"Or maybe midgets..." Damn!!! 🤣🤣🤣 I watched this video when it was released, but deleted my original RU-vid account 5 years ago so my comment has gone, I'm putting it back out there! Loved this whole performance...The cast was perfectly... ahem... cast with great acting and singing voices. Oh, and the production, lighting, stage management were all top notch! NGL the lady who plays Buffy has the facial profile of an Anime princess incarnate... Wow. She is gorgeous.
Okay, so I commented on this a while ago, so no need to re-visit, except... ...Except that every time I find myself needing something to smile about, I somehow randomly run across this clip again. Thank you guys, again. And, again, and again,... Timeless.
Wonderful show with a fabulous cast. Absolutely loved how they nailed the choreography in every number. Natalie Wisdom filled some pretty big shoes as Buffy. You could tell they all loved the show and this was a great homage.
Indeed this was extremely well done, such attention to detail even stretching with the "previously" at the start. Giles smiling at "hey I've died twice", abruptly interrupting "complete". Epic!
At a quick look for just a few seconds, it was enough to see they don't even know the words to the songs. It's not "fall out of your grave ...", it's "crawl out of your grave ...". If you're buried under ground, its literally impossible to fall anywhere and if you're rising from the grave, you obviously have to crawl out. This is obviously amateur hour. Can't even get the basics right and have zero understanding of what they're even singing.
(Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were great, amazing.) But, give me Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor everytime for the "spontaneity" that comes from decades of dedication and pluck. Thanks for reminding me of this great team that I had somehow not seen for way too long. Your exuberance is infectious. Your skill is mesmerizing. Wow!
This was a very unexpected fantastic recreation of one of my favorite TV episodes of all time. It is not not a reimagining, but rather a faitthful adaptation for a live performance on a (very) small stage. I was first blown away by how many scenes of the original were reproduced in such a short time with brilliant improvisations for limited space and resources. More amazing, however, was that the mood was replicated so well. The pathos, the grief, the anxiousness, the humor all as in the original [audience cluelessness at times herein, notwithstanding]. Yes, I am a Buffy fan, though I never would have thought to be, put off just by the title. I"m a guy. I don't watch "Buffy" anything! Then, Marvin Kitman, a critic for the Long Island newspaper Newsday wrote an article entitled (if I remember correctly), "The best show on TV that you're not watching." So, I tried "Buffy." I was enthralled. One of the smartest shows ever, in my opinion. Kudos to this cast and to the adapters from tv to stage. I will watch this many times again, I'm sure.
You should also watch the spinoff Angel. You get to see Faith's redemption on Angel and a chance for her to act like the slayer without being in Buffy's shadow. Cordelia and Wesley also become much better characters than they were on Buffy
19:05 First time I realize the parking ticket scene ends with the "I'm not wearing underwear" line. I had to go back to the episode to check that this is a real line from it. Congratulations, great adaptation.
Deleted my account to reduce my digital footprint, so basically came back to make the exact two same statements.... four years later... 1) Best live performance of OMWF ever... 2) Buffy actress is totes gorge and has absolutely theee most beautiful nose profile I have ever seen! major swoonage.... be still, my heart. welp... if I delete this account I'll be back in 2027 to say the exact same thing once more... with feeling.
Are you them, their partner, or just obsessive? Cause they're definitely pretty but certainly not remarkable, and they do indeed have quite a large nose, not that there's anything wrong with that. Wait are you a nose fetishist?
This is without a doubt the best-directed play I’ve ever seen. Your stage is 12’x18’ and you need to stage an epic musical? Here’s the instruction manual. LEAN IN! :)
Not that bad, the actor playing Giles really sang well and sounded like the original, although not so much when he talked. The actor playing Sweet was clearly one of the main St talented but played the character a bit wrong, and it showed in his final exchange with Xander.
Is this a serious comment? Please tell me you understand that the intention of productions like this is not to be a like-for-like remake. We've all seen the episode 100 times. What would be the point in making it the same? This is supposed to be a different (and fun, and tongue-in-cheek) interpretation. Enjoyed on a night out with other Buffy fans, with drink, and laughter. I love what the guy playing Sweet did with the character. All of them were brilliant. They put so many fun little touches and imaginative ideas into this. The final exchange with Xander was hilarious, great to see a different take on it. It's fine if you prefer the original, but the issue I take is that you don't seem to understand that the differences here are a deliberate choice, not a failure to understand the original or to "get it right". The episode is readily available on dvd and streaming services for anyone who only wants to see one version and nothing else.
@@ismayb754 I understand that it is a new cast performing an existing work. Why play Buffy the same as she is on the show then? Because that is how all of us know the character. It doesn't matter if it is Hamlet or The Music Man, plays (and by extension, TV Shows) are written by writers to be performed by actors for audiences. Why have writers if characters don't matter? Overall, I liked this production, all I said was that his portrayal of Sweet seemed a bit off. I didn't realize that this remark would personally offend you. I am a fan, I have watched several of these. The two characters that seem the most open to reinterpretation / misinterpretation are Sweet and oddly enough Giles.
@@Booger414. I think the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Shows are revived, but rarely 100% like the original. Angela Lansbury revived Gypsy for the first time, and when asked in an interview if she thought she could live up to Ethel Merman, she said “Yes, this role once belonged to Ethel Merman, and in the future it will belong to someone else, but for now, it’s mine.” Have you seen the versions of Rocky Horror on here? Often Brad and Janet are done identical to the film, but Frank and Rocky are just as often very unique. And I love the original movie, but I also love when actors make unique choices that enthrall me just as much.
SU-BLI-ME !!... In some parts I couldn't stop laughing, really my congratulations, not for the funny parts but for the whole, both musical and performance and staging. I LOVED! You brought me back so many memories, and especially from a chapter whose songs I know by heart! I'm about to watch the entire series again for the thousandth time! THANK YOU!
This was both bloody brilliant, hilarious and then awful all at the same time. Some things worked really well, others, not so much. The part I hated the most was that there was no reaction from the Xander and Willow actors when Buffy sings "I was in heaven". The part that killed me was the fire trucks in Let it burn 😂. Oh and that Spike actor can pull off a really good Spike when he doesn't have to sing or dance. That's just my two cents.
This was awesome. 😂 Anya and Xanders song was probably the best. Spike messed up the lyrics after ‘willing slave’ but he was decent. Those puppet masks are fire btw. Wish I Could Stay reprise with Giles and Tara was beautiful. Let it Burn was done very well for a stage production where there can’t be voice overs. Overall this was done really well I enjoyed it. ^^ You can tell not everyone is a professional but everyone still brought their A game and sounded great!
It can be hard when there is so much dialogue and lyrics to memorize and they are doing it all LIVE! When the original episode was being filmed, all the music had already been recorded so the actors were lip-syncing to playback. Regarding "Spike" messing up his lyrics: James Marsters used to perform the song at conventions and he would even mess up at times. This isn't Broadway. We don't know how much theatre experience these actors had prior. I think they they did pretty damn good job. As a life-long Buffy fan, I am truly satisfied w/ adaption.
