Matt Rogers said: "BobbyBubby said: "Why do certain posters make such an effort to try to make others feel ****ty and stupid about their opinions? Nobody could have enjoyed it because you hated it and critics trashed it?"
I don't think that is what is going on at all. We are talking about a production that happened 20 years ago. The critics were all solidly negative on this. The production closed as a critical and financial disaster after two and a h
Flowerlovestage5 said: "Dollypop - Love that! Good for you!
Thank you for taking the time to copy/paste ALL of those excerpts. That must have taken a good amount of time to apparently prove the rest of us wrong...
... the few of us on this thread who enjoyed it, who actually SAW it. We are just stating our opinions.
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Are you trying to say I didn't see it or that Matt didn't see it? Are you? Because I believe if y
I JUST lost a post and whilst losing it Matt Rogers said just what I was going to say. This thread is hilarious. I have never heard ONE person say a good word about this revival. It was HORRIBLE, perhaps the worst revival I've ever seen. Tarantino was like a high school actor and I am here to tell you not one person in my audience screamed or jumped at the big "moment" because it was timed improperly. Tomei was fine, and the rest of the cast was a b
I don't "get" these Bowl "productions." They're half-assed nothingness. What WAS that choreography on Easy Street - one easy lesson in how not to do a showstopper?
This thread has given me a migraine. Teen gibberish indeed, only I would have hated the bits I've seen and heard of this when I was a teen. I don't know what's at play here but it's kind of sickening to read about. Stans? Squipped? Is that today's gear and fab? Obsession is one thing but this thing is in a whole other universe.
So now we at least know there were clearly other things at play here and that they were exacerbated at Chicago. Because nowhere prior to this did anyone mention that significant bits about the chocolate shop, that his partner was let go from there, that he resigned, that I believe they had some sort of financial interest in it, and that there is a lawsuit going on. So, it was probably a lot of stuff all piling on at once.
Does a day go by, I wonder, when you people don't have outrage about something? Have you people ever read John Simon's reviews? This is just more social media BS. A critic made a remark, basically criticizing a costume. And here it's the end of the world and all the cliches come out full force. I mean, this thread is hilarious.
There is not a thing that is problematic about The King and I, which, in case you haven't heard, doesn't take place in 2018. There is, however, plenty problematic about this endless BS about period pieces being problematic for 2018 people who can't see beyond their noses. It's a bore.
EllieRose2 said: "Lots of Asians live there, huh? How odd then they could not find ONE, literally ONE Asian man interested in musical theater. This is one of the disgusting photos in modern musical theater history.
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Gee, hope you never see photos of Darren McGavin or Ricardo Montalban as the King,
MosaicOwl said: "bk said: "The director can't lose his job - his job was basically finished when he - directed the show twenty-two years ago. He retains a royalty position of course and that has made him a very wealthy man.
In other news, a performer I know did one of the tours of Chicago and apparently Mr. Bobbie was very abusive to her in front of the entire company and she seems willing to talk about it and doesn't really care about this anonymity stuff
CATSNYrevival said: "RippedMan said: "Maybe I'm missing something, but the two productions don't seem to be that dissimilar? The original doesn't look lavish to me at all, especially if they were going for vaudeville. I saw the all-Japanese all-woman version done at Lincoln center - last year? year before? - and it's the first time I'd seen this production - the Encores ones - in some time, and I really thought it felt sharp and fun and fresh. I haven'
LightsOut90 said: "The original production of Follies closed at almost a million dollar loss and Hal Prince scrapped a west coast engagement and a national tour, so stating it was a success on every level, that's super incorrect"
Am I really reading this? Am I? Um, it didn't close at a million dollar loss. It was a "total financial failure, with a cumulative loss of $792,000." Let's keep it real. And speaking o
The director can't lose his job - his job was basically finished when he - directed the show twenty-two years ago. He retains a royalty position of course and that has made him a very wealthy man.
In other news, a performer I know did one of the tours of Chicago and apparently Mr. Bobbie was very abusive to her in front of the entire company and she seems willing to talk about it and doesn't really care about this anonymity stuff. People remaining anonymous o
MosaicOwl said: "Bk said: "...but now you're already planting doubts here that there can never be a fair investigation from any side."
How is that statement "not telling me or anyone else anything"?
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It is exactly what I said - offering my take on things. The End. As to this "I got lots of PMs telling me about you" uh huh - quoted examples and all, right out of context, too,
If I were trying to plant ideas, I would insist that the Equity investigation is fair while the Burstein investigation is not.
The rehearsal began with only Jeff, Bobbie, and Stifelman. Cast members began to arrive slowly as the rehearsal continued. I believe it says that in the handwritten notes. It also says in the blog (which, by the way, I have always referred to as "the blog" and never said that it was independently verified)
trpguyy said: "bk said: "She was actually very nice about Ms. Ambrose's performance, calling it definitive. Her irritation was finding it out via the press. That is not Ms. Ambrose's fault."
It's nobody but Rigg's fault if she indeed found out from the press. The arrangement was announced to the company before the press release went out."
Well, I haven't read that anywhere, so tell everyone how you know this or provid
MosaicOwl said: "From the latest blog entry: "A subsequent text exchange that following Tuesday June 26, Loeffelholz said to Rardin: “I would go hang out at the [Ambassador] Theater but I feel I have a scarlet letter on me.” By using the phrase “scarlet letter,” Loeffelholz was insinuating that he felt he had become a “marked” performer like the character Hester Prynne in the Nathaniel Hawthorne novelThe Scarlet Letter. He was clearly afraid o
It's not hard to find out information about the original production - there are videos (some posted here), photos (some posted here) - the Encores presentation was perfectly okay for ENCORES - when it moved to B'way it was, for me, exactly what it appeared to be - a money-grabbing opportunity for the Weisslers and boy were they right. But the "production" was never a production at all and still isn't and I loathed it. The original was pure Fosse and whether o
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