Top (And Weirdest) Theater Stories of 2014

[NewYorkTheater]

Posted: 12/27/14 at 2:37pm

Top (and Weirdest) Theater Stories of 2014

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 12/27/14 at 5:30pm

Actors' deaths = weird? Seriously?

[Bucky Builder]

Posted: 12/27/14 at 5:43pm

Not sure I'd call the majority of that weird.

[HogansHero]

Posted: 12/27/14 at 7:32pm

Although the use of conjunctions is a bit questionable, it is clear that the lists are intended to be separate, although as noted some items could bein both. I agree not all that much qualifies as weird, and the whole thing doesn't justify the click through.

[NewYorkTheater]

Posted: 12/27/14 at 10:23pm

Among the weird stories are Shia,Elmos, Ice buckets, the stolen HedWIG

[NewYorkTheater]

Posted: 12/28/14 at 10:28am

And what was "Adele Kazeem" but weird? And, truth be told, the whole controversy over whether to dim the lights for Joan Rivers was weirdness on the part of the Broadway League.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 12/28/14 at 10:54am

It seldom does from the OP.

[NewYorkTheater]

Posted: 12/28/14 at 11:38am

There are six videos in the post:

The satirical video by a raft of Broadway stars (I count 23, including Jeremy Jordan and Jonathan Groff as gay Olympian lovers!) protesting the rise in Russia of state-sponsored homophobia

Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez Oscar acceptance speech

John Travolta introducing "Adele Dazeem"

Hugh Jackman, T.I., and LL Cool J rapping The Music Man at the Tonys

Shia LaBeouf spinning his arrest at Cabaret five months earlier, on Jimmy Kimmel Live

The un-shirted cast of Newsies participating in the mania that was the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

[NewYorkTheater]

Posted: 12/29/14 at 10:58am

Added to March -- the first YouTube video reviews by the country's most heralded theater critic -- six-year-old Iain Armitage



Top (and Weirdest) Theater Stories of 2014 Updated On: 12/29/14 at 10:58 AM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/29/14 at 11:06am

Loved Liza Menzelli & Elmo in Jail

Broadway took a big hit this year star wise.

[AHLiebross]

Posted: 12/30/14 at 12:40am

In terms of weirdness, 2014 seems tame compared to 2013, with such happenings in 2013 as the saga of Rebecca, Stephen Moyers' temporarily abandoning his tv vampire role to become what critics seemed to think was a zombie in the "live" SOM, and the mask tattoos on the bodies of several phans who attended POTO's 25th anniversary performance.

[NewYorkTheater]

Posted: 12/31/14 at 3:09am

I'm going to agree with you there, although both Shia LaBeouf and the Rebecca saga had both 2013 and 2014 chapters. In 2014, the Rebecca con man was sentenced, and the producer promised to mount the show on Broadway in 2015 - meaning more Rebecca weirdness in the new year?