Monday, January 21, 2008

BROADWAY basics

 Superb actors are performing up and down and across Broadway, wonderful sounds of song are being sung, awakening costumes,  it's Broadway.  Broadway basics - talking by the cast during the show's performance poops the production.  Dialogue carried on for too long  creates down time, quiet time, not good,  Broadway is  song and dance storytelling. This is Broadway, not TV, Film, or a book reading. When the performers sing & dance, oh, so beautiful. When you first hear the volume of voice you crave for endless song, when its absent,  impatiently you wait  for more. In many productions many of these extremely talented actors should have the opportunity to reveal more talent, it would  take  slight revisions in the script, along with some great songwriting. And the finale should be a  progressive build up to a bursting finale, full with energy, never just let it happen, not good. 
No talking, sing ladies and gentlemen , sing.