Thursday, November 01, 2007
School of Music performs Nine
The Tartan Online: "Nine, the latest musical produced by Carnegie Mellon’s School of Music, is an entirely different animal from the surreal Italian film that inspired it, Federico Fellini’s, 8 1⁄2. Along with the extra one-half, playwright Arthur Kopit gave Nine a more literal backbone, stripping out most of the surrealism of 8 1⁄2, while adding musical comedy and tweaking the plot and characters. The result is not quite as great a musical as 8 1⁄2 is a film, but it is a solid, interesting play with a colorful cast of characters and a bit more philosophy than the average Broadway show. The School of Music carried off the production impeccably, with strong acting and singing performances from everyone, gorgeous costumes, and an appropriately stark, minimal set."
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I saw this as well and dont have quite as much to rave about as ths writer. i do think that the actors were good, the singing was absolutely wonderful. however i felt that the stage was to small to house all the actors, it felt crowded and uncomfortable during the large ensemble scenes. along with this the costumes were ill fitting. there were a lot of good things about the performance, mainly being the actors and their beautiful voices. but that beauty to me seemed lost in the awkwardness of most of the show.
My roommate and I were out for supper on friday night and we met one of her friends who caught Nine.
Its interesting to hear his take on it. Even though I feel very eager to jump in to give my take on it, I didn't watch Nine afterall.
In all, it was interesting and sort of refreshing to see a performance from a Non-theatre person's point of view.
i too loved the costumes. they may have been ill fitting at times, but in general i thought they were very original and interesting, but in a way that was fitting to the characters and show.
I didn't go see this show, mostly because I would have had to pay for it. I didn't really hear wonderful things about it, and it makes me wonder if they send the nice critics to the school of music shows and the mean ones to ours... But I guess maybe no one is really as hard on our shows as we are. The descriptions of black and white costumes seems a little kitchy to me, but I did just get off of an 8 hour lighting call, so maybe everything seems a little kitchy right now...
i went to go see this with a lot fo the freshmen DP's. i loved it. Their voices were amazing and it really fascinated how the main character was a BHA major not even a vocal major. That is some real talent. The scenes were simple and the costumes were great. i really enjoyed the part with the silhouettes .
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