FOLLIES is CLOSED, Y'all
FOLLIES is CLOSED, Y'all
#1FOLLIES is CLOSED, Y'all
Posted: 1/22/12 at 1:34am
It's gonna be gone in like 24 hours. I mean, just think about that for a minute.
Updated On: 1/22/12 at 01:34 AM
#2FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all
Posted: 1/22/12 at 1:57am
Perhaps this is the right place to confess.
FOLLIES bores me to death. Now, I've never seen it in the theatre, so I'll go when it comes out here to Los Angeles and maybe I'll have a revelation. I hope so. But even though I like several of the songs, I can never get through it in one listening.
Now I feel dirty. But lighter.
bobbybaby85
Featured Actor Joined: 8/3/11
#5FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all
Posted: 1/22/12 at 2:10amOh no! Now Lauren Harding will never be on Broadway...
#6FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all
Posted: 1/22/12 at 2:22amClosing, yes.....and OPENING in L.A., woohoo!!
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#7FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all
Posted: 1/22/12 at 5:16am
Ah...thanks for the memories!
I really loved Follies. So glad to have caught it.
Treat her well, LA!
Musical Director 109
Understudy Joined: 3/14/09
#8FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all
Posted: 1/22/12 at 5:46amThe only musical that I got to see TWICE in a twenty four hour period!!!!! Simply BRILLIANT in every way.So sad to see it leave;happy to have seen a first rate production of this show. LA is in for a great treat.
#9FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all
Posted: 1/22/12 at 8:32amWell, I'm mad about this. Last time we were in New York my parents said we would see it. And what do they say when we get ther? "I just don't feel like it anymore. Let's just sit and chat in your sisters apartment". I was mad then, and today I am mad again. But congrats to the whole production team and cast on a great show.
#10FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all
Posted: 1/22/12 at 9:40am
^ That would make me mad, too.
I'm sad that FOLLIES is closing, but I'm glad I got to see it a few times.
#11FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all
Posted: 1/22/12 at 10:46am
Every time I read this thread header, I picture Paul Deen's voice saying it.
Thanks a whole bunch for that, Jordy.
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#12FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all
Posted: 1/22/12 at 10:49am
LOL. And when I wrote it, I had her in mind. Funny how that happens but it reminds me of this...
Gaveston2
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/11
#13FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all
Posted: 1/22/12 at 11:06am
The FOLLIES score is so varied that anyone who claims to be bored by it is either posing in a misguided attempt to be "cool", or hates musical theater entirely.
Absolutely a personal choice. But I see no reason to pretend it's an objective opinion.
If the "Idiot" hat is short for AMERICAN IDIOT, then maybe I understand. But I'll wager that even the Green Day guys find things to like in FOLLIES.
#14FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all
Posted: 1/22/12 at 12:18pmAs much as I respect your opinion that is one of the stupidest things I have heard.
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#15FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all
Posted: 1/22/12 at 12:26pm
I loved this version of Follies. But I have found other productions to be boring. Some even abysmal. There was a horrid production with Patty Duke a few years ago that was unbearable. Not even the brilliance of the material could come thru.
#16FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all
Posted: 1/22/12 at 12:31pmPatty Duke starring as Helen Keller as Sally Durant Plummer would be something worth seeing.
#17FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all
Posted: 1/22/12 at 12:37pm
She'd probably fall more often than Bernadette seems to.
G'bye, Follies.
#18FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all
Posted: 1/22/12 at 1:17pmOf course, Paula Deen would pronounce it "FOWLIES," even if most Southerners in their right mind wouldn't.
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#19FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all
Posted: 1/22/12 at 1:20pmPatty Duke played Phyllis and was by all accounts pretty miscast. Vicki Carr played Sally, and I've heard was quite good.
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#20FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all
Posted: 1/22/12 at 1:41pmWell I did see it. Vicky Carr was fine in a very presentational way. But it was all horrid and best forgotten. Somewhere on that site there should be a clip of Duke messing up during Loveland and simply giving up and walking off the stage.
#22FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all
Posted: 1/22/12 at 3:15pmIt took me 40 years to get over the closing of the original production. I hope to Stritch I get over this one sooner.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#23FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all
Posted: 1/22/12 at 3:15pm
I've seen many productions of FOLLIES and this was the only one that came close to capturing the brilliance of the original. I was glad that I had the opportunity to see this version.
#24FOLLIES Is Closing, Y'all
Posted: 1/22/12 at 3:22pmI too am very happy that I had the privilege of seeing the show twice. I wasn't alive for the original but from everything I've heard, this seems to be as close as it gets to emulating the magic of the 1971 production. I wish it a good run in LA and I wonder if there's any hope of a life after Los Angeles.
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