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[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 11/10/06 at 7:07pm

I was reading the plot for Drowsy and it doesn't sound too compelling but I suppose the hordes of people who've been raving about the show will prove me wrong! What sort of comedy is it? I'm keen on Vertical Hour except Winnie isn't much of a theatre person and needs constant visual or comedic stimulation (the happiest I've seen her were at Borat!, Disneyland and Wicked, if that's any indication) so I don't want to be stuck with her being tired, fidgety, rude and cranky. (She's the friend I went to NY with in 2004 who fought with me because she doesn't like walking, art, architecture, theatre, current events, sightseeing, spontaneity or clothing shopping. SO WHY is she here??)

I'll be in NY from December 20-26. I may have Friday afternoon away from Winnie so maybe we can meet up then?

(BTW, I'm also thinking of Company. I just saw it with Hugh Panaro and Kendra Kasselbaum in Seattle a couple of weeks ago though and it was a GREAT production!!)


ETA: HAPPY 1000th POST!!!

Updated On: 11/10/06 at 07:07 PM

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 11/10/06 at 9:07pm

Why do my posts keep disappearing?? I posted before Tiff, after Pat, and it's gone. But I can see it now as I scroll down (only while the posting screen is open).

Tiff, The Drowsy Chaperone is fantastic. It's about a theater fan (Bob Martin) listening to his favorite record, The Drowsy Chaperone (an old Broadway show). The show plays out onstage as he listens to it and narrates. It's a funny show about some catastrophes surrounding a wedding that is supposed to occur. It's hilarious. I highly recommend it; it was my favorite musical of last season.

I posed this question in my disappearing post: what do you all think of Window in the Skies? I really like it, but a lot of U2 fans disagree.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 11/10/06 at 9:41pm

Oh good, I'm not going crazy! I just noticed that I double-posted. I couldn't see it the first time and I thought my post got deleted right away, so I posted it again and it showed up once, and now in my REPLY window, I can see both posts!

Okay, I'm sold on Drowsy then. I read the plot and it seemed sort of meh and maybe a more a "Hello Dolly" type of production but all those awards and audience raves can't be wrong! I'll get my tickets today.

Have you seen Forbidden Broadway lately?

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 11/10/06 at 10:05pm

Nope, I haven't. I've only seen it once, and that was a couple years ago. I think Corrine is the one to ask about FB! I loved it when I did see it, though.

[mabel]

Posted: 11/10/06 at 10:21pm

Hey all! Watch out, it's bullet time!!!

1) I definitely recommend Drowsy. It's hilarious...good fun all around. I brought my godparents (who aren't theatre fans at all) when they were in NYC for graduation and they both LOVED it.

2) I'm a bad U2 fan and have yet to listen to Window in the Skies.

3) Did't really like Borat. There were a few funny moments, but I think I'm generally more of a fan of Borat in 10 minute increments a la the bits on Da Ali G Show. I also don't think it particularly benefited from all the MASSIVE hype. After all those raves, it would be hard not to be let down, I think...that wrestling scene...I don't know if I'll be able to sleep tonight!...Also hopped to Stranger than Fiction (LOVED it) and Flushed Away (very cute...love those Aardman folks, even when they sell out to CGI).

4) I haven't seen Forbidden Broadway for a while. It's always fun (and you can usually get dirt cheap seats on TKTS) but I feel like it lost a whole lot after it moved from the Stardust into a regular theatre.

ETA:
5) Good God! I was just watching The Soup and saw a clip of that guy from Bank of America singing One with new ratty lyrics (I noticed there was a blurb about it on the interference main page, but I didn't open it). YIKES!!!

Updated On: 11/10/06 at 10:21 PM

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 11/11/06 at 12:20am

My bullet responses!

1) Just bought orchestra seats to Drowsy for December 21. This and Les Mis is the first time I've spent $120 for Broadway! (Kind of nauseauting when you consider how much penny-pinching I needed to do for U2 at MSG...obscene.) Excited!

2. I haven't either.

3. I really liked it although I could see myself hating it on repeat viewings. I agree thogh - I like the bits on Da Ali G Show more too. Still, the movie is just so quotable! If you loved Stranger Than Fiction, I might see that - I'm not a Will Ferrell fan at all. Is the movie good despite/because of him?

4. Speaking of TKTS, do you guys remember off-hand what shows were available around Christmas time last year? I don't want to pay full price for "Forbidden Broadway" or "Beauty And The Beast" but I don't want to miss out either (at least for FB. I really don't want to see BATB).

5) What lyrics is this???

[mabel]

Posted: 11/11/06 at 10:17am

1) Tiff, I think you'll really like Drowsy. I saw it twice and would happily see it again at some point (need to try the lotto on that one sometime). Bob Martin is just a riot! It's silly and lots of fun, and also kind of touching at the end. Just good times.

3) I'd imagine a lot of my blase' reaction to Borat had to do with the group of people I saw it with. It was a tiny audience in a huge theater and nobody really laughed all that much (I'd imagine mostly because everyone was so spread out, you know). I think it's the type of movie that benefits from having a packed audience that's ready for raunchy silliness. It wasn't even that I don't think the crew I was with didn't find it funny (or they didn't get it or whatever) it was just such a small group in a huge space that everyone stayed really quiet...So basically, I still don't think it lived up to the massive hype, but I think I would have had a lot more fun with it if it'd been a really full, responsive audience.

Also, re: Fiction. I liked Will on SNL, but haven't been impressed at all with his recent movies. I thought he did a really good job here. Plus, Hoffman's a riot and Thompson was quite excellent as well. I'd definitely recommend catching it at some point.

4) I'm sorry I can't help you with TKTS trends. I wonder how far back you can look on TDF's site?? I generally don't buy more than one show a year there, so I haven't really followed what's generally up there. I'd say your chances for Forbidden Broadway are pretty good though (especially during the week).

5) I'll have to look up that banker singing One. So bad. I'm sure it's up on YouTube somewhere. It was something like "One branch/One bank/Our service will never tank" Bad, bad stuff!

[mabel]

Posted: 11/11/06 at 10:22am

SydneyII Setlist (I think)

City Of Blinding Lights
Vertigo / She Loves You (snippet)
Elevation / Spinning Around (snippet)
Until The End Of The World
New Year's Day
Beautiful Day / Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (snippet) / Blackbird (snippet)
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / In A Little While (snippet)
Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own / Torna A Surriento (snippet)
Love And Peace Or Else
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky / When Johnny Comes Marching Home (snippet) / The Hands That Built America (snippet)
Miss Sarajevo
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Where The Streets Have No Name
One / My Sweet Lord (snippet)

Encore(s):
Zoo Station
The Fly
With Or Without You / Never Tear Us Apart (snippet) / Love Will Tear Us Apart (snippet)
The Saints Are Coming
Desire / Not Fade Away (snippet) / Gold Digger (snippet)
Kite

Don't think I like Desire into Kite...definitely should have stuck with Angel/Kite. And they best bust out One Tree Hill in NZ or I shall be infinitely let down!

[Patronus]

Posted: 11/11/06 at 10:23am

I agree with you about Drowsy, Nic.

It's all about Bob Martin. I went to the show to see Sutton Foster and ended up being blown away by Martin. Absolutely hysterical.

Tiff, thanks for coming to LA and not even sending a PM or email. :-P

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 11/11/06 at 10:46am

Wow.
"Shoot, we don't even like "One" that much, but no song deserves this."

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 11/11/06 at 5:25pm

1. Cool! We've got pretty good seats (row L) so I'm excited! I have to admit I was a bit reluctant...the title is so dull! (But the fact that they address that on their official site makes me feel better.) Hopefully the 3 of us will be able to catch a show together.

3) If you had a boring audience, that would've totally killed the mood. I saw it in almost a full theatre and it was sort of a "Snakes On A Plane" situation where having those experiences together is more enjoyable than the movie itself.

Does Will seem like an Oscar contender? The buzz seems to be totally positive (at least about his performance) - ugh, too many movies to see now!

4) Are you up for seeing Forbidden Broadway on Friday? Claire's gonna be at Company (I thought she was going on 12/21!) but we can check it out.

5) My jaw actually dropped at that Bank of America cover. Wow. Changing the lyrics of a song (that benefits AIDS research) about world unification and turning it into an anthem for corporate competition! Just...how uncomfortable! How did that guy get so "into" the song? He was wailing like he meant it! I'm no Commie and I am something of a shopaholic, but no one should be that passionate about credit cards. No one.

Stephie Weffie darling, you know if I had an extra day there I would've loved to have met up with you and the missus! I'm hoping to go back in February or Easter and Disneyland is (thankfully) not part of the equation so I'll get you grace you with my presence soon!

Updated On: 11/11/06 at 05:25 PM

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 11/11/06 at 7:49pm

I really, really want to see Stranger Than Fiction. I don't know when I'll get to, though.

The Bank of America cover was just...I have no words. Well, here are a few. I just think it's disrespectful because of all the meaning behind the original song and everything that it stands for. At Vertigo concerts, they always began "One" with Bono's speech about ending extreme poverty and his plea to President Bush to "put mankind back on earth." And although everyone just brushes that speech off as Bono being his usual, verbiose, preaching self, it does mean something. The song represents a campaign to make poverty history. And Bank of America decides to turn it into a stupid little corporate plug about credit cards (with really bad lyrics). It just pisses me off. Maybe I'm just too sensitive and am overreacting because I'm in a bad mood, but I don't think it's funny, I think it's stupid.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 11/11/06 at 8:11pm

Totally agree with you about the Bank Of America song. Definitely in poor taste - did the singer (who I also assume was the writer) not know what the original lyrics were about??

[mabel]

Posted: 11/11/06 at 8:33pm

Yeah, I could not believe that Bank of America thing. Seriously, what was he thinking?!?!?

Tiff, re: Will. I definitely wouldn't consider him Oscar worthy. Maybe he'd be up for a Golden Globe for the Musical/Comedy category (I'd put it in that Lost in Translation, About Schmidtt vein of "comedy").

Tiff, I'm defintiely game for Forbidden Broadway. I haven't seen it for a year or so, so I'm up for seeing the newest version.

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 11/13/06 at 1:41pm

Sydney 3 Setlist (Party Girl returns!)

City of Blinding LIghts
Vertigo
Elevation
I Will Follow
New Year's Day
Beautiful Day
Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Angel of Harlem
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
Love and Peace
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky
Miss Sarajevo
Pride in the Name of Love
Where The Streets Have No Name
One

Until the End of the World
Mysterious Ways
With or Without You

The Saints Are Coming
Party Girl
Kite

[mabel]

Posted: 11/13/06 at 7:10pm

Oooh! Nice to see Party Girl back. That's always a festive way to end a show (so glad we heard it at MSGV!)...I do wish, if they feel the need to put With or Without You in there, they'd put it somewhere else so they could keep an all Achtung first encore. I really loved the first leg with Zoo Station, The Fly, and Mysterious Ways (and UTEOTW would have kicked even more ass in the third slot!).

Have you guys seen the video of Kite on the site which shan't be named? They have a video of Angel of Harlem up too. I still can't wrap my mind around the fact that they're plaing it regularly now and not once with that slew of New York dates. I was watching the ZooTV Sydney concert on VH1 Classics the other day, and re-fell in love with Angel. *sigh*

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 11/13/06 at 7:50pm

Yep, I saw those videos a couple days ago, they sounded good (video wasn't the best quality). I want to see them perform Kite live!

If you could make up your ideal setlist, what would it be? You get 22 songs, and they can be unrealistic ones that you don't ever expect to hear.

[mabel]

Posted: 11/13/06 at 8:11pm

Ok, I don't know if I'm ready to "settle" with my fantasy 22 song setlist (you big meanie, I'd push it to at least 24!)...but for now:

01. Out of Control
02. Electric Co.
03. Gloria
04. New Year’s Day
05. Pride
06. Stay
07. Fast Cars
08. Angel of Harlem
09. Electrical Storm
10. Please
11. Sunday Bloody Sunday
12. Seconds
13. Running to Stand Still
14. Streets
15. One/She’s a Mystery to Me
16. Kite

17. Zoo Station
18. The Fly
19. Until the End of the World

20. OotS
21. One Tree Hill
22. Bad/40(snippet)

I'd like to have another song or two in there from ATYCLB (In a Little While, or even Elevation...as much as I bitched about it at the beginning of Vertigo, it was always a hell of a lot of fun at the actual show). All I know is that Beautiful Day (love it, but I'm all BD'd out) and Bullet were the first of the old stalwarts to get the ax!


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Updated On: 11/13/06 at 08:11 PM

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 11/13/06 at 8:46pm

1. City of Blinding Lights
2. Sunday Bloody Sunday
3. Elevation
4. Ultraviolet
5. Zoo Station
6. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
7. Sometimes You Can't Make it on your Own
8. Streets
9. One
10. With or Without You
11. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
12. Staring at the Sun
13. Angel of Harlem
14. Grace
15. In a Little While
16. One Tree Hill
17. Running to Stand Still
18. Original of the Species
19. Stay

20. Numb
21. Bad
22. Kite

I'm not sure about the order, but these are the top songs that come to mind (I'm sure I'll think of others and want to change them, though).

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 11/16/06 at 5:39pm

Adelaide Setlist


City of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Elevation
I Will Follow
New Year's Day
Beautiful Day
Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
Angel of Harlem
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
Love and Peace
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky
Miss Sarajevo
Pride In The Name of Love
Where The Streets Have No Name
One

Zoo Station
The Fly
With or Without You

The Saints Are Coming
Desire
Kite

[mabel]

Posted: 11/16/06 at 9:46pm

Thanks, Claire. I'm starting to really have my doubts that they'll bust out One Tree Hill for NZ. I was convinced they would when they were on the S. American leg (what with Mothers of the Disappeared and all) but I have a feeling they're not feeling as frisky after the long break. We'll see. My fingers (and toes) are crossed!!!

Not much else new...I had an incredibly exhausting day. Lots of twists and turns on the job front (I'll keep you posted in PM at some point). And I checked out an apartment in Morningside that looks really promising. And if they all fall through again early next week, I'm going to be doing some serious drinking over Thanksgiving!!! Again fingers (and toes) crossed!!

But, as a little morale boost, I heard today that one of the guys at our office requested me for this new (long term...9 months) project. I really don't want to commit to it, because if I took it, I'd really have to stay that whole time (and you know then something theatre-wise would pop up!)...though it was really nice to know that they think I'm doing good enough work to want me to take on a bigger project!

How's everything going with you guys? Busy, busy, I'd imagine!

[Patronus]

Posted: 11/16/06 at 10:05pm

I'm going through nutty packing night here.

Le sigh.

Tomorrow I can FINALLY relax.

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 11/16/06 at 10:09pm

Where are you going, Pat?

Nic, my fingers and toes are crossed for you!! And that's great that you're so appreciated and valued at your job, even if you don't want to commit to that project!

I'm pretty busy finishing things up that are due soon. I can't wait until Thanksgiving (although I'll be swamped with work during the entire break).

[Patronus]

Posted: 11/16/06 at 10:12pm

I'm heading into New York.

Yeah, that's awesome that they love you, Nic! Congrats.

[mabel]

Posted: 11/16/06 at 10:21pm

Yeah, I just wish someone in New York loved me!

Pat, what's the final tally on shows that you're hitting up? Spring Awakening? Company? Grey Gardens?