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Doesn't it bug you when...

rorschach37

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Doesn't it bug you when...#1
Posted: 9/10/10 at 12:36pm

...people refer to a musical as a play?

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Doesn't it bug you when...#2
Posted: 9/10/10 at 12:41pm

Yes. Nearly as much as vague subject lines.

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Doesn't it bug you when...#2
Posted: 9/10/10 at 12:42pm

Thats funny, I have actually been thinking about this very recently..and yes it does bug me. I don't know why it does, but I tend to separate the two in my head so it always irks me when other people don't.

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Doesn't it bug you when...#3
Posted: 9/10/10 at 12:42pm

Nope.

No good can possibly come from using this vast wasteland of error and deliberate deceit. You should get off of it and warn others away. You should make sure your children and grandchildren know what a corrupt and morally bankrupt institution it truly is.

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Doesn't it bug you when...#4
Posted: 9/10/10 at 12:43pm

No... There are these things called preferences...

"Hi there, we represent The Broadway Better Business Players for a Better Tomorrow. We're trying to start a petition to get second rate shows taken off the marquee and with your help we can stop Mamma Mia from ever playing again." -Brad Jones in Suburban Knights

"Is it true you have Ralph Jr at the bottom of your purse in a jar of formaldehyde?" - Felicia
"No, but I wish I did so I could shove it down your throat!" - Bernadette

"This play is sh*t! This play is sh*t! F*CK YOU TERRENCE MCNALLY!!"- Patti LuPone as an angry theatre goer at 'Master Class'

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Doesn't it bug you when...#5
Posted: 9/10/10 at 12:49pm

I don't have a problem with other people calling anything differently than I do, I'm just honestly saying that from my standpoint it bugs me a little. Not that I would ever tell the person because like theatrefan said preferences exist. It's just something I've noticed a lot of people do.

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Doesn't it bug you when...#6
Posted: 9/10/10 at 1:04pm

Yes, and also when people call movies "shows."

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Doesn't it bug you when...#7
Posted: 9/10/10 at 1:09pm

... or when people use the pharse "the show" to refer to a movie theare, as in "I hardly ever go the the show anymore. I mostly rent DVDs."

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Doesn't it bug you when...#8
Posted: 9/10/10 at 1:15pm

Jon it's the Picture Show...as in Rocky Horror Picture Show or The Last Picture Show. I am going to the show this afternoon. I want to see that Drew Barrymore picture.

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Doesn't it bug you when...#9
Posted: 9/10/10 at 1:23pm

It doesn't bother me to the point I insist other people use the terminology correctly, but it does bother me to the point that I will always differentiate between a play and a musical.

Although I have yet to find a satisfactory umbrella term for the two; "show" sounds too frivolous when applied to certain plays, and "production" means something very specific already...

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Doesn't it bug you when...#10
Posted: 9/10/10 at 1:28pm

Musicals are plays.

What's the problem?

I hate it when I tell people I love theater and they take it to mean "all Broadway musicals."

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Doesn't it bug you when...#11
Posted: 9/10/10 at 1:38pm

Musicals are plays.

Exactly.

The term "musical" is actually a shortened version of the full term "musical play." (In case you hadn't noticed, "musical" is an adjective, not a noun.)

There are musical plays, or musicals, and straight plays, or non-musical plays.

Does it bug you when people call a poodle a dog? Because that's essentially what you're saying.

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Doesn't it bug you when...#12
Posted: 9/10/10 at 2:18pm

POODLES ARE NOT DOGS. THEY ARE POODLES. MUCH SMARTER AND MORE BEAUTIFUL THAT NORMAL DOGS.

god, get it right.

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Doesn't it bug you when...#13
Posted: 9/10/10 at 2:32pm

[off topic] It bugs me more when the audience decides to start clapping in the middle of a belt, drowning out the end of the song/note completely.

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Doesn't it bug you when...#14
Posted: 9/10/10 at 3:01pm

Poodles are the most annoying of dogs. The only think worse than a poodle is a poodle owner.

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Doesn't it bug you when...#15
Posted: 9/10/10 at 3:10pm

dshnookie,
Agreed, especially when it happens during the last few seconds of Bernadette singing "Send in the Clowns"...I was seriously gonna smack the lady next to me who started it.

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Doesn't it bug you when...#16
Posted: 9/10/10 at 5:30pm

I hate it when I tell people I love theater and they take it to mean "all Broadway musicals."

In what way? The "Wasn't Mamma Mia great!" unwashed masses, or the Broadway fans who think all theatre begins at 41st street and ends at 54th?

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Doesn't it bug you when...#17
Posted: 9/10/10 at 5:34pm

No, not especially.

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Doesn't it bug you when...#18
Posted: 9/10/10 at 6:09pm

it bugs me that my dad says he's taking me to see "that one play" because he doesn't want to admit he's going to see a musical. that really pisses me off.

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Doesn't it bug you when...#19
Posted: 9/10/10 at 6:29pm

No it doesn't bother me.
Yes, musicals are plays.

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

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Doesn't it bug you when...#20
Posted: 9/10/10 at 8:03pm

Sometimes.

What really irks me is when people call cast recordings "soundtracks" and call soundtracks "cast recordings"

What a colossal piece of crap! It'll probably run for years.

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Doesn't it bug you when...#21
Posted: 9/10/10 at 9:06pm

I know somebody who posted on facebook the other day that she was going to see "the musical play Rent"

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Doesn't it bug you when...#22
Posted: 9/10/10 at 10:17pm

^Then s/he would be correct. A bit formal, but correct.

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Doesn't it bug you when...#23
Posted: 9/11/10 at 1:04am

I actually got into a discussion with a lady about this who was all ticked off that she couldn't get a musical in the play only line at TKTS. She told me it was misleading, and that the sign "Should say Draaama" I piped back, "What if it's a comedy?" She didn't have an answer.

P.S. I hate it when people say drama with a hard "a." Right up there with "The-ay-ter" and "Eye-talian."

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Doesn't it bug you when...#24
Posted: 9/11/10 at 3:21am

It bugged me years ago. Silly.

I also used to bark at people who called an orchestra a "band." I quit when I realized those who use it are almost always from the U.K. and it's a widely used slang term for *any* group of musicians, regardless if they are made-up of keyboard and electric guitar players or the L.A. Philharmonic. I had assumed people didn't know the difference between an orchestra and a band. Durr. *Blush*

So, yep. Feeling like a fool is more annoying than anything. :S

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