Breaking News: SCANDALOUS to Close on Broadway December 9
Breaking News: SCANDALOUS to Close on Broadway December 9
#2Breaking News: SCANDALOUS to Close on Broadway December 9
Posted: 12/4/12 at 6:47pmGood riddance. What a colossal failure and embarrassment.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
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dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#4Breaking News: SCANDALOUS to Close on Broadway December 9
Posted: 12/4/12 at 6:57pm
Only suprised that they didn't decide to hold out through the holiday.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#5Breaking News: SCANDALOUS to Close on Broadway December 9
Posted: 12/4/12 at 7:02pmI'm thinking someone should do a "Religious Repertory Company" and then can rotate Scandalous, Sister Act, Leap of Faith, Godspell, JCS Superstar, Doubt, Sister Mary, Nunsense, and well, you get the idea...
#6Breaking News: SCANDALOUS to Close on Broadway December 9
Posted: 12/4/12 at 7:03pm“Womp womp.”-Nobody Updated On: 12/4/12 at 07:03 PM
#7Breaking News: SCANDALOUS to Close on Broadway December 9
Posted: 12/4/12 at 7:03pmSo much potential. Shame.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#8Breaking News: SCANDALOUS to Close on Broadway December 9
Posted: 12/4/12 at 7:06pmQolbinau, I didn't know you had seen the show?
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#9Breaking News: SCANDALOUS to Close on Broadway December 9
Posted: 12/4/12 at 7:08pmYou all better be nice and stop being so bitchy. Or you will meet the biggest bitch of all.. KARMA.
HUSSY POWER!
------ HUSSY POWER!
#10Breaking News: SCANDALOUS to Close on Broadway December 9
Posted: 12/4/12 at 7:10pmSo many people out of a job. Shows should stay open forever to keep people employed in them.
#11Breaking News: SCANDALOUS to Close on Broadway December 9
Posted: 12/4/12 at 7:11pmNot surprised. Didn't see it, did not want to. I hope this cast moves on to better things especially Carolee! Wonder what Kathie Lee will say tomorrow.
#12Breaking News: SCANDALOUS to Close on Broadway December 9
Posted: 12/4/12 at 7:13pmMaybe now Carolee can do that 80s pop tribute concert at 54 Below I had a dream about the other night.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#13Breaking News: SCANDALOUS to Close on Broadway December 9
Posted: 12/4/12 at 7:15pmI didn't see it. I just love trolling. But indeed with its massive financial failure (one of the biggest in a long, long time) and critical trashing I feel embarrassing is an apt description.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#14Breaking News: SCANDALOUS to Close on Broadway December 9
Posted: 12/4/12 at 7:26pmBut will there be a cast album? LOL!
Xanadu! Can't cry on cue!
#15Breaking News: SCANDALOUS to Close on Broadway December 9
Posted: 12/4/12 at 7:28pm
My grandma, a patron to the Church of Gifford, swore up and down at Thanksgiving that the show was doing well and that she wanted to go see it. Had to break out my phone and show her grosses that the show was, in fact, not doing well and if she wanted to see it to make it ASAP because it won't be there past January.
How wrong I was...
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#16Breaking News: SCANDALOUS to Close on Broadway December 9
Posted: 12/4/12 at 7:46pm
don't laugh (regarding the cast album). kathie lee has a recording studio in her house. she might independently release something.
yikes.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#17Breaking News: SCANDALOUS to Close on Broadway December 9
Posted: 12/4/12 at 7:49pm
All those who revel when a show closes and just love to bash shows should be ecstatic now. Well done.
Enjoyed it much more than the overpraised Wicked.
Poster Emeritus
Updated On: 12/4/12 at 07:49 PM
#18Breaking News: SCANDALOUS to Close on Broadway December 9
Posted: 12/4/12 at 7:51pmYou say "Well Done" as if they (we? they?) are actually responsible for the situation, lol.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#19Breaking News: SCANDALOUS to Close on Broadway December 9
Posted: 12/4/12 at 7:53pmDid they advertise much? I don't recall seeing a tv ad for it.
Just give the world Love.
#20Breaking News: SCANDALOUS to Close on Broadway December 9
Posted: 12/4/12 at 8:00pm
All those who revel when a show closes and just love to bash shows should be ecstatic now. Well done.
Yes, just like a restaurant that serves awful food, this show should stay open to keep people employed even though this opens up the theatre and frees up the cast to be in shows worth their talent.
#21Breaking News: SCANDALOUS to Close on Broadway December 9
Posted: 12/4/12 at 8:01pmGreat analogy.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#22Breaking News: SCANDALOUS to Close on Broadway December 9
Posted: 12/4/12 at 8:05pmWell, they tried...and it just wasn't meant to be. I think Broadway needs a significant break from any new religious themed musicals. The track record is not favorable, apparently. Best of luck to the cast/crew of "Scandalous." from RC in Austin, TExas
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
#23Breaking News: SCANDALOUS to Close on Broadway December 9
Posted: 12/4/12 at 8:17pmI Hope they do make a cast album. I really enjoy Carolee Carmello's performance. Personally, I think they should have used the money they spent keeping the show open this past week to record it instead.
#24Breaking News: SCANDALOUS to Close on Broadway December 9
Posted: 12/4/12 at 8:22pmIf the church can afford to keep this open they can afford a cast album.
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