Hedwig closing Sept. 13 — Page 7

I'm not being snarky about a show. I'm being snarky about people who choose to bond over shared memories of a show and condescendingly exclude those who aren't a part of that. It's applied here ever since JCM took over. And it happens at a lot of other shows, too. Even if it's not intentional.

"Oh, it's really too bad you never saw [OBC person] in a role, you'll never know..."

You know what? That's all water under the bridge. There are kids who love Wicked, whose lives were changed by Wicked, who never saw Idina. There are people who love Phantom who never saw Michael Crawford and people who love Hedwig but never saw JCM (in either incarnation), and that's fine.

FindingNamo said: "To be honest, the show is so loud you simply can't hear "the tourists" (without whom the show would have closed even earlier and perhaps even with one of the stars you're not ganging up on) unwrapping their candies. There's a community of sorts that forms in every audience. It seems that what a lot of people most cherish in this case is being insiders in a community of outsiders. Thank god you still have tourists to feel better than."

I truly hope that your cattiness in the above comment is not a reflection of your actual real life personality.

I truly hope that your cattiness in the above comment is not a reflection of your actual real life personality.

It is, sadly... but pay him no attention. He is a depressed, oppressed, over-the-hill queen who has no love life, no friends and no family. He spends more time on here than the real world and obsesses over a society that he cannot change just by refusing to sit on non-diverse panels.

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We are oblivious to others in the audience. We are in our own world with Hedwig, and enjoying every minute of it.

You know that's how the Jonestown Massacre happened, right? All this talk of a "cult" is eerily unsettling to me. A show is a show... There's no need to overthink or over-idealize it.

I wish you'd actually contribute to the conversations like you used to do on here. Sadly, it seems you have kind of devolved into this drive-by poster who only now posts some 'holier than thou' bullsh*t about posters you disagree with. Get a grip and get a life.

If a "troll" is someone who shows genuine concern about a musical being discussed in cult-like fashion, then so be it. Call me a troll. It's a musical, people. Not a way of life.

"If a "troll" is someone who shows genuine concern about a musical being discussed in cult-like fashion, then so be it."

No, a troll is someone who posts in order to stir up trouble.

"Call me a troll. It's a musical, people. Not a way of life."

You don't understand the devotion some people have for a show and why they do. It's much deeper and more meaningful than what you imagine. I could explain it to you but I won't bother.

I'll just say that I've felt this way about Hedwig and Rocky Horror and I'm all the better for it.

No, a troll is someone who posts in order to stir up trouble.

BINGO Jane! Nobody here needs the devil's advocacy, the "contrary by nature" self appointed consistency monitor behavior of the Headcase. Don't call us, Headbanned, we'll call you.

I found communities made up of like minded and feeling people.

Never be afraid of going against the grain, of open dialogue and debate, and of being challenged. Sometimes the best thing we can do is become part of a group that is far from "like minded."

Correct, Namo

We're on different pages, Head.

I wasn't criticizing the desire to be among the like-minded. What I didn't articulate very well, but what I was thinking about when I wrote what I wrote, was that here was a group of people who largely decided they didn't like what Taye Diggs was doing (because they saw a performance or were passing along word of mouth) so they publicly said they weren't going to see the show with him. So even though they love the show so much, some of them are having major emotional episodes tied to the closing, they are blaming it on the person they won't go see and actually created an in-group/outgroup dynamic with the lead in the show they love more than life itself on the outside.

Namo, what I inferred from that post was those of us in the "cult" are condescending to those who aren't. That couldn't be farther from the truth.

As Hedwig said, "no need, none whatsoever."