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Author Topic: Sing-a-Long-A-Sound of Music, anybody? Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-03-2003 04:26 PM                     Starting on Tuesday, April 8 2003 through the flowing Sunday, the D'Angelo Performing Arts Center will be playing Sing-a-Long-a-Sound of Music. It's a specially subtitled print of S.O.M. so that the audience can sing along with the musical numbers. I am led to believe the whole idea is to have it play like Rocky Horror Picture Show except it's S.O.M. (And it's more family oriented.) I've seen the screener tapes of the show. They have dress-up contests where audience members win prizes for the best costume after a character in the movie. Folks are given a "props kit" that has items in it to use during the movie. (An Eidelweiss flower to waive in the air, etc, etc.) So, had anybody seen or heard of this idea? I think this might be a pretty good idea (for our venue) but I have this sorta' tingling feeling up the back of my spine. I think my "Spider Sense" is going off for this one. www.singalonga.com  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 03-03-2003 04:50 PM                        Who is the target audience for this? I can't imagine this being a big draw for younger people who've barely heard of SOM, let alone learned the songs. Maybe a middle-aged and above crowd would enjoy it. But I agree with you, my spidey-sense says "stay away", at least until you find out how others have done.  |  IP: Logged Michael Coate Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1904 From: Los Angeles, California Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-03-2003 04:59 PM                     The American Cinematheque in Hollywood is scheduled to run The Sound Of Music later this month. I sure hope it's not the Sing-A-Long version! It's inevitable that someone sitting near me will be singing along anyway (happens at every musical...). In 2001 a Sing-A-Long version of Grease was shown (unannounced) in Long Beach as part of their annual wide screen fest.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 03-03-2003 05:27 PM                     David wrote: quote: Who is the target audience for this? I can't imagine this being a big draw for younger people who've barely heard of SOM, let alone learned the songs. I am given to understand that this started out as a largely gay thing, later spreading to a more mainstream audience. It has certainly run during the Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in London, I remember seeing it listed in the NFT programme booklet. I know a small group of gay people, of both sexes, who love this version of the film, and have seen it dozens of times, they travel all over the country to see it, taking nuns' costumes with them. I understand that there is often a competition for the best costume. Quite a wide range of people seem to go to the film now, it doesn't seem to be limited to any particular age, race, sex etc. Last year, a group of staff from work went to see it, some in their 60s, and some, about thirty years younger, took their children with them. Many of them would be too young to have seen the theatrical re-release of the original, non-singalong, version some years ago, and so they have probably never seen it, except possibly on television. Any theatre that can get a reasonable audience for 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' would probably do quite well with this. It wouldn't appeal to me, but there are plenty of people out there who like it.  |  IP: Logged David Favel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 764 From: Ashburton, New Zealand Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-03-2003 06:29 PM                     This thing has played all over New Zealand. They were quite expensive as you hired not only the film, but people who dressed up & co-ordinated as much as they could. The idea works really well if it is advertised as a 1 o0r 2 off screening. Grannies bring their grand kids, parents bring their young uns, even 30 somethings show up for a slice of nostalgia.  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 03-03-2003 07:23 PM                     The sing along version played at the Hollywood Bowl last summer. It was a 35mm print, and the American Cinematech's print is going to be 70MM! (I assume a NON sing-a-long) Some original cast members and Robert Wise are supposed to be in attendance. I think when this played in NYC (at the Ziegfeld) it was advertised as an event where you could Boo the Nazis! Hiss at the Baroness! or some such tripe. Geez, htis just gives audiences MORE encouragement. MARY POPPINS was also given the sing-a-long treatment (burned-in sub-titles) at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 03-03-2003 07:28 PM                       Sounds like fun. I love that movie (The Sound of Music).  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 03-03-2003 08:57 PM                        I attended both the Egyptian 70mm and Hollywood Bowl subtitled 35mm showings in 2001. Both were sold out and yes, both were a lot of fun. That "props" bag contained among other things, a small pyro popper--the cue to use it being the moment of Julie Andrews' and Christopher Plummer's first on-screen kiss. Was quite an effect seeing 15,000 of them go off simultaneously in the Hollywood Bowl that night!  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-04-2003 08:32 AM                     quote: Stephen Furley: I am given to understand that this started out as a largely gay thing, later spreading to a more mainstream audience. There's where the "Spider Sense" starts tingling... We have a lot of older people who would love to see SOM again and again and again... but from the screener I have seen there are a lot of "flambouyant" types in the audience. Top that off with a few of your average "rowdy" college students and I wonder if that's not like pulling the pin on a grenade and hoping it doesn't explode. We're having 4 or 5 shows of this. I'm hoping we'll have people come, more or less, in groups. Friday night will be the "older" audience and Saturday will be the "flambouyant" audience... etc. etc. I don't know if the boss knows about the "pyro poppers" yet. He will have kittens when he finds out how much clean-up those things can cause!  |  IP: Logged Gracia L. Babbidge Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 709 From: Bowdoin, Maine Registered: Aug 2000 posted 03-04-2003 09:18 AM                        Sound of Music sing-along? *shudders violently* It can stay far far away from me, thanks. Ordinarily, I consider myself to be quite a fan of musicals & movie versions of musicals, but S.o.M. is one of the four shows I've encountered that I just don't like.  |  IP: Logged Jean-Michel Grin Expert Film Handler Posts: 222 From: Geneva & Lausanne, Switzerland Registered: Jul 2002 posted 03-04-2003 10:00 AM                        I've played twice this picture in Geneva, and coleagues played it in Lausanne. The last time was the 2001 december 31, a special very special night, with clothing competition and moderator on stage. One time I've played the french version of SOM What so sad ! all dialogues and misicals parts losed is sense and I don't speak about the lip sync For me is a part of the golden age of musical, but a little too long. A surprise for me was the soud remixed in Dolby A but soo weak: at the begining of the feature I puted the fader on 10 to heard something...  |  IP: Logged Harry Robinson Expert Film Handler Posts: 155 From: Franklin Tennessee Registered: Dec 1999 posted 03-04-2003 10:41 AM                     A couple of years ago we were in LA and took our young neice to see Mary Poppins at the El Capitan. It was a 10AM weekday showing. They had the costume contest, etc., along with the burned-in subtitles. The print was Dolby A with the steadiest image of that size I've ever seen. I got a short booth "look." They were using an old Century. It was set up right next to their digital projector. I thought the contrast between high and low tech ironic. By the way, it was close to a sellout crowd.  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 03-04-2003 12:44 PM                     I have loved SOM since Mary Martin did it on Broadway. The movie seems to be more soupy than the original in many ways. I've always heard laughs in the theatre when Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer kiss the first time, and she breaks into song ("Something Good") without hardly taking a breath. The other laugh getter is when Von Trapp walks in singing "The Sound Of Music" lyrics, and the kids break into a lovely chorus of "Oooo's" behind his singing. I dont need the words on the screen. I know the entire production. I attended a screening a few years ago where the operator cranked the volume wide open on reel one, and I got to see all of that beautiful Austrian countryside while listening to alot of pops and cracks on the mono soundtrack at high volume. Kinda took away from the effect... It may be corny now, but remember: It saved Fox.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 03-04-2003 03:01 PM                    There is also a sing-along West Side Story in release. Frankly I would rather have them give My Fair Lady the treatment.  |  IP: Logged Joseph Pandolfi Expert Film Handler Posts: 213 From: Milford, CT. Registered: Nov 1999 posted 03-04-2003 03:41 PM                     We seen it at the Zigfield Theatre in NY City about 2-3 years ago and it was a wonderful experience. Randy: Are you running it? Is it 35 or 70mm? I ran My Far Lady last year at the Community Theatre in downtown Fairfield, CT.  |  IP: Logged

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