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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 20, 2018 16:41:11 GMT
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 20, 2018 16:26:03 GMT
Dang
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 20, 2018 15:27:48 GMT
From the SpongeBob bookwriter!
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 20, 2018 15:19:17 GMT
Not to mention Today (hi, David Campbell!) ran a B-roll of a non-Patti Eva and Patti noticed. Ha!
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 20, 2018 14:56:00 GMT
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 20, 2018 14:38:43 GMT
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 20, 2018 14:32:28 GMT
Don't worry, I was reading it in the newspaper at lunch and thinking about how to raise it here, too. The photo of a column of children being marched like prisoners put me right off my banana sandwich. The only question, which I'm hoping some US board member may answer, is if this policy was put in place by Trump, or if it already existed and is being used as leverage against him? I don't believe this specific process existed before him. I listen to Pod Save America, hosted by former Obama staffers, and they said that if anyone was detained after crossing the border, they weren't separated from their kids, much less were the kids put into a camp like this. More details here, from a more unbiased source: www.snopes.com/fact-check/does-law-family-separation-detention-minors/Please boycott us and do what you can — whatever you think is right. Don't visit, don't buy our stuff, don't whatever. I totally understand!
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 19, 2018 17:34:57 GMT
How is this similar to the Broadway design? The Broadway design had everything coming from the floor whereas here it seems it's a more traditional set up? Is there a turntable? Just curious. They seem to re-create the show every time. It's similar in that it's the same pieces of set and props being used - as far as I'm aware the Broadway / US Tour set was shipped here once the tour ended. The costumes and direction are also largely identical. The pieces of set are used in a slightly different way as yes, they don't come from the floor and they have to be moved around (there is a revolve), and there's a clever moment in the second half that means some things are staged differently. It just feels very similar to the Broadway production visually. Broadway and the tour didn't use the same set, as Broadway was in the round and the tour wasn't. They probably used a great deal of the same furniture, though.
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 19, 2018 17:33:40 GMT
It'll be a very slow period, so you'll probably have a lot of options at TKTS or via Show-Score, Goldstar, and TodayTix.
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 17, 2018 4:49:14 GMT
I only know the cast recording, but how long is the actual show? Is it basically the recording or is there a bit more in the show? It's about 100 minutes long.
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 14, 2018 20:29:53 GMT
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 14, 2018 19:36:57 GMT
The thing with this show is that while it's about the events surrounding 9/11, in the same breath it really isn't about 9/11. This is the case. It's not so much a 9/11 musical as it is a 9/12, 9/13, 9/14 musical.
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 14, 2018 19:36:21 GMT
as the musical is a metaphor for 9/11 ?
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 14, 2018 15:07:31 GMT
That is absolutely the case. I love it but I also don't listen to it a whole lot. The show is speedy, efficient, and heartfelt.
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 14, 2018 14:49:54 GMT
I really like the idea of a new musical in the West End, and the Phoenix definitely needs something a bit special to make it rise from obscurity but... the show’s title... it doesn’t make sense, does it? I’m sure it will, if you go and see it, but it doesn’t exactly let an audience in. And then the subject matter... Yes, 9/11 affected us all, but it’s something that really ‘belongs’ to New York, and I wonder if that’s why it’s playing to packed houses there. I think I’d feel it had more resonance if I saw it on Broadway rather than just off Charing Cross Road. That's interesting, because I first saw the show at Ford's Theatre in Washington DC and wasn't sure how it would play here in NYC due to the location. But lo and behold! Also, musicals about a specific event or country have done well outside their sphere of direct influence. Remember Evita?
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 12, 2018 15:36:41 GMT
Why is there no West End equivalent to IBDB? It would make threads like this so much easier!
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 9, 2018 18:54:00 GMT
Btw, what's with the Adam Ant hussar jacket? I've never seen the stage musical, but in the novel and every screen version I've seen he's a civilian. I think that was the Barbican costume. It never really happened again and now looks more like a red xylophone.
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 8, 2018 21:47:05 GMT
About 20 years ago, I was seeing the Les Miz tour with my mom, and there were three understudies on (from what I remember, Valjean, Enjolras, and Marius). I was very excited. My mom scoffed, "Then why aren't we paying understudy prices?!" (Even though she had no idea who they were, much less who the full-time performers were.) She ended up loving them and the entire show, but the mentality can be taken much further and much more seriously by more annoying and aggravating people.
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 8, 2018 21:17:02 GMT
It's not necessarily idealism. It's because many other theatregoers aren't like us. Poll tourists leaving (generally) the more touristy shows and 90% of them won't know who they just saw, and it doesn't matter to them. Even my parents, who have seen Les Miz and Book of Mormon multiple times with me, can probably only name a couple of actors they saw in it, even if they had a great time. My parents saw the national tour of The Wiz and Annie back in the 70s and 80s, but they didn't know or care that they'd seen Molly Ringwald as an orphan. (My mom did recognize Lilias White as the woman who'd played Dorothy years later, but she wasn't why they went.)
A good friend of mine (also here in NYC) is a frequent but casual theatregoer. She is amazed whenever I can remember who I saw in what. She just remembers that she saw a show and enjoyed it and maybe knows the names of a couple people she sees in one season. But she keeps tabs on what she wants to see — just not who she wants to see. (However, she can remember what she ate and at what restaurant and with which friend at the drop of a hat.)
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 8, 2018 21:01:30 GMT
There are definitely shows I've gone to because I liked one or a number of people in the cast, but generally that's not the make or break because I know if it hadn't been them, it likely would've been someone else of that same "type" who I already like.
I'm pretty glad I saw Alan Rickman in Seminar, though...
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 8, 2018 20:17:46 GMT
I can see them doing an arena tour, or one to bigger houses for long stops, but not a national tour in a traditional sense.
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 8, 2018 19:47:28 GMT
Isn't going to see the same show dozens of a times rather more obsessive than posting insults on Twitter? Not necessarily. One is definitely a more negative execution of the obsession, though.
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 8, 2018 17:45:17 GMT
A good friend of mine was a longtime writer for a well-loved niche magazine. It was in her contract that she had to engage with readers on twitter (which she'd established well before working for them), and, I think, in the comments. She said she generally didn't mind since people weren't all that rude (at least compared to other publications), but I can see how in a slightly different or more popular format, it could be awful.
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 8, 2018 13:56:47 GMT
I always wanted to meet him. I loved how he didn't speak with condescension or artificial wonder.
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 7, 2018 19:06:14 GMT
I'm still laughing at some of the comments on instagram: My gosh, Larry be looking fine 👌 Since when is larry Murphy hot?? oh my gosh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! daddy!!!!!!!!!!! he’s even more daddy than Michael park I mean, they're not wrong... http://instagr.am/p/BjuwNNzABQt
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 7, 2018 17:47:59 GMT
Well, of course people shouldn't be rude to actors on social media. I'm not sure what kind of answer you're looking for here?
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 7, 2018 17:34:00 GMT
I just don't think it happens as much to theatre actors because it's easier to be rude or at least abrasive to a TV/film celebrity who you can assume (however wrongfully) isn't reading their own mentions.
I will say there was an entertainingly tense exchange between Russell Crowe and Andrew Varela back in the day:
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 7, 2018 17:25:27 GMT
What is everyones view on this sort of behaviour? Which behavior? Toxic fans or actors being silly? I am reminded of stuff like this (someone had actually tweeted her that Eponine wasn't the role for her): All fandoms can be terrible. But luckily I don't think theatre fans assault in bulk like film/tv fans, simply because of the live nature of the beast. A good thing to keep in mind:
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 7, 2018 17:11:00 GMT
I'm CRYING over how old I feel (but also this is shaping up to be a great tour cast).
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 7, 2018 14:05:02 GMT
I think the smashing a mobile with a hammer thing would be like magicians used to do with smashing a bloke's watch into a hankie and then later giving it back perfectly ok but sometimes much later than the smashing so the bloke is left in terrible suspense. Always funny. Yeah, would love to see. Smashing a (prop) phone was the pre-show announcement when I saw 110 in the Shade at Pasadena Playhouse 10+ years ago. It was very effective and should be done more often!
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