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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 27, 2018 20:18:53 GMT
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 27, 2018 15:05:20 GMT
Foyer spaces on Broadway are generally more limited I've never been on Broadway (ok, I've been, but not in the theatre), but... seriously? Is that even possible? One of my biggest surprises after the first visit on WE was the sizes of foyers, which in most cases are virtually non-existent. Completely different from theatres I know from Poland (I know, a square meter in Central London worth a lot). I don't really know if this is a comparison you can make all that fairly, since if you look at the space in the Gershwin and compare it to, say, the Cort, you can't get a general idea of anything as far as foyer/lobby space on Broadway. The Gershwin is a bit of an exception, but I can't say the West End has bigger foyers than Broadway has lobbies. |
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 21, 2018 19:51:46 GMT
I'm not really a fan of this Time cover. We don't know who the little girl is, who her parents are, or where she is, but she's being used on the cover of Time in a photo manip. It's just in bad taste.
(Disclosure: I used to be graphic designer at a weekly tabloid [but not the trashy kind (usually)].)
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 21, 2018 19:03:34 GMT
So this is fun.
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 21, 2018 14:14:46 GMT
Agree too about Karamo - I quite honestly don't know what he does? That's basically what everyone said about Jai too! I don't believe a clip of an SNL parody is online, but you get the gist here: snltranscripts.jt.org/03/03hqueer.phtml |
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 21, 2018 14:06:26 GMT
Trump is an animal, a racist and everything that is said about him is right, yes this is awful, this is disgusting, but it's not out of character at all. When news headlines say "this isn't us", I have to disagree. |
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 21, 2018 14:04:02 GMT
LOL. Oh no. I'm mostly familiar with his theatre and cabaret stuff, so most of my Today exposure to him has been via YouTube and when I was in Melbourne last year.
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 20, 2018 21:52:41 GMT
For any American members (or lurkers), it'll still help to call or write your senators regarding Feinstein's Keep Families Together Act. If they support it, thank them. If they don't, urge them to. Voicemails count! Just be sure to leave your zip code. 5calls.org/issue/keep-families-together-act |
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 20, 2018 19:47:28 GMT
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 20, 2018 19:14:48 GMT
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 20, 2018 17:36:02 GMT
The law hasn’t changed. Exactly the same law was in place under Obama when the Democrats had majorities in both houses and they did precisely nothing about it. Children were separated from their parents at the border under Obama using exactly the same facilities and no-one posted a thing about it here. (Well this board didn't exist then...) Anyway, although your facts are dubious, I'm hungry and not going to worry about it. Either way, just because (or just in case) something was bad before and it wasn't spoken about doesn't mean we can't speak out now. |
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 20, 2018 17:08:06 GMT
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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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