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?
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)
#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.
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
#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.
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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
Unknown User
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
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#9re: Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:44pma chapter for the flops.
#10re: Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:44pmChapter 17: Ensemble and Understudies are actors, too!
#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.
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!
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)
#14re: Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:46pmthis is going to be a HUGE book
#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
#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.
#17re: Broadway for Dummies
Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:54pmI think it's up to chapter 20 now
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.
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?
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
#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
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!
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