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The interviews/promotional videos from Frankenstein the Musical (review forthcoming) are hysterical.
First you have Hunter Foster going, "This is all really new and innovative and awesome - but it's not better than Young Frakenstein. No, really, it's not. In fact, I think you should all see both of them! In the same day, even! Because neither of them is better than the other - really!"
And then you have Steve Blanchard, with, "I came in and I told the director that he should just to really intense stuff with me, because I really wanted to get into the character - and we have been, we've been doing improv, and character analysis, and really innovative and intesne things like that. But the monster, he's really human, you know? I mean, can you imagine having no soul? Wouldn't that be awful? And he's really just searching for love just like the Beast."
And then Christiane Noll says, "Did you know that Mary Shelly was the first feminist. She was. And so Elizabeth was a feminist too, but than Mary Shelley was worried that people would think that she wrote herself into her story, so she made her blonde and gave her blue eyes and things like that. But I'm playing the original Elizabeth! So she's nothing at all like Emma from Jekyll and Hyde! Not at all! I wouldn't ever do anything like that again! I'm being rebellious with Elizabeth. So rebellious, in fact, that the writers all hate me!"
And, of course, Jim Stanek pipes in with, "It's topical! It's about stem cell research and things like that! And I get to be the voice of religion! Isn't that just awesome? Oh, yeah, and it has real themes, not like Lestat or Little Women. And it's topical too!"
Also, the entire creative team talks about how the problems with all other adaptations was that they didn't go back to the original story. Why didn't these people work on Dracula the Musical?
First you have Hunter Foster going, "This is all really new and innovative and awesome - but it's not better than Young Frakenstein. No, really, it's not. In fact, I think you should all see both of them! In the same day, even! Because neither of them is better than the other - really!"
And then you have Steve Blanchard, with, "I came in and I told the director that he should just to really intense stuff with me, because I really wanted to get into the character - and we have been, we've been doing improv, and character analysis, and really innovative and intesne things like that. But the monster, he's really human, you know? I mean, can you imagine having no soul? Wouldn't that be awful? And he's really just searching for love just like the Beast."
And then Christiane Noll says, "Did you know that Mary Shelly was the first feminist. She was. And so Elizabeth was a feminist too, but than Mary Shelley was worried that people would think that she wrote herself into her story, so she made her blonde and gave her blue eyes and things like that. But I'm playing the original Elizabeth! So she's nothing at all like Emma from Jekyll and Hyde! Not at all! I wouldn't ever do anything like that again! I'm being rebellious with Elizabeth. So rebellious, in fact, that the writers all hate me!"
And, of course, Jim Stanek pipes in with, "It's topical! It's about stem cell research and things like that! And I get to be the voice of religion! Isn't that just awesome? Oh, yeah, and it has real themes, not like Lestat or Little Women. And it's topical too!"
Also, the entire creative team talks about how the problems with all other adaptations was that they didn't go back to the original story. Why didn't these people work on Dracula the Musical?