Broadway twitter bashing- Page 5

[Kad]

Posted: 7/25/12 at 1:31pm

Thank you, followspot.

No one is policing what opinions people are allowed to have.

[TheLadyoftheWood]

Posted: 7/25/12 at 1:39pm

Is this the same Morgan James who screech/screamed out music on Obsessed with Seth Rudetsky?

[dramamama611]

Posted: 7/25/12 at 1:40pm

As I've said, if she simply said she didn't care for it, and cited the sexuality presented as her reason, the tweet would have gone practically unnoticed.

What she said was unprofessional and beyond "honest".

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 7/25/12 at 1:40pm

"She had EVERY right to say what she did. The so-called community needs to get a tougher skin and grow the hell up. What a bunch of babies," TheHappyPhantom exclaimed anonymously.

Anyone who doesn't hire her based on that is childish and doesn't know how to handle criticism.

That may be true, but to expect everyone in the industry to be above it, then you're discounting at least a century of history and nearly ever big name in the business. Fair? Perhaps not. But reality is rarely fair and to expect as much is hopelessly naive.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 7/25/12 at 1:44pm

That goes against human nature. You don't hire people that have publically maligned your work.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 7/25/12 at 1:44pm

She would have been better off bitching about it here on Broadway World as opposed to tweeting.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 7/25/12 at 1:45pm

"Anyone who doesn't hire her based on that is childish and doesn't know how to handle criticism."

Ha HA! Welcome to the theatre, Miss Eve Harrington.

If two people came before me who were similarly talented, and one of them was someone who publicly made ill-advised comments about other performers (whom I may also want to cast in my project), guess who's getting the job.

Posted: 7/25/12 at 1:45pm

At the end of the day- the Broadway community is such a small community. She should have worded wisely and carefully without messing up potential future collaborations, employers and work buddies. That's of course, if you feel you need to twat everything.



Updated On: 7/25/12 at 01:45 PM

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 7/25/12 at 1:47pm

Or, she could have kept her mouth shut and said NOTHING. Why in God's name would you put that out there? What chip do you have missing that you think it's ok and it won't get around???

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 7/25/12 at 1:50pm

^or if you have to, just say something to the people you're with; in person!!!

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 7/25/12 at 1:52pm

^ I concur!

I mean...I love to tear a show apart! But not in 140 characters! I need much more room to let the c*ntitude unfurl!

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 7/25/12 at 1:54pm

I do find it funny that no one has a problem with a ton of personal attacks against her talent, the jobs she's taken, her general existence it seems.

While yes, it was a bad move on her part, there's a ton worse on display here and nobody has claimed to be personally attached to the production has to be so damn upset to begin with.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 7/25/12 at 1:56pm

And for all the negative things HER shows have had said, you would think she'd know better. I'm sure it sucked to hear the press and discussion boards react negatively. But did she see/hear other actors trash her shows? Not publically. And I'm SURE there were some (many?) that thought her shows were garbage. (I'm not saying she was any of the reason the shows were less than wonderful.)

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/25/12 at 1:56pm

She would have been better off bitching about it here on Broadway World as opposed to tweeting.

Oh, Dottie--even here, we are are not alone.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 7/25/12 at 1:59pm

^Ha, but she could have created a screen name, say, JamesMorgana!

[Kad]

Posted: 7/25/12 at 2:00pm

It probably would've been "MorganJamesFan", actually.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 7/25/12 at 2:03pm

So true.

Posted: 7/25/12 at 2:09pm

There's a lot of MorganJamesing on these boards every second of every day.

If anything, it gives us all a chance to take a look at ourselves too.

World Peace.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 7/25/12 at 2:13pm

^ Out loud I laughed.

[coverboyz]

Posted: 7/25/12 at 3:52pm

"HOW can you f-ck up "into the woods"?? I fear musicianship is dead in musical theatre. And acting, for that matter. #horrified"

I think Morgan James is entitled to her opinion but was it a stupid move to tweet it? Yes.
"And acting for that matter". Oooh. I think what she was trying to say here was that there needs to be more theater like the recent Godspell revival.
Sounds like someone is bitter about not being cast in Into the Woods more like.

[After Eight]

Posted: 7/25/12 at 3:56pm

"errr...I don't think the Cult of Sondheim has anything to do with it in this instance.

Whether it be Wonderland or Into the Woods, it's just a lousy thing to do."

Yes, it is. And very ill-advised. But if the tweet had been about Wonderland, do you think it would have provoked the same level of indignation that we have seen here?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 7/25/12 at 4:00pm

Any post in favor of anything Wildhorn provokes indignation on BWW.

[TheHappyPhantom]

Posted: 7/25/12 at 4:21pm

I love sondheim and Into the woods, and I still say she had a right to say it, and more power to her for being honest. It has nothing to do with it being a Sondheim show.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 7/25/12 at 4:26pm

Of course she had the right to say it. And now she has to deal with the backlash.

Having the right to an opinion doesn't mean you are free from the backlash of stating that opinion.

[TheHappyPhantom]

Posted: 7/25/12 at 5:15pm

No it doesn't, but she shouldn't be getting any backlash. If a regular patron had said it, it would be fine. she wasn't an actress that night, she was an audience member, and as such she can post a review. Not a single comment against her has held an ounce of maturity. People need to get over themselves. Theatre people should be the harshest critics. They obviously weren't her friends. She doesn't owe them anything. Any seeing as very few people have seen this production yet...she might be right!