I'd rather have a message board with regulation, even misguided regulation, than no regulation at all. Nothing is more disheartening than those. But better than any board, unless you're home bond, is real life, face to face communication. That can be, you know, real.
2019 may be too soon but the eventual transfer of Chris Durang's new play TURNING OFF THE MORNING NEWS which is soon to open at the McCarter. Theatre. If the full synopsis (hard to find) is any indication people expecting something along the lines of VANYA AND SONIA...will be dutifully petrified.
Two questions. 1. How could someone as smart as Rudin have entered into a contract which left him with such exposure? 2. The judge really doesn't know how to read a script? What is he, a producer?!
They might be better off showing the Empire State Building instead of Kong. That's real. I also hope they brought Kong to New York on a super tanker instead of on a raft. That makes an iota of sense.
To happily veer away from this I very much liked the '76 film version. It got a lot of thing right that the before and after versions didn't One being Charles Grodin's Carl Denham, portraying a ruthless oil company executive responsible for countless deaths on Kong Island and New York being happily squished to death by Kong. I sure hope the Carl Denham cast in this show is white!
End Of The Rainbow with it's focus on only a part of Judy's life and with its intelligent scripting very much got it right. Marilyn!, on the other hand, if making it to Broadway, may well end of registering as Elephant!
If I remember correctly there is one - and only one - white person in the entire movie. He is a disheveled mugger who robs the elderly father of his life savings. That's something.
I could be friends with someone who walked out for bad language or nudity. But never with someone who walked out on A Christmas Carol. (Re. Dickens' condemnation of business)
Forum is out of the question (In today's world If I even repeated a few of the lines here I would probably be permanently banned from this board). 2 years ago I voted for The Pajama Game and I vote for it again now. Although this being for TV there will obviously be much tweaking involved (50's Man/Woman stuff). As for Bye Bye Birdie at this point It should be clear that Jennifer Lopez has no interest in doing live TV.
If it's one character breaking in I use a simple dash. If a few words should/might be overlapping, that's for when it reaches rehearsal. I don't fine tune it to that degree. If it's two characters talking at the same time just do double columns. But the only rule that counts is to make it as clear as possible and anyway you see fit to do so is fine. You're the playwright!
I saw Mark Rylance once on stage and it is likely I will see him again in a future production. But this may be yours or anyone's only opportunity to see the legendary Glenda Jackson.
It's clear that Charity is not just a taxi dancer. If I remember correctly at one point she tearfully tells her fiance that with some men she does...more. He says that since he's in love with her it doesn't matter. Later, he dumps her.
As a satire you wouldn't need rights (Otherwise MAD Magazine would be out of business). So maybe as a puppet show. Just be really, really, really funny.
