Brooklyn naysayers why? What does it accomplish? — Page 2

I do see your point. Thanks for at least listening to me. I don't expect everyone to agree or "fluff" their opinion, I would just ask that people think about the person who is behind the show before you make comments that may be hurtful...or not?

Broadway needs all of the unconditional support it can get. You know what they say.....divide and conquer

I think alot of people are afraid that shows like "Brooklyn" are the "new broadway." Broadway has defiently had clunkers this year so far.

and I couldn't disagree more with you on that point, Zebra. Broadway needs our "unconditional support" as much as Hollywood does. Because let's face it they're becoming one in the same. The second that we start accepting mediocre productions such as BKLYN and allowing them to be the norm is when Broadway will officially die. We MUST hold writers and producers and actors and everyone involved in the process to a higher standard because they expect US to pay an absolute fortune to see their product. I will not pay $100 dollars to simply be bored. I want to be challenged. I want to walk out of that theatre and have what I just saw burned into my brain for the next week and try to figure out the nuances of each character I saw on that stage. I want to see a musical that's pure fun and light but at the same time doesn't talk down to me and make me wish I would have stayed in for another Law & Order repeat on TNT.

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Yo, if everything was good and everything was a hit, nothing would ever close and we'd have the same 30 shows on Broadway for the rest of time. If I root for BROOKLYN to run forever, then nothing else will ever run there. Remember, TABOO had to be terrible and flop for any of those BROOKLYN folk to ever make a home there. It's all cyclical. So don't talk about how they're attached to the show and no one should wish them ill will. They're closing is necessary for the future of Broadway.

That said... you can call it "bashing" if you want, but all it is someone's negative opinion towards a show. Yo, I'm sure there are TV shows you don't like or movies you don't like or songs you don't like. Have you ever had a negative opinion about something? Do you ever share it? And if you don't... is that your point? That no one should ever be honest unless it's positive? What kind of country do we live in again?

GOd Bless America

Paradox:

Your signature makes me pee a little. Classic.

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"...think about who's behind the show??" You gotta be kiddin' me! Some homeless guy with no talent whatsoever was lucky enough to have been panhandling at the right place and the right time! Send him back to the street corner where he belongs!
The fact that this show made it to Broadway just proves how illiterate, vapid, undiscerning, cynical, stupid and/or out of touch with their audience the people involved with this production truly are and is just another example of the dumbing-down of culture.

Updated On: 12/8/04 at 01:01 AM

ouch

all I can say to that is ouch

wait till Tiny reads that

thankyou Margo.
it definately needed to be said.
Nobody says it better than Dame.

Zebra...if the "naysayers" are folks on this board whose opinions I have come to respect over a year+ of "lurking" on this board (before recently deciding to post), then what their "naysaying" accomplishes (for me anyway) is that I don't waste thousands of dollars on a trip to New York to see something I thought would be wonderful (which has, instead, turned out to be "crap", i.e. Dracula). Instead I make educated choices based on their opinions, reviews by critics and whatnot to make my theatre trips well worth the expenditure.

"The cast is exceptionally talented but the material is TRASH."

hah, so is there costumes.

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