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Boring Shows
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#100Boring Shows
Posted: 6/29/10 at 1:56pm
Some of these are more "boring productions" than "boring shows." Which is fine...there's just a very big difference.
And I'm really nervous about OUR TOWN's mention. I sincerely hope it wasn't referring to Cromer's.
#101Boring Shows
Posted: 6/29/10 at 2:06pm
Passion. Talk about tedious.
There are many shows that I just can no longer sit through. I don't think they're boring per se, I just can't take them anymore. West Side Story is one of them. I've already had to see this revival 3 times because of friends in it.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
#102Boring Shows
Posted: 6/29/10 at 2:13pm
Three Sisters by Anton Chekov. Classic schmlassic. I was almost in tears I was so bored.
Try performing it...and the Mamet translation to boot! I actually won an award for it and I hated every moment of that play. In fact, I have yet to encounter a Chekhov or Mamet play I enjoy.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#103Boring Shows
Posted: 6/29/10 at 2:16pm
"Some of these are more 'boring productions' than 'boring shows.' Which is fine...there's just a very big difference."
That's been in the back of my mind through this whole thread.
#104Boring Shows
Posted: 6/29/10 at 2:55pm
^ It's not always that easy to tell the difference, actually. I've seen plays that I thought for ages were bad pieces of writing until I saw a well-done production of them. I hated Three Days of Rain but I honestly don't know whether it's the play that's at fault, or whether a better production would change my mind.
Sometimes of course it is obvious - I thought the Donmar/Jude Law Hamlet was boring, but I don't blame Shakespeare for that. And Enron was a limp piece of writing - I enjoyed the acting, direction, design, etc. and it was quite obviously the text itself that was weighing it down.
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