"If you don't like Chicago - then stop going to the theatre! THIS is as good as it gets!"

[CapnHook]

"If you don't like Chicago - then stop going to the theatre! THIS is as good as it gets!"#0

Posted: 6/3/05 at 1:54pm

This is the line they chose to end with featuring the Chicago video:

http://staging.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoobroadway/shows/show.php?s=chic

Well - if THAT is as good as it gets, then Broadway is doomed. That was one of the most insulting marketing ploys I ever heard.

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

[chinkie azn jai]

re: 'If you don't like Chicago - then stop going to the theatre! THIS is as good as it gets!'#1

Posted: 6/3/05 at 1:59pm

When I'm in nyc, I always watch that broadway previews channel and I always hear that line. And that line has always irked me.

"Chicago is it's own incredible theater town right there smack down in the middle of the heartland. What a great city! I can see why Oprah likes to live there!" - Dee Hoty :-D

[BwayTheatre11]

re: 'If you don't like Chicago - then stop going to the theatre! THIS is as good as it gets!'#2

Posted: 6/3/05 at 3:35pm

Wait a minute. They are giving credit to Charlotte, but the pics are with Bianca!

CCM '10!

[MarkCohen]

re: 'If you don't like Chicago - then stop going to the theatre! THIS is as good as it gets!'#3

Posted: 6/3/05 at 4:06pm

I thought the stage version was pretty boring myself.

[ljay889]

re: 'If you don't like Chicago - then stop going to the theatre! THIS is a#5

Posted: 6/3/05 at 4:11pm

The current stage version is AMAZING. It is for those with mature tastes, and have a taste for darker Theater.

I can't get this damn video to play for me, I really want to see this.

[Flight0017]

re: 'If you don't like Chicago - then stop going to the theatre! THIS is a#6

Posted: 6/3/05 at 4:15pm

And why do the clips show the original London revival cast?

"Curse you, Lady Glyde!"

[ashley0139]

re: 'If you don't like Chicago - then stop going to the theatre! THIS is a#8

Posted: 6/3/05 at 6:20pm

I hear that whenever I'm in NY. The show is ok, but it's certainly not my favorite.

"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife

[CJR]

re: 'If you don't like Chicago - then stop going to the theatre! THIS is a#9

Posted: 6/3/05 at 6:25pm

Psh.

I like the POTO page better cause of Tracy Shayne as Christine

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If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...

[ljay889]

re: 'If you don't like Chicago - then stop going to the theatre! THIS is a#10

Posted: 6/3/05 at 6:27pm

Ooooh. I like the Charity video.

[CJR]

re: 'If you don't like Chicago - then stop going to the theatre! THIS is a#11

Posted: 6/3/05 at 6:38pm

I used to adore Chicago.... now I'm just kind of sick of it. It's my own fault though, for having seen it as many times as I have. I must say, for as talented as the cast is, the quality of the show HAS indeed declined over the years.

"You're every gay man's wet dream!" ~ MA

If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...

[Unknown User]

re: 'If you don't like Chicago - then stop going to the theatre! THIS is a#12

Posted: 6/3/05 at 7:17pm

I Love Chicago!

[Jon]

re: 'If you don't like Chicago - then stop going to the theatre! THIS is a#13

Posted: 6/3/05 at 9:37pm

At the risk of staring a flame war, let me just say:

I'd like the current revival of CHICAGO better if it had actual sets and costumes. I could SWEAR the show is supposed to be set in the 1920's, but it sure doesn't look like that. It looks like a gay bar, with guys in leather pants and vests with no shirts.

It looks like a rehearsal, not an actual show.

[LaVieBoheme2]

re: 'If you don't like Chicago - then stop going to the theatre! THIS is a#14

Posted: 6/4/05 at 12:09am

I hope that Chicago isn't as good as it gets. Don't get me wrong, I think Chicago is pretty good, but that's a ridiculous claim. I guess they'll say whatever they have to to fill seats though. I liked the Rent video (of course), even though it wasn't anything new. Isn't Anthony Rapp amazing? I wish he still posted here. And I liked the Avenue Q video, even though I think I watched it before. John Tartaglia is amazing too. I think I'm doomed to always fall for gay guys, not only in celebrity world, but in my world too. I'm totally off topic now so I'll stop. Elyse. No day but today.

Elyse. No day but Today. My avatar: me talking to Norbert Leo Butz.

[ticenewyorkcity]

re: 'If you don't like Chicago - then stop going to the theatre! THIS is a#15

Posted: 6/4/05 at 12:27am

listen to the end again because that is not what she says

[Aigoo]

re: 'If you don't like Chicago - then stop going to the theatre! THIS is a#16

Posted: 6/4/05 at 12:30am

Chicago's good. Not THAT good.

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[Unmasked05]

re: 'If you don't like Chicago - then stop going to the theatre! THIS is a#17

Posted: 6/4/05 at 4:49am

You guys are lucky I wish I could watch the broadway preview channel......the only time I get to see a preview for a broadway show is when the commercials come on "E" other than that there commercials for the touring shows that come through here.

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[nmartin]

re: 'If you don't like Chicago - then stop going to the theatre! THIS is a#18

Posted: 6/4/05 at 8:21am

Advertising is hyperbole. Besides, Chicago is just about as good as it gets.