Brooklyn Is It a Paradise or Paradice? — Page 4

They don't yell any of the songs.

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I don't THINK so.

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There are a few that are tamer. I think they purposely put all of the "belters" on the sampler CD.

I guess "songs where they dont yell" is what I mean.

"Magic Man" is one of them.

I have tix for October 29th.. Im starting to get worried :/

I thought he was playing Skimbleshanks?

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No, no, he's Jimmythunderdots, the cat who thinks he's James Brown.

Can we just go back to the plot, such as it is, for a moment? And there are SPOILERS in the questions I pose, so if you care about such things, stop reading now. I saw the show on Saturday, and these are some of the things about which I wonder...

How did two homeless street people with nothing better than garbage bags to wear as clothing manage to arrange to hold their battle for the hearts and minds (of whom???) in Madison Square Garden? Who arranged it? Who fronted the money? Who were the people who were going to pay to see the these two battle it out (for what, again?) and who was giving massive amounts of money to the winner, and why? And finally, on what planet is a little white girl's search for the unknown father going to become a cause celebré? She was unique because why?

And in my opinion there is a whole lot of high belting, much of it shrill. Ms. Espinosa has a beautiful voice when she's not pushing the envelope.

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Why did they produce Brooklyn?
So darlings. Will the new hip clothing become hefty bags?
And what color garbage bags will be hip.
How about purple garbage bags with matching plastic bags.
OH LA LA.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh Phanty how very sweet of you.
Can we do a duet?
How about a threesome, you. Me. Eddie?
Dave might get jealous.

Updated On: 10/6/04 at 12:34 AM

what the Brooklyn-ites will tell you, VEHEMENTLY, is that the plot is a story being told by homeless people who take on the roles of the characters... my question is, then, why not just hire homeless actors?

on NY1, this morning, Eden Espinosa said, referring to the songs, "It's not so much in the context of a story" and my immediate question was "then what's the point?" ... this lends much credence to Corine's opinion that this would be a story better told in a concert...

ifliti - You're asking questions as if the Bklyn story were Real...Its a FAIRY TALE being told by Cleavant and acted out by the homeless street performers... So it could be ANYTHING they make up...Fairy tales don't HAVE to be logical or make any sense..do they?