Awards Season: Grim and Bear It
#3
Posted: 4/24/14 at 8:53am
The worst things is opening a thread before noticing who began it, and realizing you've wasted time on mindless drivel.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#5
Posted: 4/24/14 at 9:46am
"Pardon my prior Mcfee slip. I know how to spell her name. I just don't know how to type it." -Talulah
#6
Posted: 4/24/14 at 9:54am
Why do you even go to the theatre anymore? You seem to hate it all, so just stop going. Nobody forces you to go to broadway and off-broadway shows.
Anything regarding shows stated by this account is an attempt to convey opinion and not fact.
#7
Posted: 4/24/14 at 9:55am
"The worst things is opening a thread before noticing who began it, and realizing you've wasted time on mindless drivel."
You also wasted time and energy writing that pointless post, so.... I guess you're no better than After Eight.
You also wasted time and energy writing that pointless post, so.... I guess you're no better than After Eight.
#8
Posted: 4/24/14 at 9:57am
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#9
Posted: 4/24/14 at 10:16am
"Why do you even go to the theatre anymore? "
I'm just a cockeyed optimist, I guess. I have a bright and sunny outlook towards life, so each time I go to the theatre represents a fresh start, and a hope for good things. And who knows? I might well be seeing a new masterpiece!
I'm just a cockeyed optimist, I guess. I have a bright and sunny outlook towards life, so each time I go to the theatre represents a fresh start, and a hope for good things. And who knows? I might well be seeing a new masterpiece!
#10
Posted: 4/24/14 at 10:21am
I have a bright and sunny outlook towards life
OK. I almost choked on a cereal bar.
OK. I almost choked on a cereal bar.
Updated On: 4/24/14 at 10:21 AM
#11
Posted: 4/24/14 at 10:28am
I don't think anyone alive in the culture today is going to be even capable of writing a musical in the After Eight mode. That mix of post-war optimism, old world elegance and often sublimated homosexuality is gone, culturally and psychologically.
What, I ask, was the last good musical? Or what was the last one you admitted was "good enough" in its own way?
What, I ask, was the last good musical? Or what was the last one you admitted was "good enough" in its own way?
#12
Posted: 4/24/14 at 10:29am
"I have a bright and sunny outlook towards life"
In all of your 200 years on this earth, I doubt you've ever had a sunny outlook on anything.
In all of your 200 years on this earth, I doubt you've ever had a sunny outlook on anything.
#13
Ooh, I know this one! Because he answers it every week, just like he answers the "Why do you still go to theater?" question every week.
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Posted: 4/24/14 at 10:42am
Ooh, I know this one! Because he answers it every week, just like he answers the "Why do you still go to theater?" question every week.
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
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#14
Posted: 4/24/14 at 10:45am
You're right... I guess it's the "good enough" that's going to be more telling than the "truly good."
#15
Posted: 4/24/14 at 11:15am
AE won't see this because I'm sure he has me blocked, but I wonder what he expected from this thread.
Agreement? That's seems unlikely.
Debate? Nope, he blocks everyone with differing opinions.
Just to hear himself blabber on? Probably.
To annoy people with this consistently asinine character he's created (aka trolling)? Bingo!
Agreement? That's seems unlikely.
Debate? Nope, he blocks everyone with differing opinions.
Just to hear himself blabber on? Probably.
To annoy people with this consistently asinine character he's created (aka trolling)? Bingo!
....but the world goes 'round
#16
Until I hear otherwise, I'm going to assume he anticipated vomiting gifs
Posted: 4/24/14 at 11:20am
Until I hear otherwise, I'm going to assume he anticipated vomiting gifs
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#17
Posted: 4/24/14 at 11:25am
God, I'd give anything for a Crystal Pepsi.
#18
Posted: 4/24/14 at 11:27am
Jordan Catalano and After Eight adore each other. 'Fess up.
#19
Posted: 4/24/14 at 11:46am
And then there's some of us that enjoy the award season, and know that is has (at least for me) absolutely no bearing on whether or not I'll see a particular show.
#20
Posted: 4/24/14 at 11:57am
"Jordan Catalano and After Eight adore each other. 'Fess up."
I'll say again (as I've said for so long now) that I don't understand statements like that. When one person finds the other truly miserable and insufferable, where does one get the idea that they "secretly like each other"? Because it's just goes so far beyond stupid to say or hint at that. It's in no way funny (I don't think it ever has been funny. If anyone has ever found that kind of statement funny, please let me know) and it's just...dumb.
I'll say again (as I've said for so long now) that I don't understand statements like that. When one person finds the other truly miserable and insufferable, where does one get the idea that they "secretly like each other"? Because it's just goes so far beyond stupid to say or hint at that. It's in no way funny (I don't think it ever has been funny. If anyone has ever found that kind of statement funny, please let me know) and it's just...dumb.
#21
Posted: 4/24/14 at 12:01pm
^
The awards may have no bearing upon whether or not you see a particular show, but they certainly do influence others in that respect. More importantly, and depressingly, they have an effect on the kind of theatre that will be written and produced in the future.
Grim, indeed.
The awards may have no bearing upon whether or not you see a particular show, but they certainly do influence others in that respect. More importantly, and depressingly, they have an effect on the kind of theatre that will be written and produced in the future.
Grim, indeed.
#22
Posted: 4/24/14 at 12:03pm
The lady doth protest too much, methinks
#23
Posted: 4/24/14 at 12:31pm
You know that there is theatre all across the country, around the world, even. People producing all different kinds of work every day, people making and creating things that are changing the way we look at theatre. So when you say "the theatre," and refer to things like "exorbitant ticket prices, surly box-office personnel, unkempt and ill-mannered audience members, cramped seats, and obstructed views," can you at least place it under a more specific umbrella rather than throwing the entire beautiful medium of theatre and performance under the bus?
#24
Posted: 4/24/14 at 12:48pm
Drowsy Kaye,
Yes, indeed, of course you are right.
Thanks for the clarification, and I shall amend my orgiinal post accordingly.
Yes, indeed, of course you are right.
Thanks for the clarification, and I shall amend my orgiinal post accordingly.
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