Bad Gigolos! The Official Broadway Gypsy Love Thread!
Bad Gigolos! The Official Broadway Gypsy Love Thread!
#1Bad Gigolos! The Official Broadway Gypsy Love Thread!
Posted: 3/3/08 at 7:19pm
I'm *already* jealous of those sitting in the St. James at this moment, but let's get the praise started!
First preview reviews go here (and there better be plenty!)
Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
-John Patrick Shanley
Updated On: 3/17/08 at 07:19 PM
#2re: Bad Gigolos! The Broadway Edition
Posted: 3/3/08 at 7:22pmOmG, i HaTeZ tEh PoStEr
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#2re: Bad Gigolos! The Broadway Edition
Posted: 3/3/08 at 7:22pm
:) Glad to see that a Bad Gigolos thread is back!
I'm really hoping that I'll be able to get up to New York soon to see this. For the longest time I thought I would be okay with not seeing her on Broadway because I saw her at Ravinia and then at the City Center. Now that the time is actually here, there's no way I can pass up on this.
There wouldn't be lights bright enough!
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#4re: Bad Gigolos! The Broadway Edition
Posted: 3/3/08 at 7:23pm
POSTER WHO JUST GOT BACK FROM GYPSY: Wow, I can't wait to tell everyone about the show! Where should I post?
AHMELIE: Right here, under "Bad Gigolos!"
Draw your own conclusions.
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-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
#5re: Bad Gigolos! The Broadway Edition
Posted: 3/3/08 at 7:28pm
Thanks for the clarification, bus. 
Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
-John Patrick Shanley
#6re: Bad Gigolos! The Broadway Edition
Posted: 3/3/08 at 7:50pm
Oh, and there's not a recording or two of tonight's performance... there's gonna be hell to pay!
Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
-John Patrick Shanley
#7re: Bad Gigolos! The Broadway Edition
Posted: 3/3/08 at 9:15pmBUt, wait, wouldn't those recordings be illegal? Surely you aren't implying we all trade illegally recorded materials under a name associated with the alcohol of the 1920s. That would be bad.
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#8re: Bad Gigolos! The Broadway Edition
Posted: 3/3/08 at 9:20pm
They don't release multiple professional recordings of every single performance of every single Broadway show ever?
WHAT? That's CRAZY!
Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
-John Patrick Shanley
#9re: Bad Gigolos! The Broadway Edition
Posted: 3/3/08 at 9:29pm
I know, right.
Did they start at 7:30 tonight?
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#10re: Bad Gigolos! The Broadway Edition
Posted: 3/3/08 at 9:31pm7, I believe. But I could be wrong.
Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
-John Patrick Shanley
#11re: Bad Gigolos! The Broadway Edition
Posted: 3/3/08 at 9:33pm
BAD GIGOLOS!! BAD!!!
I love you guys.
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#12re: Bad Gigolos! The Broadway Edition
Posted: 3/3/08 at 9:39pmIf it's 7, we should have feedback in an hour or so, right?
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#13re: Bad Gigolos! The Broadway Edition
Posted: 3/3/08 at 9:41pmnaw, its 8, because they were all meeting in front of the theater @ 7:30!
#14re: Bad Gigolos! The Broadway Edition
Posted: 3/3/08 at 9:41pmI sure hope so. I think the show runs a little over two and a half hours with intermission, so we might not have to wait so long.
Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
-John Patrick Shanley
#15re: Bad Gigolos! The Broadway Edition
Posted: 3/3/08 at 9:42pm
Aw damn! 8?
Damn. *waits patiently*
Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
-John Patrick Shanley
#16re: Bad Gigolos! The Broadway Edition
Posted: 3/3/08 at 10:48pm
Bump
I know they won't be home just yet... but soon, hopefully!
Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
-John Patrick Shanley
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#17re: Bad Gigolos! The Broadway Edition
Posted: 3/4/08 at 6:51amthose dingdongs started their own thread!!
#18re: Bad Gigolos! The Broadway Edition
Posted: 3/4/08 at 9:24am
count me in... I love GYPSY too...
J*
#19re: Bad Gigolos! The Broadway Edition
Posted: 3/4/08 at 9:59am
As a professional gigolo, I am offended by this thread.
Also, as a professional gigolo, I got to see Gypsy last night, had dinner with Patti and Laura, and saved some girl's life after she got hit with a light...oh yeah, then I had to go back and "perform"...oh well, all in a day's work!
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#21re: Bad Gigolos! The Broadway Edition
Posted: 3/13/08 at 7:47am
ITS SO DIFFERENT FROM THE CITY CENTER VERSION!
on the surface it might seem the same, but everyone has a different deeper spin on their characters.
it all starts with Patti's take on ROSE...this ROSE is optimistic, flirty, fun-loving & girlish...she TRULY believes in the act; her whole attitude is "why *WOULDNT* we be stars??!?!" (wheres @ CC, Rose came to the stage already bruised, ready to be rejected). here, her pivot is in Gratzinger's office, her showdown with MISS CRATCHITT, thats when she snaps. At CC it was at the train station with EVERYTHINGS COMING UP ROSES.
playing Rose as fun makes her snapping even more effective and moving! i heard people gasp all around me!
the whole production is brighter & more fun; they've opened up the comedy more to almost screwball proportions but in a classic way, not tacky or dumb; sometimes it reminded me of I LOVE LUCY!
& i say that as a loving compliment!
everyone mines more laughs; when i say they've "opened up the comedy", it seems as if they've made it more accessible, not in a dumbed down way, but so that *everyone* can enjoy it, *everyone* is in it *with* them, along for the ride!
& the audience really responded, they were so enthusiastic, the whole theater was laughing & i heard people crying (not just me)!!!
i know i dont have anything to do with it, but i felt so proud of them!
you know that scene @ CC, in TESSIE TURA's dressing room, when ROSE tells LOUISE "i had a dream" & Benanti got huge laughs in a totally new way? now there are *more* moments like that throughout the show! they figured out ways to add new laughs without changing the script!
Alison Fraser & Marilyn Caskey were better than ever! Alsion Fraser brings more warmth to her TESSIE (she talked about the role in her recent PLAYBILL interview & you can see her thoughts reflected in her performance). Caskey's ELEKTRA is again stopping the show, even more of a scream!
Lenora Nemetz is great as MISS CRATCHITT, with a comic snootiness & a Maggie Smith look...she got a *big* reaction from her MAZEPPA, who has a completley different character design, though i think she looked too bright & sexy to be strippin' in a dump like that! They need to put a fat suit on her or something, because she looks too in-shape to be a tired old stripper!
Leigh Ann Larkin maintains her edge as JUNE, but also brings new comedy; she's so fun to watch on stage because her face is always doing something. I think she's a real find!
Tony Yazbeck ***REALLY*** sells it! ALL I NEED IS THE GIRL is THRILLING!!!!
& Laura Benanti...in the first act, i heard people all around me going "awwww" for her, but in the second act, they were going "ooooooh!!!!". her LOUISE is very touching and endearing; her GYPSY is stunning & sexy!
Boyd Gaines is very loveable as HERBIE, and SMALL WORLD is marvelously romantic...with Patti adding new comedy!
Sammi Gayle & Emma Rowley are wonderful, & really establish the characters of JUNE and LOUISE.
& i am tellin you, that Sammi Gayle is gonna be a STAR!!!
Updated On: 3/13/08 at 07:47 AM
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#23re: Bad Gigolos! The Broadway Edition
Posted: 3/13/08 at 8:29amby making the brights brighter, theyve made the darks darker, & i love it!!!!
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#24re: Bad Gigolos! The Broadway Edition
Posted: 3/13/08 at 10:17amSami Gayle's June frightens me!!
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