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[Plum]

Posted: 9/28/06 at 4:53pm

You know, some of you, not all of you, but some of you, talk about,analyze, and obsess more about theatre than the people that actually work in it. It's kind of sad.

Yes, people who care deeply about a subject are downright pathetic, aren't they? I mean, really. Who in this day and age can expect to look cool without maintaining an ironic distance from every topic brought up?

Hi, Al!
Updated On: 9/28/06 at 04:53 PM

[HamletWasBipolar]

Posted: 9/28/06 at 5:48pm

Caring about something and obsessing over it are two entirely different entities. I care about baseball, but I most certainly don't talk endlessly about it, hang out at the locker room door, and know what the players favorite foods are as well as their birthdates and their wives eye colors, as well as whether or not they have a sniffle or a cold. Nor do I routinely go to their Myspace page and proclaim them to be my friends. All that's just fanatacial and pretty creepy.

[HatBoy]

Posted: 9/28/06 at 6:12pm

Al Dente, your comments to ILuv about posting in this thread are so preschool.

Act your age, not your shoe size.

[Al Dente]

Posted: 9/28/06 at 6:31pm

PLUM BABY! Where ya been?

[Phantom2]

Posted: 9/28/06 at 7:07pm

"Caring about something and obsessing over it are two entirely different entities. I care about baseball, but I most certainly don't talk endlessly about it, hang out at the locker room door, and know what the players favorite foods are as well as their birthdates and their wives eye colors, as well as whether or not they have a sniffle or a cold. Nor do I routinely go to their Myspace page and proclaim them to be my friends. All that's just fanatacial and pretty creepy."

Obviously, you don't care that much about baseball. I'm just sayin'...

[Kringas]

Posted: 9/28/06 at 7:28pm

Going back, a bit, I think comparing Mamma Mia to Streetcar is a really bad analogy, as Streetcar isn't a musical.

Another shout out of Al Dente love!

[HamletWasBipolar]

Posted: 9/28/06 at 7:37pm

Obviously, you don't care that much about baseball. I'm just sayin'...
I was in minor league baseball for 4 years and traveled all over the country for 8 months out of every year, so I do care about baseball.
And again, caring and obsessing are two different things. I am a working actor, I care about the theatre and the craft, but when the curtain drops or the film wraps, I go back to the real world and dont prattle on endlessly about it.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 9/28/06 at 7:46pm

I believe Phantom was joking...

[Phantom2]

Posted: 9/28/06 at 9:42pm

Why yes, I was. Obsessed over Tina? NEVER! Haha

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 9/29/06 at 7:03pm

Maybe I'm bumping this, but I must say something to Hamlet...

To some of us, theater is our breakfast, lunch and dinner. It has been a nutrition for me since my childhood. It has been a friend and a companion, something that I have turned to in my darkest moments. It has been my greatest joy and my greatest misery. Maybe to you that's obsessed. But it is one of the most beautiful things in the world, I think. And it is something that, if I could, I would want to experience nonstop.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 9/29/06 at 7:13pm

AND because I don't want to be buried,

When is Hanke leaving RENT?

And because there are too gosh darn many A Chorus Line SRO threads and I don't even know which ones I have asked this in - I will ask it here -

Does ACL have cancellation line and when do people start lining up?

Thanks.

And as for the subject on hand...I guess this beats talking about Donna Murphy.

[WesternSky2]

Posted: 9/29/06 at 7:58pm

Remember the time BSo was awesome..... I sure do.

[Patronus]

Posted: 9/29/06 at 8:02pm

When is Hanke leaving RENT?

He was quoted as saying "late November". There is no exact announced date yet.

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 12:37pm

I love you, BSo.

[HamletWasBipolar]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 1:26pm

What suprises me, Iluvtheatretrash is that, I said that "some" people on here were obsessed and creepy. I didn't mention any names. For some reason you feel a need to defend yourself with that melodramatic diatribe.
As far as it being your three square meals, you act as if that is exclusive to you. It's my career and livelihood, I've spent years studying it. But I still won't be seen worshipping strangers or hanging out at a stage door to get a photo with someone who I don't even know.

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 9/30/06 at 1:32pm

I didn't really feel the need to defend myself. I felt the need to defend those of us who feel that way (trust me, I'm not alone).

There are people in the industry who change your life with a performance. Victoria Clark, "...Piazza". Why wouldn't you want to look back on that moment with a photo? Tonya Pinkins in "Caroline, or Change".

To each his own, I suppose.