Steel Pier!
Steel Pier!
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#0Steel Pier!
Posted: 12/21/04 at 6:15pmI just wanted to hear what everyone thinks about Steel Pier! I was a huge fan of it in 97' without ever seeing it! Now, I just watched it at Lincoln Center...and now I even love it more!!! I was the retard clapping and crying in front of the screen in the viewing room!!! I do see why people did not like it and it was not a success, but come on, Karen during "Running in Place" is breathtaking. Susan's hand in the show was wonderful. And Kristen cracked me up!!! So what do you think???
#1re: Steel Pier!
Posted: 12/21/04 at 6:17pmI love it!
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
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#3re: Steel Pier!
Posted: 12/21/04 at 6:21pmSorry...Debra Monk...forget about it!!!...cracked me up and made me cry like a baby!!!
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#4re: Steel Pier!
Posted: 12/21/04 at 6:21pmSorry...Debra Monk...forget about it!!!...cracked me up and made me cry like a baby!!!
#5re: Steel Pier!
Posted: 12/21/04 at 6:21pm
Go Kristin!! lol
even though I liked the whole thing too, not just Kristin
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
StageDoor
Chorus Member Joined: 6/4/03
#6re: Steel Pier!
Posted: 12/21/04 at 6:36pm
I escorted a couple dozen high school theatre students to Steel Pier a week or so before the Tony Awards that year. We ALL thought Steel Pier was superior to Titanic and were very disappointed to hear about it closing shortly after garnering zero awards from its 11 nominations.
The weird thing, however, is this: Standing in line for dinner at a jampacked restaurant after seeing Steel Pier, we talked to someone who claimed to be a friend of Monk's. She told us that the atmosphere backstage was "rancid" because of the antics of a certain blonde who felt she wasn't getting enough attention in her role...
"Heaven doth with us as we with torches do not light them for themselves."
- William Shakespeare
#7re: Steel Pier!
Posted: 12/21/04 at 6:39pm
If you're talking about Kristin I must shut my ears. I hate hearing bad things about her lol. I'm ultra-sensitive.
Although I've heard that's true.
BUT NO I CAN'T LISTEN. must-keep-idolization-going.
Wow that sounded obsessive.
Cuz it is lol
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
StageDoor
Chorus Member Joined: 6/4/03
#8re: Steel Pier!
Posted: 12/21/04 at 6:45pmBingo!
"Heaven doth with us as we with torches do not light them for themselves."
- William Shakespeare
#9re: Steel Pier!
Posted: 12/21/04 at 6:45pm?
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
StageDoor
Chorus Member Joined: 6/4/03
#10re: Steel Pier!
Posted: 12/21/04 at 6:53pmYes, Kristin was the blonde being talked about.
"Heaven doth with us as we with torches do not light them for themselves."
- William Shakespeare
#11re: Steel Pier!
Posted: 12/21/04 at 6:54pm
yeah I got that.
But I must shut my ears.
I'm extremely sensitive.
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#12re: Steel Pier!
Posted: 12/21/04 at 7:04pmJust saw Monk in Reckless & she really put on weight
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StageDoor
Chorus Member Joined: 6/4/03
#13re: Steel Pier!
Posted: 12/21/04 at 7:04pmYeah, but was she good?
"Heaven doth with us as we with torches do not light them for themselves."
- William Shakespeare
Updated On: 12/21/04 at 07:04 PM
broadway_star_tomorrow
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/04
#14re: Steel Pier!
Posted: 12/21/04 at 7:07pm
lol...stagedoor, you are great.
and Sally (I mean this well, really I do), it is possible to idolize someone's performance, or worship their talents without having to think they are a particularly nice person.
AKA Idina Pashmina
Type_A_Tiff: There's nothing hard about her. Broadway_star_tomorrow: Yeah. Her arteries.
Type_A_Tiff: There's nothing hard about her. Broadway_star_tomorrow: Yeah. Her arteries.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#15re: Steel Pier!
Posted: 12/21/04 at 7:14pmI found Steel Pier to be pretty boring. Debra Monk was good but I have never been a big Karen Ziemba fan.
StageDoor
Chorus Member Joined: 6/4/03
#16re: Steel Pier!
Posted: 12/21/04 at 7:19pmAlas! Have your seen Ziemba's performances on the "My Favorite Broadway, the Leading Ladies" DVD??? She does "Nowadays" with BeBe Neuwirth and "I Wanna Be a Rockette" with the Rockettes. Both SPECTACULAR!
"Heaven doth with us as we with torches do not light them for themselves."
- William Shakespeare
#17re: Steel Pier!
Posted: 12/21/04 at 7:20pm
Thats true Broadway_Star_tomarrow
but I do like hte stories I hear about Kristin being nice lol
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
#18re: Steel Pier!
Posted: 12/21/04 at 7:23pmI adore STEEL PIER, and I wish it had gotten more recognition than it did. TITANIC rightfully won best score, but I still think STEEL PIER should have won best musical, or even THE LIFE. I really really love this show, though and would love to direct it one day.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
StageDoor
Chorus Member Joined: 6/4/03
#19re: Steel Pier!
Posted: 12/21/04 at 7:23pm
I before E, except after C...
Believe...
"Heaven doth with us as we with torches do not light them for themselves."
- William Shakespeare
#20re: Steel Pier!
Posted: 12/21/04 at 7:25pmwhat?????
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
broadway_star_tomorrow
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/04
#21re: Steel Pier!
Posted: 12/21/04 at 7:28pmSally has a typo in her sig.
AKA Idina Pashmina
Type_A_Tiff: There's nothing hard about her. Broadway_star_tomorrow: Yeah. Her arteries.
Type_A_Tiff: There's nothing hard about her. Broadway_star_tomorrow: Yeah. Her arteries.
#22re: Steel Pier!
Posted: 12/21/04 at 7:28pmsorry I'll fix it
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
StageDoor
Chorus Member Joined: 6/4/03
#23re: Steel Pier!
Posted: 12/21/04 at 7:38pmGotcha! You had to take your hands away from your ears to type that correction!
"Heaven doth with us as we with torches do not light them for themselves."
- William Shakespeare
#24re: Steel Pier!
Posted: 12/21/04 at 7:48pm
i had to..my ears..type..
ah sorry tonight im very slow
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
