This great article reviews the wonderful lineup for lineup this fall. Lets post once again what we are most looking forward to, most NOT looking forward to, what we think will sweep the Tonys, and who will give the best performances of the year!
Looking Forward to: BKLYN, Little Women
NOT: Spamalot (sorry; doesnt interest me)
Sweep the Tonys: Little Women OR/& Spamalot
Best Performances: Sutton Foster (Little Women), Eden Espinosa (BKLYN), Tim Curry (Spamalot), & Christina Applegate (Sweet Charity)
Looking forward to Little Women and Spamalot, yah NOT: Pacific Overtures Sweep: Spamalot Best performances: Eden, Sutton.
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I'm not looking forward to 'night Mother because I've seen too many bad productions of it, and the show is ruined for me now. I'm almost at the same point with 12 Angry Men.
I"m VERY MUCH looking forward to:
Pillowman Reckless Streetcar (maybe one of the best plays ever written) The Coast of Utopia (when will this open??)
I mean...why let Victoria Clark even open in LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA? Who the hell cares if Erin Dilly is a delightful Truly Scrumptious? And just what if THE COLOR PURPLE opens this season with LaChanze as Celie? It's obvious that the only two people that matter are Sutton and Eden! COME ON!
And DEMOCRACY? What's that?
Sorry..feeling a little Zell Miller today.
"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."
The plays this year are looking a whole lot stronger than the musicals. I'm looking forward to the Pacific Overtures revival, but the only new musical that looks really good is Spamalot, in a silly Producers sort of way. Little Women has some potential, I guess, but I didn't adore the book and don't worship Sutton Foster, so it's going to take good reviews and/or good discounts to get me to go. My interest level in Sweet Charity is about the same- tentative.
But the plays...ah, the plays. There's Twelve Angry Men, which I'm interested in purely by virtue of the wonderful movie. Gem of the Ocean...well, it's August Wilson. My interest is piqued. Democracy sounds interesting, at least. Then there's A Streetcar Named Desire, Bridge and Tunnel, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?- two classics and one well-received new work. And those are just the ones I can think of offhand.
Looking foward to: La Cage aux Folles, Reckless (Mary-Louise Parker is my favorite actress), Little Women, Laugh Whore, and strangely enough, Spamalot
Not: Good Vibrations, All Shook Up, Pacific Overtures, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (which wasn't in the article was it?)
I'm still on the fence about Brooklyn.
Best Preformances: Sutton Foster, Gary Beach, Tim Curry, and I'm going to say John Lithgow because he always manages to be great in everything he's in.
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Broadway: Reckless Night Mother Spamalot Gem of the Ocean Dame Edna Democracy Light In The Piazza Pacific Overtures Pillowman Virginia Woolf Streetcar
Off-Broadway: A Number (Caryl Churchill) Rose Rage (Edward Hall) Ain't Supposed To Die A Natural Death Four By Tenn White Chocolate Richard III (with Peter Dinklage at The Public) Dirty Tricks (with Judith Ivey at The Public) Baltimore Waltz (Paula Vogel) Hot 'n Throbbing (Paula Vogel) Symphonie Fantastique (Basil Twist) Peter and Jerry The Bald Soprano/The Lesson (Ionesco at the Atlantic) Us by Tim Miller (at PS122) Doubt (with Cherry Jones at MTC)
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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Looking Forward to: Pacific Overtures, Streetcar Named Desire, Virginia Woolf, Twelve Angry Men, 'night, Mother, maybe La Cage...and I'll probably see Little Women.
NOT: Brooklyn. Plot sounds stupid (especially Act 2), don't like the music so far. It hasn't impressed me. Get it? Good.
Ustadance, I like to think I'm just ahead of the times and everyone will be bashing in a month or so... IT will be intersting to see how the bklyn shills on here react to THAT!
I've got it, Al D! You and Lady G need to start dating...you can both sit around and talk about how awful BKLYN is, and how awesome George Bush is...then you can walk off into Fool's Paradise together.