Broadway Ban
Broadway Ban
Nipper
Featured Actor Joined: 12/14/03
#0Broadway Ban
Posted: 5/15/04 at 12:06pmIf you had the power to ban any one play or musical from ever being on Broadway again, which would it be and why?
#1re: Broadway Ban
Posted: 5/15/04 at 12:29pm
CATS!!!!! 
Went with the obvious.
My avatar is a reminder to myself. I need lots of reminders...
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#3re: Broadway Ban
Posted: 5/15/04 at 12:34pmCats
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#5re: Broadway Ban
Posted: 5/15/04 at 1:13pmIf it has the words "Really Useful Group Presents:" On the marquee, I would like to ban that show.
BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"
seymour krelborn
Broadway Star Joined: 5/14/03
#7re: Broadway Ban
Posted: 5/15/04 at 2:46pmI liked Cats...ok...hmmm...I go with Flower Drum Song.
I have my books and my poetry to protect me...
Benzy92
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/24/03
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#10re: Broadway Ban
Posted: 5/15/04 at 3:24pmFootloose... most god awful show I've ever seen in my life.
From the evil she done Lord
Set her free, Set her free, Set me free
Don't let my sorrow
Make evil of me
orchajaws
Featured Actor Joined: 5/16/03
#12re: Broadway Ban
Posted: 5/15/04 at 3:41pm
I'm a CATS fan, and I'm hurt, but enough is enough, you guys hate it, I've moved on...
I vote for THE MUSIC MAN! That show makes me wanna vomit...
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
CurtainUp
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/9/04
#14re: Broadway Ban
Posted: 5/15/04 at 3:58pm
Fame!!!
stuff like Movin out and Mamma Mia, I don't dislike those shows but it seems they should be in a separate category than broadway.
Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on."
- from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
#15re: Broadway Ban
Posted: 5/15/04 at 3:58pmNow, this is just another "I hate CATS thread". You guys are so mean....
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#16re: Broadway Ban
Posted: 5/15/04 at 4:03pmYou asked a direct question and I gave you an honest answer. To me, CATS was nothing more than a litter box in need of a cleaning.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
lvpblues
Broadway Star Joined: 2/18/04
#19re: Broadway Ban
Posted: 5/15/04 at 4:13pmCats - Now and Forever.
A Healthy NO C-A-R-B Diet for 2004
NO C-heney
NO A-shcroft
NO R-umsfeld
NO B-ush
and "Absolutely NO RICE!"
#20re: Broadway Ban
Posted: 5/15/04 at 4:16pm
Yes, now and forever. You guys can hate CATS all you want, but there are allways gonna be people like me ready to produce the revival at Studio 54 in 2015....
I have it all planed out. I want Roundabout to do it. I want it done in a redesigned "horseshoe" house at Studio 54, I want some minor musical revisions and a "junkyard" style orchestra. And no cut songs! So many people think that the DVD is what CATS is, and they're so wrong! And the show will run forever. I don't care what I have to do to sell tickets, the cast will be naked every Tuesday, it's not closing! But I won't do stunt casting. CATS won't need it. Unless Elaine Paige or Betty Buckly wanted to return to the role of Grizabella, but I don't really see that as stunt casting....
and we're making a complete New Broadway Cast recording that includes all the dance sequences in Gumbie Cat and Mistoffolies, were including the battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles, no cuts will be made at all on the 2 CD set. And it will come with a 30 page full color booklet, like the Into the Woods revival CD.... I'm talkin' total 2 hour and 40 minute complete COMPLETE recording...
Updated On: 5/15/04 at 04:16 PM
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#21re: Broadway Ban
Posted: 5/15/04 at 4:20pmMeow
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
CJR
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
#22re: Broadway Ban
Posted: 5/15/04 at 4:29pm
Rrrrright.
Okay, I have to agree with Cats. And maybe Bounce -- even though it never made it to Broadway. And My Life With Albertine -- may it never make it any farther than it did 
"You're every gay man's wet dream!" ~ MA
If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#23re: Broadway Ban
Posted: 5/15/04 at 5:56pmOkay, just to add variety- Guys and Dolls. Can't stand it for some reason.
#24Broadway Ban
Posted: 5/15/04 at 6:04pmI second "Titanic: The Musical".
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Updated On: 5/15/04 at 06:04 PM
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