'Superman: The Musical'

[ye5man]

You can watch it here ;D

[cypher85]

cool, I'll give this a watch. Probably pretty brutal though.

[starchild]

I seen this before and my friends made me watch the whole stupid thing. And, after watching it ... I really need to get drunk unfortunately ... I was underage at the time it was came out.

This is the most mind blowing thing that I ever seen in my life and I saw it once and vowed to never see it again.

It is too to me!

And, I was ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D all the way home after seeing for the first time in 1975. I saw this back then because my friends got me ticket to this farce and they made me sit right through it.

[Deleted]

I believe this is actually playing anew in midtown Manhattan somewhere. I SWEAR I went by it in a taxi after work.

[Jimbo]

Whatever happened to that Spider-Man musical? Did it die a horrible death?

[Deleted]

No, it was kinda fixed up and now is doing alright, actually.

[Jimbo]

Ah, they must have figured out how to stop injuring the cast.

[crazy_asian_man]

Not really a fan of musicals at all....

But....
If anyone is Singer's camp was at ALL interested in telling the story of SR 2 (*yeah, yeah, I know the story was never fully fleshed out, but he must have had SOME idea what he was going to do) in theatre form, that might be cool---

If nothing else, couldn't be worse than other theatre stuff out there...

[booshman]

I've not watched the musical in it's entirety, it's just too horrid to sit through the whole thing in one go. I would be interested to see more of the Broadway show that is mentioned briefly on "Look, Up in the Sky". I'm guessing there's no footage of it though, since they only showed a few stills while talking about it.

[Olly H 82]

The cinema snob did a great review on the crappy musical. thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/bj/tcs/24937-superman-the-1975-musical

[booshman]

I do like Brad Jones, he's entertaining and funny. A lot more talented than a lot of the TGWTG crew. If not for him I'd have no idea who Pierre Kirby was.

[Deleted]

I am, only now, beginning to appreciate musicals. I went to see "How To Succeed In Business" and wanted to leave at the intermission but stuck through it 'til the end, and I'm very glad I did. During the show, I suddenly got this very odd sense of humanity watching it. I realized how many different people had seen this show through out time, and started to think about the other musicals out there that are still playing and have been for so long, or used to play back in the day and are back now...it just sorta hit me how important it was and I started to really appreciate it.

There is something about the acting, though. I don't really care too much for theatrical acting. It's pretty hammy. It kinda has to be, so the audience can clearly get what's going on, but...I dunno. I've seen a few plays, too, and the acting is always just off. I prefer movie acting. It's more realistic. Even movie stars in plays do it. Justin Long was really over the top in his acting, it was a little too self conscious. Billy Crudup I've seen be the same kinda way, ditto for Jerry O'Connell. Even Jeff Goldblum. It's just how it is, I guess. You can see the acting more on stage, I feel, rather than on screen. It just SEEMS and SOUNDS like acting in stage. I don't care for it. Does that make sense at all to anyone?

[ye5man]

You can see the acting more on stage, I feel, rather than on screen. It just SEEMS and SOUNDS like acting in stage

I feel the same way whenever Tom Hanks is onscreen

[Deleted]

I can see that, actually. But I'm alright with it, as it is, at least, more realistic than the hammy boppadaboppadabop kind of theater dialogue.

Granted, I've only seen a few plays, and I should see something more serious with better actors, but still...

[crazy_asian_man]

I am, only now, beginning to appreciate musicals. I went to see "How

To Succeed In Business" and wanted to leave at the intermission but stuck through it 'til the end, and I'm very glad I did. During the show, I suddenly got this very odd sense of humanity watching it. I realized how many different people had seen this show through out time, and started to think about the other musicals out there that are still playing and have been for so long, or used to play back in the day and are back now...it just sorta hit me how important it was and I started to really appreciate it.

There is something about the acting, though. I don't really care too much for theatrical acting. It's pretty hammy. It kinda has to be, so the audience can clearly get what's going on, but...I dunno. I've seen a few plays, too, and the acting is always just off.

I have friends who are HEAVILY into theatre (not my thing, though) and over time, realized that the style is very different more for practicality's sake (projection and clarity of voice so that the back row can hear them) than anything else, it seems.

Not that there's not bad actors in theatre as well as in movies, (they'll always.... be around) just that from the get-go, acting in theatre productions can seem pretty stiff--- actors having to be positioned in certain spots and say certain things at a certain volume just more for practicality's sake--- perhaps much like how soap operas (outside of horrible writing) can make actors seem worse than they are, because they're often rooted to one spot while spouting five minutes of dialogue unnaturally to shoot fast and quick.

[ye5man]

Any actor who can go on stage, 2+ shows a day and do it perfect every day has my respect. I'd love to have tried it but my memory is shit and so is my voice.

Respect to film actors who did stage work first. That's how you learn and hone your craft. I also imagine it must be 100% more thrilling than hanging around on a sound stage all day.