Am I the only one who thinks DAMN YANKEES should NOT transfer?

[allofmylife]

Posted: 7/13/08 at 11:47am

Transfer what? This is no more than a regional theater production with a few barely recognizable names.

Oh come on, hold out for something better on Broadway.

The street deserves fully mounted productions, with full rehearsal periods. It deserves actors who can perform the roles as envisioned, not just sing the part, or in Sean's case, play the piano while singing instead.

What is this? The first round of American Idol?

The shows on Broadway should have sets, not a series of platform coverings for the orchestra.

They should have bold new choreography - of if it's going to be a Fosse revival _ GET FOSSE-CAPABLE DANCERS!!!!!

If this show is transferred to Broadway without our SCREAMING NO, we will all be complicit in the cheapening of Broadway.

WE HAVE SEEN ENOUGH CHEAP REPROS ON BROADWAY.

At $100.00 plus per ticket, we deserve better.

Updated On: 7/13/08 at 11:47 AM

[ruprecht]

Posted: 7/13/08 at 11:49am

Why are you yelling? No, a lot of people feel that way.

[wicked_beast4]

Posted: 7/13/08 at 11:56am

Here's a thought, allofmylife, Don't make a new thread for an idiotic opinion you already posted in another thread.

Updated On: 7/13/08 at 11:56 AM

[allofmylife]

Posted: 7/13/08 at 12:12pm

wicked_beast4

Here's an idea, pal



Oh, they don't allow inviso-text do they?

I'm sure you're bright enough to get my point.

I'll start any damn thread I want. Any of them will be far less idiotic than a great deal of the threads I have to endure here to get to the good stuff (and there's enough good stuff to keep some of us adults around).

Oh, and as for the caps - sorry. I was trying to disable my caplocks with a registry change WITH DISASTROUS RESULTS.

Oh, and while I'm at it, I have the guts to allow people to peruse my previous postings to determine for themselves if they are idiotic or not.

What are you afraid of?

Updated On: 7/13/08 at 12:12 PM

[broadwaybaby086]

Posted: 7/13/08 at 12:17pm

I don't have strong feelings one way or the other, but I do agree with the Fosse-capable dancers sentiment. So necessary.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 7/13/08 at 12:19pm

We can do so much better.

[Weez]

Posted: 7/13/08 at 12:23pm

I'm all for it not transferring, but then, I do have an irrational dislike of Jane Krakowski and would like her to stick to television, which I hardly watch, and keep away from Broadway, which I'm much more interested in. ^_^

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 7/13/08 at 12:25pm

I think it's a solid production of a way more than solid show. It has potential as a production and the performances will probably grow and become stronger as the show goes on, but I don't think this production is worth transferring. Then again I felt the same way about GYPSY last year and it transferred and the current production was my favorite production of the 2007-2008 season.

[BigFatBlonde]

Posted: 7/13/08 at 12:26pm

"Here's a thought, allofmylife, Don't make a new thread for an idiotic opinion you already posted in another thread."

Boy did that response rub me the wrong way... and it isn't even directed at me!

allofmylife,

I agree with you. Keep posting your thoughts. For what it is worth, I value them.

BFB

[allofmylife]

Posted: 7/13/08 at 12:28pm

Gee weez, television fanboys will thank you with a lone finger for that gift.

She annoys me as well. I don't dispute the fact that she has talent, but I had to sit through her numerous musical numbers in Ally McBeal (boy, was I the devoted BF or what) because my girlfriend loved her.

Now I DID like her in "Grand Hotel" and she was certainly interesting in "Nine" - or the sheet was, anyway - it draped and wrapped in such interesting ways....

[allofmylife]

Posted: 7/13/08 at 12:30pm

Thanks BFB.

I guess it's one of the qwirks of the internet that you can suddenly get flamed from some shadow somewhere and it leaves you sputtering and feeling helpless.

ntil you realize that most arsonists get burned lighting fires.

[MusicalComedyMan]

Posted: 7/13/08 at 12:34pm

I say bring back the book from the revival! (and bebe too)

[Weez]

Posted: 7/13/08 at 12:36pm

Television series are fine. Televisions themselves irk me. People don't often get that I make a distinction between people who enjoy certain television shows and will watch them (either on TV, after which they get up and do something else, or on DVD after the fact) and people who'll just sit down and watch television, any television, whatever's on, or worse, make their personal weekly evening schedule around what's showing on TV. When you say "television fanboy", I think very much of the latter kind of person, and I can think of far worse people to be disregarded by. ^_^

[allofmylife]

Posted: 7/13/08 at 12:46pm

The internet has spawned all sorts of power groups that had no voice before.

I think a careful investigation into people who spend all their time online flaming others would reveal a great number of 13-year-old boys or 400 pound Kevin Smiths, living in their "fortresses" in mom's basement.

I work in the film industry and Comic Con is approaching.

My friends who are film execs are girding their loins for the annual trek to San Diego to endure the fanboys - a ravenous crowd who do shape much of Hollywood's current output. The problem is, they are a very VERY tiny minority of the movie going public with a disproportionately loud voice.

You need 15,000,000 paid admissions tpo even come close to returning a film investment and the opinions of those 10,000 fanboys have to very carefully weighed to ensure that you don't end up with a film that only those 10,000 will enjoy.

Same with TV,

[BustopherPhantom]

Posted: 7/13/08 at 1:08pm

I think a lot of the critics would agree with your sentiments.

[wicked_beast4]

Posted: 7/13/08 at 1:16pm

allofmylife, sorry. I don't care when someone voices their opinion, I just get annoyed when the same post is made into new threads just to go against what another poster said. I know I overreacted though, and I'm sorry.

And actually, I hope it does not transfer, it is just an average regional production done in nyc. Sorry I way overreacted.

[mr.scribble]

Posted: 7/13/08 at 1:19pm

whether or not the production is that great the show is awesome and i'd love to see it back on Broadway

[wicked_beast4]

Posted: 7/13/08 at 1:21pm

Back on broadway after 10 years? Lets give a theatre to a show that has NOT had a recent revival.

[mr.scribble]

Posted: 7/13/08 at 1:24pm

well this is a more traditional production than the 1994 revival which had a lot of changes so I'd like to see that, and i'm a big Krackoski fan

[wicked_beast4]

Posted: 7/13/08 at 1:25pm

If you are such a big fan, learn how to spell her name.

[mr.scribble]

Posted: 7/13/08 at 1:28pm

haha, ya i knew i typed it wrong just writing it quickly

[allofmylife]

Posted: 7/13/08 at 1:52pm

wicked_beast4, I'm also sorry.

I look to Broadwayworld as a safe haven from the rigors of a world filled with music I do not feel a part of; a site filled with people whose opinions I so enjoy and yours is one of them.

[EugLoven]

Posted: 7/13/08 at 2:08pm

Answer to your thread title question: No, you're not the only one. Calm down and just enjoy the fine summer show Encores! provided.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 7/13/08 at 2:33pm

rational thinking at last, eugloven

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 7/13/08 at 5:34pm

It's a summerstock production.