CapnHook's quick thoughts on MERRY POPPINS (12/24)

I really think the show deserves at least a nomination for best scenic design. Some of the "magic" they made happen on the stage was quite cool and showed a great amount of ingenuity.

I definitely agree with your assessment.

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Spoilers:

He's upside down in a harness.

Oh. But does he walk up the proscenium and then around the top and back down? Or how does that work? Sorry, I know I won't be seeing the show anytime soon, so I don't care if it's ruined. You can PM me if you want, that way it won't ruin it for anyone else.

Don't worry, I noticed when I saw him do it in London.

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You should change the title of this thread to:
CapnHook quickly ruins MARY POPPINS (12/24) because that's essentially all you do.

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If you don't want any spoilers, than don't read a review of the show. It's that simple.

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Oh no! I'm sorry I made you click on a thread that obviously discussed the show and would include specifics about what I saw!

Puh-lease. The only time a "review" thread should include a warning is to say that is DOESN'T have spoilers.

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No - the mechanics of a show aren't spoilers. Let's get that straight. Telling you specifics about the events of a show are spoilers, such as my saying that Bert climbs the proscenium of a stage. That being said, I knew full well I had included spoilers in my thread. I can control that. What I CAN'T control is your ability to make a judgement and click on the thread to read it.

I, too, can write a review without spoilers. And if I wanted to, I would have added a note saying "No spoilers" in the thread subject title.

The issue here is your stubborness in wanting to have a spoiler warning in my thread title. If anything written in my thread is preventing you from going to see the show, that is your problem, not mine. Frankly, I think that's foolish. Before I saw AVENUE Q I knew there were naked puppets doing sexual acts, but that didn't prevent me from seeing the show. You chose to click on the thread and read it. No one forced you.

Back in September there were test screenings of the film DREAMGIRLS. There were threads here which didn't include a spoiler warning. But they didn't need to. I was smart enough not to click on them. I wanted the film to be a total surprise. I never listened to any leaked music tracks. I stayed away from "review" threads. The only thing I saw were the trailers. And when I saw the film for the first time on November 15, everything was new to me. Nothing "spoiled." Achieved because I was smart enough to know what to read and not read on the internet.

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Capn - I think the real problem here is YOUR stubbornness not to just take the few seconds and type SPOILERS. That's all you need to do. So then people who haven't seen the show don't need to read you telling BroadwayWorld that they should "dump" an effect. Cause I can just see Matthew Bourne pulling Gavin Lee aside tonight and saying, "Gavin, we've had a small issue. CapnHook from BroadwayWorld thinks we should dump the proscenium walk. So, I'll just come up with something new and we'll put it in tonight."

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