BWW's Play Readers Club
BWW's Play Readers Club
#1BWW's Play Readers Club
Posted: 12/6/07 at 2:45pm
BWW's Book Play Readers Club
Why not?
Any interest in an online group discussing recently-written plays? Not the classics or the highly popular titles, but new plays that you may not have heard of yet!
PM me with some title suggestions (including the playwright) and if there's enough interest, I'll throw out the first title.
New play every two weeks?
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
Updated On: 12/6/07 at 02:45 PM
--Aristotle
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#2re: BWW's --b-o-o-k-- Play Readers Club
Posted: 12/6/07 at 2:57pmThe title is confusing. It looks like you're trying to spell book.
#2bbw bookies playing reed instruments
Posted: 12/6/07 at 2:59pmin spandex!
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#3bbw bookies playing reed instruments
Posted: 12/6/07 at 3:00pmYeah, I guess Rob doesn't allow HTML coding in thread titles...
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#4bbw bookies playing reed instruments
Posted: 12/6/07 at 3:02pmnot sure how mainstream these are, but I just read two plays "picasso at the lapin agile" by steve martin and "some girl(s)" by neil labute.
"Applause begets applause in the theatre, as laughter begets laughter and tears beget tears."
CLAYTON HAMILTON, "Theory of the Theatre"
"I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is."
TOM STOPPARD
#5bbw bookies playing reed instruments
Posted: 12/6/07 at 3:02pm
Wait. Are we reading players or playing readers?
I'm confused. Is this on off-topic?
#6bbw bookies playing reed instruments
Posted: 12/6/07 at 3:03pmoh please, patronus, everyone knows you're playing with yourself. did you think no one was listening to sunset and 42nd?
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#7bbw bookies playing reed instruments
Posted: 12/6/07 at 3:06pm
Yes actually. I definitely thought that.
I think you misunderstood. When I said I was playing with myself thinking of Donna Reed, I was actually reading a player and reeding a clarinet while watching Father Knows Best.
Nonetheless, are we reading transcripts of Sunset & 42nd while playing Bach?
#8bbw bookies playing reed instruments
Posted: 12/6/07 at 3:09pm
there are transcripts? really?
i assume that needy reed instrumentalists are being paid to not play just to weigh the words?
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#9bbw bookies playing reed instruments
Posted: 12/6/07 at 3:11pm
Well, we made transcripts just in case someone wanted to start an official BWW S&42 Transcript Reading Club.
Do needy reed instrumentalists have the same minority hiring procedures as college football?
#10bbw bookies playing reed instruments
Posted: 12/6/07 at 3:13pmso i read.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#12bbw bookies playing reed instruments
Posted: 12/6/07 at 3:15pm
For whenever the twins of wit tire themselves out:
I'd be all over a play reading group. I'm surprised this hasn't been done on BWW before.
"You just can't win. Ever. Look at the bright side, at least you are not stuck in First Wives Club: The Musical. That would really suck. "
--Sueleen Gay
#13bbw bookies playing reed instruments
Posted: 12/6/07 at 3:16pm*sniff* *sniff* i smell boobies.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#14bbw bookies playing reed instruments
Posted: 12/6/07 at 3:17pmI bet this might even get more play over on the main board. I bet the group of people who would love to read and discuss the librettos of Rent and Wicked would be overwhelming!
#15bbw bookies playing reed instruments
Posted: 12/6/07 at 3:21pm
*sniff* yep, definitely minnesoter tatters mammaries.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
Updated On: 12/6/07 at 03:21 PM
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#16bbw bookies playing reed instruments
Posted: 12/6/07 at 3:23pmI don't think the denizens of the main board know what a play is.
"You just can't win. Ever. Look at the bright side, at least you are not stuck in First Wives Club: The Musical. That would really suck. "
--Sueleen Gay
#17bbw bookies playing reed instruments
Posted: 12/6/07 at 3:34pmthis is a random sexual comment about colleen's rack.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#18bbw bookies playing reed instruments
Posted: 12/7/07 at 11:25amBUMP.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
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