Profile for KJisgroovy

Kad said: "I can think of many words to describe the movie, and “campy, big, and broad” are three of them. It opens with a Broadway musicaladaptation of Sweet Bird of Youth that features a disco dance break. Goldie Hawn wears a fat suit and eats frosting from a can while losing her mind. Streep’s tongue-waggling delivery of the word “flaccid.” Any of the iconic lines. It is an extremelyover the topmovie. The only reality it’s grounded in i

I'm not a big fan of the movie. I've seen it maybe twice in 20 years and liked it fine but... don't know it well enough to know famous lines. So that's where I'm coming from. 

I thought this was mostly great. The performances and timing were REALLY spectacular for a second preview. The book is really, really, really funny. I think it could better integrate moments of pathos but it definitely isn't necessary if that's not what they're going for. Ther

Seconding that its very easy to call and get tickets if there are any available. Unfortunately, I believe the 20for20 are sold out for the run. 

I thought this play was just smashing (and it was almost universally praised) but it is still very clearly in development. The top of the first and the back half of the second need to be tightened and cleaned up. The play did not have an ending when it went into rehearsal and the playwright delivered 30+ new pages at the start of previews

"as it stands, I think the show does an incredibly lousy job with any of the black perspective and narrative. Borderline comical how it feels Taub gave up completely after Wait My Turn."

Except that's the point? The suffragists failed their own ideology. The show itself is about how the white suffragists excluded everyone who didn't conform to straight, white, middle/upper-class status. 

Every show is not about everything and everyone. For me, I thoug

I've heard people on Tiktok and X (and here) talking about how the show "centers white feminism" as a complaint. At the Public, this was one of the points of the show. The loss of Nikki M James character was consistently palpable. Has that changed? It's true the show is about "the white ladies" but it's also about their exclusion of everyone else (which is historical). Were folks hoping this show centered people who history sidelined? Are people having trouble

"Almost every big city is seeing an increase in violent crimes"

Except that's not true. Most recent statistics from the FBI show that violent crime is down. The fearmongering is what makes it seem the violent crime is up. We know about the random punching because of Tiktok. We know about these incidents because they are Broadway celebrities. These things happened before Tiktok we just didn't hear about them in the same way. They weren't covered the same way. 

Yes, I understood. I was just trying to add that, for many, the album is so important that they could have wheeled out a victrola and played the album and it would have sold out the Armory for at least a few dates. Adding Justin Peck choreography certainly helped but the emotional response much of the audience is having has more to do with a time in their life than it does what is actually on stage. Nothing needed to cohere (and it very much does not cohere IMO), nostalgia is a powerful drug.