Why does Michael Musto hate theater?
Why does Michael Musto hate theater?
FindingNamo
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#1Why does Michael Musto hate theater?
Posted: 2/1/12 at 12:47pm
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FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#3Why does Michael Musto hate theater?
Posted: 2/1/12 at 12:57pmI LOLed at his comment about intermissionless, expensive shows.
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#4Why does Michael Musto hate theater?
Posted: 2/1/12 at 1:01pm
Favorite line:
If Shakespeare saw most of the productions of his work today, he'd probably say: "Roland Emmerich was right. Edward de Vere actually wrote this."
"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
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#5Why does Michael Musto hate theater?
Posted: 2/1/12 at 1:03pmI think the entire article is dead on.
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
#6Why does Michael Musto hate theater?
Posted: 2/1/12 at 1:05pm
I got confused when he said he hates theater because film producers "rarely drum up the courage to use the Broadway stars for the screen versions."
Are these the same Broadway stars who'd get Tony nominations just for singing weather updates, because four out of five eligible get noms anyway?
#7Why does Michael Musto hate theater?
Posted: 2/1/12 at 1:18pmI liked it because he said, "floral clutch."
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#8Why does Michael Musto hate theater?
Posted: 2/1/12 at 1:47pmI thought it was a very good piece. Though he missed all the idiots texting in the middle.
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
#9Why does Michael Musto hate theater?
Posted: 2/1/12 at 1:51pm
Patti, Bernadette, Donna, Audra, Sutton, Jan, Kelli, Kristin, and Alice
Interesting lump o' ladies.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#10Why does Michael Musto hate theater?
Posted: 2/1/12 at 1:57pmI just don't get Michael Musto. I've tried, but I just don't get him.
#11Why does Michael Musto hate theater?
Posted: 2/1/12 at 2:10pmI really couldn't follow it. He seemed to keep switching points of view and positions.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#12Why does Michael Musto hate theater?
Posted: 2/1/12 at 2:36pm
"There has never been a Motown jukebox musical on Broadway!"
Because we all saw how pissed off Diana Ross got at Dreamgirls.
Besides she's still trying to sing those songs and she's not gonna let any second rate Broadway actress sing her songs while she's still alive.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#13Why does Michael Musto hate theater?
Posted: 2/1/12 at 2:46pmI would think Miss Ross's complaints were about the appropriation of the story of the Supremes. A jukebox musical would hypothetically use Motown songs to tell a different story.
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#14Why does Michael Musto hate theater?
Posted: 2/1/12 at 10:07pm
He changes POV as if this were the script for a "Sh*t Michael Musto Says" video.
Which wouldn't be such a bad idea, cometothinkofit.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#15Why does Michael Musto hate theater?
Posted: 2/1/12 at 10:26pm
Contradicting himself in his lists columns is kinda his thing. It really illustrates that when he he says "hate" he means "loves and sometimes hates."
Good old Musto has been saying sh*t for decades before YouTube even existed!
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#16Why does Michael Musto hate theater?
Posted: 2/1/12 at 11:15pm
...I read this as a parody of theatre fans and they things we bitch about on boards such as this.
... Am I the only one who did that...?
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#17Why does Michael Musto hate theater?
Posted: 2/1/12 at 11:34pmI didn't think he was being serious. I just don't find him funny.
#18Why does Michael Musto hate theater?
Posted: 2/2/12 at 12:31am
"It would be great to just once hear a producer say: 'We trust this musical we're reviving so much that we're not gonna tweak a word. We absolutely treasure it, and it deserves to be done exactly as is!'"
South Pacific, anyone?
#19Why does Michael Musto hate theater?
Posted: 2/2/12 at 9:50am
Or Porgy and Bess.
..sorry, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
....but the world goes 'round
Updated On: 2/2/12 at 09:50 AM
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#20Why does Michael Musto hate theater?
Posted: 2/2/12 at 10:52pm
Haters. Musto is a loving and caring person. Why,
just today he was wishing a delusional young lady well on her foot issues. Bunions, I believe. Or was is an ingrown toenail?
PEACE.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#21Why does Michael Musto hate theater?
Posted: 2/2/12 at 11:14pmI heard she got pushed down some stairs.
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
#22Why does Michael Musto hate theater?
Posted: 2/2/12 at 11:24pm
Kad- I thought the same thing, but some are and some aren't. There were too many things on there that were so personal to him for it to be a strict parody.
On a random and unimportant side note, I saw him riding his bike through Times Square yesterday afternoon after I saw a show. He looks like an eccentric college professor with his over long knit scarf nearly getting caught in the spokes.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#23Why does Michael Musto hate theater?
Posted: 2/2/12 at 11:54pm
What is he? Why is he? I mean, what's he meant to be? I really only know he exists, because of these boards. Otherwise...
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#24Why does Michael Musto hate theater?
Posted: 2/3/12 at 6:47am
"He looks like an eccentric college professor with his over long knit scarf nearly getting caught in the spokes."
Ooh, gotta watch the scarves around wheels, Isadora.
PEACE.
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