Judy Garland Musical "END OF THE RAINBOW" Headed To Broadway March 2012 — Page 7

@ Phyllis...yeah, some people are so thick/uneducated the mind boggles

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Updated On: 9/28/11 at 04:33 PM

So, hang on a minute...I'm now "thick" for calling both plays and musicals "shows"?

As Irving Berlin did NOT say, "There's no business like plays-with-or-without-music business like no business I know..."

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"Interesting. The same playwright wrote a play with music 10 years ago, back in the summer of 2001, more loosely based on Garland with a fictional character but also starring Tracie Bennett"

That's very interesting. I had no idea of that but it confirms what I indicated early in this thread - namely that the only way I had of getting through this play was to see it, not as a portrayal of Judy Garland, but of a Norma Desmond type.

And Tracie is great as this other Norma Desmond.

I also have to add that, as a Brit who only recognises one monarch, some of the other Brits/trolls in this thread are severely embarrassing me.

I hope I'm not one of the embarassing Brits Scripps - I didn't mean to be...

P.S. LOL

That was a great response, actually.

@ Phyllis...only the posh people pronounce it like that LOL
The user name hermajesty BTW, is one's sense of humour

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PJ - Hermajesty sent me the following PM -

"Jordan,
Sup, dawg. You done see dat show up on da TV wif dem Kardashian ho's? Dem bitchez be trippin' wif they fat asses all up in a brotha's bidness.

Holla back at a brotha if you be want to talk an' shlt. "

PalJoey - I was thinking of you (in the nicest possible way of course!) when I was thinking about the show when I was writing my post earlier, and trying to figure out what to say! I'm still thinking, except now I'm at the end of my nightshift, I've got an addendum...

I'm not going to join the chorus screaming that you must see it because it will Change Your Mind.

I don't think you'd have an epiphany if you went to see the show and fall into the rabid fan group, but I do think there are elements there that most people could enjoy - the pianist has some good lines, the band sound good, and Bennett sings some of the songs very well.

I think there is, however, too much drunken Judy schtick and probably too many factual inaccuracies (I don't know enough about Judy's latter years to judge that, having only read "Get Happy" - which I picked up cheap from a book fair - although I am going to look up some more from the reading list) for the garland afficionado/purist. And for that reason they probably won't enjoy it in the same way that I can't watch The Tudors (having studied Tudor History a lot, I can't get my brain past the screaming inaccuracies to enjoy it as fluff) or the recent slew of "Marple" TV dramas we have over here ("based" on Agatha Christie's works, but with twists like added nuns, lesbians or even a different murderer) because it makes me ragey.

I hope that makes sense old chap. Toodle-pip what what.

Updated On: 9/29/11 at 01:52 AM

@ Jordan....if someone has really sent you that PM, look at the user name again, you have spelt it with a capital aitch, my user name is a small aitch.
Paljoey...stop it.

http://www.localsecrets.com/ezine.cfm?ezineid=2707~tribute+to+a+tragical+diva+

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Updated On: 9/29/11 at 05:41 AM

I checked it again, and it was actually Her Madgesty so I guess it was Madge, herself. Sorry for the confusion, dawg.