play/musical
play/musical
#0play/musical
Posted: 10/8/05 at 10:56ammy dad calls shows like Wicked plays and it drives me crazy!i tell him its a musical and he says its the same thing.is he right?
#1re: play/musical
Posted: 10/8/05 at 10:58amIt bugs me as well when people call plays musicals and vice versa.
-Was that a fart?
-My fault, I fear.
Updated On: 10/8/05 at 10:58 AM
-My fault, I fear.
#2re: play/musical
Posted: 10/8/05 at 11:01am
do either of you have REAL life issues that you deal with?
sorry this seems SO trivial
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#3re: play/musical
Posted: 10/8/05 at 11:01am
I KNEW IT! i hate it and then he calls rehersals-practice and auditions-tri outs and intermition-1/2 time!
UGG!
#4re: play/musical
Posted: 10/8/05 at 11:03am
Liam, honey. Relax. It's going to be okay.
(The half-time one always makes me laugh, though.)
#5re: play/musical
Posted: 10/8/05 at 11:05amfunny?im inbarised to be in theaters with people that dont know what they are talking about
#6re: play/musical
Posted: 10/8/05 at 11:15am
A musical is a play with music. It is a script PLAYED out on a stage. It is not incorrect to call a musical a play.
And rehearsals ARE practice. And auditions ARE try-outs. The half-time thing is just funny, though.
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Updated On: 10/8/05 at 11:15 AM
#7re: play/musical
Posted: 10/8/05 at 11:19amthank you rath, the voice of reason prevails! A musical is always a play, but a play is not always a musical!
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#9re: play/musical
Posted: 10/8/05 at 11:24am
It's okay.
So does this mean that we should call half-time intermission? 
#10re: play/musical
Posted: 10/8/05 at 11:26amThat would be funny.
-Was that a fart?
-My fault, I fear.
-My fault, I fear.
#11re: play/musical
Posted: 10/8/05 at 11:27amIt's something I'd do just to make my brother upset.
#12re: play/musical
Posted: 10/8/05 at 11:27am
The last time I was watching a Football game I did that, the sports people find that as funny as theatre people find the reverse.
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
#14re: play/musical
Posted: 10/8/05 at 11:33am
I didn't so it on purpose.
Once again though, since the intermission is halfway (approximately) through the play, if there are only two acts then half time would not be unacceptable.
Just as Half time is in fact an intermission.
Hockey has intermission, twice, since they have 3 "acts"
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
#15re: play/musical
Posted: 10/8/05 at 11:43amas a theatre geek, i am ashamed to say that i in fact HAVE called an intermission a 'half-time' whooopsy..
"talent is wanting something hard enough to work for it" - my drama teacher :)
Dollypop
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#16re: play/musical
Posted: 10/8/05 at 12:16pmLiam, instead of fretting over trivial matters, why don't you focus your attention on doing something about your spelling?
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#18re: play/musical
Posted: 10/8/05 at 12:24pmLiam...do what I do..when you go to a sports game just call 1/2 time INTERMISSION....see how that pisses sports fans off,
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#19re: play/musical
Posted: 10/8/05 at 12:25pmWhen I was playing softball this Fall for the first time EVER (me not so much into sports) I kept on calling practice 'rehearsal.' Not on purpose...
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Dollypop
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#20re: play/musical
Posted: 10/8/05 at 2:47pm
Liam, if I were to bite anything it would be a nice piece of sirloin. Why would I want to put anything as wearisome as you between my teeth?
You're a mere pipsqueak who should do something about his spelling problem.
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Updated On: 10/8/05 at 02:47 PM
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#21re: play/musical
Posted: 10/8/05 at 4:25pmlol my dad calls intermission half time as well and i always laugh
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#22re: play/musical
Posted: 10/8/05 at 5:54pm
What really bugs me is when high school kids say "I have to go to play practice." I usually respond, "Does that interfere with football rehearsal?"
Seriously - as to the play/musical thing, we have a "theatre critic" at the local newspaper who will write a review of a musical, call it a "play", and never mention the fact that there is singing, dancing, or an orchestra!
#23re: play/musical
Posted: 10/8/05 at 5:59pm
It doesn't matter, a musical is a play, but with music. So it can be called that.
It's like calling an apple a fruit... kind of? lol.
I do understand where you are coming from, but definetly not a huge deal.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#24re: play/musical
Posted: 10/8/05 at 7:12pmWho's calling whom "a fruit"?
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