Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DeGregorio's staff sat through more than 100 American films, looking for a few seconds of classic footage that could blend into the new Elton John material. The script for "Nightclub" was fashioned around the final choices: Bogie in All Through the Night (1942), Satchmo in High Society (1956) and Cagney in snippets from Public Enemy (1931) and The Roaring Twenties (1939). Director Steve Horn shot the Elton John nightclub footage with the same lenses used during the classic film period, but with live stand-ins for Cagney and company. The footage was taken to R. Greenberg Associates, who edited...
...wasn't exactly a cold call, in that I had given this outfit my name once upon a time. And the caller wasn't exactly a college kid reading a script; he was a former curator of the Smithsonian. Still, I was getting all set to find some delicate way off the phone ("Oh, gosh, the ambulance is here") when I remembered the Marilyn letter. Forget Abe Lincoln ("Dear Sir: Herewith I send you my autograph, which you request. Yours Truly, A. Lincoln": $5,000). What about Marilyn...
...know this script cold. Just change the words "Confederate flag" to "flagrant Confederate" and repeat last spring's controversy. So why bother actually doing the whole rigamarole? There are not a lot of valuable life lessons to be learned here, and we all (claim to) have better things to do than watch history repeat itself--especially when it was a farce the first time around...
...production process facilitates Joe Blunsten's light-hearted tone: After Aron and Gailiunas discuss the plot for two days, Aron writes the script in 24 hours. Then "Paul writes music like that," says Aron, snapping his fingers. "He always has songs in his head." The cast receives the script on Friday, memorizes lines over the weekend and begins 2-hour, nightly rehearsals on Monday for a Thursday night show...
...been said that a production can be only as good as its script. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof boasts a terrific script, and both cast and director, with few exceptions, rise to the task of putting on an enjoyable show...