Broadway for Dummies
Broadway for Dummies
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#0Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:32pm
I just saw this in another thread, and thought it deserved it's own post. What chapters would be in the book Broadway for Dummies?
Here are some ideas (not all mine!):
Chapter 1: Turning Your Cellphone Off...
Chapter 2-shutting your mouth
chapter 3: Don't unwrap you candy in the theater
chapter 4: Don't BRING candy into the theater
chapter 5: cast recordings, NOT soundtracks
chapter 6-broadwayworld.com
chapter 7: Hot Broadway Actors!
Chapter 8: Ways to get rid of the emotional sadness straight women everywhere feel when they find out the hottest actors are gay.
chapter 9: STRAIGHT broadway actors
chapter 10: what to do when little old ladys talk through the entire show.
chapter 11-good broadway websites
Chapter 12: What to Bring With You to the Theater to Tame the Annoying People (mine)
Anything else?
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
Updated On: 8/12/04 at 08:32 PM
ponine24601
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
#1re: Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:34pmchapter 13-adam pascal (he deserves his own chapter)
"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions."
~The one and only John Lennon
#2re: Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:36pmAisles aren't there to stand in during intermission...people would like to get to their seats. That's what a lobby is for.
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#3re: Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:38pmChapter 15: Don't Hum, Don't Sing, Don't Tap Your Feet - That's What the Actors Are There For
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#4re: Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:38pmYou forgot the essential chapter on why you should go to the bathroom before the show and try not to go at intermission.
And hang on, when did you win the discus?
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#6re: Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:40pma chapter for the Fosters
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#7re: Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:42pmChapter 16: What To Do About Musical Fans Who Believe The History of Broadway Started With CATS, or Even Worse Yet, RENT.
ponine24601
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
#8re: Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:42pm
how about a chapter for broadway legends
"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions."
~The one and only John Lennon
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#9re: Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:44pma chapter for the flops.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#10re: Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:44pmChapter 17: Ensemble and Understudies are actors, too!
Plince! Plince! Nein! T-Rex!!
#11re: Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:45pm
broadway for dummies:Part 2 will be for the actors/actresses
chapter 16: don't hum/sing the music while in the theater.
You aren't feeling overwhelmed are you?
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#12re: Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:45pmChapter 18: So are Standbys and Alternates!
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#13re: Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:45pmchapter 18 the express elevator to the marquis theater is a terrifying experience (especially if it starts to go up to the 46th floor and then drops down rapidly)
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
Updated On: 8/12/04 at 08:45 PM
#14re: Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:46pmthis is going to be a HUGE book
You aren't feeling overwhelmed are you?
#15re: Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:49pmI think the chapters on specific people should be put in a different book of Broadway STARS for Dummies
And hang on, when did you win the discus?
#16re: Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:50pmDon't forget "Dressing" for the theatre...what you should wear and what you shouldn't wear.
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#17re: Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:54pmI think it's up to chapter 20 now
You aren't feeling overwhelmed are you?
Kelliexo90
Broadway Star Joined: 7/17/04
#18re: Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:59pmChapter 21: How to succeed at the stage door- a lesson in Broadway Moshpits.
What is Broadway? A street? Some say it's a street. Some say it is the best street in the world. Others think its terrible. That's the beauty of it, it's terribly beautiful. Some hate it and don't know why. Others love it and don't know why. That's what makes it so wonderful, it's a mystery.
Aimee2
Swing Joined: 8/10/04
#19re: Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 9:05pmA chapter for Broadway shows exist beyond what was created in the 80's and 90's.
Broadway Matt
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/17/03
#20re: Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 9:06pm
Ch. 22- "How To Tell The Difference Between a Real ROCK OPERA (Tommy) and a MUSICAL Disguised as One (Rent)"
Ch. 23- "Huge Broadway Stars You May Recognize From Commercials or Their Two Lines In That Movie"
"The last train out of any station will not be full of nice guys." - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
"I wash my face, then drink beer, then I weep. Say a prayer and induce insincere self-abuse, till I'm fast asleep"- In Trousers
ponine24601
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
#21re: Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 9:06pm
haha i love chapter 21! can we put eden is the standy-by chapter?
"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions."
~The one and only John Lennon
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#22re: Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 9:07pmChapter 24: When You Give a Standing Ovation, Make Sure Everyone Else is Actually Standing Up So You Don't Block Someone Else's View
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#23re: Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 9:11pm
>>Ch. 23- "Huge Broadway Stars You May Recognize From Commercials or Their Two Lines In That Movie"
that can go in Broadway Stars for Dummies
You aren't feeling overwhelmed are you?
ponine24601
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
#24re: Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 9:11pmooops. i did that once. but little shop deserved it!
"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions."
~The one and only John Lennon
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