All That Chat bans posts on dress rehearsals/gypsy run throughs

[morosco]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 1:33pm

Reviews/reports of dress rehearsals/gypsy run-throughs will no longer be permitted on All That Chat. The owners of TalkinBroadway.com feel that, even in this day and age of every breath being reported within minutes on the Internet, each production deserves a performance at which they do not have to worry about being "reviewed" online - if they choose to make the performance invitation-only. So, through this new rule, we will no longer permit such reports to be made on All That Chat.


NEW POLICY ON DRESS REHEARSAL POSTS

[blaxx]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 1:55pm

Reviewed by who? John Smith from the internet? Would that really worry a producer? And it's not like the first preview isn't the night after...bizarre.

[Ourtime992]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 1:56pm

Why is it exactly that everything posted on ATC gets duplicated here? I can understand re-posting links to news and speculation, but site policies?

[ljay889]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 1:59pm

There was big drama over there last week about the invited GYPSY dress. I assume it led to this.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 2:02pm

Who knew that Arthur Laurents owned stock in ATC?

They need to wake up. Sometimes people in the audience can see problems that the artistic team can't. Not to brag, but if the artistic team of "Nick and Nora" had asked my opinion, they wouldn't have lost their investment.

[lildogs]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 2:07pm

Why do I get the feeling that had the word on GYPSY been very positive, we wouldn't be reading this new "policy?"

[Dolly_Levi]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 3:23pm

What was the GYPSY brouhaha over there? Can someone link? Or has it been removed?

[jv92]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 3:46pm

What a shame. I hope that the BWW moderators do not stoop this low. It's been like this for years. The theatre community has gotten much too gooey lately. And it's Joe Blow reviewing, not Ben Brantley. Come on!

[ljay889]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 4:27pm

The word WAS positive on GYPSY but people still flipped out about posting comments about a rehearsal.

[lildogs]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 4:29pm

Jesus...what's that old man's beef then?

Ick...that didn't sound so good.

[H.Higgins]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 5:01pm

To echo ljay,

The word on "Gypsy" WAS and IS positive, extremely positive (on ATC and Broadwayworld).

I don't normally read ATC, but when no one here had commented on the invited-dress performance or the first preview yet, someone here linked us to the ATC conversation. Most things said were positive, but there were the obvious grumbles about elements like the lamb puppet and plush Chowsie. A few posters then entered the thread explaining how unfair they thought it was to comment (period. positively or negatively) on a show that hadn't officially opened yet. So a disagreement broke out and things got catty and went off topic.

*edited for unfortunate spelling error. Updated On: 3/10/08 at 05:01 PM

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 5:04pm

If producers read half the comments people post, a LOT of shows wouldn't lose their investments.

[lildogs]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 5:09pm

"things got cady"

Huffman?

[H.Higgins]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 5:55pm

Thank you, love.

Please excuse me.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 6:01pm

The weird thing was, the big post on ATC that lead to this said NOTHING about the quality of the show, other than to mention that Laura Benanti was "incredible." Everything else in the post was just a running list of the changes that were made between City Center and now. It was most certainly not a "review." For whatever reason, people over there got their panties all up in a bunch because it broke some "tradition."

Also, as others have pointed out, the internet buzz on Gypsy has been VERY good.