South Pacific on Broadway - General Tiki

FG Futura Girl Member Joined: Oct 01, 2002 Posts: 933	FG Futura Girl Posted posted on Fri, Mar 7, 2003 7:26 PM First of all, yah, Glenn Close was 30 pushing 40 years too old for the role for the tv remake. As far as any ideas about it needing to be brought up-to-date... I say pshaw... The themes of racial prejudice and tolerance do stand the test of time and are relevent today - if not more important than ever. And the silly boy meets girl and boy loses girl and good old fashioned sexism is just fine... It's Broadway Babay with a capital "B" We saw the revival of Oklahoma on Broadway last year and it was wonderful - even the fantasy ballet scene - which always kind of vibed me a bit in the movie - seemed right at home on stage. Stunrut, what do you play? C.B. wants to audition for the pit band, too! He played drums on a L.A. revival of Evita. And I wanna move to New York! Hey Thor - hook us up :wink:

First of all, yah, Glenn Close was 30 pushing 40 years too old for the role for the tv remake.

As far as any ideas about it needing to be brought up-to-date... I say pshaw... The themes of racial prejudice and tolerance do stand the test of time and are relevent today - if not more important than ever.

And the silly boy meets girl and boy loses girl and good old fashioned sexism is just fine... It's Broadway Babay with a capital "B"
We saw the revival of Oklahoma on Broadway last year and it was wonderful - even the fantasy ballet scene - which always kind of vibed me a bit in the movie - seemed right at home on stage.

Stunrut, what do you play? C.B. wants to audition for the pit band, too! He played drums on a L.A. revival of Evita. And I wanna move to New York! Hey Thor - hook us up :wink:

Post #25722 by Futura Girl on Fri, Mar 7, 2003 7:26 PM