Do you avoid Matinees?- Page 5
Do you avoid Matinees?
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
Do you avoid protein shakes?#100
Posted: 8/7/13 at 1:41pmThank you, D2. Pretty sure you summed it all up. Nothing more needs to be said.
Do you avoid protein shakes?#101
Posted: 8/7/13 at 1:45pm
"It is like going to see Shakira and having Jennifer Lopez go on instead. Whatever I guess it is not a big deal."
No. And no, it's not.
If you are paying to see a production like Patti LuPone's revival of Gypsy, where the main attraction is billed as Patti LuPone, that's the central draw, then yes. I would understand the ire.
But a good many productions do NOT that. You are paying to see the show as a whole. You are not paying to see Will Chase in Concert.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
Do you avoid protein shakes?#102
Posted: 8/7/13 at 5:55pm
"Could you please spell check my paragraph and then share your thoughts?"
This is what you asked in your initial post. Guileless soul and kind heart that I am, I actually took you at your word and took the time to do that spell check. To no thanks from you for my trouble.
And now you're complaining that people did precisely what you asked? Really, now!
And you further go on to say that people are "auto-correcting" your "pretty decent spelling." They're not auto-correcting, they're correcting. And if you think your spelling is pretty decent, why did you ask people to do a spell check for you in the first place?
It's all too much to try to fathom. Mallarmé's poems are crystal clear in comparison.
Do you avoid chocolate cake?#103
Posted: 8/7/13 at 7:42pm
Do you avoid chocolate cake?#104
Posted: 8/7/13 at 7:50pm
References to Foucault: pretentious.
References to Mallarmé: not pretentious.
Do you avoid green girls on cherry pickers?#105
Posted: 8/7/13 at 7:52pmThis thread is amazing.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
Do you avoid green girls on cherry pickers?#106
Posted: 8/7/13 at 8:05pm
"References to Foucault: pretentious.
References to Mallarmé: not pretentious."
If you knew who either was, (much less read either), you might understand the difference.
Oh, and also, you obviously don't realize (no surprise there) that this forum is a (supposed) discussion of ideas, not the vacuous namedropping of some pathetic wannabe-cool musical.
I wholly understand though, all this completely beyond the ken of someone whose conception of good theatre is Nobody Loves You.
Do you avoid green girls on cherry pickers?#107
Posted: 8/7/13 at 8:16pm
"If you knew who either was, (much less read either), you might understand the difference."
One's a French symbolist and critic, and the other a French philosopher and social critic. I'd say name-dropping either in a discussion that doesn't even remotely involve their fields is pretentious. And don't you always get bent out of shape when someone supposedly makes an assumption about you?
"not the vacuous namedropping of some pathetic wannabe-cool musical."
I was referring to your own criticism of said musical, actually. And your own hypocrisy, which knows no bounds and deepens with every smug statement you deign to share.
"I wholly understand though, all this completely beyond the ken of someone whose conception of good theatre is Nobody Loves You."
Except I specifically said I did NOT think it was great theatre and that it was a fine diversion.
And please, you post rapturously of the most trifling pieces of musical theatre from the 30s.
Wine gets better with age. Unless something goes wrong and it turns into vinegar, which seems to be the case with you.
Do you avoid green girls on cherry pickers?#108
Posted: 8/7/13 at 8:21pm
Kad, you have a way with words. : )
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
Do you avoid green girls on cherry pickers?#109
Posted: 8/7/13 at 8:30pm
Glad to see you know how to use Wikipedia! Excellent research!
We'll all have to be on the lookout for you at some future show. You'll be the one with the skinny jeans, backwards baseball cap and a worn copy of Mallarmé in your hands!
Do you avoid green girls on cherry pickers?#110
Posted: 8/7/13 at 11:18pm
Have your medications been re-adjusted? You're not even attempting to make sense anymore.
Either way, I'm sure I'll run into you at a first preview of something. Or should I say, you'll run into me. With your motorized wheelchair.
Stand-by Joined: 5/3/09
Do you avoid picking fruit?#111
Posted: 8/8/13 at 2:56am
how amusing this thread is.
Personally, i notice a lack of energy in mats compared to evening shows. But that doesn't stop me from seeing them. When i am seeing a touring show and have a host of dates to pic from i try and see a evening but when i am in the city and am trying to see as much as possible, ill take what ever i can get...
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
Do you avoid picking fruit?#112
Posted: 8/8/13 at 4:50am
"And please, you post rapturously of the most trifling pieces of musical theatre from the 30s."
Uhh, No, No, Nanette and Good News are from the 20s. No surprise that you can't bother to get your facts straight.
"Wine gets better with age."
Ha ha! Your knowledge of wine is as limited as your knowledge of theatre, fashion, literature, history, language, and just about everything else. Some wines are meant to be drunk young.
"Unless something goes wrong and it turns into vinegar, which seems to be the case with you."
Wow, I'm quite surprised you thought I could ever have been wine, even the cheap table kind. I guess I should be flattered. Personally, I think you've always been the same Kool-Aid you are now.
"Have your medications been re-adjusted? ... Or should I say, you'll run into me. With your motorized wheelchair."
Mmm, now we can add ageism to your glowing list of personality traits. Again, no surprise there.
Does After Eight avoid geritol? #113
Posted: 8/8/13 at 6:56am
Sometimes I honestly can't tell if AE is real or performance art.
Does After Eight avoid geritol? #114
Posted: 8/8/13 at 9:53am
I don't hate old people. Just smug, snobbish ones- who apparently have to bend over backwards to make their attempts at barbs land.
And I have proven- time and time again- that I am not uninformed. I believe I am going to rip a page from your yellowed, deteriorating playbook and demand a public apology.
Does After Eight avoid geritol? #115
Posted: 8/8/13 at 10:26am
Kad, he has to bend over for something.
If he, as Taz posits, exists at all.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
Does After Eight avoid geritol? #116
Posted: 8/8/13 at 10:30am
"And I have proven- time and time again- that I am not uninformed."
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
"I believe I am going to rip a page from your yellowed, deteriorating playbook and demand a public apology.
Rip a page from my playbook, you say? You've already ripped off the entire thing! You poor, pathetic soul, you.You don't even realize that you've been imitating my writing style for some time now, with the most embarrassing results. You're like the crow in the fable about the crow and the peacock. You can bedeck yourself in all the peacock's feathers you please-- you'll still be just a crow, only a more ridiculous-looking one.
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Well, do yourself, me, and the rest of the BWW community a favor: don't flatter me.
Updated On: 8/8/13 at 10:30 AM
Do You Avoid Green Eggs and Ham?#117
Posted: 8/8/13 at 10:52am
Guys, let me share this simple quote from one of my favorite films. Perhaps it's appropriate considering how "ardent" some persons are getting in this thread. Can anyone guess the film w/o doing a Google search?
"Hush, please. That is enough, Margaret. If you cannot think of anything appropr'iate to say, you will please restrict your remarks to the weather. "
Do You Avoid Green Eggs and Ham?#118
Posted: 8/8/13 at 10:58am
Sense and Sensibility.
That was too easy. 
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/15/13
Are Green Eggs and Ham all thats left of Danys Dragons?#119
Posted: 8/8/13 at 11:01amSay what want about WICKEDAWAKENRENT but he has created the best thread since at least Ive been here!
Are Green Eggs and Ham all thats left of Danys Dragons?#120
Posted: 8/8/13 at 11:15am
...that's not his name
Are Green Eggs and Ham all thats left of Danys Dragons?#121
Posted: 8/8/13 at 4:04pm
"They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Well, do yourself, me, and the rest of the BWW community a favor: don't flatter me. "
You are out of your goddamn mind.
Spare the world your snobby purple prose and delusional projections. Go have some nice, simple tomato soup.
Are Green Eggs and Ham all thats left of Danys Dragons?#122
Posted: 8/9/13 at 4:40am
i always felt like Matinees were warm ups for evening performances. In that, I mean that it seems like the energy is not as big as evenings- the same can be said of the audience. I know that whenever I did performed two show days- Matinees built up my Adeline and warmed me up for the evening show.
I also avoid Matinees because it seems there is a greater chance of seeing understudies (Which I don't really mind IF I have seen the lead already) and also less people come out of the stage door between shows than at the end of the day.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
Are Green Eggs and Ham all thats left of Danys Dragons?#123
Posted: 8/9/13 at 9:21amBut darrey, surely you wouldn't throw a tantrum about missing a performer if he or she happened to call out of a matinee.
Are Green Eggs and Ham all thats left of Danys Dragons?#124
Posted: 8/9/13 at 10:38amOf course I wouldn't- Sorry if I gave you that impression. But I would be lying if I said I wouldn't be a little disappointed or upset about it.
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