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Post by sparky5000 on Sept 13, 2019 19:21:27 GMT
It seems they have started rehearsals.. in New York... for this already.. The 'evan's' have been there for a week already I think. Some of the cast flying tomorrow, and most likely starting to rehearse on Monday. Seems a costly way to do it, but they obviously want this show to be in prime shape for the opening. Idk, it’s probably cheaper to fly out the cast to nyc and have them stay in cheapish accommodation, than fly out all the creative team from the US to London and do it that way! 😆 |
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Post by Dr Tom on Sept 13, 2019 19:29:10 GMT
have them stay in cheapish accommodation So they're not staying in NYC then?  |
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Post by danb on Sept 13, 2019 19:48:42 GMT
8 bed bunk room in a hostel. Not too pricey.
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Post by alece10 on Sept 13, 2019 20:20:03 GMT
Judging from Instagram pic its definately budget accommodation.
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Post by musicalmarge on Sept 13, 2019 23:23:45 GMT
Will we have English or American accents?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2019 6:27:51 GMT
Will we have English or American accents? I was told English earlier on, but Nicole Raquel Dennis said to someone that she would be doing an American accent. |
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Post by viserys on Sept 14, 2019 6:41:14 GMT
This is such a thoroughly American story, it would feel very weird in an English accent.
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Post by ukpuppetboy on Sept 14, 2019 8:19:18 GMT
‘To break in a Glove’ wouldn’t really work if the story was set in Britain. It’s not that we can’t play baseball I suppose, but we just don’t. And that whole scene really focuses on the regular things that Evan missed out on by not having a dad at home and I’m almost positive conditioning a mit isn’t part of the standard father/son bonding in the UK. The “high school shooter chic” line would also have to be rewritten..
Early on when Avenue Q was initially auditioning I was told they were going to set that in the UK too - with Christmas Eve rewritten as an Indian Shop Owner (and the actress who played Sharmila in Eastenders was before me in auditions at Stratford East so I know it was definitely on the table). Mercifully they saw fit to keep the setting intact and the show seemed to be pretty successful. I’m sure DEH will do likewise.
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Post by xanady on Sept 14, 2019 8:39:05 GMT
Lots of cheapo accommodation in the Brooklyn area where we always stay and then take the metro into the city...simples!
As for the accents...surely American...but we shall see...
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Post by Mark on Sept 14, 2019 8:48:58 GMT
Way too many americanisms to change the location.
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Post by alece10 on Sept 14, 2019 15:27:42 GMT
Confirmed by the man himself just now on Instagram. They will have American accents.
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Post by demonbarber on Sept 17, 2019 13:14:13 GMT
Not sure if this has been posted before but there’s a video from two years ago of Sam Tutty singing Waving Through a Window whilst at drama school
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Post by Jon on Sept 17, 2019 14:33:36 GMT
It'd be very weird to change from American to British as it is set in America.
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Post by 49thand8th on Sept 17, 2019 14:38:29 GMT
This is such a thoroughly American story, it would feel very weird in an English accent. Especially the school shooter line! |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 17, 2019 16:26:05 GMT
Not sure if this has been posted before but there’s a video from two years ago of Sam Tutty singing Waving Through a Window whilst at drama school Erm... ok. I suppose it IS tricky one to sing 😐 |
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Post by danb on Sept 18, 2019 8:55:47 GMT
This is why they need to do it in American accents...
Solid voice, those high ‘waving’s posed no challenge. It just needs singing in character and listening to those weird instrument things...sorry...the music...that can be heard in the background. They’ll be there when you’re gone pal...they’re not your competition.
From all the speculation that they might cast it a bit different, he is very ‘trained MT’ generic sounding. Sure, that is what’s required to sing it safely 6/8 shows a week, but I was hoping for something a little quirkier. Still v excited to see it/him.
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Post by MoreLife on Sept 18, 2019 9:17:26 GMT
Not sure if this has been posted before but there’s a video from two years ago of Sam Tutty singing Waving Through a Window whilst at drama school Erm... ok. I suppose it IS tricky one to sing 😐 I believe that video is from a school performance from two years ago, which - in the context of drama school full-time training - is a really long time... and Sam's recent turn as Daniel in 'Once on this island' at the Southwark Playhouse already showed a much more mature and solid performer. Sure, in that video he and the band seemed to have more than a disagreement as far as tempo is concerned, and his interpretation was perhaps lacking in depth, but the tone and range were there already, so I'm confident he'll do a good job (and I am very relieved we'll get an American accent). As for the "generic MT trained sound"... Evan's role truly is a beast vocally - only a few minutes into the show and he's already hitting and sustaining high B-flat's, his next number has him dealing with nasty intervals and singing high As and Bs, and the score stays equally demanding when the emotional stakes get higher later on (see 'Words fail'), so I'm personally very glad we get a solidly trained voice that can handle all that for 6-8 shows a week. |
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Post by danb on Sept 18, 2019 11:28:45 GMT
Alright, I’ll bite because you, like, know the names of notes and stuff, but the point I was making was more around expecting someone different or quirky sounding given the social media campaign beforehand and the indiscreet ‘it might be Tyrone Huntley’ whispers. It isn’t ‘Aspects of Love’. They aren’t looking for the next Michael Ball. They were supposedly looking for a fresh talent to sing this fresh (but already dated) role. There are solidly trained voices out there that don’t sound like that, and that I guess is what I was expecting.
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Post by christya on Sept 18, 2019 12:33:02 GMT
I liked his version better than most I've heard - really promising considering that was two years ago. Personally I'd much rather hear it like this (albeit with the American accent) than done in any kind of quirky way. If they'd pulled anything too out of the left field with casting I don't know if I'd have bothered to go.
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Post by xanady on Sept 20, 2019 19:14:05 GMT
Just got our tickets in the previews...can’t wait...absolute cert to mop up at the Oliviers...can’t see that anything will touch it 😀
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Post by billy on Sept 21, 2019 17:22:48 GMT
Got one of the £12.50 slip seats for November 13th - the only day between opening and about mid-December that didn’t only have the ludicrously priced three-figure premiums left. Better options are found for early 2020 but I'm looking forward to seeing this as soon as possible!
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Post by Mark on Sept 21, 2019 18:21:26 GMT
Some other potential cheaper tickets will be the back two rows of the stalls which aren’t yet on sale (and won’t be until sound desk etc are finalised. The other productions have also all had some form of ticket lottery/rush so I guess we can expect that here too.
Standing room at Noel Coward at the side of the stalls is usually sold too.
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Sept 21, 2019 19:19:21 GMT
I had kind of already decided I wasn't going to bother seeing this after reading the basics of the plot and finding the morals quite questionable but I quite enjoyed the couple of songs I'd heard and enjoyed the music of Dogfight recently so I thought I'd listen to the whole thing and see if the music might persuade me to get over my issues with the story. I can't say I really disliked any of the music but it felt like every song followed the exact same structure and it all felt very samey after a while which I've never really felt with other shows that face that complaint. It seems like every song follows the structure of verse, chorus but the high notes are falsetto, verse, chorus but now belted, verse or bridge, chorus but maybe modulated up a step or something. I've never noticed a musical stick so rigidly to a song structure like this but for whatever reason it was extremely noticeable to me here. It's a shame because I love musicals but it's felt like (until more recently at least) I've not been seeing them as frequently as I used to in comparison to the number of plays I'd seen this year so it would have been nice to have another big musical to look forward to. I'd love to see if anyone else has noticed this or disagrees with my assessment of the music. I've only listened completely through once so I may have missed some nuance meaning I didn't give the score enough credit.
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Post by viserys on Sept 22, 2019 5:12:45 GMT
Oh I agree. I wanted to love this show when I first heard about it, because the issues of Evan spoke to me on a personal level. But between the questionable story and the bland music, I never really warmed to it. My problem isn't so much the blandness of the score than the relentless over-amplification. It's such a relief when the album finally reaches the soft sweet and lovely "So Big/So Small". I will give it a go in November, having bought one of the cheap slip seats, but this show's massive success continues to mystify me.
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Post by Dr Tom on Sept 22, 2019 15:18:47 GMT
"Avenue Q" very quickly dropped all changes in previews when they realised that, for example. There are still a few differences in the book, like "Korean Deli" in the US is "Chinese Restaurant" in the UK. And the Gary Coleman character in the US is placed by a woman, in the UK played by a man. So, I expect there will be small differences with Dear Evan Hansen, just as with Hamilton, Beautiful and Billy Elliot to give some examples I've noticed. |
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