Fishiest Plot?

[nomdeplume]

Fishiest Plot?#0

Posted: 5/13/06 at 8:43pm

What NYC show, on Broadway or Off Broadway during the past year, do you think has had the most fishy plot?

[RentBoy86]

re: Fishiest Plot?#1

Posted: 5/13/06 at 8:45pm

Explain what you mean by "fishy"

[Yankeefan007]

re: Fishiest Plot?#2

Posted: 5/13/06 at 8:46pm

Besides 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]

re: Fishiest Plot?#3

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]

re: Fishiest Plot?#4

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???

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

[nomdeplume]

re: Fishiest Plot?#5

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]

re: Fishiest Plot?#6

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]

re: Fishiest Plot?#7

Posted: 5/13/06 at 8:58pm

Sure, Millie.

That sounds like a whole school of fishtailing plots.

[nomdeplume]

re: Fishiest Plot?#8

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]

re: Fishiest Plot?#9

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...

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[Phantom2]

re: Fishiest Plot?#10

Posted: 5/13/06 at 11:45pm

"some definitely queer goings-on"

Hands down, Naked Girl on the Appian Way

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[BSoBW2]

re: Fishiest Plot?#11

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]

re: Fishiest Plot?#12

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...

[BluCat500]

re: Fishiest Plot?#13

Posted: 5/14/06 at 12:30am

Well, Next year The Little Mermaid will surely take the cake...

The smelly fish by product cake...

So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.~Office Space