I posted my list today on All That Chat. I still have one more show to see this year (TWO TRAINS RUNNING), but I think my list is pretty much set. In alphabetical order, and counting both parts of THE COAST OF UTOPIA as one entity:
Awake and Sing The Coast of Utopia: Voyage and Shipwreck Faith Healer Heartbreak House Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris Landscape of the Body The Lieutenant of Inishmore Mother Courage and Her Children Of Thee I Sing! Seven Guitars
"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
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
Yes. It was a wonderful production, the kind that reminds you how wonderful musicals once were.
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Sweeney Todd opened in 2005. How can they be used on a 2006 list?
"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
Really? I have to ask what exactly you liked about it because to be honest the only things I liked about it were Jenny Powers and Victor Garber.
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
The Lieutenant of Inishmore The History Boys The Pajama Game The Drowsy Chaperone The Little Dog Laughed Heartbreak House
I've yet to see Grey Gardens, Spring Awakening, Company or Coast of Utopia.
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
1. The Coast of Utopia, Part II: Shipwreck 2. Grey Gardens 3. The History Boys 4. Jay Johnson: The Two and Only 5. Company 6. Mary Poppins 7. The Coast of Utopia, Part I: Voyage 8. The House in Town 9. Show People 10. The Pajama Game
Show I regret seeing: Hot Feet Show I wish I had seen: Faith Healer
Updated On: 12/28/06 at 09:30 PM
It is my personal opinion that OF THEE I SING! has one of the best scores ever written, and being able to hear it live was absolutely thrilling to me. Add to that a top-notch cast and gorgeous orchestrations and I was in musical theatre heaven. That's why I included it.
"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
Oh ok. I have a question though, is it an Encores! thing that they have the scripts with them or is it just an Of Thee I Sing! thing?
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
"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
1. The Wedding Singer (5) 2. Grey Gardens (1) 3. Evil Dead: The Musical (Off-Broadway 2) 4. Title Of Show 5. High Fidelity (2)
I made a list of all your faults, it was quite detailed and lengthy too and when I read it through I missed you. Your like a classic Eagles song, you just cant help but sing along even though it sometimes gets annoying too. I just know I want to be wherever I can wake and see you there next to me. **High Fidelity**
Love is what I do **The Wedding Singer**
Xanadu - Best NEW Musical of the Season!
Not everybody gets to see everything the year it opens...and Sweeney didn't open until November 2005, so I say feel free to include it in your 2006 top ten lists! It would certainly be on mine...the final performance was one of the most thrilling evenings of theatre I had this year.
1. Landscape of the Body 2. Rabbit Hole 3. Grey Gardens 4. Lieutenant of Inishmore 5. Awake and Sing 6. Company 7. Seven Guitars 8. Based on a Totally True Story 9. Hedda Gabler (BAM) 10. Mother Courage
1. Mother Courage and Her Children 2. Awake and Sing 3. The Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck 4. Rabbit Hole 5. Bernarda Alba 6. The Coast of Utopia: Voyage 7. Landscape of the Body 8. The Lieutenant of Inishmore 9. Faith Healer 10. The House in Town
Honorable Mentions: [title of show]; Heartbreak House; The Voysey Inheritance; Two Trains Running; Wrecks; Seven Guitars; Jacques Brel...; No Child; The Busy World is Hushed