Talk:Nine (musical)
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Plot Synopsis
[edit]Can anyone add a plot synopsis section? Best regards, -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:55, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
is this okay?
Based on the film 8 1/2 by Mario Fratti
Forty-year-old Guido Contini is a famous Italian film director with three women in his life: his wife Luisa, his mistress Carla, and the actress Claudia (his muse). His last three films have been flops, and he's having a midlife crisis. In a last attempt to rejuvenate his failing marriage, he takes Luisa to a spa in Venice. However, Carla is also there, and while Guido claims to Luisa that it's over between him and Carla, their relationship is obviously still in existence. His Parisian producer, Liliane, is bugging him to come up with an idea for a film. The presence of Claudia inspires a movie plot in him.
Much of the show takes place as fantasy movie sequences or as flashbacks to Guido's childhood--his mother and aunts fawned over him, he got a lesson in sexuality from a local whore (Saraghina), and he was punished and generally made to feel guilty at St. Sebastian's, his Catholic school. What the plot boils down to is that because Guido is too immature to commit to any one of his women, he manages to alienate all of them and finds that he is unable to finish his movie. He becomes disoriented and fantasizes suicide, but is saved by his nine-year-old self (he hallucinates), who helps him separate his younger self from his older self. Guido goes off in search of Luisa, having finally realized that he loves her deeply.
Concert performance - 7th June 1992
[edit]Why did Elaine Paige step in as Claudia on the London Concert Cast Recording?
The sleeve notes simply say "owing to the indisposition of our previous Claudia, we are pleased to have Elaine Paige performing the role for the recording."
http://thefly.sarah-brightman.net/NineArticles.html
This says that when Sarah Brightman pulled out of the concert, Elizabeth Sastre took her place as Claudia.
http://castalbumcollector.com/faq/newrelease.php
This says Sastre "was not permitted by RCA -- the label issuing the American highlights album -- to appear on the album, as they felt they needed a star of a certain caliber to market the release."
Can anyone confirm this?
A Number of Revivals
[edit]The article says, "and has enjoyed a number of revivals." The musical has had one revival. I think it should say, "and has enjoyed a revial, Does everyone agree?" --DefyingGravityForGood (talk) 02:02, 7 October 2010 (UTC)