we talk about music..movies..boinking...noone talks about broadway, or really good plays...

Blue Man Group

Momma Mia

Noises Off

Proof

etc...

have you seen any really good shows recently?

hey Dej....



"The shakespeaaaaayah.... theeee yah tahhhhh"

went and saw "sweeney todd" on broadway the other night. patti lupone is out of the show for a short while, so we rushed to get tickets to see her temp replacement judy kaye, a favorite of ours, who was tons better in the role.

stunning production... it's a shame it will close soon.

seen most of what's on broadway at the moment.

Phantom of the Opera

the last thing i saw was an original play at steppenwolf about proust's live-in assistant recording her memoirs. it was exactly what you think it would be like, but it was a nice, quiet, mellow little night of theater.

meanwhile, i just got the 'grey gardens' soundtrack this week and i've been dancing around the apartment with a towel on my head.

Anx said:

that show is moving from off broadway to broadway

cborgman said:

so i heard.

i would really like to see it again, which is uncommon for me with musicals.

the last show I saw was... in New York. "Lestat" and it was brilliant any Anne Rice fans should get a kick out of it definately...

Natisse said:

we saw it right before it closed.

Natisse said:

Oh, I'd like to see that. But living in Denmark, chances are I won't see it unless it becomes a big hit and some Danish theater producer decides to stage it.

Speaking of producers, the last show I saw was The Producers.

i really wish i could see kiki & herb on broadway, even though i guess that's not officially "theater"...cabaret theater, i guess...

cborgman said:

it closed? OMG we were lucky to see it then that's a shame

Natisse said:

Then I guess I won't be seeing it...

Was it good, though?
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scififilmnerd said:

lestat tanked. closed in less than a month

Anx said:

we are going to see it once it opens, which is soon. CAN NOT WAIT!

cborgman said:

But was it any good?

Natisse said:

i loved the staging and the first act script (although i thought they made some fundamentally wrong choices in the way the wrote marius). second act was okay. they kind screwed up in writing louis, and the changes they made to the story.

but the worst was the songs, which didnt fit the peice at all. the audience when i saw it would be getting into it and loving it, and the orchestra would start and people would litterally groan or sigh. woulda worked a lot better had they done it as an opera with a better choice of music writers than elton john/bernie taupin or done it as a stright play.

good cast though. they deserved better.

scififilmnerd said:

i had really mixed feelings. see above
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cborgman said:

jealous! though i've already seen them three times in chicago over the past year, so i don't have much room to talk. dang, i remember when i used to see kiki & herb play at flamingo east over on 2nd ave and 13th street. i think it was something like ten bucks and a two-drink minimum to see them.

Anx said:

ryan told me a really funny kiki story. will orgnote you, it's kind of distateful

i saw charles busch in psycho beach party, and vampire lesbians of sodom.
that was fun

purplerein said:

J E A L O U S

cborgman said:

heh heh heh