I confess
Ludlow29
Okay, we've spent many a thread discussing the gross habits of audience
members. Now it's time to fess up on our own failings as theatregoers.
I have a terrible habit that I'm going to confess. Now only do I occasionally
fall asleep in the theatre but--due to childhood trauma--I wake screaming (A
habit that also scares my wife now and then). It's not an ongoing cry, just a
sudden yelp.
Since I sometimes have sleepless nights (e.g. when I get up to answer online
email), my "wake up screaming" syndrome has struck in the middle of a few
shows, causing a definite shift of audience attention. This syndrome tends to
happen when I visit cerebral British plays or imports: e.g. ARCADIA, MRS.
KLEIN, and A DOLL'S HOUSE. It can happen in the middle of Uta Hagan's big
bravura speech and turn a highly dramatic show into a sudden comedy.
Afterwards, I want to creep out of the theatre with a paper bag over my head.
fyns...@webtv.net
My name is fynsworth and I'm a theatergoer. (Hello, fynsworth).
I confess that when I went to see Jekyll and Hyde that I looked like a
reaction shot from a Mel Brooks movie. My mouth agape, a shellshocked
look on my face, and some drool starting to dribble down my chin. Then,
in J&H's big number (you know the one, the "hair" number) I
inadvertantly turned to the stranger next to me and blurted out
"whiplash"! Unfortunately, the person next to me was what they call a
Jekkie. The look on her face reminded me of someone who looks like
they'd like to eat the head of a chicken.
I confess that I sang along during the sing along at the curtain call of
Ain't Broadway Grand. (O, the shame, O the horror).
I confess that I once snuck an audio cassette recorder into the Shubert
and taped A Chorus Line. Unfortunately, I only pressed the "play"
button, so I had two hours of silence, which I've enjoyed many times
since.
fynsworth the penitent
Doc Bender
>My name is fynsworth and I'm a theatergoer. (Hello, fynsworth).
I confess that when I went to see Jekyll and Hyde that I looked like a
reaction shot from a Mel Brooks movie. My mouth agape, a shellshocked
look on my face, and some drool starting to dribble down my chin.<
You are not alone, truly.
>Then, in J&H's big number (you know the one, the "hair" number) I
inadvertantly turned to the stranger next to me and blurted out "whiplash"!<
Yes, in the Tunnel of Love number at Side Show, when the audience clapped, I
did the same and called out "Blinking Christmas Tree Lights! Oooh!" All
three people in the mezzanine laughed.<
>Unfortunately, the person next to me was what they call a Jekkie. The look on
her face reminded me of someone who looks like they'd like to eat the head of
a chicken.<
Wrong show! Are they merging? Is it synergy of the ugliest kind?
>I confess that I sang along during the sing along at the curtain call of
Ain't Broadway Grand. (O, the shame, O the horror).<
Damn right. You and Mistah Kurtz. The horror, the horror.
>I confess that I once snuck an audio cassette recorder into the Shubert and
taped A Chorus Line. Unfortunately, I only pressed the "play" button, so I
had two hours of silence, which I've enjoyed many times since.<
More enjoyable than Jeckyll and Hyde anyways. Hey, at least you can hum the
melodies.
Doc Bender
Karen Horn
Okay, up until recently, I've always been an insufferably "perfect"
theatre goer. No bolting up the aisles, no celophane anything, no
case of bubonic plague to pass to other patrons, no coming late, no
hogging the damn armrests and planting elbows in neighbors ribs,
no sitting on 3 copies of the phone directory, no chattering away, etc.
But I have to admit when I saw RANT I laughed out loud hysterically at
all the "wrong" places. And if someone had "shushed me" I would
have given them the finger.
Karen
JIM BARNETT
Karen, you flipping someone off with THE finger in a theater? You'd do
that??? Wow, now this is a shockeroo!!!!
Tsk, tsk, tsk.....and I thought you were a woman of great principle
and character.
Didn't your parents teach you not to do that in public? ;-)
Do you also do this while you're driving on a freeway? The movie
theater? An Italian ristorante?
Inquiring, unaware minds like ours want to know. ;-)
Todd
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What performers DO you like?
Andrew J. Fox wrote:
>
> I'm Andrew...Andrew J. Fox...And...and I am a regular theatregoer. (Hi
> Andrew.)
>
> I, like fynsworth, looked like something right out of a Mel Brooks movie
> while watching JEKYLL & HYDE. I also found myself laughing at highly
> inappropriate moments in SIDE SHOW.
>
> I liked BIG. I saw it three times. I liked DREAM. I saw it twice, and
> lament its lack of cast album. I liked COMPANY, but I still don't
> understand how I ended up seeing the damn thing five times. In addition,
> I have never seen THE FANTASTIKS, and I live right arouns the corner from
> it. Yet, I somehow managed to see ZOMBIE PROM when I lived across from
> that.
>
> I pushed play instead of record at City Center, so I went home and sat
> through two and a half hours of non-existant PROMISES PROMISES. I must
> say, the sound quality is excellent.
>
> I am thoroughly, utterly, completely unimpressed by the following people:
> Betty Buckley, Frank Wildhorn, Robert Cuccioli, Billy Porter, Karen Akers,
> Alice Ripley, Anne Runolfeson (or however you pronounce it) Hugh Panaro,
> Charlotte d'Amboise, Laurie Beechman, Pamela Issacs, virtually the entire
> cast of ON THE TOWN at the Public, Ann Duqesnay, Davis Gaines, and Judy
> Kaye.
>
> I like Susan Stroman choreography. I do not like Savion Glover
> choreography.
>
> Carol Channing scares me.
>
> and finally, and please do not hate for saying this, but the Melissa
> Errico fan club will never, ever, EVER make sense to me.
>
> ajf
Karen Horn
JIM BARNETT (jbar...@c3net.net) wrote:
: Karen Horn wrote:
: >
: > Okay, up until recently, I've always been an insufferably "perfect"
: > theatre goer. No bolting up the aisles, no celophane anything, no
: > case of bubonic plague to pass to other patrons, no coming late, no
: > hogging the damn armrests and planting elbows in neighbors ribs,
: > no sitting on 3 copies of the phone directory, no chattering away, etc.
: >
: > But I have to admit when I saw RANT I laughed out loud hysterically at
: > all the "wrong" places. And if someone had "shushed me" I would
: > have given them the finger.
: >
: > Karen
:
:
: Karen, you flipping someone off with THE finger in a theater? You'd do
: that??? Wow, now this is a shockeroo!!!!
Todd. Learn the conditional. I said "IF they had" ... "I would have"
meaning I didn't.
And in this instance, yes, I would have.
: Tsk, tsk, tsk.....and I thought you were a woman of great principle
: and character.
But I do have "great principle." One of the most important of which
is to give honest reactions. ;-)
: Didn't your parents teach you not to do that in public? ;-)
No fun doing it in private, Todd.
: Do you also do this while you're driving on a freeway?
Only if the person in front of me is doing 60 in the fast lane and
is sporting a Clinton/Gore sticker. One or the other I can handle,
but that combo is fatal.
: The movie theater?
Never needed to. I just whack the little bassards in the head if they
have their feet up on the seats.
: An Italian ristorante?
Never Italian.
: Todd
Karen
can...@webtv.net
during a performance of "The Mikado" several seasons back at the NY City
Center i inadvertently blurted out what i had just been thinking: "Oh
my god!" - several people seemed to agree :)
JIM BARNETT
Karen Horn wrote:
>
> JIM BARNETT (jbar...@c3net.net) wrote:
> : Karen Horn wrote:
> : >
> : > Okay, up until recently, I've always been an insufferably "perfect"
> : > theatre goer. No bolting up the aisles, no celophane anything, no
> : > case of bubonic plague to pass to other patrons, no coming late, no
> : > hogging the damn armrests and planting elbows in neighbors ribs,
> : > no sitting on 3 copies of the phone directory, no chattering away, etc.
> : >
> : > But I have to admit when I saw RANT I laughed out loud hysterically at
> : > all the "wrong" places. And if someone had "shushed me" I would
> : > have given them the finger.
> : >
> : > Karen
> :
> :
> : Karen, you flipping someone off with THE finger in a theater? You'd do
> : that??? Wow, now this is a shockeroo!!!!
>
> Todd. Learn the conditional. I said "IF they had" ... "I would have"
> meaning I didn't.
Houston to Karen Horn. Houston to Karen Horn. We're experiencing a
communication malfunction of some kind. I repeat, we're experiencing
a communication malfunction. I think the antennae in your headset is
misaligned. (Just kidding, of course!)
Seriously, Karen, I was joking about the "flipping the guy off"
assertion. You took what I said way too literally. I knew you meant "If
they had"....not "I have." See, Karen? This is Todd laughing. Me Todd
laughing. Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!
> And in this instance, yes, I would have.
Are you sure you're feminine, Karen? According to this "instance" you
gave, you sure sound like you would be the macho type. Meaning you
would act more masculine than feminine.
Think of it this way.......this is a penny for my thoughts. See?
> : Tsk, tsk, tsk.....and I thought you were a woman of great principle
> : and character.
>
> But I do have "great principle." One of the most important of which
> is to give honest reactions. ;-)
I'd say that would be an "honest reaction." A profane "honest reaction"
but a seriously candid one at that. ;-)
> : Didn't your parents teach you not to do that in public? ;-)
>
> No fun doing it in private, Todd.
But, Karen, you should be aware of the grave consequences of your
actions. I mean, THE middle finger could be psychologically and
mentally hazardous to the human mind.
Naaaaaaaah. Psyche!!!!!!!!!
> : Do you also do this while you're driving on a freeway?
>
> Only if the person in front of me is doing 60 in the fast lane and
> is sporting a Clinton/Gore sticker. One or the other I can handle,
> but that combo is fatal.
But, Karen, what if someone did that to you....if you were driving
30 mph on a road with a speed limit of 70 mph and sporting a
GOP bumper sticker? I think the road wars would be tantamount to
disaster, wouldn't you say? ;-)
> : The movie theater?
>
> Never needed to. I just whack the little bassards in the head if they
> have their feet up on the seats.
Ah, you spelled "bassards" wrong. It's "bastards." LOL
But I would agree with you on that. I think a mallet would serve a
better purpose though.
> : An Italian ristorante?
>
> Never Italian.
Ah, the plot thickens, my dear. Why, why, why????
> : Todd
>
> Karen
Andrew J. Fox
Karen Horn
JIM BARNETT (jbar...@c3net.net) wrote:
: they had"....not "I have." See, Karen? This is Todd laughing. Me Todd
: laughing. Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!
And you'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white
coats....
: > And in this instance, yes, I would have.
:
: Are you sure you're feminine, Karen? According to this "instance" you
: gave, you sure sound like you would be the macho type. Meaning you
: would act more masculine than feminine.
:
: Think of it this way.......this is a penny for my thoughts. See?
I told you we were all gay men in their 50s who have assumed another
persona for the year. I am praying to God I don't pick the "Todd"
straw next year. I could never live up to you.
: > Only if the person in front of me is doing 60 in the fast lane and
: > is sporting a Clinton/Gore sticker. One or the other I can handle,
: > but that combo is fatal.
:
: But, Karen, what if someone did that to you....if you were driving
: 30 mph on a road with a speed limit of 70 mph and sporting a
: GOP bumper sticker? I think the road wars would be tantamount to
: disaster, wouldn't you say? ;-)
Straw man argument.
I have never driven 30 on a road with a speed limit of 70 in my life.
Even if the car was disabled. I'd be going too fast for
anyone to read my non-existant bumper stickers.
: > : An Italian ristorante?
: >
: > Never Italian.
:
: Ah, the plot thickens, my dear. Why, why, why????
No, no. the plot SICKENS. Fingers are reserved for snotty French
waiters, in which case, they can use their own.
I'm still kinda pissed you didn't get the part in the movie for
male #6. I find it hard to believe the director could have found
someone more suitable for the part. I was so looking forward to
hearing all about the shoot.
: > : Todd
Karen
Tub...@aol.com
In a message dated 97-10-11 14:04:03 EDT, Todd writes:
<< > But I have to admit when I saw RANT I laughed out loud hysterically at
> all the "wrong" places. And if someone had "shushed me" I would
> have given them the finger.
>
> Karen
Karen, you flipping someone off with THE finger in a theater? You'd do
that??? Wow, now this is a shockeroo!!!!
Tsk, tsk, tsk.....and I thought you were a woman of great principle
and character.
Didn't your parents teach you not to do that in public? ;-)
Do you also do this while you're driving on a freeway? The movie
theater? An Italian ristorante?
Inquiring, unaware minds like ours want to know. ;-)
>>
Now, Todd, you know Karen is too prissy to give just anyone the finger. They
have to be very special, very DESERVING individuals. She wouldn't flip off
just anyone. She's just too fine a woman for that.
C.Tubkas
Karen Horn
Tub...@aol.com wrote:
:
: Now, Todd, you know Karen is too prissy to give just anyone the finger. They
: have to be very special, very DESERVING individuals. She wouldn't flip off
: just anyone. She's just too fine a woman for that.
:
: C.Tubkas
LOL! I've been called many things in my life. Prissy hasn't been
one of them.
K.
Michelle McFee
Karen Horn wrote:
> LOL! I've been called many things in my life. Prissy hasn't been
> one of them.
Keep it up, Karen... now that you are "prissy" and I am "delicate"
maybe we should change our name to the "women of lace"???
michelle
KevRules
> dave...@aol.com (DAVEYLOW)writes in article
<19971012050...@ladder02.news.aol.com>
>
>All right. I admit. I've walked out of only two musicals in my lifetime. Why
> haven't I walked out of more? I must be addicted. Must join MA. The two
> musicals were Celebration (I had won tickets from the radio and still
>couldn't
> stand it) and Evita, which I know will shock some of you becauses this was
> when Patti and Mandy were still in the show. (Where is Bob Gunton these
>days?)
Actually, I ran into Gunton and his wife at a party in Pasadena last July. He
seems to have forsaken most of his theatre work for Hollywood movies and TV.
He had just finished filming ELVIS MEETS NIXON for Showtime. We talked at some
length about his early performances at the Cumberland County Playhouse in
Crossville, Tenn.
Very, very nice man.
John
Matthew Winn
During ALWAYS, after a succession of uninspiring numbers, came a
moment when Wallis was left alone to ponder her situation. In a voice
far louder than I'd intended I said "Please God, don't let this be
another song!" There was a certain amount of muttered agreement from
around me.
And in an amateur ballet recently I endured dozens of talentless
ballerinas clumping their way across the stage for an hour and a half,
but when one of them wandered to the front of the stage, put her hand
up to shield her eyes from the light, and started looking for friends
in the audience it was too much for me. For the only time in my life
I got up and left in the middle of the show.
Matthew
James
I call my self a musical theatre person.
Before reading RATM, I never knew that there were musicals before Evita. I
thought it was the first one.
I never even attempted to listen to Sondheim, why should I, I know I hate
the music.
I have no Broadway credits, but I regularly sit in the house of
multi-million dollar shows and proudly proclaim who sucks on stage and
that "I could do it better."
I saw Starlight Express 8 times on Broadway.
- James
James Marino
Executive Producer
The Prince and The Pauper
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James
Leather and Lace? Is this still RATM?
- James <-- making a b-line to JFK for the next plane Left.
JIM BARNETT
Karen Horn wrote:
>
> Tub...@aol.com wrote:
> :
> : Now, Todd, you know Karen is too prissy to give just anyone the finger. They
> : have to be very special, very DESERVING individuals. She wouldn't flip off
> : just anyone. She's just too fine a woman for that.
> :
> : C.Tubkas
>
> one of them.
>
As Jim Carrey says in LIAR, LIAR: "THE TRUUUUUUUUUUTHHHHHHHH
SHALLLLLLL SEEEEEEET YOUUUU FREEEEEEEE!!!" LOL
Tim Gowen
In article <343FC9...@c3net.net>, JIM BARNETT <jbar...@c3net.net>
writes
>Are you sure you're feminine, Karen?
Shit! I never thought of asking that question to anyone with a girl's
name.
Todd, you're good; you're very very good. (For someone who's surname
means 'haircut' in Cockney Rhyming Slang you're good).
And strangely I *can* imagine Karen giving the finger to someone in
certain circumstances.
Tim
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Mark Bakalor
On 12 Oct 1997, James wrote:
> *** Take the rec.arts.theatre.musicals survey!!! ***
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We gotta' wait another year!?
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Jeff Marx
I once walked out of a Broadway theater without remembering to take my program.
I must have left it on the floor.
Jeff Marx
----------
It's called flowers wilt.
It's called apples rot.
It's called thieves get rich and saints get shot.
It's called God don't answer prayers a lot.
Alright, now you know.
-- Stephen Sondheim in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
JIM BARNETT
Tim Gowen wrote:
>
> In article <343FC9...@c3net.net>, JIM BARNETT <jbar...@c3net.net>
> writes
> >Are you sure you're feminine, Karen?
>
> Shit! I never thought of asking that question to anyone with a girl's
> name.
Well, it seemed like a good time to ask the question, Tim. I know
if I hadn't asked it, someone else would have. That is, if they
dared to try. ;-)
> Todd, you're good; you're very very good. (For someone who's surname
> means 'haircut' in Cockney Rhyming Slang you're good).
Well, what can I say, Tim? It's a flair I've managed to cultivate
over the last year. Thanks largely due to Karen and RATM! :-)
My surname Andrew means "haircut" in Cockney Rebel slang? Really?
BTW, for those of you who don't know this, Todd (in English) means
"Fox."
> And strangely I *can* imagine Karen giving the finger to someone in
> certain circumstances.
Well, I guess Karen is more masculine than feminine these days. ;-)
> Tim
>
> Tim Gowen - To e-mail me remove 'anti-spam' from my e-mail address
> Get the rec.arts.theatre.musicals FAQ at
> http://www.juglans.demon.co.uk/Tim/Theatre/TheatreLinks.htm
Mark Bakalor
At 02:12 PM 10/12/1997 GMT, you wrote:
>Tim Gowen wrote:
>> Todd, you're good; you're very very good. (For someone who's surname
>> means 'haircut' in Cockney Rhyming Slang you're good).
>
>Well, what can I say, Tim? It's a flair I've managed to cultivate
>over the last year. Thanks largely due to Karen and RATM! :-)
Do y'all think that one day Todd will "get it" one of these days?
>My surname Andrew means "haircut" in Cockney Rebel slang? Really?
*sigh*
[Todd's 19 line signature snipped]
Please try to keep .sig's around 4 lines.
Karen Horn
JIM BARNETT (jbar...@c3net.net) wrote:
: > Todd, you're good; you're very very good. (For someone who's surname
: > means 'haircut' in Cockney Rhyming Slang you're good).
:
: Well, what can I say, Tim? It's a flair I've managed to cultivate
: over the last year. Thanks largely due to Karen and RATM! :-)
Todd, when they made you, they broke the mold.
: My surname Andrew means "haircut" in Cockney Rebel slang? Really?
"Andrew" is not a surname. "Andrew" is a forename.
Oh, I *do* wanna hear "Cockney Rebel" slang.
"Emma, those are mighty bodacious Bristol Cities."
"Charlie, y'all can fergit havin' a butchers."
: BTW, for those of you who don't know this, Todd (in English) means
: "Fox."
Karen, (in English), means "quicker on the uptake than Todd."
: > And strangely I *can* imagine Karen giving the finger to someone in
: > certain circumstances.
:
: Well, I guess Karen is more masculine than feminine these days. ;-)
Tim, Todd is right, I just checked and I have more balls than Todd.
:
: > Tim
:
: Todd
Karen
[Todd, remember there are such things as negative numbers.]
Michelle McFee
Karen Horn wrote:
>
> JIM BARNETT (jbar...@c3net.net) wrote:
> : > Todd, you're good; you're very very good. (For someone who's surname
> : > means 'haircut' in Cockney Rhyming Slang you're good).
> "Andrew" is not a surname. "Andrew" is a forename.
Oh really? Well, my good friend, Sam Houston Andrew III will be happy
to know that his surname isn't, after all, a surname... one wonders what
the two who held the name before him would think???
> "Emma, those are mighty bodacious Bristol Cities."
> "Charlie, y'all can fergit havin' a butchers."
> : BTW, for those of you who don't know this, Todd (in English) means
> : "Fox."
> Karen, (in English), means "quicker on the uptake than Todd."
> : > And strangely I *can* imagine Karen giving the finger to someone in
> : > certain circumstances.
After having met Karen, I have to agree. However, I have been known to
flip a lace-clad middle finger to more than one *ssbite who cut me off
on the freeway.
> : Well, I guess Karen is more masculine than feminine these days. ;-)
>
> Tim, Todd is right, I just checked and I have more balls than Todd.
mm
J.B...@worldnet.att.net
I confess that I don't really have the foggiest notion which are "the
best seats in the house." I would love to hear the opinions of this
group on the location you think is best!
Janet
Michelle McFee
James wrote:
> Leather and Lace? Is this still RATM?
Oh, James darling, of COURSE it is still RATM. As for Leather and Lace,
have you heard the song, "Barbaric Splendor?" Some of the lyrics,
"Leather and lace on you tonight,
the smile on your face says you feel alright,
you make my old car look fast the way you lean against the fender...
I'm about to fall you're standing there in all of your barbaric
splendor"
Would you believe this songs was recorded by The New Riders of the
Purple Sage... would have made a great video, IMHO, but that's another
newsgroup...
meanwhile, James, are you or are you NOT in that episode of Law & Order
entitled "BAD BLOOD" credited as James Madino???
michelle, tired of the endless L&O search for Brett Rickaby and wanting
to move on to b(r)etter things...
Tub...@aol.com
In a message dated 97-10-12 12:18:19 EDT, you write:
<< Karen Horn wrote:
>
> Tub...@aol.com wrote:
> :
> : Now, Todd, you know Karen is too prissy to give just anyone the finger.
They
> : have to be very special, very DESERVING individuals. She wouldn't flip
off
> : just anyone. She's just too fine a woman for that.
> :
> : C.Tubkas
>
> LOL! I've been called many things in my life. Prissy hasn't been
> one of them.
>
> K.
As Jim Carrey says in LIAR, LIAR: "THE TRUUUUUUUUUUTHHHHHHHH
SHALLLLLLL SEEEEEEET YOUUUU FREEEEEEEE!!!" LOL
Todd >>
She knows, Todd. She's just too prissy to admit it. :-)
C.Tubkas
Tub...@aol.com
In a message dated 97-10-12 17:38:25 EDT, you write:
<< Karen, (in English), means "quicker on the uptake than Todd."
: > And strangely I *can* imagine Karen giving the finger to someone in
: > certain circumstances.
:
: Well, I guess Karen is more masculine than feminine these days. ;-)
Tim, Todd is right, I just checked and I have more balls than Todd.
:
: > Tim
:
: Todd
Karen
[Todd, remember there are such things as negative numbers.] >>
I just checked my air conditioning because it got REAL hot in here all of a
sudden.
C.Tubkas
Tim Gowen
In article <3440DA...@c3net.net>, JIM BARNETT <jbar...@c3net.net>
writes
>My surname Andrew means "haircut" in Cockney Rebel slang? Really?
Your surname, Barnett, means haircut.
BARNET = BARNET FAIR = HAIR = HAIR-CUT
Tim Gowen
"Objection! Miss Horn's alleged cojones are not the issue here."
>"Try not. Do or do not. There is no try." -- Master Yoda, The Empire
> Strikes Back
>"He will join us or die, Master!" -- Darth Vader, The Empire
> Strikes Back
>"You, like your father, are now mine!" -- The Emperor, Return of
> the Jedi
Tim "Good against remotes is one thing, good against the living, that's
something else" Gowen
Tub...@aol.com
In a message dated 97-10-12 15:19:44 EDT, you write:
<< BTW, for those of you who don't know this, Todd (in English) means
"Fox." >>
This only adds to the mild rumor that you might be gay, Todd. Since you are
referring to yourself as a "Fox." What do the boys say about you?
C.Tubkas
JIM BARNETT
Mark Bakalor wrote:
>
>
> Do y'all think that one day Todd will "get it" one of these days?
Is that a rhetorical question or is that your basic no-brainer question?
Hey everyone, do you think Mark criticizes too much? I say let's vote
on it.
> >My surname Andrew means "haircut" in Cockney Rebel slang? Really?
>
> *sigh*
What are you sighing about?
The question had nothing to do with you, Bakalor.
> [Todd's 19 line signature snipped]
>
> Please try to keep .sig's around 4 lines.
Why? Is there a rule that requires sig's to be only at 4 lines?
[Mark's five signature line snipped]
Todd
Todd Andrew Barnett: A Composer's Homepage
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/composerTB/index.html
The Domain of TdAndrBrnt
http://member.aol.com/TdAndrBrnt
Joe M. Turner
True confessions continued...
The show that got me interested in theatre again (following a brief
interest around the time EUBIE! opened) was THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.
I knew the entire recording. Then I learned LES MIS. Then I
rediscovered Rodgers and Hammerstein and (thank God) Frank Loesser.
I bought a Phantom mask from One Shubert Alley so I could attend
college Halloween parties dressed appropriately.
And all things considered, I still want to play Zaza one day just so I
can sing "I Am What I Am" and throw my wig and storm offstage to end
Act 1. I just love that scene!
If I could pick one person's songwriting style to emulate, I think it
would be Jerry Herman.
...
Regards,
Joe M. Turner
mailto: jmtu...@atl.mindspring.com
<http://www.atl.mindspring.com/~jmturner>
Adam D. Feldman
fyns...@webtv.net wrote:
> I confess that when I went to see Jekyll and Hyde that I looked like a
> reaction shot from a Mel Brooks movie.
> I confess that I sang along during the sing along at the curtain call of
> Ain't Broadway Grand. (O, the shame, O the horror).
> I confess that I once snuck an audio cassette recorder into the Shubert
> and taped A Chorus Line.
Ah, well. I might as well enter the spirit of the game.
I confess that the first three shows I knew by heart were PIPPIN, JOSEPH
AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT, and LES MISERABLES. (Yes, I know
I'm dating myself.)
I confess that I watched the 1989 Tony Awards excerpt from STARMITES
enough times to learn it by heart.
I confess that I have never, to my knowledge, heard the cast album of
KISMET.
Wow, I feel better. Maybe there's something to catholicism after all. :)
Warmly,
Adam
Ludlow29
More true confessions from the catalyst of this thread:
I laughed at all the wrong spots during JEKYLL AND HYDE *and* RENT.
Trying desperately to find something to do--when I saw CATS--I peeled the paint
off the giant prop alongside my box seat.
I ran into producer Philip Rose after seeing SHENANDOAH. He asked if I liked
they show. I gave a glowing smile to camouflage the fact I was shaking my
head sideways.
I see red when someone tells me that DROOD was the "great musical" with a
music-hall setting.
Tim Gowen
In article <3441D3...@c3net.net>, JIM BARNETT <jbar...@c3net.net>
writes
>
>
>Is that a rhetorical question or is that your basic no-brainer question?
Is that an answer?
>Hey everyone, do you think Mark criticizes too much? I say let's vote
>on it.
He know's if he criticises me then "feminine" Karen will kick his ass!
LOL!
So, no.
Tim
Mike Benedetto
I have a few things to get off my chest...
The first musical I ever saw *anywhere* was LES MIS on Broadway. I
flipped. The second musical I saw was POTO. I turned cartwheels. I bought
the score, the special program, the commemorative book, the toilet
paper... you get the idea.
Naturally, within a couple of years I had seen many more shows and heard
many more recordings, and realized that I'd been somewhat taken in as an
inexperienced youngster. So I renounced both of those shows and their
composers.
Now the confession part... Sometimes, for no apparent reason, I find
myself humming certain melodies... I used to be able to convince myself
that I was _really_ humming the Forbidden Broadway versions, but then I
started to find myself singing... "All I Ask of You". And I remember every
damned lyric.
Gives me the willies.
If you want a serious confession, I own only one cast recording of any
Rodgers & Hammerstein show -- PIPE DREAM. Don't ask me how this happened.
-Mike
--
Evil comes in many forms, be it a man-eating cow or Joseph Stalin.
-THE TICK
S Sittig
In article <87676744...@wagasa.cts.com>,
kah...@king.cts.com (Karen Horn) wrote:
>
>Okay....
>
> I *like* the movie version of JCS. Especially the part with
>Herod and the swimming pool.
>
> I've never seen CATS, LES MIS, MISS SAIGON, or POTO - I love the
>wicked FB parodies of all of them. I wouldn't recognize Laurie
>Beecham if she slapped me. Ditto Michael Crawford or Michael Ball.
>
Laurie Beechman
> I CAN'T STAND the Pacific Overtures CD. [I'm told it works "in context."]
>
> I can't stop saying "thang" after I saw NOISE/FUNK.
>
> I have a copy of LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE that I _still_ haven't listened
> to.
What a shame! A wonderful little musical...(Is this MY confession?)
>
> I voted for "the uncle" when I saw DROOD because "they" didn't want
> you to vote for him.
>
> My favorite FB parody is "Stritch" from the FB Strikes back CD. I
> sing it in the shower regularly.
>
> I like Bette's recording of GYPSY best.
Amen to that.
Lansbury's isn't bad either...
>
> I kept hoping for a really good crash when I saw STARLIGHT EXPRESS
> in London.
>
>Karen
Stefan
Mike Benedetto
In article <Pine.OSF.3.95.971011...@is.nyu.edu>, "Andrew
J. Fox" <ajf...@is.nyu.edu> wrote:
> I liked BIG. I saw it three times. I liked DREAM. I saw it twice, and
> lament its lack of cast album. I liked COMPANY, but I still don't
> understand how I ended up seeing the damn thing five times. In addition,
> I have never seen THE FANTASTIKS, and I live right arouns the corner from
> it. Yet, I somehow managed to see ZOMBIE PROM when I lived across from
> that.
I've lived right around the corner from THE FANTASTICKS (or close at hand)
for my entire life and never saw it until this past summer.
But perhaps that should go in my own entry...
Mike Benedetto
In article <34426A...@kobliner.com>, ad...@kobliner.com wrote:
> Mike Benedetto wrote:
>
> > Now the confession part... Sometimes, for no apparent reason, I find
> > myself humming [...] "All I Ask of You". And I remember every
> > damned lyric.
>
> Well, all right, if we're going to pull out all the stops:
>
> I sometimes find myself singing...*sigh*...that recitative that
> Lisa/Emma Carew sings to her controlling father in JEKYLL & HYDE ("It's
> easy to expect that from a father/ Who'd rather things remain the way
> they were" and so forth). And that damn well beats "All I Ask of YOu,"
> which is the two or three good songs in POTO.
<running home crying>
Mommy, Warmly Adam doesn't fight fair!!!
Adam D. Feldman
Mike Benedetto wrote:
> Now the confession part... Sometimes, for no apparent reason, I find
> myself humming [...] "All I Ask of You". And I remember every
> damned lyric.
Well, all right, if we're going to pull out all the stops:
I sometimes find myself singing...*sigh*...that recitative that
Lisa/Emma Carew sings to her controlling father in JEKYLL & HYDE ("It's
easy to expect that from a father/ Who'd rather things remain the way
they were" and so forth). And that damn well beats "All I Ask of YOu,"
which is the two or three good songs in POTO.
Warmly,
Adam
Tim Gowen
In article <87676744...@wagasa.cts.com>, Karen Horn
<kah...@king.cts.com> writes
> I've never seen CATS, LES MIS, MISS SAIGON, or POTO - I love the
>wicked FB parodies of all of them. I wouldn't recognize Laurie
>Beecham if she slapped me. Ditto Michael Crawford or Michael Ball.
I've seen all of the above, and wouldn't recognise her either. I'd
probably hit her back, though.
And I've never heard a Forbidden Broadway parody, but it sounds like my
kind of "thang".
> I CAN'T STAND the Pacific Overtures CD. [I'm told it works "in context."]
Do you still have it, because I've never seen it available anywhere?
> I kept hoping for a really good crash when I saw STARLIGHT EXPRESS
> in London.
So did I, but I also enjoyed the really short skirts.
Mark Bakalor
At 07:52 AM 10/13/1997 GMT, you wrote:
>Mark Bakalor wrote:
>>
>>
>> Do y'all think that one day Todd will "get it" one of these days?
>
>Is that a rhetorical question or is that your basic no-brainer question?
>
>on it.
Oooh goodie! (Sorta' like oooh daddy?) Can 2die4 put it on his site!?!?!
>> [Todd's 19 line signature snipped]
>>
>> Please try to keep .sig's around 4 lines.
>
>Why? Is there a rule that requires sig's to be only at 4 lines?
Yes, nettiquette requests a signature be in the neighborood of four
lines.
>[Mark's five signature line snipped]
For the record, it's 3 lines.
Sean
I am blessed with a loud laugh and a big mouth, which serves me well on
stage, but gets me in trouble in audiences. An example would be the
local MY FAIR LADY where every woman at the Embassy Ball had a maribou
feather on her head, and the Queen of Transylvania had a Southern accent.
Sometimes, I get a joke that most people miss, and I get a laugh for
having laughed.
Sean
Biff McKeldin
I confess:
I'm currently thoroughly enjoying the new CD release of THE BEST LITTLE
WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS :)
Biff
---------------------------
"You, too, can be a puppet!"
Michelle McFee
Kheldar1 wrote:
> But haven't you heard? We're all gay! At least, that's what they told me!
Oh yes, but *I* know it's only a cover story.
> <grins, ducks to avoid thrown furniture>
Gee, I didn't know we had met... or has my reputation for temper
tantrums preceded me into RATM <gg>???
mm
Karen Horn
L Kersten (lker...@morrowco.com) wrote:
: Bless me Father for I have sinned
: It's been....well, a *really* long time since my confession...
: As for my sins:
:
: I don't think RENT is the future of musicals
: Betty Buckley's voice goes through me like a steel rod
: I'll never see CATS
: I like ALW/Tim Rice (blame it on my youth)
: Hal Prince's SHOW BOAT was a bore
: I can't stand Mary Martin (thus explaining the unopened copy of JENNIE =
: in my apt)
: There's a whole pack of women who sound basically the same & are =
: virtually interchangeable: I've decided they're 1 person alternately =
: referred to as Jodi Benson, Paige O'Hara, Michelle Nicastro
: I booed Linda Lavin @ GYPSY
: I fell asleep during ONCE ON THIS ISLAND
: I also asleep during the 2nd act of BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS, but =
: I was on muscle relaxers & when I went back, I realized I hadn't missed =
: anything
: I've hated GREASE since high school
: On the other hand, I've never confused Chita w/ Rita
:
: Lou
It's not a sin to believe that Jodi Benson, Paige O'Hara, and Michelle
Nicastro are the same person, because they ARE the same person.
Now, for your penance, say 3 Hail Marys, and pray for me too.
L Kersten
Karen Horn
Okay....
I *like* the movie version of JCS. Especially the part with
Herod and the swimming pool.
I've never seen CATS, LES MIS, MISS SAIGON, or POTO - I love the
wicked FB parodies of all of them. I wouldn't recognize Laurie
Beecham if she slapped me. Ditto Michael Crawford or Michael Ball.
I CAN'T STAND the Pacific Overtures CD. [I'm told it works "in context."]
I can't stop saying "thang" after I saw NOISE/FUNK.
I have a copy of LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE that I _still_ haven't listened
to.
I voted for "the uncle" when I saw DROOD because "they" didn't want
you to vote for him.
My favorite FB parody is "Stritch" from the FB Strikes back CD. I
sing it in the shower regularly.
I like Bette's recording of GYPSY best.
I kept hoping for a really good crash when I saw STARLIGHT EXPRESS
in London.
Karen
Mike Benedetto
In article <Pine.OSF.3.95.97101...@is.nyu.edu>, "Andrew
J. Fox" <ajf...@is.nyu.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Oct 1997, Richard Wall wrote:
>
> )What performers DO you like?
>
> Liz Callaway, Gregg Edelmann, Carolee Carmello, Michele Pawk, Brooks
> Ashmanskas, Jessica Molaskey, Debbie Gravitte, Donna Murphy, Marin Mazzie,
> Audra MacDonald, Jane Krakowski, La Chanze, Howard McGillin, Anthony
> Crivello, Michael Rupert, Stephen Bogardus, John Cameron Mitchell, Alison
> Fraser, Rebecca Luker, Randy Graff, Victoria Clark, Judy Blazer, Sally
> Mayes, Judy Kuhn, Crista Moore, Vicki Lewis, Victor Garber, Lee Wilkof,
> and many more...
>
> ajf
Sally Mayes and Brent Barrett (one of _my_ favorites) are (last I heard,
anyway) in MARRY ME A LITTLE in Queens starting this week. Some higher
power is apparently trying to apologize to me for making me miss yet
another Barbara Cook set, because the dates of the show exactly coincide
with the dates I'm going to be back home.
Tyrene Bada
Hello, my name is Tyrene..... and I am a theatre goer. <sigh of relief>
(Hello, Tyrene.)
Whenever I go to a show (which is fairly rare), I get very excited. If it's
a show that I know songs to, watch out. I mouth the words. I'm so sorry!
<sob> I really didn't want to do it! <waxing melodramatic> And, I....
pretend I'm contucting! <sob, sob, sob> Ahhhh!!! <sniff> Thank you. I
feel so much better now.
~Tyrene
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Each game of chess
Means there's one less
Variation
Left to be played
Each day got through
Means one or two
Less mistakes
Remain to be made.
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Andrew J. Fox
On Sat, 11 Oct 1997, Richard Wall wrote:
)What performers DO you like?
Liz Callaway, Gregg Edelmann, Carolee Carmello, Michele Pawk, Brooks
Ashmanskas, Jessica Molaskey, Debbie Gravitte, Donna Murphy, Marin Mazzie,
Audra MacDonald, Jane Krakowski, La Chanze, Howard McGillin, Anthony
Crivello, Michael Rupert, Stephen Bogardus, John Cameron Mitchell, Alison
Fraser, Rebecca Luker, Randy Graff, Victoria Clark, Judy Blazer, Sally
Mayes, Judy Kuhn, Crista Moore, Vicki Lewis, Victor Garber, Lee Wilkof,
and many more...
ajf
)
)Andrew J. Fox wrote:
)>
)> I'm Andrew...Andrew J. Fox...And...and I am a regular theatregoer. (Hi
)> Andrew.)
)>
)> I, like fynsworth, looked like something right out of a Mel Brooks movie
)> while watching JEKYLL & HYDE. I also found myself laughing at highly
)> inappropriate moments in SIDE SHOW.
)>
)> I liked BIG. I saw it three times. I liked DREAM. I saw it twice, and
)> lament its lack of cast album. I liked COMPANY, but I still don't
)> understand how I ended up seeing the damn thing five times. In addition,
)> I have never seen THE FANTASTIKS, and I live right arouns the corner from
)> it. Yet, I somehow managed to see ZOMBIE PROM when I lived across from
)> that.
)>
)> I pushed play instead of record at City Center, so I went home and sat
)> through two and a half hours of non-existant PROMISES PROMISES. I must
)> say, the sound quality is excellent.
)>
)> I am thoroughly, utterly, completely unimpressed by the following people:
)> Betty Buckley, Frank Wildhorn, Robert Cuccioli, Billy Porter, Karen Akers,
)> Alice Ripley, Anne Runolfeson (or however you pronounce it) Hugh Panaro,
)> Charlotte d'Amboise, Laurie Beechman, Pamela Issacs, virtually the entire
)> cast of ON THE TOWN at the Public, Ann Duqesnay, Davis Gaines, and Judy
)> Kaye.
)>
)> I like Susan Stroman choreography. I do not like Savion Glover
)> choreography.
)>
)> Carol Channing scares me.
)>
)> and finally, and please do not hate for saying this, but the Melissa
)> Errico fan club will never, ever, EVER make sense to me.
)>
)> ajf
)
)
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--Gretchen Cryer, from I'm Getting My Act....
*****************A SOMEDAY JUST BEGAN PRODUCTION***********************
Michelle McFee
I am only on RATM to meet men.
mm
Christine Daae
On 12 Oct 1997 21:14:40 GMT, kah...@king.cts.com (Karen Horn) wrote:
>JIM BARNETT (jbar...@c3net.net) wrote:
>: > Todd, you're good; you're very very good. (For someone who's surname
>: > means 'haircut' in Cockney Rhyming Slang you're good).
>:
>: Well, what can I say, Tim? It's a flair I've managed to cultivate
>: over the last year. Thanks largely due to Karen and RATM! :-)
>
>Todd, when they made you, they broke the mold.
Part of modern quality control?
Christine
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Mark Pruett
1. I would rather listen to RAGS, GRIND, THE GRASS HARP, TITANIC, NINE,
RAGTIME, or anything by Sondheim *any day* rather than LES MIZ, PHANTOM, or
MISS SAIGON.
2. I absolutely hated one of my first Broadway shows, Bob Fosse's DANCIN',
because I kept waiting for some good "songs".
3. As a boy from the South, I always thought the line in "It's a Hard
Knock Life" was "antebellum life" rather than "empty belly life".
4. Whenever I'm obsessed with and/or working on a show, I often invent
(either in my head or on my MIDI system) dance/house versions of some of
the tunes. Latest to get the house groove (a slow one) is the "Damn my
soul...if you must...let my body turn to dust.." section of Ballad of Booth
from ASSASSINS.
5. When I met Sarah Jessica Parker, damned if I could think of a single
movie I had ever seen her in besides ED WOOD. ("Oh, Miss Parker...I just
loved you in ED WOOD." or something like that. You get the picture. My
friends were appalled.)
6. I regularly play showtunes on the organ at the church at which I'm
employed. Latest tunes are "Godspeed Titanic" (postlude, of course) and "I
Want To Know" from BIG (offertory). Only been busted once--someone knew
TITANIC last Sunday.
7. I long for the 42nd Street of MIDNIGHT COWBOY...and won't rest until
I've seen a show at the Biltmore, the Mark Hellinger, the Henry Miller's,
and the Oriental (Chicago).
8. As a young boy, I insisted that my parents take me to the movies to see
LOST HORIZON, THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, SONG OF NORWAY, MAME, 40 CARATS,
and the abysmal remake of THE GREAT WALTZ. The psycological implications
are implicit.
9. As a teen, I worked at a Sound Warehouse in Dallas...used to paste
those round price stickers over Aileen Quinn's eyes on her solo LP
(remember *that* one?) and play frisbee (after closing) with Irene Cara's
LP's. (_not_ FAME).
10. I don't hate CATS--saw it in London last Summer for the first time.
-mark
can...@webtv.net
that i actually stayed for the entire performances of:
"Man in the Moon"
"Got tu go Disco".
NRT...@aol.com
Todd this is a bit of friendly advice!!!!
In a message dated 97-10-13 08:58:45 EDT, you write:
>
> > >My surname Andrew means "haircut" in Cockney Rebel slang? Really?
> >
> > *sigh*
>
> What are you sighing about?
Barnett is your surname, which is another word for last name. Andrew is your
middle name.
>
> The question had nothing to do with you, Bakalor.
>
> > [Todd's 19 line signature snipped]
> >
> > Please try to keep .sig's around 4 lines.
>
> Why? Is there a rule that requires sig's to be only at 4 lines?
>
While there is no "rule" about it Todd, out of politeness -- AND the fact it
akes up a lot of bandwidth to send emails to the hundreds of people on this
newsgroup -- as long as the subject came up, I would advise you to limit your
.sig to just your websites, and not add those three long quotes anymore.
Counting spaces between lines, that adds about 10 lines to your .sig,
doesn't it?? Multiply that by hundreds of people & that will give yuo an
idea of how much "non-musical" space is being taken up by your .sig. ;-)
Again -- just friendly advice, Todd!!
sharon
Mark Lawrence
>
> I have a copy of LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE that I _still_ haven't listened
> to.
CDs, spending $ that should have been saved, usedto pay debts or to buy
necessities, only to file the Cd away and never play it.
I confess I am guilty: I bought CHU CHIN CHOW because it was deleted and
afraid I'd never find it and I wanted the whole set of West End Angels.
That was last June. Still haven't played it.
Last spring when I finally got all teh Broadway angels I arranged them on
a shelf by themselves in sequential order and played thru all 40 of
them. For a few that will probably be the only time I listen to them.
I'm getting better - As I type this I am listening to HIGH BUTTON SHOES
which a friend found this weekend in New York at Tower for $6.99 and
brought back for me. It's deleted now so he knew I would want it.
Doc Bender
> I don't think RENT is the future of musicals
: Betty Buckley's voice goes through me like a steel rod
: I'll never see CATS
: I like ALW/Tim Rice (blame it on my youth)
: Hal Prince's SHOW BOAT was a bore
: I can't stand Mary Martin (thus explaining the unopened copy of JENNIE =
: in my apt)
: There's a whole pack of women who sound basically the same & are =
: virtually interchangeable: I've decided they're 1 person alternately =
: referred to as Jodi Benson, Paige O'Hara, Michelle Nicastro
: I booed Linda Lavin @ GYPSY
: I fell asleep during ONCE ON THIS ISLAND
: I also asleep during the 2nd act of BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS, but =
: I was on muscle relaxers & when I went back, I realized I hadn't missed =
: anything
: I've hated GREASE since high school
: On the other hand, I've never confused Chita w/ Rita
:
: Lou
Have to admit, this one made me laugh like crazy. Funny. :)
Doc Bender
Pizzaman95
Well, here goes:
I enjoyed Starlight when I saw it (twice)
I'd prefer to see an ALW show over anything by Sondheim
(no, I don't count West Side Story in there)
I think Disney is good for Broadway
I think Marius should have taken 'Ponine rather than Cosette
I once saw three musicals in one day, including Blood Brothers
for the 5th time
I think it is great that they sell ice cream in the theatres in London
I liked Sunset and Aspects more than POTO
I don't like Rent and think those who do are just being trendy
I'd prefer to see a musical over seeing a World Series game, unless the
Yankees were in it
My business trips to London always span a weekend to fit in a little
theatre
I think Karen should go see Les Miz and Miss Saigon--the latter to
hiss at the Viet Cong
P-man
Biff McKeldin
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> >
> > I have a copy of LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE that I _still_ haven't listened
> > to.
> Karen raises an interesting point: How many here had slavishly collected
> CDs, spending $ that should have been saved, usedto pay debts or to buy
> necessities, only to file the Cd away and never play it.
Please, let's NOT go there!
Biff
(who simply hands over his paycheck to the nice people at Footlight
Records every two weeks)
Richard Wall
Not only did I stay through MAN IN THE MOON ("Welcome to the man in the moon,
man") I have Monique Van Vooren's very flimsy costume from Act 2. Yes, I
stole it from backstage.
Worst show I ever saw.
And, we called the other one "Gotta Go Baffroom"
Karen Horn
Kheldar1 (khel...@aol.com) wrote:
: >I am only on RATM to meet men.
: >
: >mm
:
: But haven't you heard? We're all gay! At least, that's what they told me!
:
: <grins, ducks to avoid thrown furniture>
:
: Frank Ferrara
: khel...@aol.com
But Frank, you have to admit: Some of us are backsliders.
Karen
Jeff Marx
>>I would advise you to limit your
.sig to just your websites, and not add those three long quotes anymore.
You want Todd Andrew to cut that profound lyric from "Love's Kiss"??!!
But we all get such enjoyment, every time we see it, from trying to imagine the
accompanying tune and hum it... Gee, at least I do...
Jeff Marx
----------
It's called flowers wilt.
It's called apples rot.
It's called thieves get rich and saints get shot.
It's called God don't answer prayers a lot.
Alright, now you know.
-- Stephen Sondheim in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
Richard Wall
I love musicals
I hate RENT
I hate the current CHICAGO
I loved Mary Martin and Ethel Merman
I love big show orchestras and endless, pointless dance numbers
I think Patti LuPone is ridiculous
I think Kevin Kline should come back to Broadway and do a musical
Kheldar1
>
>Oh yes, but *I* know it's only a cover story.
Hee hee... smart girl. Welcome.
Yours,
Frank Ferrara
khel...@aol.com
DAVEYLOW
I'm really embarrassed to confess that I saw Blood Brothers three times without
someone pointing a gun to my head. This was definitely not because I thought
it was the greatest musical ever. The third time I won tickets from VH-1 and
wanted to see Petula Clark, someone I've liked since my childhood. Because of
Petula Clark, I've watched the musical film version of Goodbye Mr. Chips
several times, despite the fact it has one of the worst scores ever written
(Leslie Bricusse again) for the silver screen.--David
DAVEYLOW
I went to see Steel Pier again before it closed even after I read all the
negative stuff in ratm. I know the book stank but I liked most of the score
and dancing. Karen Ziemba was even better the second time around. I saw Daniel
McDonald's understudy Brian Sutherland the first time and he was a notch
better, a little more natural. I even bought the souvenir booklet because I
figured in a couple of years friends will be asking me about this show that
closed so fast and I could look at the photos and remember a bit how the show
appeared on stage.
Madame Leoni
Well, I confess that when I was in London last year, I saw Sunset Blvd
for the nth time SPECIFICALLY to see Ms. Clark. While as a theatre
devotee I would say that she's not the best Desmond, as a Petula Clark
fan, i was in pure ecstasy.
Further confession: I've seen 5 1/2 Norma Desmonds: Patti LuPone, Glenn
Close, Betty Bucley ( 1 1'2 times) Petula Clark, karen Mason ( 1/2 times
- only second act )
...and i have all the corresponding CDs, with the addition of Helen
Schneider ( german ) and Diahann Carroll ( Canadian cast)
i like the show - okay ?
- ML
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Catherine Skidmore
Michelle McFee wrote:
>
> I am only on RATM to meet men.
i confess...
... i do not find the Pants(tm) attractive.
... wordy 'book' musicals exhilarate me.
... i am having rick rashid's love child.
... ragtime isn't going to run past st patrick's day.
... i'm only on ratm to pick up underage boys.
-catherine
--
Catherine Skidmore
http://www.suck-my-big.org
"I know how to blow things up." - Mother's Younger Brother, Ragtime
Biff McKeldin
That I saw INTO THE WOODS so many times that the usher for "orchestra
left" used to point me out to people and say, "Do you know how many times
HE'S seen the show?!?"
Biff
(it's my least favorite Sondheim show, but they sold $15 standing room
EVEN when the orchestra wasn't sold out -- I felt like Eve Harrington)
DAVEYLOW
I want all the new musicals opening this season to stay open at least three
months so they can be parodied in Forbidden Broadway.--David
Tim Gowen
In article <6202m2$1b...@mercury.vcu.edu>, S Sittig
<the...@atlas.vcu.edu> writes
>I loved STARLIGHT EXPRESS when I saw it in London.
>(I must confess the rest in my party were soundly asleep!!!)
What is this with people sleeping in Starlight Express? I understand
why some people don't like it, but this is the THIRD time I've heard
that people have slept during it (the second was ALW's wife, on a chat
show - he was there too).
Do these people normally take naps on the top of fire engines?
Tim
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Marty Silverberg
I confess:
The first Broadway show I saw was Cabaret. Tix for the last row of the rear
balcony in the Imperial Theatre were $2.00 (1968 or so). I saw Cabaret six
(6) times before seeing any other show.
I saw Pearl Bailey in Dolly 9 times, including her closing performance. I
saw Phyllis Diller in Dolly twice (her opening and closing nights) and saw
Merman three times (her opening and closing performances and once in
between).
I saw 70 Girls 70 eight times in its five-week Broadway run. I loved it!
I was at the opening night performance of Purlie when, during intermission,
the newly-discovered Melba Moore was described as "a black Barbra
Streisand".
I was at both the opening and closing performances of Company. At the
closing performance, the "Poor Baby" ensemble was so miserably out of tune
that Sondheim (sitting a couple of rows in front of me) ducked his head in
his hands and shook vigorously.
After Beth Howland sang 'Getting Married Today' at the Side by Side by
Sondheim benefit (yes, I was there), there were many screams of bravos.
There is one elongated Braaaaaaaaaaaaaavo from the balcony of the Schubert
Theatre that can be heard on the record -- that's me!
I used to sneak in to Act II of Anne Miller's Mame at the Wintergarden (I
think Mame is one of the few musicals that has a better second act than
first) to see Ms. Miller's tap dance (gratuitously inserted into the middle
of That's How Young I Feel), Helen Gallagher's absolutely hysterical Gooch
and Anne Francine's fabulous Vera -- I used to swear that Ms. Francine as
Vera was a female impersonator.
And, for my "Oh that was many years ago ..." story, I used to masturbate to
the music of Tic Toc (from Company) and once I timed it exactly right!
MARTY
DAVEYLOW
Richard Wall writes:
>I think Kevin Kline should come back to Broadway and do a musical
I totally agree with this. I wish he would do a musical a year. But somehow I
don't think this is going to happen.
Tim Gowen
In article <344314...@wco.com>, Michelle McFee <mizs...@wco.com>
writes
>Oh yes, but *I* know it's only a cover story.
Oh, is my subtext showing?
Karen Horn
Okay, I don't know if this will be a valid "confession" because I'm
not sorry for it.....
I saw TIME AND AGAIN five times when I was in San Diego....the score
was pretty good, but the book was such a disaster and the direction
of it was so bad that in an audience forum I said as much straight out
RIGHT to Jack O'Brien's face. He said he was glad I wasn't a critic.
[Hey, Howard McGillin was in it. I like to hear Howie sing. ;-) ]
Karen
Tim Gowen
In article <620b64$i...@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>, ang
<mal...@pepper.ecn.purdue.edu> writes
>4) I apsolutely love Mandy's version of Buddy's Blues
So do I, but I don't see any need to make it a confession.
Kheldar1
>>4) I apsolutely love Mandy's version of Buddy's Blues
>
>So do I, but I don't see any need to make it a confession.
>
>
How about this one (really cringing now):
I liked Mandy's Sancho in MAN OF LA MANCHA. There. It's out. Pelt me with
rotten fruit if you must.
Yours,
Frank Ferrara
khel...@aol.com
Jason R. DeCesare
I think I am in love with Jennifer Piech (Kate McGowen in Titanic).
I go to the theatre more often in a year than I go to baseball games.
I go to the theatre more often in a year than I go to the movies.
I have this desire to see "Springtime for Hitler" fully fleshed out as a
musical.
I want to have one Playbill from every venue that it uses it.
I have a "Rent" ad from the New Jersey Transit Metropark station.
I am kicking myself for not going and seeing "Rent" with some friends at
the NY Theatre Workshop because "I don't like rock operas".
I want to see "Rent" when it goes to Baltimore and make fun of the
audience, who will most probably be formally dressed. (I'll wear jeans
and a t-shirt and bring my big blue knapsack.)
I wished I had brought marbles or ball bearings when I saw "Starlight
Express" in London.
I read The New York Post mainly for its theatre coverage.
-Jason
--
"I'll be merry; tho merry ain't in my vocabulary."
-from "Rent", by Jonathan Larson
Kheldar1
Okay, I guess I should do one, too:
- I really, really like ASPECTS OF LOVE and THE GOODBYE GIRL
- I don't like Cole Porter or Rogers and Hammerstein too much.
- I *hate* South Pacific
- I sing "I Know Him So Well" with my little sister in the car.
- When I saw HELLO, DOLLY, sometimes I was laughing at Carol Channing instead
of with her.
- I'm starting to like RENT, and I like two songs from JEKYLL AND HYDE.
Wow, I feel really cleansed.
Yours,
Frank Ferrara
khel...@aol.com
Adman J684
My Confessions:
The first OCR I heard was "The Music Man". I still know every word to
"Trouble."
CATS was my first Broadway experience. I loved it. Hey, I was young. I've
been known to defend ALW on occasion, but I walked out of By Jeeves.
I audibly gasped with pleasure the first time I heard an actress sing "I'm Not
Getting Married" in Company.
I started a standing ovation for Betty Buckley when she finished "As if We
Never Said Goodbye" in Sunset Blvd.
I recognize it's faults but loved RENT.
I feel better now.
Best,
John
Richard Wall
"WE" aren't throwing furniture, we're throwing donna Summer albums, haven't
you heard?!
Kheldar1 wrote:
>
> >I am only on RATM to meet men.
> >
> >mm
>
> But haven't you heard? We're all gay! At least, that's what they told me!
>
> <grins, ducks to avoid thrown furniture>
>
> Yours,
>
> Frank Ferrara
> khel...@aol.com
Richard Wall
Honey, I hope you've got another hobby!
Richard Wall
I confess: that I think Mandy's version was highly entertaining, BUT if he
did that in a performance of the show, I would spank him really hard. The
Lincoln Center performance was a concert version and Mandy (while
entertaining) was very self-serving. (You know that it was a two night run,
and on the first night he couldn't get through it.) Just my opinion! Warmly.
Adam D. Feldman wrote:
>
> Tim Gowen wrote:
>
> > >4) I apsolutely love Mandy's version of Buddy's Blues
>
> > So do I, but I don't see any need to make it a confession.
>
> Clearly, you missed the "worst performances" thread a few months back.
> "Buddy's Blues" made a lot of lists.
>
> Personally, in my humble opinion, if you ask me, as far as I'm
> concerned, I think that it relatively sucked donkeys. Just my two cents.
>
> Warmly,
>
> Adam
Adam D. Feldman
Richard Wall
"Joanna, Joanna, so suddenly a woman......"!!!!!!!
Jaime J. Weinman wrote:
>
> S Sittig wrote:
> >
> > Ok, here are my confessions:
> > I never liked Mary Martin.
> > I think Agnes De Mille's choreography was boring and flat.
> > I HATE, ABSOLUTELY HATE such American Musical classics as OKLAHOMA, CAROUSEL,
> > BRIGADOON and THE KING & I
> > I think Lorenz Hart was a TERRIBLE lyricist.
>
> That's not a confession, that's a LITANY OF EVIL!!!!!!
> (Just kidding. Right to opinion. Free country. Free speech. God deliver
> me! Restrain me! Pervaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaade me! [whip, whip])
Michelle McFee
Catherine Skidmore wrote:
> i confess...
> ... i do not find the Pants(tm) attractive.
WHAT???? Since when!!!! And did you get the fax?
michelle, "dazed and confused in Kentfield"
Andrew J. Fox
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Marty Silverberg wrote:
)And, for my "Oh that was many years ago ..." story, I used to masturbate to
)the music of Tic Toc (from Company) and once I timed it exactly right!
?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!!?
I think that this should now be the official end of this thread.
ajf
(slightly scared that he might check RATM, only to find that Warmly Adam
masturbates to the cast recording of THE LIFE)
ang
OK, here goes...
1) I cried at the end of Les Miz despite laughing everytime the
"death light" came on.
2) I love ALW musicals prior to Cats - and I still know a lot
of the lyrics from Cats
3) You couldn't pay me to listen to a CD by Liza or Ethel
4) I apsolutely love Mandy's version of Buddy's Blues
5) I apsolutely hate Mandy's solo albums
6) I'd much rather listen to Tyne Daly than Bette Midler
7) I like to watch the first 20 minutes of A Chorus Line:The Movie
for the dancing (and hate the movie for wasting Matt West, who
stole the show when I saw it on Broadway.)
8) I had never heard of Karen Ziemba 'til I started reading this
group.
9) I liked Victor/Vicoria
10) I'd buy a video or CD of George Hearn reading the phone book,
and will probably go to see the Barney movie only because he's in it.
11) I haven't been in a musical since 1990 (AAAARGGGHHH!)
12) I'd take a bootleg of anything I could get, if people would
offer, because there's no way in hell I'm getting to New York
in the near future to see anything anyway.
13) Everytime I saw the Goodspped Titanic number, It reminded me of
the musical "Elephant!" from the Tall Guy. (and I thought they
were singing "Great ship, titanic, anyway.)
I guess that'll do for now...
- Andrea
LibretoDoc
"Backsliders."
Is that some new position???
<gg> Libbe
Libretto Doc
Pizzaman95
In article <19971014151...@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
dave...@aol.com (DAVEYLOW) writes:
>I'm really embarrassed to confess that I saw Blood Brothers three times
>without
> someone pointing a gun to my head. This was definitely not because I thought
> it was the greatest musical ever. The third time I won tickets from VH-1
>and
> wanted to see Petula Clark, someone I've liked since my childhood. Because
>of
> Petula Clark, I've watched the musical film version of Goodbye Mr. Chips
> several times, despite the fact it has one of the worst scores ever written
> (Leslie Bricusse again) for the silver screen.--David
>
>
I saw it 7 and no gun to my head either---I ENJOY Bloodbrothers!
June A SM
Here goes -
I confess that:
I usually wear jeans and sneakers to the theatre
I think Disney is good for Broadway
I don't understand Patti LuPone's appeal
I don't understand Brett Rickaby's appeal, in or out of those baggy
plastic pants
I often get distracted watching the technical elements of a show
I often intentionally watch the actors who are not in focus for a
particular scene
I quite enjoyed POTO, Les Miz, and BIG
I thought the helicopter scene in Miss Saigon was quite the best thing in
the show, and that it was entirely appropriate and germane, a terrific
stage picture and a great metaphor for the American presence in Vietnam.
I thought Jerry Lewis was great in the National Tour of DAMN YANKEES
I spent $200 on show recordings in one day when I was in NYC this Summer
June Abernathy
Adam D. Feldman
Andrew J. Fox wrote:
> (slightly scared that he might check RATM, only to find that Warmly Adam
> masturbates to the cast recording of THE LIFE)
I don't like it *that* much.
Mind you, GYPSY....
(How do you like *them* egg rolls, Mr. Fox?)
Warmly,
Adam
S Sittig
Ok, here are my confessions:
I never liked Mary Martin.
I think Agnes De Mille's choreography was boring and flat.
I HATE, ABSOLUTELY HATE such American Musical classics as OKLAHOMA, CAROUSEL,
BRIGADOON and THE KING & I
I think Lorenz Hart was a TERRIBLE lyricist.
I loved STARLIGHT EXPRESS when I saw it in London.
(I must confess the rest in my party were soundly asleep!!!)
I don't really care for Ethel Merman's voice.
I love LIZA MINNELLI with all her ups and downs and crazy behavior.
I've never seen a Bob Fosse musical I didn't like.
I think a movie version of CHICAGO with Goldie and Madonna will be great!
I love FORBIDDEN BROADWAY almost more than the real thing.
Whew...I feel better now..
Stefan
ang
>
>I audibly gasped with pleasure the first time I heard an actress sing "I'm Not
> Getting Married" in Company.
>
You saw my performance in Bellefonte, PA? That was you? I'm
touched ;)
>I recognize it's faults but loved RENT.
>
Confession #?? - I love the CD. Sing to it all the time. Can't
wait to see it.
>I feel better now.
>
- Andrea
Steve Lorenzo
I'm going to regret this...
I confess:
- I have yet to see a Sondheim show staged in a Broadway house.
- When the cast recording of "Rent" came out, I went to a release party for
the new Pearl Jam CD, just so I'd be able to buy "Rent" at midnight Tuesday.
- I recently saw "Miss Saigon" and cried during *both* acts (but not at the
end).
- I so fell in love with a certain out-of-print CD of a cast recording
that I "liberated" it from the public library when I moved from that city
(In my defense, I was the only person who had checked it out -- 30 times --
during the previous five years, and I did pay a "replacement fee"). I'll burn
in hell for this one, but it was worth it -- I listen to it at least once a
week, and I've *never* seen another copy anywhere.
- When I was four years old, my parents took me to see a high school production
of "Oklahoma!" and the young woman playing Aunt Eller was so stiff that I
asked my parents if she was one of those robots like at Disneyland -- right
in front of *her* parents.
- I bought the Czech cast recording of "Les Miserables" before I owned the
Merm's "Gypsy."
- I took a picture of the "Metro" marquis at the Minskoff.
- Liza gives me nightmares. Scary ones.
- I was giddy with glee when I attended a B'way Softball League game and saw
a certain macho TV star from the "Grand Hotel" team throw "like a girl."
And... the worst for last:
- My first musical in a Broadway theater: "Aspects of Love."
Steve "Have I Said Too Much...?" Lorenzo
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Kheldar1
>I am only on RATM to meet men.
>
>mm
But haven't you heard? We're all gay! At least, that's what they told me!