Adding Machine
Adding Machine
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#1Adding Machine
Posted: 7/6/08 at 6:00pm
Twilight Zone: the Musical is more like it.
A fascinating, confounding work that really gives one hope for the future of musical theater. Striking performances and impeccably dark production design. Score isn't entirely hummable, but very memorable, and there are a few melodies that I'm still humming. A bit slow during the dialogue scenes, but a lot of the sarcastic jokes made up for it.
I had no idea what was going on half the time, which made the whole damn thing even more memorable.
Thanks to Jay and Frogs and Foster and everyone else for the recommendation. Glad I let your raves convince me to head to Minetta Ln.
Updated On: 7/6/08 at 06:00 PM
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#2re: Adding Machine
Posted: 7/6/08 at 7:00pmEveryone should run downtown and see this amazing show.
#2re: Adding Machine
Posted: 7/6/08 at 7:02pm
I must say, this show sounds RIGHT up my alley. I'd totally go see it if I could get to New York in the next few days. 
At least there's a cast recording. ^_^
shesamarshmallow
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/06
#3re: Adding Machine
Posted: 7/6/08 at 7:07pmTwilight Zone: The Musical is the PERFECT description.
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#4re: Adding Machine
Posted: 7/6/08 at 7:17pm
Yankeefan- I am glad that you like it. Its really an incredible show and everyone ( I think) should experience this 'expressionist' play/musical and think outside the box!
J*
Updated On: 7/6/08 at 07:17 PM
#5re: Adding Machine
Posted: 7/6/08 at 7:23pmLoved the show too Yankeefan. Just a side note, but I saw Amy Warren at Passing Strange on the fourth and she really seemed to be enjoying herself!
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
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#6re: Adding Machine
Posted: 7/6/08 at 7:24pm
I was curious to see what you would think of it, Yankee. Glad you liked it.
Get the recording!! ; )
The Overture is part of the show, people. Please shut your pie hole.
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#7re: Adding Machine
Posted: 7/6/08 at 7:43pmTwilight Zone The Musical doesn't begin to do the show justice. ADDING MACHINE is a fascinating and complex work, easily the best new musical of the year.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
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#8re: Adding Machine
Posted: 7/6/08 at 7:44pmAlmost as good as PASSING STRANGE.
"I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. I feel the actors are being put through a kind of nightmarish labor. They're like animals being forced to pull heavy carts of vegetables at incredible speeds." --- Wallace Shawn
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#9re: Adding Machine
Posted: 7/6/08 at 7:45pm
Amy Warren is still giving the greatest musical performance in NYC right now, a true Goddess.
I Love Her.
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#10re: Adding Machine
Posted: 7/6/08 at 7:49pm
Of course, nothing can approach the majesty of PASSING STRANGE, the highest accomplishment in the history of human endeavor. PASSING STRANGE stands outside time, like the works of Mozart and Shakespeare and the Bible itself.
When the production is filmed, there will be no excuse for not having experienced the genius of Stew, and his boundary annihilating masterwork PASSING STRANGE. All who decline the experience only contribute to their own destruction.
Deny the genius of Stew and his cancer-curing masterwork at your peril.
HAIL STEW!!!
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
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#11re: Adding Machine
Posted: 7/6/08 at 7:50pm
I seen PASSING STRANGE 12 times now.
I love it sooo much. 
"I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. I feel the actors are being put through a kind of nightmarish labor. They're like animals being forced to pull heavy carts of vegetables at incredible speeds." --- Wallace Shawn
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#12re: Adding Machine
Posted: 7/6/08 at 7:52pm
PSLove, share with us all how the genius of STEW has changed your life. Sinuses cleared? Broken bones healed? Eyesight restored?
HAIL STEW!!!
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
#13re: Adding Machine
Posted: 7/6/08 at 10:24pm
Roscoe. Why you so mad at the world.
What happened to you when you were child.
there is nothing wrong with PASSING STRANGE. i love it sooo much
"I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. I feel the actors are being put through a kind of nightmarish labor. They're like animals being forced to pull heavy carts of vegetables at incredible speeds." --- Wallace Shawn
coolkid11776
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/06
#14re: Adding Machine
Posted: 7/6/08 at 10:28pmIs there a way to hear the OBCR online? I don't know anything about the show but hear from people thats its good. IDK If I should see it b4 it closes. Wasn't it supposed to run till August 31st?
Rent
The best show on Broadway. I was at the closing. BEST night of my Life.
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CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#15re: Adding Machine
Posted: 7/6/08 at 10:40pm
coolkid, mow some lawns this Summer and buy the CD.
It will not show you the beauty of the entire production, but it captures the unusal, beautiful score and some of the magic.
#16re: Adding Machine
Posted: 7/6/08 at 10:47pm
Respected the production but wasn't feeling it on the whole. The afterlife scenes were surreal to the point of obscure. Enjoyed the ending/anagnorisis, though. Score was complex but a bit too amelodic for my tastes. Not saying it was bad or I didn't get the score, just that the intentional clashes were a bit too common for my tastes.
Good off Broadway production, but I certainly don't have the overwhelming praise for it that others have, and certainly don't see it having a life outside of this production. I doubt it'll appeal to any mainstream or unsophisticated audience, leaving downtown off-Bway as its only medium.
coolkid11776
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/06
#17re: Adding Machine
Posted: 7/6/08 at 10:51pmI don't have time to buy the CD. Is there a way I could get a feel for the show online b4 I go to NYC
Rent
The best show on Broadway. I was at the closing. BEST night of my Life.
April 29th 1996-September 7th 2008
12 years of love
"No Day But Today"
#18re: Adding Machine
Posted: 7/6/08 at 11:05pm
how long does it take to buy CD.
2 seconds.
"I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. I feel the actors are being put through a kind of nightmarish labor. They're like animals being forced to pull heavy carts of vegetables at incredible speeds." --- Wallace Shawn
#19re: Adding Machine
Posted: 7/7/08 at 12:41am
I kind of agree. I was a little let down. The cast was EXCELLENT. Sometimes there were great musical moments and other times I sat there wondering why the character was singing at that particular moment. I need to give special props to Joe Farrell who had some really magical moments of acting when he first introduces himself to the main character and tells his story, though the entire cast was excellent so I feel strange pointing him out specifically. I mean everyone had their moments and I never wondered for a moment why a certain actor was cast in the show(as frequently happens to me in Broadway shows.) The book scenes sometimes fell flat, but I left satisfied if not thrilled by what I saw. I would enjoy hearing more from the composers and I'm hoping that all the actors continue working in the NY area so I can catch them in anything and everything. I'd recommend checking it out before it closes. Worth the price of a ticket.
Show itself- B
Performances of this ensemble: A+
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shesamarshmallow
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/06
#21re: Adding Machine
Posted: 7/7/08 at 12:22pmcoolkid, it's not your type of show.
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Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#23re: Adding Machine
Posted: 7/9/08 at 10:06am
I saw ADDING MACHINE again last night, and it really holds up to a repeat visit. The show is so dense and that score is so intricate that it can't be appreciated on a single viewing/hearing. The cast is beyond reproach: especially Cyrilla Baer's Mrs. Zero, Joel Hatch's Mr. Zero, Joe Farrell's Shrdlu, and most particularly Amy Warren's devastating Daisy.
I'm sorry that I won't be able to see this production again.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
#24re: Adding Machine
Posted: 7/9/08 at 10:57amWeeks later, I can't get that scene/number with adding the numbers out of my head. It was very effective. You keep thinking enough is enough, but that of course is the point of it. It works!
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