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Godspell - First Preview Tonight
Leading Actor Joined: 3/21/11
Godspell - First Preview Tonight #75
Posted: 10/14/11 at 11:08am
I felt bad for the Godspell kids being made to work Thanksgiving (seriously, who does that?), but the way things are going it looks like they could actually get to spend that day with family 
Godspell - First Preview Tonight #76
Posted: 10/14/11 at 11:09am
I have no problem with topical references in shows. It's not exactly a new thing. Cole Porter was doing it.
But it sounds like, from Whizzer's examples, that these aren't so much topical as they are... "topical".
Godspell - First Preview Tonight #77
Posted: 10/14/11 at 11:53amWait... so there is a drip from the ceiling for no reason? And a JACUZZI?!?!
Godspell - First Preview Tonight #78
Posted: 10/14/11 at 12:07pm
There is water coming down from the ceiling, but it's for a reason. During the baptism at the beginning the water pours from a spout in the ceiling into a pool below. The cast is baptized by walking under the spout and/or jumping into the pool of water. (Some of them get completely wet. They run off stage to change into dry clothes immediately after.)
I guess you could call the pool a jacuzzi at the last supper, but from my vantage point I thought it was just a dry ice machine where the pool was. It's not like they were sitting around in a jacuzzi. They simply shared communion around the pool area.
Godspell - First Preview Tonight #79
Posted: 10/14/11 at 12:10pm
" They simply shared communion around the pool area. "
LOVE. THIS. LINE.
Godspell - First Preview Tonight #80
Posted: 10/14/11 at 12:14pm
I was expecting something really low-brow and pandering, having seen this director's work before, but this sounds so excessively and unbearably dumb, I can easily imagine the cattle eating it up with relish.
Do you mean that they'll eat it up with a green condiment on top, or that they'll eat it up with great pleasure?
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/9/11
Godspell - First Preview Tonight #81
Posted: 10/14/11 at 12:16pm
Whizzer, in the show were there any references to Susan Boyle? Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark? Four Loko? Antoine Dodson?
Godspell - First Preview Tonight #82
Posted: 10/14/11 at 12:19pm
Do you mean that they'll eat it up with a green condiment on top, or that they'll eat it up with great pleasure?
Sorry, I meant to capitalize that - I was referring to Relish de la Vlasik, the famous stripper, whose gimmick was to let the audience take a bite out any part of her anatomy they chose. Of course, her act couldn't go on forever.
Godspell - First Preview Tonight #83
Posted: 10/14/11 at 12:28pmegghumor- oddly there weren't any Spider-Man references. There was a Lion King reference though, so does that kind of count?
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/9/11
Godspell - First Preview Tonight #84
Posted: 10/14/11 at 12:38pmThanks! Perhaps this weekend they'll insert a reference to the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Godspell - First Preview Tonight #85
Posted: 10/14/11 at 12:40pmThere was a reference to the Occupy Wall Street I think I mentioned. During "Turn Back, O Man" she said something like, "you can occupy my circle in the square anytime" or something like that. That was right before she said for the first time I feel wicked.
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/10
Godspell - First Preview Tonight #86
Posted: 10/14/11 at 12:41pm
Loving all of the mixed reviews! I hope it gets better by November! Would this be better to see or The Mountaintop?
Broadway Star Joined: 9/13/09
Godspell - First Preview Tonight #87
Posted: 10/14/11 at 12:54pmAny one know how crowded the lotto was last night? Do they ask for volunteers to participate or do they just pull people up?
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
Godspell - First Preview Tonight #88
Posted: 10/14/11 at 12:56pmDo they change the cushions regularly or do they leave the smell of people's bums?
Godspell - First Preview Tonight #89
Posted: 10/14/11 at 1:02pmThey did not ask for volunteers. The three people they used were just pulled up. I'm sure if you really didn't want to get on stage they wouldn't force you to do so.
Broadway Star Joined: 9/13/09
Godspell - First Preview Tonight #90
Posted: 10/14/11 at 1:07pm
Thanks WhizzerMarvin TrinaJasonMendel, for the response and for the detailed review.
Godspell - First Preview Tonight #91
Posted: 10/14/11 at 1:15pmMildred - yes, publish. There are over 9000 views on this thread!! Just beacause it's an anonymous review doesn't mean it doesn't have value.
Godspell - First Preview Tonight #92
Posted: 10/14/11 at 1:30pm
Freedom of speech honey! Can't have it both ways!
People sure don't mind when first preview reports are masturbatory emissions on the show they're determined to love even if it blows Shamu out of the water.
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/9/11
Godspell - First Preview Tonight #94
Posted: 10/14/11 at 1:46pmThis kind of reminds me of last year's first preview thread for WOMEN ON THE VERGE. It feels oddly similar.
Godspell - First Preview Tonight #95
Posted: 10/14/11 at 1:53pmWomen on the Verge of Being Born-Again?
Godspell - First Preview Tonight #96
Posted: 10/14/11 at 1:54pm
Aren't almost all preview threads like this?:
1) "Saw [show]'s preview last night. God it needs a lot of work."
2) "How DARE you criticize [show]?!? Don't you realize that previews are when they work their problems out? You are an awful person!"
3) (who is an intern in the producer's or marketer's office) "I saw [show], too!! I thought it was great!! [Actor] was sooo cute and sang his heart out!! It's gonna be a huuuuge hit!"
Replay all three comments, with light variations, over and over and over.
Updated On: 10/14/11 at 01:54 PM
Godspell - First Preview Tonight #97
Posted: 10/14/11 at 1:58pmThe presence of Kyle4 is in this thread. There are almost one hundred replies already, not all first previews are this popular. The reception is entirely negative. Both shows began previews in October. I don't know, it just feels similar to me, lol.
Godspell - First Preview Tonight #98
Posted: 10/14/11 at 2:01pmIs there any chance this production might go to Broadway?
Godspell - First Preview Tonight #99
Posted: 10/14/11 at 2:16pm
This thread is definitely similar to the WOTV preview thread.
I have to say that I went from having no interest in seeing this to definitely seeing this on the strength of Whizzer's bad review.
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