A Chorus Line: Abridged
A Chorus Line: Abridged
BroadwayAbridged
Stand-by Joined: 2/2/07
#1A Chorus Line: Abridged
Posted: 3/18/07 at 10:51am
Or as I like to call it, "The Most Demented Director Ever: The Musical!"
A Chorus Line Abridged
- Gil
http://www.broadwayabridged.com
Updated On: 3/18/07 at 10:51 AM
leefowler
Broadway Star Joined: 7/13/04
#2re: A Chorus Line: Abridged
Posted: 3/18/07 at 12:46pmGod, I wish you'd do this for every show on Broadway. Brilliant!
Behind the fake tinsel of Broadway is real tinsel.
#2re: A Chorus Line: Abridged
Posted: 3/18/07 at 1:02pmThat is amazing.
"I have a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!"
#3re: A Chorus Line: Abridged
Posted: 3/18/07 at 1:20pmLOVE IT!
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#5re: A Chorus Line: Abridged
Posted: 3/18/07 at 2:40pmYou're my most favoriteist.
SondheimGeek: Is it slightly pathetic that you guys get to be Jedi bitches, and I'm Bitchy the Hutt?
LizzieCurry: No, you're more memorable
LizzieCurry: No, you're more memorable
BDavis0092
Broadway Star Joined: 7/24/06
#6re: A Chorus Line: Abridged
Posted: 3/18/07 at 2:43pmThat is great. I wouldn't mind seeing one of Drowsy.
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#7re: A Chorus Line: Abridged
Posted: 3/18/07 at 3:08pmHaha brilliant! Thank you for writing these!
#8re: A Chorus Line: Abridged
Posted: 3/18/07 at 3:20pm
That was absolutly hilarious! I really get a kick out of reading all your abridged scripts.
"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible
Updated On: 3/18/07 at 03:20 PM
dramaqueen2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/23/05
#9re: A Chorus Line: Abridged
Posted: 3/18/07 at 3:51pm
dear broadway abridged,
i love you and all your hilarity.
love,
DQ
hear my song; it was made for the time when you don't know where to go, listen to the song that i sing, you'll be fine..
Julian2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/06
#10re: A Chorus Line: Abridged
Posted: 3/18/07 at 4:01pmLove them! I think Mary Poppins is begging for your treatment.
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FosseBoi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
#11re: A Chorus Line: Abridged
Posted: 3/18/07 at 4:25pm
I adore everyone you write. I really wish you could do more. 
"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread.
~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line
#12re: A Chorus Line: Abridged
Posted: 3/18/07 at 4:27pm
Amazing.
Love the Charlotte/Cassie - Michael/Zach part. Brilliant!
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
actor
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/06
#15re: A Chorus Line: Abridged
Posted: 3/18/07 at 6:07pm
The Charlotte/Beresse scene was GENIUS.
I also loved the random girl from SPRING AWAKENING.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
BroadwayAbridged
Stand-by Joined: 2/2/07
#16re: A Chorus Line: Abridged
Posted: 3/19/07 at 12:07amIf anybody can figure out how to make a good joke out of the fact that Charlotte's husband was in the original movie decades and decades ago (and how weird that is when you think about it) please let me know. I gave up on that one.
- Gil
http://www.broadwayabridged.com
#17re: A Chorus Line: Abridged
Posted: 3/19/07 at 12:18am
I would like to second the request for a MARY POPPINS script.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#18re: A Chorus Line: Abridged
Posted: 3/19/07 at 12:24amAnother great job, Gil. I'd try to throw an idea for Charlotte/Terrence your way, but frankly, I try to pretend they aren't together. It puts images into my mind that keep me awake at night. Lots of funny teeth, you know, that sort of thing.
BroadwayPenguin2
Stand-by Joined: 12/29/06
#19re: A Chorus Line: Abridged
Posted: 3/19/07 at 12:28am
I haven't laughed that hard in a while!
I love all of your scripts!
You rock!
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#20re: A Chorus Line: Abridged
Posted: 3/19/07 at 12:31am
The absolute highlight was At The Ballet with random SA girl "My dad beats me!" I always felt that was so out there.
edit; Every time I go looking for a laugh, I refer to your Caroline script or Millie. Both never fail to make me smile! We love them!
sidjones09
Leading Actor Joined: 1/4/07
#21re: A Chorus Line: Abridged
Posted: 3/19/07 at 12:40am
BroadwayAbridged I'd like to thank you personally for not allowing me to get anything done today, because I spent hours laughing my butt off at almost all your Abridged scripts.
This one is genius in every way.
Thanks
"If you've got something to say, say it, and think well of yourself while you're learning to say it better." - David Mamet
maybethistime
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/3/04
#22re: A Chorus Line: Abridged
Posted: 3/19/07 at 1:25amThe "Wicked" Abridged script is the most hilarious thing ever. I read it everytime I need to laugh. This one was excellent, too. Thanks!
#23re: A Chorus Line: Abridged
Posted: 3/19/07 at 3:22amhysterical! the spring awakening one too... i hadnt seen that one before.
#24re: A Chorus Line: Abridged
Posted: 3/19/07 at 6:51am
Hilarious, of course. Do CURTAINS next. 
"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
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