HEATHERS Is Closing! Someone PLEASE Spend Millions Of Dollars To Film It And Broadcast It!!!!!- Page 2
HEATHERS Is Closing! Someone PLEASE Spend Millions Of Dollars To Film It And Broadcast It!!!!!
#25HEATHERS Is Closing!
Posted: 7/11/14 at 12:41amIs that why the Weed girl who played Winona Ryder just ran screaming from the show? Was she trying to get her shifts back at The Olive Garden?
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
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#26HEATHERS Is Closing!
Posted: 7/11/14 at 12:46amBettyboy72, you are officially my favorite poster on this blog.
Anything regarding shows stated by this account is an attempt to convey opinion and not fact.
#27HEATHERS Is Closing!
Posted: 7/11/14 at 7:00am
I haven't seen the show yet, although I enjoyed the cast recording pretty well and look forward to, well, seeing it the "new-fashioned way." I found Weed phenomenally talented on the cast recording, and I hope that her personality crisis doesn't prevent her from getting more work. Tina Fey take note, she's now available for your MEAN GIRLS project.
That said, in another thread recently we discussed the difference between "period piece" and "dated." A period piece is a show that is distinctly set, not now, but in another time and place that cannot be effortlessly updated to the present. A dated (which is not to say outdated) piece is a piece that, because of both its content or themes, and the way the world has changed since its premiere, no longer seems as relevant, correct, feasible or fathomable as it was before. The film "Heathers," which I love, is a dated piece, not because of the fashions, the slang, the Eighties heartthrobs or the soundtrack.
It's a comedy about school killings.
It was ludicrous, pitch-black satire when it came out, both in its depiction of teen suicide and murder, and its nascent critiques of hypermasculinity and early hints of metrosexuality (what? mineral water? sounds gay to me!). Twenty years later, the film feels different than it did back then, not because it's old, but because to a large extent we live in the world HEATHERS predicted. School massacres, gay suicide outbreaks and young psychotics writing manifestos are now monthly occurrences.
I suspect that HEATHERS tried to keep what was great about the movie but make it fit the changing mores of 2014, and that something may have been lost in the process. It seems to be still enjoyable, and I hope to come here later and say "I really liked the book as well as the score, despite my misgivings," but to quote Stephen King, the world has moved on.
#28HEATHERS Is Closing!
Posted: 7/11/14 at 9:13amCould the reason this didn't work off-broadway because many tourists/people don't want to see an off-broadway show? When my family and friends come to the city and ask me about recommending shows, I sometimes mention off-broadway shows but they don't want to see something off-broadway.
#29HEATHERS Is Closing!
Posted: 7/11/14 at 9:33am
"I would like Heathers to be on Broadway. I heard some nice things about it."
I would like Twinkies™ to be on Broadway. I heard some nice things about them.
#30HEATHERS Is Closing!
Posted: 7/11/14 at 12:17pmMany of the cast members and creative team's tweets makes it sounds like the show is transferring to Broadway. There are a bunch of screen shots of the tweets on tumblr.
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#31HEATHERS Is Closing!
Posted: 7/11/14 at 12:21pmYou are absolutely insane. HEATHERS couldn't sell Off-Broadway, and it definitely cannot sell on Broadway. Come on, now.
#32HEATHERS Is Closing!
Posted: 7/11/14 at 12:25pmIf this show were to move to broadway, it would need a new director and a big star.
#35HEATHERS Is Closing!
Posted: 7/11/14 at 1:54pmI think I figured it out. Heathers has a good story and a lot of people aren't as into the music. Holler has a bad story, but people like the music. So you combine them, and see if people are more into buying tickets for Holler If You're So Very...
#36HEATHERS Is Closing!
Posted: 7/11/14 at 2:51pm
I like the music and the story of Heathers.
I don't like anything about Holler.
#38HEATHERS Is Closing!
Posted: 7/11/14 at 3:02pmThe score is amazing! Pretty sure it had nothing to do with it's closing.
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#39HEATHERS Is Closing!
Posted: 7/11/14 at 3:09pmYou're right. The fact that no one went has to do with the closing.
