Fishiest Plot?
Fishiest Plot?
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#0Fishiest Plot?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 8:43pmWhat NYC show, on Broadway or Off Broadway during the past year, do you think has had the most fishy plot?
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#2re: Fishiest Plot?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 8:46pmBesides Swimming in the Shallows....it would have to be the timeless "boy-meets-girl, boy-gets-brain tumor, gay angel-writes-opera" story of In My Life.
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#3re: Fishiest Plot?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 8:47pm
I confess, In My Life, with Winston and God's Opera and the pirates and the tumor and the lemons did frog-kick its way first into my mind...
But there must be others...
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#4re: Fishiest Plot?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 8:51pm
Hmmm...does this count? All Shook Up.
SPOILERS!!!
Dennis loves Natalie.
Natalie loves Chad.
Chad loves Miss Sandra.
Chad loves "Ed."
Miss Sandra loves "Ed."
Jim Heller loves Miss Sandra.
Jim Heller loves and marries Sylvia.
Dean loves Lorraine.
Chad loves Natalie.
Natalie doesn't love Chad.
Dennis loves and marries Miss Sandra.
Mayor Matilda loves and marries Sheriff Earl.
Did I forget any???
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#5re: Fishiest Plot?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 8:51pm
Well, for "fishy" the dictionary offers:
inspiring doubt or suspicion
and/or
not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"
with synonyms:
funny, queer, shady, suspect, suspicious
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#6re: Fishiest Plot?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 8:57pm
Gotcha. yeah, I would second "All Shook Up" - even with an explanation I can't follow that plot.
EDIT: Still confused about the term "fishy." Do you mean like it's confusing (I.E. Sweeney Todd)? Or it's just a really bad plot (I.E. In My Life)
Updated On: 5/13/06 at 08:57 PM
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#7re: Fishiest Plot?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 8:58pm
Sure, Millie.
That sounds like a whole school of fishtailing plots.
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#8re: Fishiest Plot?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 9:10pm
"EDIT: Still confused about the term "fishy." Do you mean like it's confusing (I.E. Sweeney Todd)? Or it's just a really bad plot (I.E. In My Life)"
I can't over-analyze this. Just a judgment call. Anything you think is fishy...
Anyone think the Lestat plot is fishy? I haven't read the books or seen the show yet, but so far the gay vampire does his mom and adopts daughter with his guy vampire pal sounds a little out there to me...more like Oprah than the Nosferatu or Bela Lugosi vamps, or even the Fearless Vampire Killers...
Updated On: 5/13/06 at 09:10 PM
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#9re: Fishiest Plot?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 11:41pm
Well...Doubt inspires doubt.
But in terms of what others have alluded to...Brooklyn. I can't tell you the plot at all. The only time I began to enjoy the show was when I totally disregarded the "plot." I can't even remember what was supposed to constitute it...something about drugs and singing...
#10re: Fishiest Plot?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 11:45pm
"some definitely queer goings-on"
Hands down, Naked Girl on the Appian Way
"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#11re: Fishiest Plot?
Posted: 5/14/06 at 12:14am
"Or it's just a really bad plot (I.E. In My Life)"
Well. Seems like someone tripped over to my bad side.
epiphany
Swing Joined: 5/14/06
#12re: Fishiest Plot?
Posted: 5/14/06 at 12:26am
In My Life was just really weird from beginning to end. weird.
I thought the Hot Feet "plot" was pretty tacky,
but I won't comment on it lest I spoil it for anyone...
#13re: Fishiest Plot?
Posted: 5/14/06 at 12:30am
Well, Next year The Little Mermaid will surely take the cake...
The smelly fish by product cake...
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