Goodspeed cancels Woody's show

[BroadwayBen]

Posted: 1/25/18 at 6:10pm

Not sure what to think about this...

http://deadline.com/2018/01/goodspeed-opera-cancel-woody-allens-bullets-over-broadway-120226947

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 1/25/18 at 6:50pm

Did he have any major involvement with The Broadway show? I thought Susan did most of the work. Wonder what will happen with his upcoming film...

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 1/25/18 at 6:52pm

He wrote the book for the stage adaption. He was actually Tony nominated.

[binau]

Posted: 1/25/18 at 6:56pm

Do they have genuine ethical concerns or is this a convenient out-clause for an impending disaster?

[michaelhale]

Posted: 1/25/18 at 9:14pm

qolbinau said: "Do they have genuine ethical concerns or is this a convenient out-clause for an impending disaster?"

To clarify - you're questioning if their hearts are in the right place concerning not wanting to show off a sexual abuser's work or if this is just a convenient way to look good while cancelling a production that wasn't coming along well? Because I am a little wary as well- the allegations against Woody Allen are not new at all so if they care so much- why plan to do the show in the first place? 

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 1/25/18 at 9:19pm

I think what's relatively new
is that Dylan Farrow (the
subject of the child abuse
allegations 20 years ago)
gave her first public inter-
view recently in which SHE
corroborated her mother's
claims from when Dylan
was 5 or 6.

(I don't know what the truth
is, but Allen continues to
deny the charge and there
are studies showing it is
possible to "plant" false
memories in a child's mind.)

[bk]

Posted: 1/25/18 at 9:39pm

Here's the effing truth and it is NOT HARD TO FIND.  Mr. Allen was investigated thoroughly TWICE and found innocent of everything.  This continuing hatchet job by Dylan and her mother is disgusting.  Yes, I'm sure her mother has done her job brilliantly and that Dylan and Ronan believe this.  Moses was there and absolutely denies that anything ever happened, and common sense would tell you that Mr. Allen, in the midst of a contentious and public breakup would hardly molest his child in her home while that's going on - he would have to be mentally deficient and he is anything but that.  Like him, hate him, I don't care, but in this country we are INNOCENT until PROVEN guilty and I am so sick of this crap about this person in particular.  He was allowed to adopt TWO children - think that could have happened if there were even a hint of anything?  No is your easy answer.  As to Dylan I have one word for you: McMartin.  If you don't know what that means Google is your friend, and I don't mean John McMartin.  I mean McMartin as in people's lives ruined because a bunch of impressionable kids were brainwashed into making specious allegations that the idiotic public chose to believe without a shred of evidence.  Then, when every single allegation was proved false all those rush to judgment types disappeared into the good night - no apologies, no oops we were wrong what can we do to fix this.  What has this country become and shame on anyone here who jumps on that bandwagon without doing the simple research.  But to help you out, read this article: https://ronanfarrowletter.wordpress.com/2016/05/30/hard-questions-for-ronan-farrow-an-open-letter/

 

[bk]

Posted: 1/25/18 at 9:41pm

I wish Goodspeed nothing but failure for this decision.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 1/25/18 at 9:50pm

bk said: "I wish Goodspeed nothing but failure for this decision."

SAME.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 1/25/18 at 10:08pm

bk, you don't know the "effing
truth" any more than the rest
of us. (We don't even know
for sure why Goodspeed
cancelled the project. It was
I who speculated that Dylan's
recent interview might have
inspired a revival of the issue.)

I share your skepticism and
went out of my way to qualify
my report of the charge. But
given the specifics of the
claim--digital contact but
no deep penetration--con-
firming or debunking the
assertion is no easy matter.
(If Mia, Dylan and Ronan 
are so unhinged, why should
we assume Moses is any
more objective?)

Myself, I've always thought
the truth of the matter to be
unknowable. What turns my
stomach is the marriage to
his de facto stepdaughter.
Yes, the Allens seem to be
happy together and it was
always legal; but as a step-
parent myself, I think Allen
set a bad example, at the
very least.

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 1/25/18 at 10:18pm

bk said: "Here's the effing truth and it is NOT HARD TO FIND. Mr. Allen was investigated thoroughly TWICE and found innocent of everything. This continuing hatchet job by Dylan and her mother is disgusting. Yes, I'm sure her mother has done her job brilliantly and that Dylan and Ronan believe this. Moses was there and absolutely denies that anything ever happened, and common sense would tell you that Mr. Allen, in the midst of a contentious and public breakup would hardly molest his child in her home while that's going on - he would have to be mentally deficient and he is anything but that. Like him, hate him, I don't care, but in this country we are INNOCENT until PROVEN guilty and I am so sick of this crap about this person in particular. He was allowed to adopt TWO children - think that could have happened if there were even a hint of anything? No is your easy answer. As to Dylan I have one word for you: McMartin. If you don't know what that means Google is your friend, and I don't mean John McMartin. I mean McMartin as in people's lives ruined because a bunch of impressionable kids were brainwashed into making specious allegations that the idiotic public chose to believe without a shred of evidence. Then, when every single allegation was proved false all those rush to judgment types disappeared into the good night - no apologies, no oops we were wrong what can we do to fix this. What has this country become and shame on anyone here who jumps on that bandwagon without doing the simple research. But to help you out, read this article:https://ronanfarrowletter.wordpress.com/2016/05/30/hard-questions-for-ronan-farrow-an-open-letter/

"

 

Wow. Impressive you know what happened without being there! Congratulations. 

[RippedMan]

Posted: 1/25/18 at 11:05pm

You seem to think you know the truth and you weren’t there so...??

The show sucks. They made a good decision.

[JSquared2]

Posted: 1/25/18 at 11:18pm

RippedMan said: "You seem to think you know the truth and you weren’t there so...??

The show sucks. They made a good decision. "

Then why would they have programmed it in the first place, genius??  So happy we’re getting to live through the McCarthy Era Part II. 

[TheGingerBreadMan]

Posted: 1/25/18 at 11:20pm

bk said: "Here's the effing truth and it is NOT HARD TO FIND. Mr. Allen was investigated thoroughly TWICE and found innocent of everything. This continuing hatchet job by Dylan and her mother is disgusting. Yes, I'm sure her mother has done her job brilliantly and that Dylan and Ronan believe this. Moses was there and absolutely denies that anything ever happened, and common sense would tell you that Mr. Allen, in the midst of a contentious and public breakup would hardly molest his child in her home while that's going on - he would have to be mentally deficient and he is anything but that. Like him, hate him, I don't care, but in this country we are INNOCENT until PROVEN guilty and I am so sick of this crap about this person in particular. He was allowed to adopt TWO children - think that could have happened if there were even a hint of anything? No is your easy answer. As to Dylan I have one word for you: McMartin. If you don't know what that means Google is your friend, and I don't mean John McMartin. I mean McMartin as in people's lives ruined because a bunch of impressionable kids were brainwashed into making specious allegations that the idiotic public chose to believe without a shred of evidence. Then, when every single allegation was proved false all those rush to judgment types disappeared into the good night - no apologies, no oops we were wrong what can we do to fix this. What has this country become and shame on anyone here who jumps on that bandwagon without doing the simple research. But to help you out, read this article:https://ronanfarrowletter.wordpress.com/2016/05/30/hard-questions-for-ronan-farrow-an-open-letter/

You’re making some pretty bold claims for somebody who doesn’t anything more than the rest of us. 

[bk]

Posted: 1/25/18 at 11:21pm

RippedMan said: "You seem to think you know the truth and you weren’t there so...??

The show sucks. They made a good decision."

So?  I know that the man was found INNOCENT by two separate investigative entities - read the article I posted - although I know it's easier to be a smart guy on a message board.  And yes, McCarthyism is alive and well in 2018.  

[bk]

Posted: 1/25/18 at 11:24pm

GavestonPS said: "bk, you don't know the "effing
truth" any more than the rest
of us. (We don't even know
for sure why Goodspeed
cancelled the project. It was
I who speculated that Dylan's
recent interview might have
inspired a revival of the issue.)

I share your skepticism and
went out of my way to qualify
my report of the charge. But
given the specifics of the
claim--digitalcontact but
no deep penetration--con-
firming or debunkingthe
assertion is no easy matter.
(If Mia,Dylan and Ronan
are sounhinged, why should
weassume Moses is any
more objective?)

Myself, I've always thought
the truth of the matter to be
unknowable. What turns my
stomach is the marriage to
his de facto stepdaughter.
Yes, the Allens seem to be
happy together and it was
always legal; but as a step-
parent myself, I think Allen
set a bad example, at the
very least."

I know that he was found innocent, that's what I know and I know that happened a quarter of a century ago. You seem to keep ignoring that.  Read the article I posted, then post, rather than just saying the same old, same old.  Mr. Allen was not a step-parent to Soon-Yi - that is the problem here, all this continual misinformation.  In order to be a step-parent you have to be married - Mr. Allen was never married to Ms. Farrow, nor was he the adoptive father of Soon-Yi PREVIN.  Nor was he a father figure to her in any way.  She states that they had virtually no contact when she was not of age and SHE pursued the relationship.

[bk]

Posted: 1/25/18 at 11:27pm

TheGingerBreadMan said: "bk said: "Here's the effing truth and it is NOT HARD TO FIND. Mr. Allen was investigated thoroughly TWICE and found innocent of everything. This continuing hatchet job by Dylan and her mother is disgusting. Yes, I'm sure her mother has done her job brilliantly and that Dylan and Ronan believe this. Moses was there and absolutely denies that anything ever happened, and common sense would tell you that Mr. Allen, in the midst of a contentious and public breakup would hardly molest his child in her home while that's going on - he would have to be mentally deficient and he is anything but that. Like him, hate him, I don't care, but in this country we are INNOCENT until PROVEN guilty and I am so sick of this crap about this person in particular. He was allowed to adopt TWO children - think that could have happened if there were even a hint of anything? No is your easy answer. As to Dylan I have one word for you: McMartin. If you don't know what that means Google is your friend, and I don't mean John McMartin. I mean McMartin as in people's lives ruined because a bunch of impressionable kids were brainwashed into making specious allegations that the idiotic public chose to believe without a shred of evidence. Then, when every single allegation was proved false all those rush to judgment types disappeared into the good night - no apologies, no oops we were wrong what can we do to fix this. What has this country become and shame on anyone here who jumps on that bandwagon without doing the simple research. But to help you out, read this article:https://ronanfarrowletter.wordpress.com/2016/05/30/hard-questions-for-ronan-farrow-an-open-letter/

You’re making some pretty bold claims for somebody who doesn’t anything more than the rest of us."

Am I?  I have at least researched this and if you and everyone else would bother to simply click on the link provided, you, too, can have some illumination.  But it's more fun to pontificate without any knowledge whatsoever.  But Facebook and message board outrage is just too much fun for everyone.  You would have been right at home with Mr. McCarthy.

 

[KathyNYC2]

Posted: 1/25/18 at 11:32pm

He was dating Mia and without breaking it off with her, he started dating HER daughter and "accidentally" left nude photos of the two of them on mantle which is how Mia learned what happened.

Personally I don't have to know if Dylan's abuse accusation was real or not. He was a low life for doing what he did, a coward for not breaking it off with Mia first and cruel for not worrying about the pain he could cause to the Farriow family by involving himself with mother and daughter.

She persued the relationship? She was a teenager and he was an adult with years of experience. He could have said NO.

[bk]

Posted: 1/25/18 at 11:39pm

Last I looked, twenty is not a teenager, which is when they began their relationship.  And Woody's relationship was long over.  But I'll just let you all keep posting whatever you feel like, true or not.  Why not?  It's the 2018 way.

Updated On: 1/25/18 at 11:39 PM

[Loopin’theloop]

Posted: 1/26/18 at 6:06am

Ask BK about space and air in his ‘Hello, Dolly!’ cast recording, that will distract him whilst the rest of us can sneak out of the room.

[rjm516]

Posted: 1/26/18 at 6:30am

YES. Good. Everyone should cancel his work.. Everyone should stop working with him. Dylan has been saying the same exact thing for 20 years and I wish that people would just START BELIEVING girls. For those who say he was investigated and found innocent: Do you know the Olympics doctor Nassar in the news now? You admit that he was guilty, right? He was investigated 20 years ago too, and multiple times - by Michigan State University, by local and federal police, by his hospital, by Title IX, and by the gymnastics association. He was also cleared back then, so don't you dare rely on the systems we have in place now to charge accusers because they obviously don't work.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 1/26/18 at 8:14am

Not finding enough evidence to say he is 100% quilty is not the same as proving he is innocent.  Even in a court of law, innocence is not proclaimed, but not guilty is.  It's doesn't mean a person isn't guilty, but only that they weren't proven to be guilty.

 

I don't know the truth, don't pretend to.  But truth be told, I've always found him creepy....and marrying his very young step daughter is pretty disgusting.  I don't know how anyone could find someone that  they once bathed, tucked into bed, & kissed "boo-boos"  for, to ever sexually appealing or a romantic possibility.  It might not be illegal (as adult incest is not in most states) but it does say something about a person.

[Babe_Williams]

Posted: 1/26/18 at 9:34am

bk said: "RippedMan said: "You seem to think you know the truth and you weren’t there so...??

The show sucks. They made a good decision."

So? I know that the man was found INNOCENT by two separate investigative entities - read the article I posted - although I know it's easier to be a smart guy on a message board. And yes, McCarthyism is alive and well in 2018."

People aren't 'found innocent' in this country. There is either enough evidence to establish probable cuase to go forward with criminal charges or not enough evidence (or other reasons why charges would not be authorized).

 

Not even touching the Dylan Farrow allegations, the Soon-Yi stuff is enough to make me avoid Woody Allen's work on its own. 

Updated On: 1/26/18 at 09:34 AM

[Jazzman714]

Posted: 1/26/18 at 9:37am

dramamama611 said:
I don't know the truth, don't pretend to. But truth be told, I've always found him creepy....and marrying his very young step daughter is pretty disgusting. I don't know how anyone could find someone that they once bathed, tucked into bed, & kissed "boo-boos" for, to ever sexually appealing or a romantic possibility. It might not be illegal (as adult incest is not in most states) but it does say something about a person."

Wow - your statement is FULL of falsehoods. He was not a step-father to her. Allen never did ANY of those paternal tasks you've listed. He was not involved with Soon Yi's care at all. Yes, the beginnings of his romantic relationship with Soon Yi are admittedly gross -- but please do not spread untruths.

Updated On: 1/26/18 at 09:37 AM

[haterobics]

Posted: 1/26/18 at 10:26am

bk said: "I know that the man was found INNOCENT by two separate investigative entities - read the article I posted."

No investigations find someone innocent. Even juries don't find people innocent. They determine whether there is enough evidence to bring charges. Even then, it is not up to them whether the charges have merit, just that there is enough to run with...