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Broadway Abridged: Next to Normal
#25re: Broadway Abridged: Next to Normal
Posted: 6/22/09 at 2:32pm
I also liked the lighting comments, and I laughed at the joked when they first appeared, but they seemed to just repeat themselves and lost the laugh for me. And I love Broadway Abridged...some of the best parodies he's done are for show I actually really enjoy as well :).
But this made me go re-read the Tonys Abridged which is made of win.
#26re: Broadway Abridged: Next to Normal
Posted: 6/22/09 at 2:41pmThe Little Mermaid one is my favorite.
#27re: Broadway Abridged: Next to Normal
Posted: 6/22/09 at 2:51pm"THE MARY LOUISE PARKER SCHOOL OF CRAZY EYES". Hilarious!
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#28re: Broadway Abridged: Next to Normal
Posted: 6/22/09 at 2:55pm
"JENNIFER DAMIANO
(rolling onstage via her eyes)"
hahahahaha!
#29re: Broadway Abridged: Next to Normal
Posted: 6/22/09 at 3:19pmMy favorite is "Guess the Lazy Lyric!" and how much everyone is talking about how important of a show it is. Hilarious.
#31re: Broadway Abridged: Next to Normal
Posted: 6/23/09 at 1:45am
Not one of the best, but I found it funny.
It seemed kinda thrown together, short and choppy. The last half was very "meh".
I thought the umlauts over Alice's lines were funny, but got repetative and were not really enough to describe how she can murder the pronounciation of a word. Jen's first ffffff*ck was hilarious, the others went back and forth from tired to funny.
The one line that totally cracked me up:
ALWAYS ALICE RIPLEY DO!
You're reminding me of people you hear at the movies asking questions every ten seconds, "Who is that? Why is that guy walking down the street? Who's that lady coming up to him? Uh-oh, why did that car go by? Why is it so dark in this theater?" - FindingNamo on strummergirl
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
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Broadway Star Joined: 7/9/08
#32re: Broadway Abridged: Next to Normal
Posted: 6/23/09 at 2:05amAs has been said, the caveman speak got old fast. But they kind got Jenn spot on lol. "Ffffff*ck"
Cugirl
Understudy Joined: 11/22/05
#33re: Broadway Abridged: Next to Normal
Posted: 6/23/09 at 3:26am
"ALSO, ME QUESTIONABLE SUBCONSCIOUS TÜ BUSY IMAGINING ME DEAD CHILD UPSTAIRS TAKING SHOWER."
Hahahaha...I LOL'd on that one.
(FTR, I am obsessed with N2N, but still find this funny.)
"Das Gegenteil von Krieg ist nicht Frieden...sondern Schöpfung!" - German Mark Cohen
#34re: Broadway Abridged: Next to Normal
Posted: 6/23/09 at 5:29amI thought it was funny and I'm a huge fan of the show.
#35re: Broadway Abridged: Next to Normal
Posted: 6/23/09 at 6:50amDont get me wrong im a big fan of the show and i enjoy reading the Abridged scripts, and whilst i thought this one had some funny moment in it just wasnt that great overall, but still nice work.
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
jordangirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
#36re: Broadway Abridged: Next to Normal
Posted: 6/23/09 at 7:04amThey've actually cut down on Natalie's use of the f-word a lot. THAT part read more like a leftover from Second Stage.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#37re: Broadway Abridged: Next to Normal
Posted: 6/23/09 at 10:08amIt's barely abridged. It's just too long and too many repeated jokes. But, still, I thought it was pretty funny. There were a couple moments where I actually laughed audibly.
#38re: Broadway Abridged: Next to Normal
Posted: 6/23/09 at 11:15amIt started out funny, but got old.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
#39re: Broadway Abridged: Next to Normal
Posted: 6/23/09 at 11:19amAgreed, this one got old fast. Unfortunate, cause I usually love most of Broadway Abridged.
#40re: Broadway Abridged: Next to Normal
Posted: 6/23/09 at 12:57pmI thought this was hysterical. N2N fans are too up tight.
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