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My name's Juno. I'm an aspiring actress and singer, and I lurk on the Sweeney Todd board, the Musicals board, the Freddie Mercury board and of course, with my homies on the Phantom of the Opera board!!!!
My life mostly revolves around musical theatre. Sad, I know, it's just a crazy obsession of mine that I can't take my mind off of. I'm in love with Stephen Sondheim. I also like Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Kander & Ebb, Jerome Kern, Jason Robert Brown and a growing fan of Kurt Weill and George Gershwin.
"Finishing the hat...how you have to finish the hat...how you watch the rest of the world from a window..."
Aside from musical theatre, I love Tom Waits, Janis Joplin, Ute Lemper, Queen, Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Beatles, King Missile, The Police, The Dresden Dolls, Gogol Bordello, Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix, Ray Charles, Bob Marley, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Bechet, Charlie Parker, Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday, Elton John, Art Garfunkel.....all the good stuff.
I love meeting new people. Feel free to send me a PM anytime.....but I'm very lax at checking my PMs, though, so don't be offended if I don't get back to you for a bit....just give me a friendly "Check your PM's" reminder, and I'll attend to it right away.
Sorry my profile isn't too interesting, try me another day.
Juno's Top 10 Greatest Broadway Musicals of All Time:
(no particular order)
Porgy and Bess
Showboat
Carousel
My Fair Lady
West Side Story
Gypsy
Sweeney Todd
A Little Night Music
Follies
Cabaret
Favorite Movies, in chronological order:
CITY LIGHTS (1931)
OF MICE AND MEN (1936)
THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)
THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940)
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)
ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1953)
REAR WINDOW (1954)
PSYCHO (1960)
WEST SIDE STORY (1961)
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (1961)
MY FAIR LADY (1964)
MARY POPPINS (1964)
A SHOT IN THE DARK (1964)
THE PRODUCERS (1968)
THE ODD COUPLE (1968)
FUNNY GIRL (1968)
CABARET (1972)
PAPER MOON (1973)
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (1973)
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974)
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975)
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES (1978)
WATERSHIP DOWN (1978)
THE LIFE OF BRIAN (1979)
THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987)
WAYNE'S WORLD (1992)
CHICAGO (2002)
THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE (2003)
LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003)
NAPOLEON DYNAMITE (2004)
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (2006)
Actresses, in no order: Madeleine Kahn, Elaine Stritch, Judy Garland, Lucille Ball, Patti LuPone, Meryl Streep, Judi Dench, Audrey Hepburn, Ethel Merman, Bernadette Peters, Gwen Verdon, Julie Andrews, Audra McDonald, Lea Salonga, Angela Lansbury, Tatum O'Neale, Marilyn Monroe....
QUOTES HEARD ON THE IMDB:
I once went to see "Cats" on Broadway as a kind of goof, to see how bad it really was. At some point during the opening number I was farted at by the fat businessman in the seat next to me and was momentarily stunned into paralysis by the inhuman stench and the malignantly glinting eyes of the chorus dancers clambering "cat-like" ; over the balcony seats towards me. Intense psychotherapy not being immediately on hand - nor a gas mask - I retreated hurriedly to an empty seat farther off...of which there were plenty.
---Rossoya1921
To tell you the truth, if idiots on a movie's message board mean that the movie's release date is near, all I say is "Send in the idiots!"
---Mr. Wentworth-Brewster on the subject of the rumored Follies movie.
"The Life" was playing in one of those barns they call theatres - like the Uris - and despite a semi-rock band and everyone yelling their heads off it was MIKED so that it was like being assaulted by a solid wave of SOUND. I'm far from a prude but I found nothing uplifting in the unrelenting hookers, pimps, drugs punctuated by barely adequate numbers. The irony was that one only had to step out of the theatre (just off Times Square) to walk right into the world being portrayed on stage.
---writers_reign on rock musicals
I will never, ever understand the hero-worship that Barbara Cook somehow elicits. I think that at her very best, she had a lovely voice and little acting talent, and that was 50-odd years ago. As her voice has withered, she's filled the void by finding awkward places to breathe and inappropriate notes to shorten. She's sung a lot of excellent music, yes, including Cunegonde and Amalia (my favorite two of her roles), but they've both been better sung and better acted, if not both at once. But perhaps her greatest crime relates to "In Buddy's Eyes," when in an interview once she shared her insight into the song/character/show : she had been told that Sally's deluding herself and that the song is really an expression of the character's elaborate lie that she's constructed for herself, but Cook couldn't find a way to play that, so she instead decided to sing it as though she meant it. In other words, her version of "acting" the song was to lose the subtext entirely. It's worth noting that a better actress might sing it as though the character meant it (while also illuminating that the character was delusional) -- Cook decided to sing it as though it were, quite simply, true.
---ChoirBoyOC on Barbara Cook
The ideal Ben Stone and Sally Plummer:
Betsy Joslyn - In Buddy's Eyes http://media.putfile.com/2-14-In-Buddys-Eyes-Betsy-Joslyn
Cris Groenendaal and Betsy Joslyn - Too Many Mornings http://media.putfile.com/1-14-Too-Many-Mornings-Cris-Groenen
I really want to hear Cris do "Live, Laugh, Love."  I can just see him in the studio recording this; one foot planted firmly forward, chest puffed out, emoting into the mic.
---ttbridges on casting Sondheim's Follies
To all those guys who think I don't have a notion of music, I play two intruments and my best friend and I have just written an audiobook for children containing a few songs which is going in production in a few weeks! And even our songs for a children's story are more sophisticated than Sondheim's songs!
---DoctorKay
The Phantom of the Opera is like a bad, obnoxious prostitute with too much makeup whom you can't help but love because in all its ridiculousness, it's actually cute all on its own.
---Directrix_M
JACK WARNER PUT MY FAIR LADY THROUGH THE ANTI-JULIE SHREDDER!
---JohnWatersJr
I'd sell my soul for a store to sell a special brand of Alcohol called "Stritch" . If Britney Spears and Hillary Duff can get their own perfume bottles, why can't Elaine get her own beverage?
---Computerwhiz92 on Elaine Stritch
Of course you're not going to be turned away at the door if you just happen to be a chick. And of course you can meet boys at "boys night", but they may be the bff-shopping-partne r kind, not the makeout-in-the-cab- ride-home kind.
One free drink though? Please. They should make it two at least.
---AngelzInHell on picking up guys at Xanadu.
Marilyn Manson is just novelty music for teenagers to annoy their Christian parents with.
---mr-ella-guru_31
Music speaks a language that words cannot. The marriage of words and music take the emotion of a piece to a higher level. There are tricks that music can play that words cannot. Music can move words to places they wouldn't go on their own. And, most importantly, music can keep going when the singing has stopped. The emotion of the character or characters can soar after they've stopped speaking or singing.
If you can, try to watch one of your favorite movies without the soundtrack. I don't know if this is possible, but if it is you'll see how big a role music plays in all movies. Scary movies are not as scary without the music. Romantic comedies are not as emotional. Music does a lot for a lot of movies. It's the same thing in a musical.
There's something very special about a well-made musical. This is why I don't like sung-thru musicals. You need to navigate from dialogue to lyric to music to dance and weave them in and out of each other. Give them each the importance they deserve. It's a very tricky dance that is difficult to master. And when it's done well, it's magical.
---BestOfAllPossibl e
Simply put... seeing/experiencing performances like this:
http://youtube.com/ watch?v=yE3dLzIYKs8
That is why I like musicals.
---jumpoverthemoo
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