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My soul just got a boo-boo that a lollipop can't fix. (Cry-Baby 3/29)

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lakezurich
#25re: 'My soul just got a boo-boo that a lolipop can't fix. ('Cry-Baby' 3/2
Posted: 3/22/08 at 1:10am

maybe in context it isn't funny but the thought just mad me laugh


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lakezurich
#26re: 'My soul just got a boo-boo that a lolipop can't fix. ('Cry-Baby' 3/2
Posted: 3/22/08 at 1:10am

and you have to forgive me anyways, I gave you pop rocks


Rant, Wickud, Rant, Wickud, Rant! We're not gonna pay Rant! 'Cause everythink is Wickud!

"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"

lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical

LePetiteFromage
#27
Posted: 3/22/08 at 1:18am

Updated On: 5/7/09 at 01:18 AM

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lakezurich
#28re: 'My soul just got a boo-boo that a lolipop can't fix. ('Cry-Baby' 3/2
Posted: 3/22/08 at 1:19am

I meant the thought of someone in an iron lung singing a show tune. But it has to be done the right way.


Rant, Wickud, Rant, Wickud, Rant! We're not gonna pay Rant! 'Cause everythink is Wickud!

"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"

lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
Updated On: 3/22/08 at 01:19 AM

LePetiteFromage
#29
Posted: 3/22/08 at 1:21am

Updated On: 5/7/09 at 01:21 AM

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jordangirl
#30re: 'My soul just got a boo-boo that a lolipop can't fix. ('Cry-Baby' 3/2
Posted: 3/22/08 at 1:23am

I forgive you Lake.

And it's really just a line or two (that the guy in the iron lung sings) in the beginning and in the final song "Nothing Bad's Ever Gonna Happen Again". I read that and saw it and all I could think f was the jokes that'll come from that title being the final song when this puppy closes.


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Updated On: 3/22/08 at 01:23 AM

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broadwaybelter
#31re: 'My soul just got a boo-boo that a lolipop can't fix. ('Cry-Baby' 3/2
Posted: 3/22/08 at 3:11am

I'm sure if Cheyenne Jackson was the lolipop, it'd be a completely different story.

LePetiteFromage
#32
Posted: 3/22/08 at 3:12am

Updated On: 5/7/09 at 03:12 AM

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jaystarr
#33re: 'My soul just got a boo-boo that a lolipop can't fix. ('Cry-Baby' 3/2
Posted: 3/22/08 at 6:40am

Thanks Jordy for that review!

I got your text message last night:

Cry baby? It is as bad as they all say.
One lyrics?
My soul just got boo-boo that no lollipop can fix.
Ugh!



^^^ very cute! so I knew how you felt about the show since last night before I went to bed. Oh Dear! I am seeing the show next week. I am preparing for the worst!

J*




Updated On: 3/22/08 at 06:40 AM

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Neverandy
#34re: 'My soul just got a boo-boo that a lolipop can't fix. ('Cry-Baby' 3/2
Posted: 3/22/08 at 9:49am

Normally I would wait for the reviews before I would see a show like this, but schadenfreude is pulling me like an electromagnet to the MArquis Theatre for this one! I have to see this for myself.


Other than that, did you enjoy the play Mrs Lincoln?

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jordangirl
#35re: 'My soul just got a boo-boo that a lolipop can't fix. ('Cry-Baby' 3/2
Posted: 3/22/08 at 9:51am

I seriously think that's why butts are going in the seats ~ at least from non-previously bought tickets. People just have to see this mess for themselves.

I know that's why I went. LOL.

Prepare for the worst. You MAY be pleasantly surprised. Maybe.


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millie_dillmount
#36re: 'My soul just got a boo-boo that a lolipop can't fix. ('Cry-Baby' 3/2
Posted: 3/22/08 at 12:06pm

Well I can't judge the show based on one lyric line, but that just screams corny.


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jordangirl
#37re: 'My soul just got a boo-boo that a lolipop can't fix. ('Cry-Baby' 3/2
Posted: 3/22/08 at 12:10pm

True. And I understand. That's just the one that really jumped at me and stuck. My head hit my palms quite a few times with the cheese/corn.


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luvtheEmcee
#38re: 'My soul just got a boo-boo that a lolipop can't fix. ('Cry-Baby' 3/2
Posted: 3/22/08 at 12:24pm

My appreciation for the awesomely bad got the better of me. I'm seeing it tonight. Honestly, even if it really is THAT bad (which I have a hard time believing, since some of the people who have said so just use hyperbole to fluff their own egos), I think I'll have a good time. I can go for some camp.


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Updated On: 3/22/08 at 12:24 PM

Noel&Cole
#39re: 'My soul just got a boo-boo that a lolipop can't fix. ('Cry-Baby' 3/2
Posted: 3/22/08 at 12:33pm

AHHHHH....yes some of the lines are cheesy and corny. Thats the point. That's the humor. If you dont like that kind of thing then why would you go? Its like someone going to Passing Strange and hating it because it used rock music or hating in the hates because there was to much rap. See what you like. Or Enjoy things for the genre they are. Just a thought

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KJisgroovy
#40re: 'My soul just got a boo-boo that a lolipop can't fix. ('Cry-Baby' 3/2
Posted: 3/22/08 at 12:33pm

I haven't seen the show... so obviously I shouldn't be making a comment about it... but... I think that lyric is quite funny... It is clearly not supposed to be serious... it's camp... the polio vaccines... I mean... taken out of context it is very campy/very John Waters... to me at least... of course... the show may be awful awful... but... what I have heard so far... like the criticism of the gasmask dance... it seems like people are missing the point. Again... I didn't see the show... this idea maybe ultimately invalid.


kmc


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jordangirl
#41re: 'My soul just got a boo-boo that a lolipop can't fix. ('Cry-Baby' 3/2
Posted: 3/22/08 at 12:35pm

It's camp. Yes, I get that. But it's BAD camp. (As opposed to something like Xanadu which is "good" camp.)

It actually came across more as them TRYING to do melodrama and doing it badly.


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KJisgroovy
#42re: 'My soul just got a boo-boo that a lolipop can't fix. ('Cry-Baby' 3/2
Posted: 3/22/08 at 12:39pm

Sure.
It's just people saying "Oh that lyric is so corny"... it's supposed to be corny... I mean... that's the idea... people who said... oh they do a dance with gasmasks... isn't that awful! Yea... it's supposed to be awful... it's interesting to me that you would suggest Xanadu is good camp... because... I don't really think so... so... either I would REALLY hate Cry Baby... or we have different ideas of things.


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jordangirl
#43re: 'My soul just got a boo-boo that a lolipop can't fix. ('Cry-Baby' 3/2
Posted: 3/22/08 at 12:43pm

What I mean is that at least in Xanadu they seem to get that they're doing camp.

IMHO, in Cry-Baby it comes off as them trying to be serious and doing camp.

IMHO.

There is a difference.


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KJisgroovy
#44re: 'My soul just got a boo-boo that a lolipop can't fix. ('Cry-Baby' 3/2
Posted: 3/22/08 at 1:03pm

I guess, um... there's a big difference between what you and I consider camp. That is exactly why I don't think the camp works in Xanadu. They keep saying "look how campy we are!" And that kills the joke for me. I much prefer camp that let's us figure it out. I mean... in true camp... they are trying to be serious. That's the whole point... something deadly serious that is hilarious... that's the point of true camp anyway.

kmc


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jordangirl
#45re: 'My soul just got a boo-boo that a lolipop can't fix. ('Cry-Baby' 3/2
Posted: 3/22/08 at 1:05pm

If I'd found CB "hilarious" I might agree with you. I just found it cringe-inducing.


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luvtheEmcee
#46re: 'My soul just got a boo-boo that a lolipop can't fix. ('Cry-Baby' 3/2
Posted: 3/22/08 at 1:06pm

It sounds like the problem isn't as much the lyrics as it is the direction.


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jordangirl
#47re: 'My soul just got a boo-boo that a lolipop can't fix. ('Cry-Baby' 3/2
Posted: 3/22/08 at 1:07pm

Maybe... I'd probably still have cringed at them... But who knows. :P


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luvtheEmcee
#48re: 'My soul just got a boo-boo that a lolipop can't fix. ('Cry-Baby' 3/2
Posted: 3/22/08 at 1:11pm

Well, yeah, that's you, but if the problem is that they lyrics are coming off as true attempts at melodrama rather than satirical camp, then that's not probably not entirely the lyrics themselves. It sounds like there's at least potential for them to be hilarious -- especially if people are laughing at them on paper (screen?) -- but it's not being presented right. Camp is going to have lyrics that are cringe-worthy. It's about what you do with them. And it's a hard thing to get right.


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Updated On: 3/22/08 at 01:11 PM

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jordangirl
#49re: 'My soul just got a boo-boo that a lolipop can't fix. ('Cry-Baby' 3/2
Posted: 3/22/08 at 1:12pm

Hmm. Good point. The laughter definitely seemed pretty flat last night from what I could hear at the front.


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