Silence! The Musical and How I Wound Up Parodying Ted Levin's Incomparable Buffalo Bill
Every once in a small while we see an actor create a role so pitch-perfect, so damn real, that we just sit back and file that performance under the category of "F#$%ing Genius." We know in our hearts that no one else could ever or should ever play that role. Such is the case with The Silence of the Lambs.Stylish and popular discount iwcreplicawatches Accessories on sale here now. I remember watching that film as a young actor and thinking "OK, Ted Levine is Buffalo Bill. They just let the cameras role in his house with Jodi Foster there, and every size-14 girl within a 20-mile radius should live in fear for her life." He was that brilliant. Just let it live in history.
This sentiment changed, however, when a strange phenomenon in musical theater started happening. A huge, gaping hole in creativity and producing, a hole of historic proportions (maybe I should have written this anonymously?), started to unravel, and all anyone wanted to do was turn random movies into cheesy pop musicals, stuff them with C-list film actors, and come up with a product that had housewives across the country turning off QVC and dragging their husbands and kids to flood the box offices.
This formula, though, becomes a bit more interesting when you add to it two Internet-savvy, musical-genius brothers from L.A. with a wicked sense of humor. They took a brilliant film, one so historic, so iconic, so unsuspecting, so unlikely to be even glanced at for potential "musicalization" (an actual word now in musical theater), and turned it into a musical. That film was The Silence of the Lambs, and the musical, of course, is Silence! The Musical. They took the scariest, filthiest moments of that film, turned them into epic, sweeping showtunes, and published them on a website. Within months these guys had a following that would trump the number of teenage girls (and boys) staying on YouTube until all hours of the night uploading videos of themselves singing "Defying Gravity."
And that is how this actor was given the opportunity of a lifetime when this bit of filthy heaven finally found its way onto a stage. When I first heard that they were turning this into an actual stage production for the NYC Fringe Festival back in 2005, I knew that the people they were approaching to write the book and direct were not only two of the funniest people, but two of the smartest people, as well. So, essentially, I threw myself at the feet of Hunter Bell and Christopher Gattelli and begged them to let me audition; I knew this was something that I had to be a part of. After having done the last year and a half of Cats (Now and Forever) on Broadway,These ladiesshoes are a complete collection of every model available. I was feeling a little burnt out on being in musicals and had been shying away from any of those big Broadway "machines,wholesaleguccibags are hot, and the styles on this list are among the hottest." but this had the word "amazing" written all over it.
I worked on that audition more than any other in my life, and when I got "the call," I was over the moon. And this was for a non-paying, six-performance, only-downtown Fringe Festival -- in the dead of summer! So we put up our little, scrappy show, and we sold out all six of our shows, with lines of fans clamoring to get in. We also won Best Musical at that year's festival, and there was immediate talk of a transfer to an off-Broadway house.These comfortable royaloak inject that same elegant style into your casual look.
That was six years ago, and we just opened off-Broadway this past summer. (What happened in the interim could constitute a thesis on how theater in New York City can go wrong, but I digress.) The passion of the cast, the creators, and our fearless director Christopher Gattelli showed that none of us were willing to let this die. It was too good, too smart, too funny, and none of us had ever heard an audience response like the ones we heard at the Fringe. So we held on. For six years we held on. Finally, in 2010, Christopher was able to reconnect with one of the original Fringe producers, Victoria Lang, who had also spent years carrying the Silence! The Musical torch by mounting a small production of the show in London. I and Jenn Harris (the woman who plays our Clarice Starling and is hands down one of the drop-dead funniest performers on the entire New York scene right now,The pumashoes consists of eight smaller individual cubes. meaning, like, seriously, if you see her name on anything, don't ask questions, just go), who was as obsessed with the show as we were, took ourselves over to London to see it. And we knew, we just knew, it had to come back to life in New York. And thanks to the attention it grabbed in London, it was able to happen.
Every once in a small while we see an actor create a role so pitch-perfect, so damn real, that we just sit back and file that performance under the category of "F#$%ing Genius." We know in our hearts that no one else could ever or should ever play that role. Such is the case with The Silence of the Lambs.Stylish and popular discount iwcreplicawatches Accessories on sale here now. I remember watching that film as a young actor and thinking "OK, Ted Levine is Buffalo Bill. They just let the cameras role in his house with Jodi Foster there, and every size-14 girl within a 20-mile radius should live in fear for her life." He was that brilliant. Just let it live in history.
This sentiment changed, however, when a strange phenomenon in musical theater started happening. A huge, gaping hole in creativity and producing, a hole of historic proportions (maybe I should have written this anonymously?), started to unravel, and all anyone wanted to do was turn random movies into cheesy pop musicals, stuff them with C-list film actors, and come up with a product that had housewives across the country turning off QVC and dragging their husbands and kids to flood the box offices.
This formula, though, becomes a bit more interesting when you add to it two Internet-savvy, musical-genius brothers from L.A. with a wicked sense of humor. They took a brilliant film, one so historic, so iconic, so unsuspecting, so unlikely to be even glanced at for potential "musicalization" (an actual word now in musical theater), and turned it into a musical. That film was The Silence of the Lambs, and the musical, of course, is Silence! The Musical. They took the scariest, filthiest moments of that film, turned them into epic, sweeping showtunes, and published them on a website. Within months these guys had a following that would trump the number of teenage girls (and boys) staying on YouTube until all hours of the night uploading videos of themselves singing "Defying Gravity."
And that is how this actor was given the opportunity of a lifetime when this bit of filthy heaven finally found its way onto a stage. When I first heard that they were turning this into an actual stage production for the NYC Fringe Festival back in 2005, I knew that the people they were approaching to write the book and direct were not only two of the funniest people, but two of the smartest people, as well. So, essentially, I threw myself at the feet of Hunter Bell and Christopher Gattelli and begged them to let me audition; I knew this was something that I had to be a part of. After having done the last year and a half of Cats (Now and Forever) on Broadway,These ladiesshoes are a complete collection of every model available. I was feeling a little burnt out on being in musicals and had been shying away from any of those big Broadway "machines,wholesaleguccibags are hot, and the styles on this list are among the hottest." but this had the word "amazing" written all over it.
I worked on that audition more than any other in my life, and when I got "the call," I was over the moon. And this was for a non-paying, six-performance, only-downtown Fringe Festival -- in the dead of summer! So we put up our little, scrappy show, and we sold out all six of our shows, with lines of fans clamoring to get in. We also won Best Musical at that year's festival, and there was immediate talk of a transfer to an off-Broadway house.These comfortable royaloak inject that same elegant style into your casual look.
That was six years ago, and we just opened off-Broadway this past summer. (What happened in the interim could constitute a thesis on how theater in New York City can go wrong, but I digress.) The passion of the cast, the creators, and our fearless director Christopher Gattelli showed that none of us were willing to let this die. It was too good, too smart, too funny, and none of us had ever heard an audience response like the ones we heard at the Fringe. So we held on. For six years we held on. Finally, in 2010, Christopher was able to reconnect with one of the original Fringe producers, Victoria Lang, who had also spent years carrying the Silence! The Musical torch by mounting a small production of the show in London. I and Jenn Harris (the woman who plays our Clarice Starling and is hands down one of the drop-dead funniest performers on the entire New York scene right now,The pumashoes consists of eight smaller individual cubes. meaning, like, seriously, if you see her name on anything, don't ask questions, just go), who was as obsessed with the show as we were, took ourselves over to London to see it. And we knew, we just knew, it had to come back to life in New York. And thanks to the attention it grabbed in London, it was able to happen.
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