Gray Gardens vs. Spring Awakening- Page 3

[maya5892]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:11pm

And you just had to chime in, huh?

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:15pm

Updated On: 5/6/09 at 08:15 PM

[maya5892]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:19pm

Well, I remember them from "I Love the 80s"...

(just proves my naivety even more)

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:23pm

Updated On: 5/6/09 at 08:23 PM

[maya5892]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:28pm

Ha. I've seen that movie.

[misschung]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:31pm

I've seen that movie...too many times.

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:32pm

Updated On: 5/6/09 at 08:32 PM

[oohshizz146]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:34pm

Wow. Your gremlin references make you sound so old. (Just KIDDING) Too bad we've all seen it.

And petitefromage, you see me on the boards all the time. You know I'm real.

[ooshizzz146]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:44pm

I have the best taste in theatre evaaaaaaarrr.

My first broadway show was in my life. It was totes rad.

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:45pm

*begins to eat popcorn*

[oohshizz146]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:45pm

Are you having fun?

[maya5892]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:46pm

Wow, this sock puppet is an idiot.

[broadwaywriter]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:47pm

Are you really so hateful that you feel the need to go OUT of your way to change your avatar with the other poster and create a similar name? He just has a different view about Broadway then you do! Leave him alone.

[oohshizz146]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:48pm

I know. Its obviously not the other way around, too. Its a swing and I'm way higher, so duh I was here first. I feel so bad for the person doing this, though. I say let him have his fun, it must be all he has to do.

[oohshizz146]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:49pm

Thanks, broadwaywriter.

And I'm a her...lol. But really, I appreciate it!

[ooshizzz146]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:51pm

Its a swing and I'm way higher, so duh I was here first.

Lyke, totalllllyyyy!!!

[oohshizz146]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:52pm

It's not like I'm bragging about my status. It's just kind of common sense YOU are the swing. It's fine though, have your fun.

[maya5892]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:57pm

Lyke, totalllllyyyy!!!

That is some mature mockery right there.

[broadwaywriter]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 9:53pm

Guys, just stop responding.

[Not Barker, Todd.]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 10:47pm

I would stop responding, but I have to say, that for that post, Mattbrain is my new Jesus.

[musikman]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 10:54pm

yes Mattbrain....that was clutch

[Bobby Maler]

Posted: 4/30/08 at 2:01am

When did Spring Awakening become the musical that only closeted gay teeny boppers could love? If anything, Grey Gardens had much more of a gay following. Edie Beale was an icon within the fashion community before the musical was even conceived. Its gay following allowed Grey Gardens to do quite well when it first started. The problem was, the audience wasn't large enough to sustain it through an extended Broadway run. Spring Awakening, on the other hand, has universal themes that everyone (straight and gay, young and old) can relate to. Saying that it's just for teeny boppers or just for gay men and their fag hags is just as insightful a comment as the original poster.

A Catered Affair is the Grey Gardens of this year. A play with music, almost a chamber piece, moody and evocative at times but ultimately not very exciting...it appeals to a very limited audience. I enjoyed both CA and GG, but I thought SA had more levels..the music and the story spoke to me much more. Is Grey Gardens more "artistic" than SA just because SA was more commercially viable? I would say not. It wasn't just the Gay Theatre Mafia, Reidel and the New York Times that annointed Spring Awakening. Every single critic lavished praise upon it in a way that we had not seen in a very long time. Are you telling me each and every one of them is gay and doesn't know art when they see it? Honestly, we get that you don't like SA. But can you respect that others may have a different opinion without resorting to such silly statements?

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow]

Posted: 4/30/08 at 2:07am

I really do think that award shows like the Tonys and the Oscars do more harm than good among avid theatergoers or moviegoers because if it wasn't for the Tonys, then there'd be no comparison between Spring Awakening and Grey Gardens.

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 4/30/08 at 2:16am

Updated On: 5/6/09 at 02:16 AM