#hugh jackman and sutton foster

[jojoblessed365]

I miss a couple like Nick and Nora Charles in today's media; can anyone make a movie starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster as the Charles'???

They're perfect as the new age Nick and Nora Charles!!!

Or even a Fred and Ginger movie!!!

[tothineownomelette]

Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster in The Music Man 

[pemberlaey]

Meredith Wilson in 1957: *writes a musical where the heroine is a librarian with an attitude/secret romantic who is close with her family but feels alienated by everyone else and thinks of herself as unknowable so instead of putting herself out there she uses her intelligence to lean into the “antisocial bookworm” persona to keep herself from getting hurt but is secretly a little lonely and wishes she had friends but it’s okay because she has her family to take care of and her books and everyone who meets her assumes she’s reticent and calculating but she’s actually just a day dreamer who wants things so badly but she convinces herself those things are unattainable until she meets someone who likes her not in spite of her idiosyncrasies but because of them*

Me getting cast in said musical at age 5:

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Hugh Jackman wins praise from co-stars Sutton Foster, Aaron Tveit https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1199265-hugh-jackman-wins-praise-from-co-stars-sutton-foster-aaron-tveit

[prettyfamous]

Sutton Foster & Hugh Jackman | Broadway Barks, New York | 9 July 2022

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from IG suttonlenore - 12th October 2022

[kathrynchristie]

Once more, with feeling…

Meredith Willson’s The Music Man, starring Sutton Foster & Hugh Jackman.

So thrilled to be able to see their final performance today.

[geekysprinkler]

ok team had a debate at family dinner tonight.

[marisatomay]

Tabloids peddling rumors of Tom Cruise and some socialite “canoodling” at a party over the weekend and of Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster looking cozy once again what do they have against our old queens living a little…

[jgroffdaily]

Hi there! I’m curious to know have there been a lot of celebrity sightings at the Merrily shows? Thank you for all you do with this wonderful account.

There have been a lot of celebrity sightings at the show, and also off-Broadway, but only a few photos of celebrities have been posted on the official Merrily social media accounts (Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sutton Foster). Unlike other productions, Merrily continues to sell out every show, meaning that they don’t need constant PR so they rarely promote who is at the show.

Recent guests have included Melissa McCarthy (who went backstage and met the cast), Al Yankovic, Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell, Neil Patrick Harris, Jessie Ware, Jon Bass, Lucy Hale, and many Broadway actors and friends. A New York Post sightings column referenced (probably via the PR team) a range of actors who had been to the show early in the run (Maya Rudolph, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Paul Rudd and Hugh Jackman): https://jgroffdaily.tumblr.com/post/731387571451658240/also-this-one

During the Buzzfeed puppies interview, Jonathan mentioned that Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters, amongst others, saw the show off-Broadway.

Zachary Quinto was at the opening and came back a few weeks later with Sarah Paulson and Jessica Lange. Others at the opening included Anna Wintour, Cynthia Erivo, Lena Waithe, Raul Castillo (with Alexis Forte) and Gideon Glick.

Toby Onwumere saw the show with some friends, including Jonathan’s former partner, Tima Botwin.

There was a weekly summary posted on this account of celebrities seen at the show during the off-Broadway run.

Update: Whoopi Goldberg was at the show on 29 November and took photos with the cast. Rachel McAdams was also at the same matinee. Alan Menken and Hillary Clinton were at the 30 November show. David Fincher was at a recent show. Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey were at the 6 December evening show. Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells were at the 13 December matinee. Dave Bautista, Maude Apatow, Renee Rapp, Rachel Bloom, Jules Hough, Alan Mencken, Hillary Clinton. Brian J Smith, Harvey Guillen, Laura Linney, Karan Soni, Marcia Gay Harden. Paul Mescal, Michael Kors, Russell Tovey. Patti LuPone, Woody Harrelson, Betty Who. Glenn Close, Gayle Rankin.

[chestnutelm122]

Slime tutorials I’d probably be willing to pay for just to have a copy of:

Jessie Mueller:

• Waitress final performance (video, as I already have the audio)

• Waitress (with Charity Angel Dawson and Caitlin Houlahan — this duo too with Sara Bareilles)

• The Minutes

• Guys and Dolls (2022)

• The Music Man

• Carousel (as Julie Jordan)

• Any full P-Town concert videos

Sara Bareilles:

• Waitress (final performance on Broadway, reopening on Broadway, and any West End performances)

• Into The Woods (preferably opening or final performance, but I’d take any dates as long as it’s with the original cast of the revival)

• full ATC tour concert

• full Radio City Music Hall concert

Prima Facie:

• West End (opening/final performance)

• Broadway (opening, and when it gets available: final performance)

• WE or Broadway performance from any of the alternates

Fleabag:

• Any Phoebe Waller-Bridge performance (West End and/or Off-Broadway)

Wicked:

• Kristin Chenoweth’s vicodin show

Not a priority but would be nice to have:

• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (original West End or OBC)

• Jagged Little Pill

• A Doll��s House (with Jessica Chastain)

• &Juliet (esp ones with Betsy Wolfe)

• SIX (I’ll take any of the OBC but generally looking for Abby Mueller’s final performance)

• The Play That Goes Wrong

• The Vagina Monologues (off-Broadway)

• Funny Girl (with Beanie Feldstein and/or Lea Michele)

• The Music Man (with Sutton Foster and Hugh Jackman)

• The Grey House (with Tatiana Maslany)

• Kimberly Akimbo

• Flower Drum Song (with Lea Salonga)

• God of Carnage

• The Thanksgiving Play (with D’arcy Carden)

• Camelot Revival

• Here Lies Love (with Lea Salonga)

If anyone can point me to the right direction, pleaaaaaaaaaaase do so. I’m accepting gifts ofc but I don’t mind paying a bit for my favorites, especially anything Jessie Mueller, Sara Bareilles, and Jodie Comer.

[donnynovitskiaccordiongenius]

It’s been a hot minute (aka many years) since I did a life update on here so if you’re interested, keep reading some random bullet points about my life

Since my last life update…

I’ve been working at the same graphic design job since December 2018 (with a brief break during the year that shall not be named) and now I’m in charge of my department (of one other person and an intern but still lol)

This job is at a magazine which is funny cause in college I would have told you I hate magazine design, and now I love it.

Even though I took a long break from here, I got way closer with a handful of my mutuals (the fried brains <3) and they are the best. We met up irl in July, and it was lovely.

I have a dog named Ginny. She’s 3 and is a border collie mixed with something (idk what) and she’s the sweetest.

Still drinking lots of tea and coffee.

I lived in an apartment for 4 years and now I’m living with my parents again cause I’m saving to buy a house (in this economy??? I know right lol)

I have discovered a love for the shows White Collar and Chuck thanks to @tofangirlonly <3

I’ve made lots of new friends through church in the past few years

I got a nice record player last year and my vinyl collection has grown a lot

I got to go to The Eras Tour with @slytherinbookwyrm and it was magical

Still a single Pringle

I saw Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster in The Music Man on Broadway

Also saw DEH and Phantom on that trip

I’m very excited about my local theater’s “broadway” season and I got season tickets for the first time

I’m trying to read more again cause I kinda stopped for a while

I got pretty good at painting my own nails (I’m right handed so painting the nails on my right hand was a struggle and I practiced a lot so I’m good at it now)

So yeah that’s about it. Hope you enjoyed this random collection of things about my life lol

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@ride-a-dromedary Since you asked, here's my beef with Hugh Jackman Meredith Willson's The Music Man Sutton Foster. (No really, that's what the soundtrack album cover looks like.) Basically, I think the revival did a terrible job of capturing the soul and energy of the original show. If you want to read my protracted rant about it, then by all means, continue below.

(Note: I'm mostly going off of the movie adaptation to count for the "original" since it's the version I'm used to, but I also listened to the OBC recording occasionally to see what was shortened for the movie.)

I think the first big thing I should mention is that Hugh Jackman is simply a terrible choice to play Harold Hill. No offense to him, but in my eyes he's always been better at playing a character who seems very charismatic but is actually a bumbling fool (i.e. PT Barnum). Harold Hill might be a conman, but his whole livelihood revolves around getting people to believe that he means what he says and then believe that, too. You need an actor with an incredible amount of charisma and presence to be able to pull that off, and IMO, Jackman is not that actor.

He's also (again IMO) really just snoozing his way through this recording, especially on 76 Trombones! He's dropping R's left and right (to the point where it almost sounds like he's making the effort to sound Southern) and they had to add in a trombone sound behind his mimicking one because it sounds SO dull. Then he mispronounces "Creatore" somehow?? I know that's the littlest thing to get upset over but it also just shows how little this show's creatives know or care about what this musical is all about (more on that later).

And then: they do the MMM thing from Cats 2019. AKA, where they drop out all of the orchestra and sing the biggest song, probably the song that the most people in the audience will know, in a really annoying, slow build-up that entirely kills the flow of the piece. Speaking of killing the mood, the dance break in the middle of the song really does that as well. "76 Trombones" is about the farthest you can get from broke, so I have no clue why they tried to "fix" it in this way.

My least favorite Hugh Jackman song from this soundtrack, however, is not 76 Trombones, but Marian the Librarian. Just from the off, this is one of my favorite musical theatre vamps ever and they absolutely ruined it by playing it at like twice the normal speed. It also starts in the wrong key and then keys up again (???) before he starts singing, and from there it only gets worse. He basically gets every single vowel he possibly could wrong (my favorite being the classic Brit-as-American "Watt can I do") and just trips and falls through the entire song extremely uncharismatically. He says "li-berry" at one point, for goodness' sake! Please, if you haven't listened to the original Robert Preston version of this song (either from the movie or the show), go do it now and then listen to the mockery Hugh Jackman makes of it. It's so obvious that Preston has such a better command over his voice and sound that it makes Jackman sound like he has no clue what he's doing.

Sutton Foster is not nearly as bad as her co-star, although I think she's also miscast. Obviously a Shirley Jones-style voice is really hard to recreate these days, but she's just got such a bright singing and speaking voice that if you had told me in 2021 that she was going to be playing Marian I would've thought you were bad at fancasting. I think she still does a fine job with the poor directing choices she was given — a true professional.

OK, some quick things before I get to the most infuriating part of this revival.

It was also very bold of the creatives to not only keep My White Knight, which is one of my always-skips of the original, but to also add another one in in "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean".

Why the hell is Pick-A-Little so slow??? It's a patter song, folks, it's supposed to be peppy.

I guess they directed the poor kid playing Winthrop to exaggerate the lisp as much as possible (could they have considered maybe just hiring an actor with a lisp instead?) because it straight up sounds like he's putting it on as a joke most of the time. 😬

I think the new lyrics to "Shipoopi" are cringe. Is it that hard to suspend your disbelief that people in 1912 had antiquated views on relationships? Is "hussy" really even that bad of an insult anymore? This song also gets the slowed down + long-ass dance break treatment, God save me.

So, if you're familiar with The Music Man, you might have noticed that I haven't yet mentioned a few key songs/moments. This is genuinely the part of the story of this revival that makes my blood boil. If you're unaware, 4 side characters in The Music Man make up a barbershop quartet, played in the original Broadway production and movie by the Buffalo Bills, a pre-existing quartet who Willson had become friends with even before writing the show. The Bills get multiple songs in the show, all sung in the barbershop style, and they all show off the iconic barbershop effect known as ringing chords, created from the quartet's just tuning. (I don't know enough about music theory to get into the weeds about this, but suffice it to say that barbershop singing and musical theatre singing are not interchangeable).

Apparently, when the revival was first being produced before the pandemic, a barbershop quartet called Category 4 was approached to play the quartet members. Great! Then, allegedly, post-pandemic, it was, to quote a spokesperson for the revival, "in the best interest of the show" for them to suddenly cut ties with Category 4, which would have broken contracts Category 4 said they signed. Less great. Instead, the 4 men credited as playing the quartet are Phillip Boykin, Eddie Korbich, Daniel Torres, and Nicholas Ward. I say "credited," but keep in mind that the OFFICIAL cast recording on Spotify does not credit Nicholas for "Sincere" AND "Lida Rose" (where Phillip's name is also misspelled), and on the two songs he is credited for, Spotify seems to have him confused with a violinist/conductor of the same name.

I bring this up to say that I don't blame these men for the situation Category 4 was put in — it seems the producers or someone else behind this production is extremely sloppy and willing to cut corners, including casting four musical theatre singers as a barbershop quartet. Because of this mindset, the songs are distinctly missing those ringing tones that are present in the Bills' versions, replaced with what I can only describe as "tricks" to make it seem like the harmonies are ringing, like a heavy overuse of dynamic changes, especially sforzandos. There's also at least one moment where one member (I think it's the tenor?) straight up sings the wrong note and completely changes the chord. Obviously I don't blame him for not being good at a singing style he literally isn't a professional at, but if there were at least one person in the booth familiar with barbershop or the original song, it hopefully would've been re-recorded.

And that's what hurts me the most — Meredith Willson was a huge fan of barbershop music and the Buffalo Bills especially, and now the music he wrote for them is being butchered by people 60 years later who want to make a quick buck. This revival has "cash-in" written all over it, from stunt casting the leads regardless of how well they fit the roles to not bothering to get actual professional barbershop singers to play a barbershop quartet. It's a soulless attempt to resurrect a great musical that didn't need to and shouldn't have happened.

[whatsabriard]

Sitting in the theater waiting for the National Tour of Frozen. Got to thinking about shoes I’ve seen.

Wicked - Broadway: Shoshonna Bean/Megan Hilty. National Tours: Memphis, Tulsa x2

Legally Blonde - National Tour, Tulsa

9 to 5 - National Tour, Tulsa

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - National Tour, Bentonville

The Addams Family - Broadway: Bebe Neuwirth, Roger Rees. National Tour, Fort Smith

Beauty and the Beast - Los Angeles, Susan Egan

Me and My Gal - National Tour(?), Los Angeles I’m the 1980s. Would have been Tim Curry??? I fell asleep. I was just a child.

Evita - National Tour, Fort Smith

Regional Productions

Music Theater of Southern California: Singing in the Rain, Kismet, Carousel, Damn Yankees. We were season ticket holders in the early 90s. There was a lot.

Misc SoCal theaters: The King and I, 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, Billy the Kid ballet with Bonus Square dancing.

Anyway. I haven’t been to the theater in years - Covid is not my excuse - and I’ve missed it. Also I was supposed to go to NYC to see Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster in Music Man in 2021 but …

[domorebemore]

broadway fucking sucks i can’t believe i made a joke about a woke music man revival a few years ago and they actually did it and changed every single song and it all sucks hugh jackman sucks sutton foster SUCKS everybody SUCKS