The completely random capitalizing, especially coupled with the failure to capitalize what you're actually supposed to, basic stuff like 'I'.
The fact that you to use ellipsis so much it makes me wonder if you get a quarter from someone each time you do it.
This (!!!) nonsense, like everything you say is so important that it requires not one, but three exclamation points.
The fact that having your blog in your signature is not enough, that you feel compelled to post a link to it in EVERY POST(see how I isolated usage there for effect?)
The sheer glee you seem to be taking from the negative aspects of the production is ugly. It's crass, hater talk, and would make me stop taking you seriously, HAD you not ALREADY ... accomPLISHed that via ... OthER means!!!
The overt narcissism that drips from every single thing you type I can handle. This is, after all, a message board full of theater fanboys, so course it's going to have it's fair share of attention whores.
But you type like a 12 year old girl. An annoying one who's usually ignored at family dinners. You'd do yourself a huge favor by re-evaluating your writing style and expressing yourself like a grown up. That's just if you want to write/blog seriously, if you want to keep sounding like a spazzy, sugared up tween.... then godspeed.
Also, it wasn't a log. It was(obviously) a piece of steel or iron which was(obviously) not actually attached to the(obvious) prop the actor was using to act out his moving of the(not) log.
On message:
-Godspell is a largely improvised and organic piece. This means that any impressions gained from the first week of previews are worthless. Give them time to find their pacing. A lot of shows on Broadway now are filled with skilled artisans doing a job for a paycheck, and they do them well, but the company filled with true believers, actors who are 110% committed to a piece, is becoming more and more infrequent. I certainly saw a group of true believers and, for that alone, I hope their show succeeds. If it doesn't, it won't be for lack of talent on the stage.
Sadly it's clear that the improvisational aspect of the production was not accommodated when they added all the technical aspects to it, and it's suffered heavily for it. When I saw it I could see exactly where in the piece both actresses injured themselves, and both of those injuries could have been prevented by a small measure of foresight from the director, not to mention a safer set design.(those trampoline holes are smaaaaaaaall). It made me wonder where Equity was during the tech process.
I saw it early, and things change before an opening, but what I saw was a very talented cast surrounded by a lot of money spent poorly, which either equals a crappy final project, or spending even more money to go back and fix things that should have been corrected in tech. Maybe Ken Davenport is a genius when it comes to marketing(because using twitter is hard), but it's clear he has a lot to learn about the production end of his business. He also needs to learn how to be a subtler sock puppet on theater message boards, Goldenboy2Davenport.
Updated On: 10/18/11 at 09:04 PM
