The Official Raúl E. Esparza "Spread the Love" Thread, Part 3- Page 37

[misschung]

Posted: 6/21/07 at 10:04pm

I thought you were back early. Did a lot of people leave?

I wonder what's up. They should promise to give you those same seats for tomorrow night or something

Updated On: 6/21/07 at 10:04 PM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 6/21/07 at 10:10pm

The will call line and the refund line kind of bled together, but it looked like a pretty large number of people were backing out when they heard. Maggie Gyllenhaal was there! It was exciting, I never see famous people.

I wish you could literally switch your tickets for another night, but they just give you your money back.

[Katecab99]

Posted: 6/21/07 at 10:41pm

wow, that's suprising. you think with so few shows left, none of them would want to miss a single opportunity to perform - i hope everything's alright!

in regard to the rush on the final day, i've heard from people at the box office:

"yes,of course we'll have rush, we have it everyday"

and

"i'm assuming so, but i'm not sure"

and the most current...

"it's up to the producers".

SO...no one really has any idea.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 6/21/07 at 10:51pm

I can ask tomorrow, if that would make anyone feel better.

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 6/21/07 at 11:26pm

Uh oh, I hope Raul's not sick and that he comes back soon!

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 12:13am

So he missed a show for the first time in months. I don't see why there's a crisis over him taking a day off; people take a day off work all the time. It's not as though he had a perfect attendance record that he's now besmirched. Who knows, maybe he's taking that "I lost the Tony and I want to sit around my house in pajamas eating ice cream" day he couldn't take last week for appearance sake. Or finally watch the Sopranos finale on Tivo.

Updated On: 6/22/07 at 12:13 AM

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 6:57am

"I lost the Tony and I want to sit around my house in pajamas eating ice cream"

That probably shouldn't have made me laugh, but it did.

I'm sure he's fine, stop worrying.

[misschung]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:22am

That just made me think of The Normal Heart, hehe

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:39am

Awww. That scene.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 1:10pm

Hee, about the sugar? "All the rest is just to stay alive."

I'm trying to figure out when to go in place of yesterday's performance. Maybe Sunday. I need someone to go with meee.

Updated On: 6/22/07 at 01:10 PM

[misschung]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 1:26pm

Yeah, I love that! "At the rate I'm going no one in this city is going to be talking to me in about three weeks..."

lol

I think I'm going on Sunday now - I'll just be late for the graduation party. They can deal

Updated On: 6/22/07 at 01:26 PM

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 1:34pm

I'll go! *runs*

Bleh, actually I have to fill out more job applications this weekend. I'd like to get one before mid-July so I can justify going up there. And to get the proverbial monkey (aka Mom and Dad) off my back.

Sign you're a geek: I watched Sicko the other night and they went to Cuba to get medical help for 9/11 relief workers who had been denied care by their insurance companies (really sad story). But they talked to Che Guevara's daughter about socialized medicine and her opinion of the US government. It kind of reminded me of Evita, with "Che Guevara" commenting on the deficiencies and corruption of the Argentine government. So I listened to Evita.

Updated On: 6/22/07 at 01:34 PM

[misschung]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 1:45pm

I can't wait to see Sicko. That is a film that really needed to be made. I'm curious to hear what she said about the US government - he gets the best interviews in his films. I'll bet Bin Laden never has to worry about canceled insurance. Anyway

I hear you, skittles. I am actually partly happy that I am working all day and night every day next week only because it means I can replenish my ever diminishing bank account.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 2:04pm

Heh, ironically, that's why they went to Cuba in the first place. They showed news clips of the White House talking about the amazing medical facilities available to the Al Qaeda prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, so they took the 9/11 rescue workers down there for treatment. Needless to say, they didn't get in. So they went to a Cuban hospital and got all the necessary tests and treatments done for free. One woman needed these $120 inhalers that were sold at the local pharmacy for the equivalent of 5 cents. Even Cuba (which he sarcastically referred to as the third world country where Lucifer [Castro] lives) has a better life expectancy than America.

It's actually done rather well. He shows all the various levels of corruption within the US health care system, where basically they'll do anything within their power to not have to dole out the services you've been paying for. Then he goes to Canada, the UK and France and shows how socialized medicine *actually* works in comparison. Considering all the Republican bullsh*t that universal health care is the devil and will reincarnate Stalin himself, the difference was absolutely astonishing. We're the only Western industrialized nation that *doesn't* have universal health care and yet we're invading other countries and telling them *their* government system is archaic and oppressive? Yeah, that makes so much sense.
Scroll down to watch it online (legally)

Updated On: 6/22/07 at 02:04 PM

[Ariella]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 2:33pm

Thanks for linking, skittles - I've been meaning to see Sicko (but suddenly I seem to have no time). The hypocrisy of U.S. policies, healthcare and otherwise, is absolutely ridiculous and it's hardly surprising that the country is turning into a pariah.

My school did Evita this year, and my Cuban Spanish teacher took major offense that Lloyd Webber thought Guevara fit to serve as Eva Peron's conscience/counterpoint. It's interesting how the perspective changes with different experience, but you're right - some of that interview was oddly reminiscent of the fictionalized Che's role in Evita.
Updated On: 6/22/07 at 02:33 PM

[misschung]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 2:40pm

thanks for the link! I dont know if I should watch it now or wait to see it in the theater..

But yeah, its also interesting how much the perspectives on Che vary, especially within the Cuban community.

[Ariella]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 3:33pm

I guess it depended on whether or not you agreed with his ideology. It was similar to the Bush administration now ("you're either with us or you're against us"), and Che was known to enact harsh reprisals against his opponents. Either he's the revolutionary icon or the murderer. But I think my teacher was mostly annoyed by all the kids wandering around in the shirts.

Didn't Raul say somewhere in a Chatterbox interview that one of his relatives (an engineer) worked with Guevara in Cuba?

[misschung]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 4:43pm

Oh, I dont know - I'd love to hear that interview though. And yes, I mean almost every figure like that either has a huge following for or against. But I agree that those tee shirts are annoying.

If they ever have Bush tee shirts like that in another ten years I will cry

[Ariella]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 4:48pm

Heh, the shirts are a joke because Guevara himself was Marxist/socialist, yet people have built this big capitalist industry on his face.

I got tickets to Company for a week from today.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 5:08pm

Ariella, I think he mentioned it in the Chatterbox, too, but he talks about it in my favorite interview with him.

When he was cast as Che Guevara in the 20th-anniversary national tour, his decidedly anti-communist mother said, "Over my dead body!" His exile grandfather, who had supported the revolution and joined the Castro government before becoming disillusioned, was even more pungent. "I knew that son of a bitch," he told his grandson, "and he didn't sing and dance!"

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 5:08pm

I got my ticket for closing, front mezzanine A12.

For those of you who weren't sure about it, as long as the performance isn't sold out, there will be rush tickets for the closing.

[jenna2]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 5:32pm

The new ActorQuest is up. I'm going to miss reading those every week. This one has an adorable picture of Raúl looking very tuckered out.

I wonder how the last show has been selling. Has anyone heard?

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 5:35pm

I had a geography professor that was a Marxist. He didn't even want to make us buy his own book, so he made one of those photocopied bound books along with all our other readings for the semester. He also complained about his editors wanting to reissue his book, because all he would do would be to make a few minor updates, then charge people full price for maybe a few altered calculations and a new forward. He was actually one of the best professors I ever had. Moral of the story: not every socialist is Castro.

Didn't Raul say somewhere in a Chatterbox interview that one of his relatives (an engineer) worked with Guevara in Cuba?
His grandfather; something about sugar. I kind of want to watch now out of curiosity.

Updated On: 6/22/07 at 05:35 PM

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 5:40pm

I wonder how the last show has been selling. Has anyone heard?

When I asked if there was anything left for that day, the woman in the box office said "a few." I guess that means it's selling nicely?

Is ActorQuest definitely going to stop after Company closes?

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 5:45pm

Wow, Kristin's column this week is fascinating! Also cool to see that picture show up.

That's really interesting, skittles. It seems still kind of taboo for someone in academia to publicly identify as a socialist.

I'm kind of surprised that after all of this time none of us has tracked down Raul's first Chatterbox. I still have to get it.