In My Life is a Joke, right?

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 9/15/05 at 1:59am

This is the synopsis from the web site: (you can also listen to some music clips, but don't say you weren't warned...

Our story begins with an unwitting young couple being used in God’s first reality opera. Poor things, we all know that an opera is nothing without a little tragedy. As the story unfolds, we discover that our star-crossed lovers have a lot more to worry about than just the opera that they are unaware of.
Jenny is a believer in fate and destiny. She hears an amazing song on the radio and MUST find the songwriter. It was as if he was speaking from her own soul. When she finds him, she is unshaken by the afflictions J. T. is clearly riddled with. He is freaked out by his “chance” meeting with this girl, who seems to have had their whole lives mapped out before she even walked into the diner. His Tourettes, OCD and ADHD fly out of control when Jenny shows up full of convictions, as she whisks him away to her apartment.

All the while, their “doomed” lives are being chronicled by Winston, a former CPA who has cast aside his earthly titles and has chosen a more…shall we say…flamboyant lifestyle to compliment his latest aspiration. To be the greatest opera director that heaven has ever known! He has been chosen to direct God’s first reality opera, and believes he has found a couple that is ripe for tragedy.

As if this weren’t enough, God is burnt out and has left his post for an undetermined leave of absence, which he spends riding his old bicycle and singing nostalgic songs. A 12-year old girl in heaven tries to convince God to pay attention again.

Sheesh, how will it all end? No one knows…YET! (Winston is still re-writing)

Now, who wants to pay to see this?

[zzannahk]

Posted: 9/15/05 at 2:03am

it kinda sounds like a bad imitation of a Kevin Smith movie

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 9/15/05 at 2:13am

Or a really funny SCTV Skit.
I forgot to tell you to make sure to click on the "What's up with all the lemons?" button to read an excerpt of dialogue...

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 9/15/05 at 2:33am

Oh, my stars, I just found this about the play being done at the Steppenwolf on the link to Playbill...

The opening stage directions of Last of the Boys read: "A man appears from the trailer. Moves into the yard, opening a bottle of beer. Not a good beer. This is a point of contention. These things matter. Name is Stephen Willoughy Stark. You'd know him as Jeeter. (And you wouldn't know why.) He’s a vet. Vietnam. Our man has lived hard in his fifty-plus years. Knocked about these amber waves for a good long time and left his name on an awful lot of lists, if you follow. And he always ends up here: at the home of his best pal, his "top hombre," his "comrade in armchairs": Benjamin Lee Holloway. You’d know him as Ben. (You WOULD NOT call him 'Benny' or 'Benjie' or any other moniker of jocular familiarity - even in jest.) And chances are you'd like him. He's a builder. Used to work for a contractor, but couldn't abide a lesser man looking over his shoulder. Too much like Nam. Yeah, he's a vet, too."

What is going on????
This is just terrible,terrible writing...

[Composer9]

Posted: 9/15/05 at 3:37am

wow...just. wow.

[Eastwickian]

Posted: 9/15/05 at 5:03am

Not only does America get the best new musicals, they get the best new flops as well.

It's just not fair.
Updated On: 9/15/05 at 05:03 AM

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 9/15/05 at 5:14am

"Not only does America get the best new musicals, they get the best new flops as well.

It's just not fair"

London got Les Mis, Miss Saigon, Jerry Springer, Evita, Bombay Dreams and most recently, the Sweeney Revival (still to be revealed as a flop or a hit, probably the latter) first. So I think london is still the front runner in new flops and hits.

Updated On: 9/15/05 at 05:14 AM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/15/05 at 8:55am

As if this weren’t enough, God is burnt out and has left his post for an undetermined leave of absence, which he spends riding his old bicycle and singing nostalgic songs. A 12-year old girl in heaven tries to convince God to pay attention again.

Whose idea was it to lift Tony Kushner's idea about God going away and to replace Roy Cohn with a 12-year old girl?

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/15/05 at 9:36am

The ad is on the radio right now - the singer, female, sounds like a high school chorister who's never had a voice lesson and really needs some serious guidance.

[Barihunk]

Posted: 9/15/05 at 10:22am

I am still reeling from reading that. Thank you Sueleen!

For all of you musical theatre lovers who lament the lack of "original" musicals, who geschrei about every show being based on a novel or a movie - I hope you are pleased with what you have wrought! :)

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 9/15/05 at 10:31am

Hey now! I'm seeing Last of the Boys next week and I'm very excited! (I'd be more excited if Gary Cole were still in it, but I guess we can't have everything.)

[Tiny-Toon]

Posted: 9/15/05 at 10:33am

This will be a horrible, horrible show.
Can't wait to see it!!

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 9/15/05 at 10:51am

"if you follow"

No, I don't...

This is gonna be awesome!

[robbiej]

Posted: 9/15/05 at 11:02am

Does anyone else find even the slightest bit ironic the glee with which Tiny-Toon is anticipating this show...and yet he/she has the logo for the Seoul production of BKLYN proudly displayed in his/her signature line?

I think Alanis Morrisette should write a song about it!

Updated On: 9/15/05 at 11:02 AM

[grizzabella]

Posted: 9/15/05 at 11:10am

To echo Sueleengay, "This is a joke, right?" I'm trying to figure out if there is a point to all this. This sort of has echos of those awful "Oh God" movies of the 70's.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 9/15/05 at 11:15am

Will the phrase "Not Since Carrie" finally be used? I am absolutely trembling to see this show!!

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 9/15/05 at 11:21am

Not Since Carrie may no longer apply.

Hell, Carrie at its worst is more entertaining than a lot of shows since.


robbie - I have also noticed that throughout this whole time - however, IN MY LIFE may be worse than BKLYN.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 9/15/05 at 11:27am

Mandelbaum is going to have several new entries to include whenever he gets around to updating that book.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 9/15/05 at 11:28am

You know, that book IS my bible.

Forget Brockett - Mendlebaum's book is amazing!

I hope he puts colored pictures in of all the different playbills, production stills of Carrie and the others.

I would die.

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 9/15/05 at 1:33pm

oh my god, how immature can these people be?!! Its just never going to end

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/15/05 at 1:42pm

God, I wish I could see this show! It sounds like another non-camp Thou Shalt Not so-bad-it-has-to-be-seen kind of show. Of course, with all this weirdness, it could in fact turn out to be a charming cult flop a la Amour. Or it could be nothing that will be quickly forgotten a la Mail. Either way, if I could get to NYC, I would see it. It sounds far more interesting than Brooklyn. I'm on pins and needles!

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 9/15/05 at 1:50pm

Zone, with the exception of Jerry Springer The Opera, every show you listed either has been or is about to be on Broadway.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/15/05 at 1:58pm

I just read the dialogue in "What's With All These Lemons?"

LOL

It's too bizarre. Of course, out of context and unperformed, just about any few lines of dialogue will seem awful. It's so strange it's funny. Now I want to see this show more than ever.

Though the lyrics are sophomoric, cliche, trite and pedestrian, I kind of like the melodies.

[Calvin]

Posted: 9/15/05 at 2:03pm

"Sheesh, how will it all end? No one knows…YET! (Winston is still re-writing)"

And they're admitting to this on their Web site? That a show that is about to go into previews doesn't even have a solid ending yet? Sheesh is right.

Heard the sampler. Trite, trite, trite.

I've got to see this while it's still in previews. Not only will it probably not last much beyond that, but there's probably some wacky scenes that will be taken out during that time. I still kick myself for not seeing the "Thou Shalt Not" morgue scene in its original form.

[Kyirin]

Posted: 9/15/05 at 2:40pm

I POSTED ABOUT THIS like a week ago, and everyone got all pissed at me cuz I used the word "retarded"....glad other people see this potential misfire....oyyyyyyyyy, who knows maybe theyll surprise us?