GROUNDHOG DAY Will Play Final Broadway Performance This September- Page 5
GROUNDHOG DAY Will Play Final Broadway Performance This September
Broadway Star Joined: 10/29/14
GROUNDHOG DAY Will Play Final Broadway Performance This September#100
Posted: 8/16/17 at 8:50pm
After Eight said: "Smokey Lady wrote: "Everything is generic and bland these days. None of these shows will be remembered as classics. With the exception of maybe DEH they will all be forgotten very soon."
Except, perhaps, as bad memories. For as we know, those are not so easy to forget. I speak from experience!
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But not always in a negative away. Because there is always joy in remembering some of the turkeys. They are part of broadway folklore. But they are still bad shows.
GROUNDHOG DAY Will Play Final Broadway Performance This September#101
Posted: 8/16/17 at 8:50pm
Well I bought a ticket to the final performance. I've never actually gone to a final performance before.
Broadway Star Joined: 10/29/14
GROUNDHOG DAY Will Play Final Broadway Performance This September#102
Posted: 8/16/17 at 8:54pm
poisonivy2 said: "Well I bought a ticket to the final performance. I've never actually gone to a final performance before.
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Good. You deserve to be there.
GROUNDHOG DAY Will Play Final Broadway Performance This September#103
Posted: 8/16/17 at 9:21pm
After Eight said: "Andy, that tells us more about the acumen of those who give out awards than it does about the show's worth."
It tells us that us that cynics on the internet are a dime a dozen, and it takes absolutely zero originality or creativity to blindly bash something. But please, continue with your nuanced criticism of Groundhog Day where you say "the show's book and score were extremely bad."
Broadway Star Joined: 10/29/14
GROUNDHOG DAY Will Play Final Broadway Performance This September#104
Posted: 8/16/17 at 9:27pm
Andy Bates said: "After Eight said: "Andy, that tells us more about the acumen of those who give out awards than it does about the show's worth."
It tells us that us that cynics on the internet are a dime a dozen, and it takes absolutely zero originality or creativity to blindly bash something. But please, continue with your nuanced criticism of Groundhog Day where you say "the show's book and score were extremely bad."
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Blindly? You just joined on here a few days ago. And why is After Eight not entitled to his opinion?
Broadway Star Joined: 5/5/17
GROUNDHOG DAY Will Play Final Broadway Performance This September#105
Posted: 8/16/17 at 9:32pm
poisonivy2 said: "Well I bought a ticket to the final performance. I've never actually gone to a final performance before."
Same here on both. It'll be sad, but I'm glad I'll be able to be there.
GROUNDHOG DAY Will Play Final Broadway Performance This September#106
Posted: 8/16/17 at 9:40pm
10086Sundays said: "poisonivy2 said: "Well I bought a ticket to the final performance. I've never actually gone to a final performance before."
Same here on both. It'll be sad, but I'm glad I'll be able to be there.
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The discount code GHDBB1 still works for the final performance.
GROUNDHOG DAY Will Play Final Broadway Performance This September#107
Posted: 8/16/17 at 9:42pm
"That's ok. He is entitled to his opinion."
No one has suggested otherwise. However, he's NOT entitled to attack the character and intelligence of the people who don't share his opinion (a group that includes virtually everyone) as he so frequently does. He's one of the most relentlessly nasty and uninsightful veteran posters I've ever encountered on a message board.
GROUNDHOG DAY Will Play Final Broadway Performance This September#108
Posted: 8/16/17 at 9:43pm
"But please, continue with your nuanced criticism"
Prepare yourself for a list of three or four synonymous adjectives and nothing that gives any indication that he's actually seen the show.
Broadway Star Joined: 10/29/14
GROUNDHOG DAY Will Play Final Broadway Performance This September#109
Posted: 8/16/17 at 9:44pm
Consistency said: ""That's ok. He is entitled to his opinion."
No one has suggested otherwise. However, he's NOT entitled to attack the character and intelligence of the people who don't share his opinion (a group that includes virtually everyone) as he so frequently does. He's one of the most relentlessly nasty and uninsightful veteran posters I've ever encountered on a message board.
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If you can't stand the heat.. then get out of the kitchen. What bunch of woosies.
GROUNDHOG DAY Will Play Final Broadway Performance This September#110
Posted: 8/16/17 at 9:54pm
SmokeyLady said: "If you can't stand the heat.. then get out of the kitchen. What bunch of woosies."
He's entitled to his opinion, and I'm entitled to call him out if his opinion seems unfounded. I'm not sure someone saying "the show is bad" counts as "heat".
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
GROUNDHOG DAY Will Play Final Broadway Performance This September#111
Posted: 8/16/17 at 10:21pm
Andy Bates wrote: "He's entitled to his opinion, and I'm entitled to call him out if his opinion seems unfounded."
What's "unfounded" about it? I saw it, and thought it was ghastly. The repetitive scenes were mind-numbing. The score was a chore and a bore. What more does one need say? Does one have to write a doctoral dissertation to proclaim a show bad, or ask and receive someone else's permission to claim it so? You liked it? Well, good for you. No skin off my back.
"I'm not sure someone saying "the show is bad" counts as "heat"."
It certainly seemed to get a rise out of you, for reasons that, frankly, quite escape me.
GROUNDHOG DAY Will Play Final Broadway Performance This September#112
Posted: 8/16/17 at 10:27pm
After Eight said: "The repetitive scenes were mind-numbing."
Yeah, this show would be better and shorter if he didn't live the same day over and over again...
GROUNDHOG DAY Will Play Final Broadway Performance This September#113
Posted: 8/16/17 at 10:50pm
After Eight said: "What's "unfounded" about it? I saw it, and thought it was ghastly. The repetitive scenes were mind-numbing. The score was a chore and a bore. What more does one need say? Does one have to write a doctoral dissertation to proclaim a show bad, or ask and receive someone else's permission to claim it so?"
If you found the show repetitive, maybe you should have checked about the subject matter before seeing it.
Nope, no one here is saying you need to ask permission to proclaim it bad. Just like I don't have to ask permission to point out that your criticisms seem, again, very simplistic ("The score was a chore and a bore": It's funny because it rhymes!), and overly hyperbolic.
Broadway Star Joined: 10/13/15
GROUNDHOG DAY Will Play Final Broadway Performance This September#114
Posted: 8/17/17 at 2:16am
haterobics said: "NYfanfromCA said: "Maybe I can score a last minute seat to DEH, ha ha, obviously impossible."
Check the DEH cancelation line/lottery thread for info, but DEH releases tickets about four days in advance to shows, typically the seats that were held for accessible patrons and their companions, so there is hope. I just bought DEH tickets yesterday for Saturday's show. Worth a shot.
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Thanks! I will definitely try this. Sad that GHD is closing, but I might as well make the best of the trip and enjoy as many shows as I can.
GROUNDHOG DAY Will Play Final Broadway Performance This September#115
Posted: 8/17/17 at 8:29am
10086Sundays said: "Andy Bates - Don't bother, it's not worth it. Some folks here only post in order to insult others and/or attempt to win the internet. Block them.(Click on Settings, next to log out.) Trust me, it'll make your time here much more pleasant.
No one has to justify their experience with a piece art. It's yours and yours alone. Cherish it, and ignore those who attempt to diminish it."
Words of wisdom here, especially for newcomers. The "Ignore Message Board Users" option is your friend.
"Michael Riedel...The Perez Hilton of the New York Theatre scene"
- Craig Hepworth, What's On Stage
Broadway Star Joined: 10/29/14
GROUNDHOG DAY Will Play Final Broadway Performance This September#116
Posted: 8/17/17 at 12:21pm
"Words of wisdom here, especially for newcomers. The "Ignore Message Board Users" option is your friend."
It all sounds very Trumpish to me.
GROUNDHOG DAY Will Play Final Broadway Performance This September#117
Posted: 8/17/17 at 12:40pm
SmokeyLady said: "If you can't stand the heat.. then get out of the kitchen. What bunch of woosies. "
*wussies
Broadway Star Joined: 10/29/14
GROUNDHOG DAY Will Play Final Broadway Performance This September#118
Posted: 8/17/17 at 12:45pm
LizzieCurry said: "SmokeyLady said: "If you can't stand the heat.. then get out of the kitchen. What bunch of woosies. "
*wussies
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Nope. Not what I call them.
GROUNDHOG DAY Will Play Final Broadway Performance This September#119
Posted: 8/17/17 at 5:09pm
SmokeyLady said: "It all sounds very Trumpish to me."
That's funny, because you saying, "If you can't stand the heat.. then get out of the kitchen. What bunch of woosies." is the most Trumpish thing I've seen on this thread.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/15
GROUNDHOG DAY Will Play Final Broadway Performance This September#121
Posted: 8/17/17 at 7:29pm
Andy Bates said: "SmokeyLady said: "It all sounds very Trumpish to me."
That's funny, because you saying, "If you can't stand the heat.. then get out of the kitchen. What bunch of woosies." is the most Trumpish thing I've seen on this thread.
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*APPLAUSE*
GROUNDHOG DAY Will Play Final Broadway Performance This September#122
Posted: 8/18/17 at 1:47am
So bummed to see this show already ending its run so soon. Wished it could have played through the holiday season. I'm just glad I got to see it on Broadway.
GROUNDHOG DAY Will Play Final Broadway Performance This September#123
Posted: 9/27/17 at 1:20pm
didn't say that it didn't.
I was more saying
ghost (massive flop)
Matilda (massive hit)
GHD (massive flop)
i don't think a producer will entrust him with a huge musical again after losing around 30 million dollars with ghost and ghd.
If that were the case, very few directors would ever work on Broadway. Do you honestly think Ghost flopped because of the direction? That another director would have turned it into a hit? Have you seen how many flops Stroman has had? Michael Mayer didn't have a musical turn a profit until his fourth production, Spring Awakening, nine years after his first, Triumph of Love. I think Warchus will be fine.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
GROUNDHOG DAY Will Play Final Broadway Performance This September#124
Posted: 1/8/18 at 11:17pm
Given how much money this massive show (sadly) hemorrhaged, no national tour isn't too surprising...
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Stuck-GROUNDHOG-DAY-Scraps-Plans-for-a-US-National-Tour-20180108
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