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#1

COUNTRY GIRL's Press Trick

Posted: 5/22/08 at 12:28am

The current revival of THE COUNTRY GIRL received zero Tony Award nominations, but that's not stopping the marketing team from boasting about awards.

I received this mailer today:

COUNTRY GIRL's Press Trick
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#2

re: COUNTRY GIRL's Press Trick

Posted: 5/22/08 at 12:29am

LOL, that's kind of hilarious.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#3

re: COUNTRY GIRL's Press Trick

Posted: 5/22/08 at 12:31am

It is absurd, but smart at the same time.
"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
#4

re: COUNTRY GIRL's Press Trick

Posted: 5/22/08 at 4:04am

Clever marketing.
If I heard the bells and the banjos ring
#5

re: COUNTRY GIRL's Press Trick

Posted: 5/22/08 at 4:10am

Who's Tony Awards are they counting though?
Mike Nichols? Technically speaking, he's not really on stage. Nobody in the cast, not even Chip Zien, has a Tony award.
Oh, I see, they are also counting Nichols' other awards...tricky, tricky, tricky...and somewhat pathetic.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#6

re: COUNTRY GIRL's Press Trick

Posted: 5/22/08 at 6:23am

Pathetic. um not.
Nichols' work IS on the stage.
When you have that many awards, call us.
#7

re: COUNTRY GIRL's Press Trick

Posted: 5/22/08 at 6:33am

I meant the press trick WannaBe is referring to, not Nichols, I love Nichols' work but the fact that they say there are 8 Tony awards on stage...well, I disagree.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#8

re: COUNTRY GIRL's Press Trick

Posted: 5/22/08 at 8:15am

Hey, my favorite is the quote they have hanging from the marquee:

"A STAR STUDDED REVIVAL!"
#9

re: COUNTRY GIRL's Press Trick

Posted: 5/22/08 at 3:56pm

I dunno, me and my friend disagree with all the prior criticism.
We LOVED the show, the house was nearly sold out, you could hear a pin drop, and the acting and direction was superb. Of course it has no flying monkeys or such, but old fashioned structure and playwriting, we LIKE! What with all the current Hollywood booze/drug train wrecks still obsessively in the "news", what story could be more timely? Frank and Georgie Elgin are supremely interesting characters. AND it's a valentine to backstage Broadway.
#10

re: COUNTRY GIRL's Press Trick

Posted: 5/22/08 at 4:05pm

It must look odd to see all those actors carrying statues and medallions around. Something John Doyle has yet to think of re: COUNTRY GIRL's Press Trick

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