Composer JOE BROOKS commits suicide

[iluvtheatertrash]

Composer JOE BROOKS commits suicide#1

Posted: 5/22/11 at 3:30pm

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Broadway-Flop-IN-MY-LIFEs-Oscar-winning-Composer-Brooks-Commits-Suicide-20110522

Wow.

"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman

[rougeduck]

Composer JOE BROOKS commits suicide#2

Posted: 5/22/11 at 3:34pm

When life give you lemons...

[Porter2]

Composer JOE BROOKS commits suicide#2

Posted: 5/22/11 at 3:39pm

I would've never seen this coming...

“You need three things in the theater - the play, the actors and the audience, - and each must give something.” (Kenneth Haigh)

Updated On: 5/22/11 at 03:39 PM

[Unknown User]

Composer JOE BROOKS commits suicide#3

Posted: 5/22/11 at 3:48pm

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/oscar-winner-and-accused-rapist-apparently-kills-himself/?smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto

[IdinaBellFoster]

Composer JOE BROOKS commits suicide#4

Posted: 5/22/11 at 3:53pm

Someone must've showed him a bootleg of IN MY LIFE.

But seriously, this is horrible. It didn't sound like things were going his way recently.

"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

[bjh2114]

Composer JOE BROOKS commits suicide#5

Posted: 5/22/11 at 4:03pm

It didn't sound like things were going his way recently.

Except for... you know... justice.

[gvendo2005]

Composer JOE BROOKS commits suicide#6

Posted: 5/22/11 at 4:18pm

^ Which, if your avatar is to be believed, has a terrific ass.

"There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from." ~ Charles M. Schulz

[ActingIsLovee]

Composer JOE BROOKS commits suicide#7

Posted: 5/22/11 at 4:24pm

well i may get backlash for this but...a serial rapist committed suicide. i don't find this too upsetting.

[Kad]

Composer JOE BROOKS commits suicide#8

Posted: 5/22/11 at 4:33pm

"But seriously, this is horrible. It didn't sound like things were going his way recently."

Yeah, being charged for sexually assault is a bit of bad luck.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[Dollypop]

Composer JOE BROOKS commits suicide#9

Posted: 5/22/11 at 5:02pm

Hasn't his son been charged with the murder of a fashion designer? The apple didn't fall very far from this tree!

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

[blaxx]

Composer JOE BROOKS commits suicide#10

Posted: 5/22/11 at 5:09pm

He can now play one of the dancing skeletons on the revival!

What? Too soon?

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

[NeoNormal]

Composer JOE BROOKS commits suicide#11

Posted: 5/22/11 at 5:10pm

Where are the bootlegs for In My Life? If I can stand through the bootleg of Dance of the Vampires, I can surely stand it. Which is worse?

But 82 counts of sexual abuse... DAMN.

[blaxx]

Composer JOE BROOKS commits suicide#12

Posted: 5/22/11 at 5:15pm

In My Life was fantastic. I mean that - seen to be believed kinda show.

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

[dramarama3]

Composer JOE BROOKS commits suicide#13

Posted: 5/22/11 at 5:25pm

Who?

Formerly 'dramarama2'

[nomdeplume]

Composer JOE BROOKS commits suicide#14

Posted: 5/22/11 at 6:31pm

Just think.

Now he's stuck up there with that obnoxious little girl and all those file cabinets in the sky.

Unless, of course, he's roasting in another place.