#51
Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:11pm
And you just had to chime in, huh? 
Gray Gardens vs. Spring Awakening — Page 3
#53
Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:19pm
Well, I remember them from "I Love the 80s"...
(just proves my naivety even more)
(just proves my naivety even more)
#56
Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:31pm
I've seen that movie...too many times.
The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go --doesn't it?
#58
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.
And petitefromage, you see me on the boards all the time. You know I'm real.
"I told you, NO Rodgers and Hammerstein!"- Bart Simpson
#59
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.
My first broadway show was in my life. It was totes rad.
#61
Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:45pm
Are you having fun?
"I told you, NO Rodgers and Hammerstein!"- Bart Simpson
#62
Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:46pm
Wow, this sock puppet is an idiot.
#63
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.
#64
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.
"I told you, NO Rodgers and Hammerstein!"- Bart Simpson
#65
Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:49pm
Thanks, broadwaywriter.
And I'm a her...lol. But really, I appreciate it!
And I'm a her...lol. But really, I appreciate it!
"I told you, NO Rodgers and Hammerstein!"- Bart Simpson
#66
Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:51pm
Its a swing and I'm way higher, so duh I was here first.
Lyke, totalllllyyyy!!!
Lyke, totalllllyyyy!!!
#67
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.
"I told you, NO Rodgers and Hammerstein!"- Bart Simpson
#68
Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:57pm
Lyke, totalllllyyyy!!!
That is some mature mockery right there.
That is some mature mockery right there.
#70
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.
PLEASE! Do not post anything negative or dramatic! DidYouReallyHearMe has LOST the ability to ignore such posts and he will comment! Please, help him.
With Clay Aiken in Spamalot, all of Broadway is singing a collective "There! Right! There!" -Me-
"Not Barker, Todd is the only person I've ever known who could imitate Katherine Hepburn...in print." -nmartin-
With Clay Aiken in Spamalot, all of Broadway is singing a collective "There! Right! There!" -Me-
"Not Barker, Todd is the only person I've ever known who could imitate Katherine Hepburn...in print." -nmartin-
#71
Posted: 4/29/08 at 10:54pm
yes Mattbrain....that was clutch
-There's the muddle in the middle. There's the puddle where the poodle did the piddle."
#72
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?
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?
#73
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.
"[Gore] was widely perceived as arrogant. If you know something, you're not smart. You're a smarty-pants. It's annoying. People get annoyed with your knowledge. It goes back to high school, to not doing your homework ... 'There's something I should know, I don't know why I should know it but someone knows it and I don't. So I'm going to have to make fun of him now.'"
-Sarah Vowell, The Partly-Cloudy Patriot
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