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Hi Eddie Varley of Broadway World
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You're here in the middle of Les Miserables rehearsal in sunny Los Angeles where the weather is the same every day
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But we're very excited and we're going to put fingers crossed for a great show this weekend
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I can't believe what we've pulled off, you know, with myself and Mary Beth Abel and Kevin Stites and all the people working on the show
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But last November when Cameron Mackintosh called me and Richard Selfis from MTI along with the Bole people to say
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we're going to do the Miss Robin concert, would you be interested
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Well you know that took me about two seconds to figure out What I didn understand because I had done an in before in Toronto at the Sky Dome with Keith Batten and what I didn quite understand is that they actually don
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do concerts here. And of course, they do many concerts at Hollywood Bowl, but when they do their musical every
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summer, it's staged. Like last summer when they did South Pacific with Brian Stokes, Mitchell, and Reba McIntyre
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or when they did Sound of Music with Melissa Errico, they're staged, you know
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And so when I talked to everybody, I said, boy, you know, the concert version won't exactly translate to physical staging, you know, per se
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And so can we get a modified text and script and libretto? And Cameron and the folks in London, Claude Michel, Schoenberg and Alain Boubile went through the stuff
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And we have a very sort of unique version that's being performed here. And I'm very excited about it
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And we're pulling it off, I hope. Fingers crossed. We promote St John prietal Who loves to talk I love to talk to you
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I love to talk to you. To do this re-invented staging with no turntable and all that was wonderful and illuminating and scary
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It was as scary as hell. And I have to say that every actor in this show, even the high school kids who just graduated from Oak School
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and from Hamilton High where I saw a high school production and cried from top of my head
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I said, I want those kids in the show. They all contributed and they all understood
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how the show's put together. Here's the room, now go. It's sort of like Morales talking about her acting teacher
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You're on a bobsled, it's snowing, go. And you just let the people loose
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and you took what worked and you got rid of what didn't and you told story. We did theater games and I hate that term
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but we did things that were applicable about communication and hearing and listening and physicality and the whole thing's just been mind-boggling
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If I think about it, I'll start crying, and I have done a lot of crying. To the future, the people sing, sing the song of every hand
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This is the music of a people who would not be slaves again When When the music of our hearts and the music of their hearts there is a
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book about to start a tomorrow part. I'm thrilled
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at the opportunity to revisit the show 12 years later. And it's just thrilling
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And the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, the Hollywood Bowl structure. I just can't even say enough about it
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Everybody here, every designer, every operator, I just can't believe they put on a show here
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every single night. There's something here. And I just think they're the nicest people I've ever met
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And I'm not just saying that because I certainly want to come back for a show that I'm not known for
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But for right now, I'll take a little bit of a job. And it's just been a blessing all the way around
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I know people say that a lot. I'm not going to tell you about the journey and this and that and all those boring things
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but it's rock solid. We are rock solid and hopefully people will get it
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and I'm very excited and thanks for listening and thanks for watching Broadway World
