Spelling Bee Part 7 - The I Love You Song/Woe Is Me (Reprise) - Up Stage Left Productions
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- Опубліковано 29 лип 2010
- William Barfée: Evan Bell
Olive Ostrofsky: Heather Dell
Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre: Cameron Platt
Marcy Park: Rachelle Clark
Leaf Coneybear: Phillip Hodgson
Chip Tolentino: Parker Wright
Rona Lisa Peretti: Emma Steinkellner
Douglas Panch: Albee Rothman
Mitch Mahoney: Kenneth Johnson
Marcia Park: Caitlin Brzezinski
Olive's Mom: Allison Lewis
Director: Cheri Steinkellner
Producers: Shana Lynch-Arthurs, Dave Arthurs, Steven Lovelace
Associate Director: Kameron Tarlow
Music Director: John Douglas
Vocal Director: Carolyn Ross
Choreographer: Keely Moore
Set and Lighting Design: Gabriel Rives-Corbett
Technical Supervisors: Dave Guy, Spencer Michaels
Stage Manager: Megan Harris
Costume Design: Jamie Perutz - Розваги
To be honest the best thing about this performance was Olive's mother. Her slow, heavenly and gentle singing really shows how she feels about olive and to be honest even overpowered the dads vibrato. It was a great performance though they are all wonderful.
Yes! I love the performance of Olive's mom and the dad's vibrato was amazing
They're so genuine and engrossed in their characters 😍 not to mention they have gorgeous voices!!!!! (Olive's dad expect ally gives me chills.)
especially*
@supersingerevan The reason isn't merely because of a lack of actors, especially in The I Love You Song. In this song Olive is creating a "chimerical" situation where her parents love her, when in reality they don't, as tragic as it is. The reason Mitch is portraying Olives dad and Rona is Olives mom is because to Olive, those two people are the most comforting people at the Bee. This is all Olives fantasy, and she is acting out this fantasy with the two most comforting people she knows.
The spellers were double-casted. Allison Lewis (the mother) was Olive in the other cast.
My pillow is wet... This song was amazing never do songs give me the chills like that.
How come the Woe is Me reprise song makes me want to cry?
Reese L I honestly don't know. I don't find any song in this musical emotional at all. I feel like any emotional songs in this musical are misplaced because we don't have enough time to connect with the characters on that level.
They are all comedy roles, so it's difficult to "care" enough to bring me to tears.
James Well, it's kinda the way she sang it, and that applies to Olive with The I Love You Song, too. It's just kinda sad...
Reese L Yeah, for you it obviously just hits you in the feels. That's the beauty of performance, it effects people in different ways.
James There was this one version of Putnam I saw, their Olive and Logainne sang with no emotion in their songs. This Logainne and Olive acted and sang beautifully.
The adults weren't double-cast. It was a rather ironic turn of events when an adult was the only person to need an understudy.
This was the best version of 25th I seen besides the OBC. Evan & Heather rocked it.
dang... there voices together make me wanna cry it gives me the chills
this song makes me cry everytime.
Just brilliant!
Such an emotional song
chills
This song gives me chills every time I hear it :)
amazing. brought me to tears
wow.
olive is sooo perfect!
beautiful
Omg..... third comment on this production...... but I loveeeee the way you guys did this!!!!! My favorite characters are, again, olive, logainne, and Marcy, and the casting is on point:) For the third time(sorry bout that) Congratulations on a great show!!
there are only a couple of songs that gives me goosebumps and this is one of them :D
Spectacular performances all around! I loved Allison's voice and the clear adoration for Olive -- made all the more painful by her absence. Kenneth captures the vocal quality of Mitch perfectly, and Heather delivers an emotional knockout punch in a beautifully sung and understated Olive. Bravo!
Your Olive is amazing.!!!
I think the girl who played Logainne was simply amazing! Keep up the great work!
Absolutely amazing! I am surprised no one has told you so until now, but from one thespian to another(s). Great, Great job! Vocals were powerful and fitting and emotion was dead on. I was near tears.... Just fantastic!
olive's dad...GOOD LORD SING! so impressed by this cast.
Okay this is the best I Love You performance I've seen so far.
@pilsburydoughboy555 During all of rehearsals, Olive's mom was played by the same girl as Rona. But Rona lost her voice at the last minute, and so we had the Olive from the other cast come in to sing just that song.
Who did play Olive's mother, since Rona couldn't? I didn't recognize her as another speller
The girl playing Olive kind of looks like Lindsey from Freaks and Geeks!
@Pigfartsrulez No, they are completely separate characters. They are always played by the people playing Rona and Mitch because the vocal ranges are similar, and they only appear in one scene, so hiring more actors would be ridiculous. Same reason why Mitch and Leaf play Logainne's parents, and Chip (or in our show, Marcy's mom) plays Jesus.
Olive's dad has good pipes! :D
@Blackwaith Those three are pretty awesome :) Thank you for the compliment!
My school is doing this musical and I am Olive. Your performance was really good. ^^
@Musicisthecure279 Agreed. I think all three of them have some pretty awesome pipes ;)
The girl who plays Logainne is a great singer:)
The dad is awesome!
BEST I LOVE YOU EVER!!!!!
shit. this is so good.
this is absolutely amazing. It is so well done. :) To you critics below me... my school is doing this show and these vocals are ridiculously hard to do.. I have friends auditioning for these parts who have sung at the Vatican and Carnegie Hall with our choir and they are even struggling. So please if you're going to be critical try singing it first.
Kenneth Johnson is my hero
Yeah, that's how it's almost always done. Rona would have played Olive's mom in this run if she hadn't lost her voice. Actually, I'm never quite sure what to call this level. It's all college and high school-aged performers, but not associated with any school. Pre-professional teen?
Took me a second to realize your two comments were meant as one sentence :P Yes I was!
Wow! Best production I've seen next to the Broadway production.
@jimsta4o9 I take issue with the idea that this is only true for this one song. What about Carl Dad and Dan Dad being played by Mitch and Leaf? Or Chip playing Jesus? As I interpret it, these roles are played by the actors on stage for pure convenience. Same way that Avenue Q has actors play multiple roles; that sort of thing happens frequently in shows, really. They're just separate characters, in my opinion.
Because the girl playing Rona fits the character of Rona and the girl who played Olive's Mom for this performance doesn't. Olive's Mom in this was brought in last minute (played Olive in the other cast) because Rona lost her voice.
@supersingerevan when I was in this show at a professional level Rona plays olive's mother and Mitch plays olive's father also Leaf's brothers and sisters are played by spellers and audience members and What level of theater was this done on?
@TeeJayCast I would personally say that's reading far too much into how the show was written, but that's certainly the stance a director could take when producing this play.
If there was another cast then why didnt they use the rona from the other cast?
Barfeè?
okay... so no disrepect but why didnt they just replace rona with the girl playing olive's mom?
I'm confused, is Olives mom really Rona and Mitch but she doesn't know?
Oh ok were you
Great Job I can see how you created Different choices but kept the character, this is my favorite show next to Avenue Q! I also try to find many unknown plays/ musicals to read/ direct but those too sound pretty generic, atleast it's not wicked! Haha
@supersingerevan I don't think it is at all, I think TeeJayCast has it spot on. It's quite obvious that it's all in Olive's head.
who is marcia park?
Marcy Parks is played by Rachelle Clark
Evan Bell I think she means Marcy's BM?
Emma Aldrich Don't you mean Logan's BM? lol