Profile for Mike Bevel

HogansHero said: "And to keep this thread on-topic, that's exactly what happened with Comet."I found an old Playbill article about the Ragtime/Showboat Canadian tuxedo of it all re: Garth Drabinsky and that was a wild ride to read.I've followed a lot of what you've had to say about the financial mismanagement stuff w/r/t Great Comet -- but are you also suggesting fraud there, too?

blaxx said: "Jimmyb1969 said: "Maybe the most dreadful 2.5 hours I’ve ever spent in the theatre."Thank you! We were wondering."My sense of relief, now that I know, is immeasurable.

My dream re-write would be to drop the entire Harry subplot and give more space to the William/Kate Macbeth-esque machinations.

markypoo said: "Why, yes.I certainly MUST NOT have been paying attention ALL THOSE TIMES.And so that I don't continue - horror of horrors - to live in continued ignorance, kindly enlighten me as to how her character adds any heft to the drama whatsoever.And I'm literally defying you to do so."Isn't Minnie one of the people who give false testimony? Her relationship with Lucille is fraught, and gives some context as to why she'd give that false testimony in the first place.

PalJoey said: "In the Marx Brothers/George S. Kaufman world, rye bread is good, white bread is bad.I'll bring the rye bread!" or "Bring some rye bread!" or "You bring the rye bread!" are just expressions that mean, "We're gonna have a good time" or "Let's have a party!"A Jewish mother might say her son is such a good boy, "He's like a nice slice fresh rye bread."It even became a baseball expression for cheering the team on to get a home run: "Bring on the rye bread a

I'm not trustworthy with this question because I am not always great at separating "definitive" from "this was the first one I saw and that's why it's definitive."For instance, no other version of Into the Woods works for me but the Original Broadway Cast. However, I prefer the Raul Esparza version of Company -- but only probably because that was the first version I saw. (However, Elaine Stritch's "Ladies Who Lunch" is, of course, the definitive version. Also, Donna Murphy's ve

What's fascinating to me is the idea that the (still living) author is describing being somewhere for gay conversion therapy, and then having Mary Martin stop by and if that isn't God saying, "No, you're gay, it's fine," then I don't know what is.

Why aren't more people talking about this?

broadwaysfguy said: "Appreciate all the posts, and shared a link myself to Raul Esparza's Being Alive (well known of course for his lead role in the 2006 revival of Company) during the tonys because I had not heard before and it was just stunning"I think that is my favorite version of all the ones I've heard. It absolutely trumps, for me, the Original Cast version.

lovebwy said: "The movie version of The Last Five Years is head and shoulders above the original recording."This is the truest thing I have ever read in my ENTIRE LIFE.(Also, if they try to come for you for this opinion, I will have your back as long as it doesn't require me to actually do anything.)

I saw Les Liaisons Dangereuses (the simulcast filmed production, next to a woman with HORRIBLE breath and a nephew who is probably gay but she's not ready to hear that yet not to brag about my amazing experience) and it...wasn't great? Or maybe it's just I've seen the film approximately 468 times (I was SUPER popular as a teen and everyone wanted to hang out with me) so this production didn't seem to add anything? It's just the film, sans Glenn Close's bosom and how unsafe John Malkovich made...

trpguyy said: "Did you really think I meant the wardrobe department applied an adhesive label on Alice Ripley's ankle, in an effort to label her shoes?"I did. But only because it made me laugh REALLY hard.

broadwayboy223 said: "The most famous one I can think of is Elaine Stritch at the end of the title song of Company during the long LAAAOOOOOVEEEEEEE. She's insanely flat and then she drops out halfway through."I am literally OBSESSED with that note/moment/way of life ENTIRELY. That note gives me hope that a no-pants grouchy life on Broadway may still be in the cards for ol' Mike Bevel.

My favorite Bad Theater Behavior experience was at "Therese Raquin" earlier this year. It was a Saturday matinee, every senior citizen in Manhattan was there, and when a character says he's moving everyone to Paris, a woman in the audience said, loudly, as if she were in conversation with the actors, "Paris? They'll LOVE Paris."And that's when I adopted her as my grandmother and want only good things and soft foods to happen to her.