All Things Beautiful Thread

This is my promised report on seeing Melissa play on Broadway.

She was fantastic, even better than we can imagine. She’s got a great future ahead of her. Her singing was outstanding. In fact when she sang”It’s Too Late”, I got goosebumps! When she signed my program. I told her that her singing gave me goosebumps and she smiled and thanked me.

In real life, she is a shrimp. She’s tall, but skinny, small boned. When she’s signing autographs. She doesn’t appear to be that tall. I was at the most 10-15 feet from the stage, and at times, she was really close to my section. I had a great view and the theater is well designed for maximum viewing.

There were plenty of old farts in the audience, aside from Supergirl fans. Her whole performance is sold out through August 4. There are no tickets available.

One of our fellow forum writers was right in front of me. His companion had seen the show when it first came out. She mentioned that Melissa was far better than her predecessor!

I wish they could tape her performance so others might see it on TV. It was that good. And the cast, was absolutely wonderful. The second autograph is her leading man.

Really, this is a woman to watch beyond Supergirl. I suspect that with this performance she will receive far better personal offers during her breaks from Supergirl.

Argo

Here's the possible concerning part:

"Stacey had also said that she finishes the show on August 4th, has two days off and then returns to Vancouver to film on August 7th. It didn’t sound like she was going to be flying back and forth to film in July? I dunno, at least that’s what it sounded like to me."

What day did someone on here report or hypothesized shooting began, again, for season 4? Probably nothing to worry about--as in, we shouldn't worry about whether or not Melissa will play a "lesser role" first episode of Season 4. Just play more Kara for easier filming lol. Right? Plus, by the looks of it from ending of last episode, Melissa's gonna be doing a LOT next season.

I don't know how they're going to manage it but, with the way they ended the season it would make absolutely no sense for Melissa to not play a major part at the beginning of the season. The whole set-up seems to be centered on there now being two Kara's so, I would think that would mean that we see more of her not less. Who knows but, I'm sure they have a plan.

This is my promised report on seeing Melissa play on Broadway.

She was fantastic, even better than we can imagine. She’s got a great future ahead of her. Her singing was outstanding. In fact when she sang”It’s Too Late”, I got goosebumps! When she signed my program. I told her that her singing gave me goosebumps and she smiled and thanked me.

In real life, she is a shrimp. She’s tall, but skinny, small boned. When she’s signing autographs. She doesn’t appear to be that tall. I was at the most 10-15 feet from the stage, and at times, she was really close to my section. I had a great view and the theater is well designed for maximum viewing.

There were plenty of old farts in the audience, aside from Supergirl fans. Her whole performance is sold out through August 4. There are no tickets available.

One of our fellow forum writers was right in front of me. His companion had seen the show when it first came out. She mentioned that Melissa was far better than her predecessor!

I wish they could tape her performance so others might see it on TV. It was that good. And the cast, was absolutely wonderful.

Really, this is a woman to watch beyond Supergirl. I suspect that with this performance she will receive far better personal offers during her breaks from Supergirl.

Argo

You can always do "shoot arounds" without Mel being present. Then when she arrives, they will go full bore inboxed filming single scenes. A lot of times what appears to be a conversation is filmed separately. There are enough techniques in which Mel's missing 2 weeks of filming will not affect her performance.

Argo

You can always do "shoot arounds" without Mel being present. Then when she arrives, they will go full bore inboxed filming single scenes. A lot of times what appears to be a conversation is filmed separately. There are enough techniques in which Mel's missing 2 weeks of filming will not affect her performance.

Argo

Thanks, Argo. Oh and also...so excited you got to see Mel on Broadway. Jealous am I. But, loving the detailed experiences and such

Your comments made me think, I wonder if they may have also pre-filmed some of the first few scenes of Season 4, planning for Melissa's absence. Hmmm. I suspect they've already got it all worked out. And as Sully said, there's no real way Kara wouldn't be in Season 4 ep 1.

And knowing she'll be at Comic Con makes me so excited for our Comic Con week in the forum. With all of Eric and Kelsey's behind the scenes and such... Good times on here.

You can always do "shoot arounds" without Mel being present. Then when she arrives, they will go full bore inboxed filming single scenes. A lot of times what appears to be a conversation is filmed separately. There are enough techniques in which Mel's missing 2 weeks of filming will not affect her performance.

Argo

Thanks, Argo. Oh and also...so excited you got to see Mel on Broadway. Jealous am I. But, loving the detailed experiences and such

Your comments made me think, I wonder if they may have also pre-filmed some of the first few scenes of Season 4, planning for Melissa's absence. Hmmm. I suspect they've already got it all worked out. And as Sully said, there's no real way Kara wouldn't be in Season 4 ep 1.

And knowing she'll be at Comic Con makes me so excited for our Comic Con week in the forum. With all of Eric and Kelsey's behind the scenes and such... Good times on here.

It’s possible they did some filming of season four before she left for NY. The tell on that will be if there’s any teaser footage at SDCC. I sure she’ll get the scripts. She could also do table reads by video conference on her day off. My montra is “I trust Greg Berlanti has the scheduling worked out.”

Looks like Mehcad was hanging with Melissa and Chris. If he was/is in New York I can't imagine he wouldn't catch the show.

Aaaaaaaawwe! I just love this...

Aaaaaaaawwe! I just love this...

This just gives me the warm fuzzies. So glad she brought the kids to see the show.

Aaaaaaaawwe! I just love this...

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This just gives me the warm fuzzies.

Right?? I've missed these types of interactions between those two. With all that's gone on since Season 2, all we really started hearing from Chyler was about Alex's journey and/or Floriana. I've missed the focus on the sisters, on AND off screen

I think the whole AK stuff really hurt this season far more than many may understand. In order to not give him any creative credit as Executive Producer it looks like they really had to rework the back half of the season and that rush REALLY HURT this season from eps 11 on....

Just read a terrific Twitter thread from @_ashleymaria_ concerning her experience seeing Beautiful. If you have twitter... Go check it out. Things to note, as I suspected... the strings in the piano are removed...

"A little background info from Stacey the stage manager from the stage tour. Got a look at the piano; totally taken apart and modified to be played by the actor with no sound, speakers being attached to it so that the orchestra pit can perform the songs."

Here's the possible concerning part:

"Stacey had also said that she finishes the show on August 4th, has two days off and then returns to Vancouver to film on August 7th. It didn’t sound like she was going to be flying back and forth to film in July? I dunno, at least that’s what it sounded like to me."

What day did someone on here report or hypothesized shooting began, again, for season 4? Probably nothing to worry about--as in, we shouldn't worry about whether or not Melissa will play a "lesser role" first episode of Season 4. Just play more Kara for easier filming lol. Right? Plus, by the looks of it from ending of last episode, Melissa's gonna be doing a LOT next season.

I still do not believe that we are going to have any early episodes of Supergirl that are Supergirl lite....I do not believe for one second that with all the changes happening, especially the move to Sunday night and the obvious influx of new fans from Melissa's Broadway time that they are going to have Supergirl/Kara/Melissa absent in any degree from the first episodes. I have complete faith that the cast and crew will make this work. Looking forward to Season 4.

@evrafter I see Alex as director providing a lot of potential for sister interaction and not just at the DEO itself. I would like to see Alex struggling a bit with her new job. How will she feel trying to leave field work to others, I don’t think that will be as easy as she thinks. Alex has some big shoes to fill, will she struggle with running things as she sees fit rather than doing things exactly as J’onn did. Kara will obviously be Alex’s right hand but perhaps the sisters butt heads a bit with how to run the DEO. All this plus why Alex feels the need to rush into adoption could provide lots of good material. Kara is of course going to come face to face with another version of herself and I’m sure she’s gonna need her sisters support with that.

@Kelly, we’ll probably never truly know the impact tha AK’s rightfully being fired had. I think there was definitely rushed/bad editing in the back half. I’m really looking forward to seeing the deleted scenes when the Blu-Ray comes out.

Aaaaaaaawwe! I just love this...

That was so sweet from Chyler, in a word it was Beautiful. I love that she calls Melissa "sis" twice .

I am going to appreciate Melissa more than ever in Season 4. If she does indeed resume filming on August 7 and gets straight back into those 16/17 hour days so we can have her normal screen-time (about 20 mins currently) in the 1st few episodes then that will be a Supergirl effort from her. As I've mentioned before I'd be happy with Kara Danvers only scenes in say the 1st 3 episodes if that helps ease Melissa's workload. Hopefully will get some confirmation @ SDCC (I wonder if Melissa will look tired at SDCC, her Friday night performance of Beautiful would finish about 11pm then presumably she'd have to catch an early Saturday morning flight (6 or 7am) from NYC to San Diego and it's a fairly full on day at the Con).

They might have get her a private plane and she could sleep comfortable...

There should be plenty of red eye flights to accommodate Melissa for SDCC. With respect to the question of AK’s impact, I believe the current show runners do not have the feel for Supergirl that their predecessors did. Ali Adler had a great influence in Season 1. Her departure, imho, hurt the show. I am hoping that Sara Schecter getting more involved will help.

BTW: I am insanely jealous of whoever got the stage tour or was able to meet Melissa backstage. However, sitting by the orchestra, I was fairly confident that they and not Melissa were pulling the strings. (Pun intended )

Argo

Great new interview of her Beautiful experience...

Probably one of the best interviews I've heard...you have to download it....its safe.

https://twitter.com/olya_hikari/status/1017462695384289281

Probably one of the best interviews I've heard...you have to download it....its safe.

https://twitter.com/olya_hikari/status/1017462695384289281

Fantastic interview. Thanks for the find, Kelly. It was one of those kinds of calming interviews I wish I had been listening to in the car on a long stretch of road during sunset

It was a good interview. You can tell Melissa really likes to keep her private life private, and with good reason.

I remember she once said that performing as a character is usually pretty comfortable, but doing public performances or interviews as herself is quite uncomfortable. I think that may be pretty common.

Ryan Reynolds said something similar. He deals with a lot of anxiety, but puts on a "character", very close to what he does for Deadpool, when he's doing interviews. It helps him keep that separation and beat the anxiety.

We'll, for sure, be getting video of her performance at Bryant Park. Youtube is filled with past performances from that event

LOVE Kara Lindsey. Was just thinking yesterday how bummed I'd be if I went or Beautiful and just barely missed getting to see Melissa AND Kara.