Post by jackjackjack on Jun 21, 2006 16:18:14 GMT 11
I will now quote extracts from a letter I got from Magda Szubanski, care of the MTC:
I might actually be tempted, If I trusted the MTC to spend the money on musicals.
James
Dear James,
Most of you saw me recently in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which was my first Melbourne Theatre Company musical. And yet, as fun as it was - and it was a lot of fun (well I had fun anyway) - let's face it, the show was clearly hamstrung by the lousy budget.
Not only were nine of us expected to cover fourteen roles, but the big production numbers were going to be tricked out by members of the audience. Then further shocks! MTC gave me one costume - one! - and when my self-respect (and my self-respect's agent) demanded a bit of Broadway razzamatazz, I was given - get this! - a shoe with fairy lights attached to it. 'Magic foot,' my foot!
But I have a dream.
One day I will return to MTC for a big musical - I mean really big - that will find me hip-to-hip with a chorus line of, say, twenty-four high-stepping, tuxedoed gentlemen, belting out the show's big production number (CDs available in the foyer), played by a full orchestra with a string section and a horn section and a guy who does nothing all show except ting a triangle twice. And for the finale I will fly down from the gods to the gasps and cheers of the MTC audience, astride an enormous piece of farm produce, just like Todd McKenney in The Boy From Oz, but not a banana this time, maybe something really out there, like an eggplant!
{Insert donation request here}
Who knows? - your generosity might allow MTC to do a proper musical for once, something bigger, bolder and more ... more - what's the word? ... Szubanski!
Cheerio
Magda
Most of you saw me recently in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which was my first Melbourne Theatre Company musical. And yet, as fun as it was - and it was a lot of fun (well I had fun anyway) - let's face it, the show was clearly hamstrung by the lousy budget.
Not only were nine of us expected to cover fourteen roles, but the big production numbers were going to be tricked out by members of the audience. Then further shocks! MTC gave me one costume - one! - and when my self-respect (and my self-respect's agent) demanded a bit of Broadway razzamatazz, I was given - get this! - a shoe with fairy lights attached to it. 'Magic foot,' my foot!
But I have a dream.
One day I will return to MTC for a big musical - I mean really big - that will find me hip-to-hip with a chorus line of, say, twenty-four high-stepping, tuxedoed gentlemen, belting out the show's big production number (CDs available in the foyer), played by a full orchestra with a string section and a horn section and a guy who does nothing all show except ting a triangle twice. And for the finale I will fly down from the gods to the gasps and cheers of the MTC audience, astride an enormous piece of farm produce, just like Todd McKenney in The Boy From Oz, but not a banana this time, maybe something really out there, like an eggplant!
{Insert donation request here}
Who knows? - your generosity might allow MTC to do a proper musical for once, something bigger, bolder and more ... more - what's the word? ... Szubanski!
Cheerio
Magda
I might actually be tempted, If I trusted the MTC to spend the money on musicals.
James