Can you imagine if BWW message boards were around when...- Page 2

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 10/29/09 at 3:32pm

when Norma Shearer slapped Olivia de Havilland at the Oscars.

[Elke]

Posted: 10/29/09 at 3:56pm

When Patti LuPone yelled at an audience member for taking pictures during the show. Oh, wait...

[blaxx]

Posted: 10/29/09 at 4:17pm

...when Will Rogers Follies won the Best Musical Tony over Miss Saigon, The Secret Garden and Once on This Island.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/29/09 at 6:07pm

If & when a critic ever dissed the Merm.

When Merrick pulled his opening night stunt @ 42 nd St

When one night wonders like Gantry & Here's Where I Belong opened.

Updated On: 10/29/09 at 06:07 PM

[philly03]

Posted: 10/29/09 at 6:39pm

Frank Wildhorn's hat trick on Broadway with Jekyll & HYDE, THe Scarlet Pimpernel and The Civil War.

Not to mention every time Scarlet Pimpernel came back!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/29/09 at 6:55pm

When What Makes Sammy Run, Golden Boy, Golden Rainbow & Superman opened.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 10/29/09 at 7:10pm

Possibly when Phantom of the Opera beat Into the Woods for Best Musical.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 10/29/09 at 8:12pm

John Simon's infamous review of The Octet Bridge Club.

Elton John beating Michael John LaChiusa for Best Score back in 2000.

The original Broadway production of Chess (and how it was criminally overlooked for a Tony nomination for Best Score)

The controversy over the cast recording of Grand Hotel and David Carroll's death during the recording session.

Kathleen Freeman's tragic passing.

This cool new show by this guy named Tom Kitt called Feeling Electric.

Updated On: 10/29/09 at 08:12 PM

[ABB2357]

Posted: 10/29/09 at 8:54pm

Oh, I can imagine...


re: GYPSY 2/25 MATINEE
posted by: R&H4Life

Saw the show a week after opening and liked it, didn't love it. Styne's music was great as always (that overture, OMG) but does anyone actually think this Sondheim guy can write lyrics, even after WSS? So dark, so psychological, it didn't match the score IMO. Thank God Ethel wouldn't let him write the whole thing. It would have sunk the show. With any luck, it'll run through the rest of the year and he can make a nice living off the subsidiary rights. I don't see anyone hiring him for another project anytime soon.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 10/29/09 at 9:36pm

...when Donna McKechnie was the original Cassie in a A Chorus Line. She would have been shredded the same way poor Charlotte was. People would be talking about when Donna was out, when she missed a step, sang off key, etc.

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 10/29/09 at 10:40pm

...when Avenue Q won the Tony over Wicked.

Oh wait...

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 10/29/09 at 10:45pm

We've already done one "oh wait."

[madbrian]

Posted: 10/29/09 at 10:50pm

"...when Donna McKechnie was the original Cassie in a A Chorus Line. She would have been shredded the same way poor Charlotte was. People would be talking about when Donna was out, when she missed a step, sang off key, etc."


???

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 10/29/09 at 10:53pm

Speaking of Donna and A Chorus Line, what about when she was nominated (and won) Best Leading Actress at the Tonys? And think of the arguments over whether Priscilla Lopez should've won instead of Kelly Bishop!

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 10/29/09 at 11:10pm

madbrian, i mean that donna would have been under the same microscope that charlotte was and "every little step" she took would have been commented on nightly.

[madbrian]

Posted: 10/29/09 at 11:16pm

McKechnie performed a number that was choreographed for her, and did it brilliantly. She would have survived the scrutiny.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 10/30/09 at 12:09am

"when Donna McKechnie was the original Cassie in a A Chorus Line."

I heard Donna tell a story that a boy would stand by the stage door every night as they came out. One night he said to Donna, "I saw you fall on your turn tonight." She could never figure out where he came from or how he got in to see the show.

[jpbran]

Posted: 10/30/09 at 1:08am

Thought of another one-- the Evita movie casting over the years.

[binau]

Posted: 10/30/09 at 1:31am

How long HAS BW.com been around for? (IThe forum)..have a lot of old posts been deleted? I think I can only go back to about 2005.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 10/30/09 at 1:35am

The site came before the boards, by a few months, I think.

From what I can glean from archive.org, that puts it at somewhere in 2003: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.broadwayworld.com

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 10/30/09 at 1:45am

Camelot's changes post-opening.

[Marquise]

Posted: 10/30/09 at 2:58am

The dreadful movie versions of Paint Your Wagon; Chorus Line, Rent, The Producers and Phantom of the Opera

Ed, the board *was* around to discuss the dreadful movie versions of Rent, The Producers and Phantom of the Opera.




Updated On: 10/30/09 at 02:58 AM

[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 10/30/09 at 11:52am

Sorry 'bout that. I guess I was stuck in a mind set about when I started on the board, not when the board itself started. My apologies and three lashes and all that good stuff.