GYPSY OF THE YEAR .... SKIT by SKIT

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 11:40pm

Hopefully no spoilers here but if you are going Tuesday you may wanna wait to read.
WOW! What a Show.
The strongest in a while, the Gypsies really came thru this year and showed the talent that lies within every show on Broadway.
The Opening number was great, Jay Johnson and Bob were extremely funny, the GYPSY dancers were terrific and Carpathia Jenkins was Open voiced and sublime.
The cherry on top was the Broadway Insperational Voices!
A CHORUS LINE: Ten and out, performed by the 5 swings who get cut after the first 10 mins and then are out, just great and the entire cast (sans Charlotte, of course) backed them up.
THE LION KING: RED A jazzy song about positivity so well sang and danced by the company, great choreography and really a nice number.
TARZAN, not really sure what this skit was about, some crazy guy running around and marking people up and then they made a giant AIDS ribbon, to Gershwin, no less, maybe someone could explain it to me.
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, (Colors of the Wind from Pocohontas)
Well they said She was Fierce and She was! Just hysterical. A crazy wide eyed and voiced Indian maiden and her animal and spirit friends. LMAO. The colors of the costumes of the colors of the Wind were pretty also.
THE 25th ANNUAL SPELLING BEE: December's Other, Less Famous Holidays, So funny, Sarah Saltzberg's song about all the holidays we don't celebrate, Loved the Filipino Lesbian.
THE FANTASTICKS: Ok If U get the pleasure of seeing Tom Jones singing a song he and Harvey Schmidt wrote about the King of Off Broadway U can die and go to Musical Comedy Heaven right now.
What a JOY! and any song that can include the Jan Hus theatre in the lyrics is, well pure gold.
HAIRSPRAY" An adorable number celebrating the rights of Gays in New jersey with cute boys, fat girls and the voice of Diane Degarmo as a new gay Icon. That's to die for.
THE TIMES THEY ARE A'CHANGIN'
Yup, they closed (damn it) but they raised $ and wanted to perform. And Perform they Did! Michael Arden singing a song he wrote to Shakespeare's Lyrics and danced by Charlie Neshyba-Hodges, Alaine Kashman and Marty Lawson with choreography by Chase Brock, Absolutely Stunning!
SPAMALOT; taking a cue from the usual URINETOWN skit they did the BROADWAY WORLD .Com wrap up with hilarious results, the Gay Mary Poppins comment was just one of the many great jokes.
RENT: Wow (again) spotlighting the work of cast members Philip McAdoo and Tonya Beard they incorperated the work of teens they are working with in a project of inspiration and art.
What a great job they are obviously doing. The kids were just so cool and wonderful to watch.
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE; an alternative ending to their show, with a surprising tool belt ending. So Funny!
MARTIN SHORT FAME BECOMES ME: OK Marc Shaiman is a GOD! He cried, I cried, the entire audience was sniffling.
Each night they raffled off an origianl song written and sung by Marc to the highest bidder and he did one that was so touching, and moving dedicated to a Mother who took her daughter to Broadway and how the Curtain Call was Her last Bow.
I'm tearing now thinking about it. Thank You Marc.
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA; another great skit this one about Little Edie and Big Edie seeking out the longest running show and the longest running actor in a part (hysterical George Lee Andrews) at the MAJESTIC GARDENS, and they bring along their CATS (well the company of CATS) it was STAUNCH!
MAMMA MIA did a song to The Telephone Hour from BIRDIE about calling in sick for their show, clever lyrics but maybe something they don't wanna sing about.
THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED, well, I'm still in heat over this one, they used reading the shows who collected $ but didn't perform to get naked and well.. Thanks you guys. Loved the asses.
THE COLOR PURPLE, 4 Magnificent voices and 7 dancers closing the show with class and dignity, just great.

All in All a Fun amazingly Talented group of People coming together to raise money for AIDS (and other) victims using what they know best to give the audience a banquet of Riches.
BRAVO to All involved.
If you can get a ticket for Tuesday.
Treat yourself to something very Special1


Updated On: 12/5/06 at 11:40 PM

[Corine2]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 11:48pm

Will Jay be in it tomorrow?

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 11:56pm

Yes, he will, but Bob said he wanted to meet John Tartaglia..
not sure what he mean't by that.

[Corine2]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 12:11am

Sounds like a great show. Updated On: 12/5/06 at 12:11 AM

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 12:49am

I wish I could go

What does Jay do?

They always put it on DVD on their site when It's over with right? I know they do it with Broadway Bares...

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 1:44am

Jay and Bob are Broadway Newbies looking fot the tradition of BWay GYPSies
And Carpathia is the Queen they find.

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 3:03am

I always read Jay's blogs. He said they were wearing safari outfits?

Sounds hilarious!

[NJRae]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:20am

Lol, I'm still laughing over that Hairpsray number. I think it was my favorite. And I'm with you on the Tarzan one . . . my friend and I had absolutely no idea what they were doing up there.

I can't make it today . . . have to work Will you be there? Will you write another review of sorts? Would love to know what I'm missing!

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:28am

was Dylan Riely Snyder in the Tarzan number?

[giddyup]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 8:44am

I agree about Pocohontas. She was hysterical. Was that the real singer on the song? If not, great imitation. I heard that on Limewire.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 9:28am

Yes, Dylan was in the skit. I think he was the skinny boy in the box???
And Pocohontas had to be the same one from the internet, who else could sing like that?

Updated On: 12/5/06 at 09:28 AM

[h6p8gv]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 10:16am

Did the Wedding singer do anything if so what?

[Corine2]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 10:34am

Was it as fantastic as the Easter Bonnet? That was the best afternoon of theater I have ever seen. I was laughing so hard I almost fell out of my chair.Now, I am sad I am missing the show this afternoon. It sounds fantastic!

Updated On: 12/6/06 at 10:34 AM

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 10:38am

Dylan is really skinny.

I'll wait til this is on DVD. How long does it usually take for them to put it on DVD?

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 10:58am

No Wedding Singer.

[liotte]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 5:19pm

I had a good time, some very funny and very touching numbers. And a few WTF numbers as well.

[nannerz60]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 8:28pm

I need more on the Hairspray number - please post details! Sounds like a great time!

[NJRae]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 9:54pm

Yes, it was absolutely Dylan who popped out of the box.

The Hairspray number . . . I am never going to do it justice. But picture this: The scene where Tracy gets hit in the head with the basketball, only instead of falling to the ground, she falls on top of a guy. Another guy pushes her off and instead of being concerned for her in her unconscious state, crouches over the young man she fell on. Helps him to his feet and starts singing a funny new rendition of "I can hear the bells" while "Tracy" gets up and does an imitation of "Penny" trying to listen for the bells (although she had nothing on Diana! lol). At one point Diana comes out and sings a little bit . . . but the whole thing was just hilarious.

I think the only skit that really truly left me scratching my head was Tarzan's. I mean I'm sure there were others that I didn't really know where they came from or why they were there, but at least I think I knew what they were about. But that Tarzan skit . . . huh? That is all I could say!

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 10:00pm

Where's the site that sells the DVDs?

[GretchaSketh]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 10:05pm

YES the Pocohontas song was the same one online. and YES it was the same girl who sang it.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 10:12pm

BROADWAY BEAT sells the DVD's

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 10:17pm

THANKS!

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 11:20pm

So, the differences today Tuesday, were the return of Officer Lockstock and Little Sally who did their usual damage with swipes at Twyla, John Lloyd Young's self indulgent Tony acceptance speech and Clay Aiken's sexual position preference.
Sally: I saw on U Tube Clay Aiken was trying to get into the marines.
Lockstock: That was ... ONE marine Little Sally
Sally; I thought he was a bottom.
Lockstock; Power.... Bottom little Sally
Most of their jokes were about the law suit going on about the local productions of URINETOWN.
As they left the stage Sally, Jen Cody one of the directors of the productions in question, had a sign saying:
"I wrote 58% of this skit myself.
Very Funny as usual.
Ana Geystuer introduced the judges.
and Martin Short and Christine Ebersole helped present the awards
Top Money:
THE COLOR PURPLE
WICKED
THE DROWSEY CHAPERONE
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
JERSEY BOYS
Play with most money:
THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED
Off Broadway Money winner
THE CLEAN HOUSE
Best on stage performance was
THE COLOR PURPLE
and a tie for runner up
THE LION KING
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Congrats to all

My only complaint was that THE TIMES THEY ARE A' CHANGIN'
should have placed. It was a beautiful presentation.

Updated On: 12/6/06 at 11:20 PM

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 12/6/06 at 2:52am

Ohh. I really missed seeing Lockstock and Little Sally on Monday.

[ErikInTheCity]

Posted: 12/6/06 at 3:15am

Here, here. . .I thought that ironically Times' piece was the strongest and most beautiful. It's almost as if Color Purple said "Let's have Gospel and modern dancing. . we'll win for sure!" Times' number was so completely original and stunningly performed.