversation with the person.
Through what Dot wrote many years before about her George and her life,
modern-day George learned to move on.
So if you were to recreate the story 'realistically', all George would
really do in that scene is sit and read - not too exciting on stage... :).
In it's place, we have a kind of dream sequence, or rather, an imagination
sequence, to show us what's going on in his mind.
Just my interpretation... :)
Jae
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