Giving Taboo another go today.. come say hello !!!
Giving Taboo another go today.. come say hello !!!
Giving Taboo another go today.. come say hello !!!#0
Posted: 2/8/04 at 12:26pm
As I said in my earlier posting I was disappointed with the Broadway version especially the first act and a couple of the performers.. but enjoyed the second act much more...
Anyways I just got a matinee ticket for today to give it another go... I don't feel like doing what I had planned for today so it was a spur of the moment thing to hear the wonderful songs often briliantly sung again...
It will be fun to see the last matinee of a broadway show too... so if anyone else from here is going this afternoon I am in K22 in the Orchestra.. come say hello !!!!
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
re: Giving Taboo another go today.. come say hello !!!#1
Posted: 2/8/04 at 2:38pmI think once was enough for me. Let us know how it was.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/03
re: re: Giving Taboo another go today.. come say hello !!!#2
Posted: 2/8/04 at 3:35pmLet us know which of the cast cared to show up today.... I think this cast has already checked out.
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
re: re: re: Giving Taboo another go today.. come say hello !!!#3
Posted: 2/8/04 at 3:51pm
Well, I finally saw it last night (Saturday). Everyone was in, all on good behavior and in decent voice. The repeat biz was back in large numbers, ecstatic. As Goldman once said about the Garland audience, last night they were applauding the segues.
I'd love to add something provocative to the 'Taboo' debate, but mostly just feel the show is slender to the point of whispy, with (way too) little emotional weight in the multi-focus story to justify the length, and our investment in it. 45 minutes in, there's still no focus. Whose story IS this, anyway? The music is catchy, but a lot of it doesn't land, because it isn't coming from developed, empathetic characters, allof whom seem to be indifferent to one another. There isn't a moment of real passion between two people anywhere in the show. "Stranger in this World" is the closest to a strong song, and it's in the early I Want position. Nothing builds on it, and again, the lack of a visceral relationship between George and Leigh (on stage) makes it hard to feel the womped up doings justify their being in the same story. Nicola, Big Sue -- who are these people? Why should be invest in their peripheral involvement in these fun-loving narcissists, like that Sallon? (Sidebar: Is Charles Busch the man to write about the 80s London club scene? The world Busch inhabited would've found Boy George skivvy and hardly a worthy descendent of Joan, Bette, Myrna. Sorry, but the versamilitude isn't exactly throbbing; it's a little like Jerry Herman writing an extra song for Rent.) But to be fair, some shows I just don't get, and this is one of them.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/2/03
Giving Taboo another go today.. come say hello !!!#4
Posted: 2/9/04 at 12:32amBut Lee is nothing if not loyal. I like that in a man.
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