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[mabel]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 2:39pm

I honestly don't care. Like I said, I want to see both The Apple Tree and The Vertical Hour at some point. While I've seen GG, I wouldn't mind seeing it again (though to complicate things, I'd say if it were just me, I'd probably rather see the other two before seeing GG again, but if you can only see one, GG would probably be the one to see). I'd say we could just play it by ear and see what it looks like for tix the day of, but who knows what will be available. I've never been around this close to Christmas, so I don't know what the odds are going to be of having rush seats up for grabs.

I hate to do this to you, but it's really your call. After all, it's your vacation, Tiff. I'm here all the time, so I'm fine with what you choose (especially from these three).

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 8:24pm

You're evil! Okay, well for "Vertical Hour", our only hope is maybe getting SRO, right? What time do we have to be in line to get 'em? Has the show been selling out so far (or close to it?)?

Otherwise, if it was between The Apple Tree and GG...okay, the performances in TAT are the big selling point, but they say the sets are really quite cheap. On the other hand, GG is getting rave reviews too.

What are TAT rush policies?

[mabel]

Posted: 12/4/06 at 10:53pm

Our only bet for The Vertical Hour is SRO. They don't really sell any other cheaper seats (I think either the entire house is $95, or at most they have some mezz seats for $75 or something). I think during previews it was playing to pretty full houses (in the mid-90s+) but I don't know how the iffy reviews will affect that. I'm definitely still curious to see it, but it didn't get great reviews. I think I read that someone got SRO last week and they got there a couple hours before the show and at the show, there were still empty SRO spots. I don't know if that'll still be true for a holiday weekend.

I think the general rule for Roundabout shows is General Rush goes on sale for $21 when the box office opens (they're usually in the mezz somewhere...though I think I read somewhere that TAT's rush are $27...whatever). Then they usually have 1/2 off tix for students an hour before the show.

Then, GG has rush for $25, I think, but it's subject to availablility. If you wanted to risk them having it (I think they were in the 70s last week), we could do that, or I could get the balcony seats for $36 in advance. They're definitely not the greatest, but weren't nearly as bad as they were when I sat there for Doubt.

I think that's all the info I can muster up for now!

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 12/6/06 at 2:58am

I JUST DELETED MY WHOLE STUPID LONG POST! Goddamn laptop and the heat-sensor non-mouse which just highlighted everything when my palm grazed the square surface and then deleted freakin' everything! FV$K!!!

What I was saying that I guess TVH is out since we won't know until the day-of whether SRO is available and it might not be a show we really want to stand through.

Between TAT and GG, I could go either way. I really want to see Ebersole's performance, especially since it's being hyped as a Tony shoo-in, but I'm also interested in TAT's plot and the actors, and it's a limited engagement! (It also has $37 balcony seats and I think Studio 54 is pretty intimate right? So the view is pretty good?)

All in all, I could go eitherway, so how about we figure out which show has better balcony seats and go with that one?

[mabel]

Posted: 12/6/06 at 7:47am

I've sat in the back of Studio 54 many times. It's definitely a better view than the Kerr. Like I said, it was 100 times better than it was when I sat there for Doubt, but honestly not as good as Studio 54 (where it's far away, but not nearly as high up...the thing with the Kerr is that you feel like you're hanging from the ceiling over the 5th row of the orchestra. It's not as horrible from the first row of the balcony, but I don't think I'd ever go again from the 2nd row...once the person in front of you leans, and they need to, you really can't see much of anything).

I'd say neither is ever really going to tour (certainly TAT won't tour with that cast, and Ebersol is kind of a must-see). It's a tough call...which is why I'm leaving it up to you!

If they both have $36-ish seats that you can buy in advance, I can pick them up when I'm in the city on Friday. So, flip a coin or whatever by noon EST on Friday, when I leave!

Edited, because GG is at the Kerr, not the O'Neill!

Updated On: 12/6/06 at 07:47 AM

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 12/10/06 at 12:41am

BUMP because it's the first time I've been able to visit this thread in awhile! I understand your dilemna between The Apple Tree and Grey Gardens. I really enjoyed Grey Gardens, but The Apple Tree looks really good as well (it's got a great cast). Tough call! Are we still thinking of Dreamgirls afterwards?

[mabel]

Posted: 12/10/06 at 8:24am

Yeah, it was a tough choice between GG and TAT. Since I've been so out of the show-going loop lately, I kind of wanted to see something new, but I watched the GG documentary on the Sundance channel last week, so that really made me want to go back. Decisions, decisions. Anyway, we opted for TAT, because I found a discount for $27 rear mezz seats. With all else basically even, I figured that was good enough to be the deciding factor!

And I'm still not sure what's up with Dreamgirls. Maybe you know some more details, because I honestly haven't been following it's release schedule very closely. Is it going to be playing in regular theaters in NYC on 12/22 or is that still the roadshow? I kind of thought it was opening in regular theaters in NY 12/15, but I could be wrong. I guess I'll have a better idea Tuesday or Wednesday when the movie schedules for new openings on Friday come out. If it's only the roadshow, a) would we really want to spend $25 and b) would they even have a screening as late as we'd need anyway?

[mabel]

Posted: 12/10/06 at 8:28am

The final Vertigo setlist:

Main Set:
City of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Elevation
I Will Follow
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - In A Little While
Beautiful Day - Sgt. Pepper's - Blackbird
Angel of Harlem
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
The First Time
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
Love and Peace or Else
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet the Blue Sky
Miss Sarajevo
Pride
Where the Streets Have No Name
One

Encore(s):
The Fly
Mysterious Ways
With or Without You
Window In the Skies
The Saints Are Coming (w/Billie Joe Armstrong)
Rockin' In the Free World (w/Pearl Jam)
All I Want Is You

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 12/10/06 at 3:26pm

ELLIE!!!!!!!!!!!! If you're reading this, check out the final Vertigo encore!

Am I the only one who scrolls straight to the encore list first before checking out the normal set?

Anyway, yeah, Claire, if you know anything about a limited but still wider release on 12/15, that would be great! Plum is probably going to be catching TAT with Nic and me at 8pm, which is the only time the roadshow is playing anyway, so we're pretty much banking on a 10:45/11pm (or later) showing of Dreamgirls. If worst comes to worst, the four of us will just meet up and shoot the sh!t somewhere! (Nic, are you up for trudging to Serendipity 3 via Sullivan Theatre and Columbus Circle? Hee...)

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 12/10/06 at 9:56pm

No, I don't know when/where Dreamgirls will be playing yet; I'm not sure if the 12/15 limited release is just for the roadshow or not. I guess we have to wait until that week to figure it out. I wouldn't mind just hanging out instead of seeing a movie, though.

Did y'all consider seeing Spring Awakening? I highly recommend seeing it sometime.

[Type_A_Tiff]

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

Yeah, I'm happy with hanging out! Where should we go? Nic and I are probably hitting burger joint [sic] at Parker Meridien for dinner (and Plum might be coming too), and then we can all meet up around 10:45 after our shows, and figure out what we're doing. I'm game for chilling somewhere.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 12:03am

finals. FINALS. and i'm friiiiccckkkiiin out

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 12:17am

I'm right there with you, CQ.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

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

#1 pointless class: Aquatic Science is tomorrow. A LOVELY 200 multiple choice, 20 short answer, 1 essay exam.

i'm oh-so-thrilled

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 1:13am

You make me not miss school!

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 1:19am

I have that affect on people.

Daniel Craig is way to attractive for life. just thought i'd throw that our there

[mabel]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 5:24pm

Hey all! Assuming Dreamgirls isn't going to have a late night showing (as it's looking at the mo), I'm totally fine for just hanging out. It's probably for the best that Dreamgirls isn't an option. Why spend the couple hours we have to do some quality bonding in a(nother) dark theater anyway?!

Tiff, you know I'm always up for wayward late night roaming! It makes the little journey to get there as enjoyable as the destination itself! Though should it be pissing rain and freezing, I may change my tune (I can potentially put up with one or the other, but both is another story entirely!).

Nothing much else new. I looked at an apartment yesterday in Brooklyn that seemed decent in the pictures, but ended up being in a sketchy area and was more on the run down side than I'd expected. It just seemed worth checking out, because the price was right for the size of the rooms and it was going to be vacated June 1st, which could make future apartment hunting a moot point. Definitely didn't seem worth it though.

What else? I saw Little Children last week and Volver Friday night. LC was good, but not as good as I'd expected. I really hated the voiceover, and I think if they'd left that out, I'd have liked it a hell of a lot more. I'm sorry, but I don't need some Voice of God narrator telling me what Jennifer Connoley is thinking. Good actors and a good director should take care of all that for you! Plus, there were a couple kind of ridiculous things that seemed like they could have easily been fixed, so I (at least) wouldn't have been sitting there going "WTF?! I don't believe that for a minute!"

Volver was quite good as well, other than some poor dubbing on a Penolope Cruz lip-synched song. I know that should be a minor quibble, and to an extent it is, but it was an extremely powerful moment in the film, which lost a bit of it's punch because that was so distracting. Cruz was quite good, but my money's still on Mirren. Winslet was very strong in LC as well, and I've still yet to see Notes on a Scandal to see how Dench and Blanchet fare. A pretty strong year for female performances, I'd say.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 12/12/06 at 1:40am

Ick, I'm also not a fan of too much narration (with the exception of "Sex And The City" but that was different). I agree with a local film critic who writes that she thinks there's something weak in the screenplay if a writer has to rely on voice-overs to tell a story that should be evident on screen through the acting and, well, the darn movie!

Was Volver all it was hyped up to be? I haven't seen it yet and it was the one I most wanted to see at the Van Intl Film Fest in October.

I'm game for late night carousing! Claire?

[mabel]

Posted: 12/12/06 at 9:53am

Yeah, I'm not a fan of unnecessary voiceovers. There tends to be a fine line. It didn't bother me on S&tC, and I'm sure there are movies where it works, but this seemed like a big, glaring example of the worst of voiceover narration. Just so unnecessary. Like you said, a good screenplay should take care of that, along with solid actors and perhaps the score to kind of highlight a character's thought process (I think this would have been especially helpful in the scene I was thinking of in LC with Connely). It's so distracting!

Volver was good. I don't necessarily know if it lives up to all the hype. I'm embarrassed to admit that it's the first Almadovar film I've seen! I actually own copies of Bad Education and Talk to Her, but I haven't watched them. So, I can't say how it compares to the rest of his body of work.

Going to see Damien Rice tonight and couldn't resist the temptation to look at last night's setlist in Boston. Fool! It had 4 out of the 6 "non-given" songs that I wanted to hear. Figures. It'll be great anyway, but COME ON! Amie, Grey Room, The Professor, and Coconut Skins all in one show?!? Couldn't wait one more and toss in Delicate and Cheers Darlin' could ya?!

[mabel]

Posted: 12/13/06 at 1:59am

Bump for a bit of a review of my Damien Rice concert.

Here's the setlist from Eskimo Friends. I had to check there, because I wasn't familiar with Insane. Bad fan! I need to get more up to date on my boots (only have one from '03)!!

One Set:
Woman Like a Man^, Insane^^, I Remember, 9 Crimes, Elephant > Blower's Daughter, Cannonball$, The Professor, The Animals Were Gone, Coconut Skins$$, Amie, Eskimo, Volcano

Encore:
Rootless Tree, Me My Yoke & I, Accidental Babies

Claire, I think I called you during Coconut Skins. Sorry it didn't really come out, but I guess it's good thing I didn't call for any other songs!

It was a great show, but I got stuck next to the most obnoxious guy EVER! From the top of the show, about every other song he kept saying to his girlfriend/wife (he was probably in his 30s) "SING F*CK YOU!!!" (er...aka Rootless Tree). I wish Damien had just played that early on somewhere, but of course, he had to save it till the 2nd to last song, so that made all the lulls between songs...interesting. When he did finally play it, the guy went berzerk screaming "F*CK you" over and over. Classy! I think he must have set some sort of record for F-Bombs in a single evening between his "Rootless Tree" wishful thinking and the fact that he freaked out whenever anyone screamed or cheered in the middle of a song, which frankly happened a lot (yet, he had no problem shrilly humming along). Man, I sure can pick 'em!

I'll type more later, but I've got to say, the absolute highlight of the evening was Cannonball. Solo acoustic, at the front of the stage, without amplification. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!! Worth the price of the ticket for that alone!

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 12/13/06 at 12:21pm

I'm glad you had fun despite your awful neighbor! Sorry about that! The setlist looks pretty good. I love Cannonball live. I can send you Insane if you want. I'm not crazy about it, but it seems to be a fan favorite.

[mabel]

Posted: 12/13/06 at 12:25pm

What timing...I just finished typing up my piecemeal review...Yeah, I wasn't crazy about Insane, but there are always going to be at least one or two "eh" songs in any concert!

OK, so let’s see…some highlights other than the Crazy next to me and the glorious version of Cannonball.

-I was quite shocked to see scalpers trying to hawk 2nd row orchestra seats for $25 before the opening act even went on. If I were still living in the city, I’d totally swing by tonight and see if I could get something. Part of me was kind of pissed I paid $50 for my Loge seat (which really wasn’t very bad at all), but I’d also rather not buy from a scalper….But $25!!!!

-Loved this woman at the merch table (which was really slim pickings; just $30 shirts and his CDs). “Which shirt should I get? How about the one with the backwards P?” The backwards P?!?! Or, maybe it’s a 9! Haha!

-SHOCKED that I got 3 of my 6 “want-to-hear” songs…though along with that, I’d say my one “disappointment” is that Delicate wasn’t one of them (mainly because I’d psyched myself up to hear it, thinking that’d probably be the only one on my list that I’d hear, since it hadn’t been played the past couple concerts). Oh well, at least I got Amie, The Professor, and Coconut Skins!

-Glad the people who tried to get a clap-along to Coconut Skins got shut down after a few weak claps. I guess I’m more of a toe-tapper than a clapper. Unless it’s instigated by the crew on stage, my hands shall not meet unless it’s after a song! So there! (I’m such a kill-joy…I’m the person that’ll kill The Wave)

-Definitely can do without MMY&I live. I actually don’t mind it on the album, but last night and on my boot…it treads that fine line between really rocking out and kind of being a bit of a mess, and for me, it kind of teeters over to the latter side.

-There was some little girl near me, and during The Professer (during La Fille) she screamed along “le petit dodo,” and loudly sang along with the “la la la la” bit, which was kind of cute!

-Loved having Elephant transition directly into Blower’s Daughter, which I don’t think he’d really done at other shows (could be wrong though), and I thought he was going to do the same thing with Volcano and Rootless Tree, which I think would have worked really well, but he just had a really long outro to Volcano.

I was surprised that even though the show clocked in at a full 2 hours, there were only 16 songs, where most have had 18 (especially since a lot of the songs were pretty “standard” versions, not having big, long outros that might push them to 8-10 minutes…especially Blower’s Daughter, I Remember, and even Amie’s wasn’t all that long)…though he did tell some rambling “stories” that didn’t really go anywhere. A couple of different times when he was really meandering around, some people up in the loge screamed out “just sing something!” I generally got the gist of it, but there was some significant nonsensical rambling, peppered with a few tidbits of info.

And I must say, that to a certain extent, I agree with this review of the Boston show.
Touring in support of his sophomore release, “9,” Rice took as much time fiddling with loops, wah-wah pedals and distortion effects as he did finding the emotional core of his songs. The sold-out crowd may have screamed allegiance at every turn, but it was obvious more than a few fans wanted less edgy posturing and more of the Rice they thought they knew.
I think there were a few bits where he went a little overboard with his little squak-box. I know that’s what he does live, and (for the most part) I think it adds a nice little kick. Though, there were a few points where I was thinking “take it easy there Skippy!” Plus, it grew increasingly tiresome, because every time he kicked the pedal the jackass next to me would go off on an expletive-laden tirade about it. Seriously, I’ve been known to sprinkle (more than) a few choice words in my everyday vocab, but this was ridiculous! If it wasn’t sold out, I think I would have just moved! And if he didn’t seem so belligerent (and if I’d had someone else with me fore moral support) I may have said something. No, I wouldn’t. I’ve been scarred for life, after getting caught (red handed, if you will) flipping off the epileptic ostrich. *sigh*

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 12/13/06 at 12:34pm

Haha. You do manage to find the worst seat buddies. It really is crazy that scalpers were selling great seats for $25! I would have thought that they could get a lot more money than that. That's SO funny about the woman at the merch table. If you go to a band's show, wouldn't you at least know the name of their most recent album? Or be able to recognize the number 9??? Amie and Coconut Skins are two of my faves, it's great that you got to hear those. Let me know if you find a boot of this show, I'd like to hear it. And check your email.

[mabel]

Posted: 12/13/06 at 1:09pm

Or be able to recognize the number 9???

OK, I seriously almost spit out my lunch!

Hopefully he'll do a more full-fledged tour in the summer or something and we'll be able to catch him...I'm due to have a show without nutty neighbors, so that'd be an added bonus! They certainly do make for a more interesting show. Not necessarily for the better, but...

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 12/13/06 at 9:27pm

Yeah, I definitely hope he'll be touring the U.S. this summer. That would be fabulous. I can't wait to live in NYC so I can go to more concerts!
You may have seen this already, but someone at eskimofriends posted some videos from last night on his blog. Here's a link:
http://ckslife.blogspot.com/