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Judy Garland Musical "END OF THE RAINBOW" Headed To Broadway March 2012
Judy Garland Musical 'END OF THE RAINBOW' Headed To Broadway March 2012 #150
Posted: 9/28/11 at 4:26pmSince you're already off on a tear, I just want to add that I hear people call plays (with or without music) "shows" all the time. In fact, sometimes I even hear people referring to going to the movies as going to the "show"!
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Judy Garland Musical 'END OF THE RAINBOW' Headed To Broadway March 2012 #151
Posted: 9/28/11 at 4:33pm
@ Phyllis...yeah, some people are so thick/uneducated the mind boggles
Judy Garland Musical 'END OF THE RAINBOW' Headed To Broadway March 2012 #152
Posted: 9/28/11 at 4:35pmWell, it's never too late to learn, even for odd 70 year old grandmothers!
Judy Garland Musical 'END OF THE RAINBOW' Headed To Broadway March 2012 #153
Posted: 9/28/11 at 4:41pmSo, hang on a minute...I'm now "thick" for calling both plays and musicals "shows"?
Judy Garland Musical 'END OF THE RAINBOW' Headed To Broadway March 2012 #154
Posted: 9/28/11 at 4:43pmIt would seem to, according to her royal heinie.
Judy Garland Musical 'END OF THE RAINBOW' Headed To Broadway March 2012 #155
Posted: 9/28/11 at 4:56pmAs 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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Judy Garland Musical 'END OF THE RAINBOW' Headed To Broadway March 2012 #156
Posted: 9/28/11 at 6:12pm
hahaha LOL a show is a show, a play is a play a musical is a musical. End Of The Rainbow is a play...ok? It was categorized as that in the Olivier awards. And yes, Phyllis one learns something new every day
Judy Garland Musical 'END OF THE RAINBOW' Headed To Broadway March 2012 #157
Posted: 9/28/11 at 6:16pm
"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.
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Judy Garland Musical 'END OF THE RAINBOW' Headed To Broadway March 2012 #158
Posted: 9/28/11 at 6:25pm@ Paljoey, yea but Annie get Your Gun was a musical
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Judy Garland Musical 'END OF THE RAINBOW' Headed To Broadway March 2012 #159
Posted: 9/28/11 at 6:43pmI hope I'm not one of the embarassing Brits Scripps - I didn't mean to be...
Judy Garland Musical 'END OF THE RAINBOW' Headed To Broadway March 2012 #160
Posted: 9/28/11 at 7:34pm
hermajesty, in the States, the word "show" can denote either a musical or a straight play (or a number of other things).
Has one now learned that?
Judy Garland Musical 'END OF THE RAINBOW' Headed To Broadway March 2012 #161
Posted: 9/28/11 at 7:35pmP.S. LOL
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Judy Garland Musical 'END OF THE RAINBOW' Headed To Broadway March 2012 #162
Posted: 9/28/11 at 7:41pm
@Reginald, yes one has learned that, thank you; as I said earlier, one learns something new every day LOL
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Posted: 9/28/11 at 7:42pmThat was a great response, actually.
Judy Garland Musical 'END OF THE RAINBOW' Headed To Broadway March 2012 #164
Posted: 9/28/11 at 8:05pmI think the problem is that in the UK they spell it "shouw".
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Judy Garland Musical 'END OF THE RAINBOW' Headed To Broadway March 2012 #165
Posted: 9/28/11 at 8:49pm
@ Phyllis...only the posh people pronounce it like that LOL
The user name hermajesty BTW, is one's sense of humour
Judy Garland Musical 'END OF THE RAINBOW' Headed To Broadway March 2012 #166
Posted: 9/29/11 at 12:20am
Scripps--I'm beginning to believe that the poster known as "hermajesty" isn't really British.
The more it posts, the more it seems like an unconvincing impersonation of the cliche of the obnoxious, classist aristocrat (or the no-class boor with aristocratic pretensions)--so much so that I actually think it's an American troll trying to make British people look bad and stir up a fight in this thread.
The British people on this board may have opinions different from mine (as do many Americans too), but I would call you all "decent enough chaps" and I have never doubted anyone's Briticism.
A troll is a troll is a troll, and this one smells like a sock.
Judy Garland Musical 'END OF THE RAINBOW' Headed To Broadway March 2012 #167
Posted: 9/29/11 at 12:32am
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. "
Judy Garland Musical 'END OF THE RAINBOW' Headed To Broadway March 2012 #168
Posted: 9/29/11 at 1:29amOne would be quite jiggy with that, wouldn't one?
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Judy Garland Musical 'END OF THE RAINBOW' Headed To Broadway March 2012 #169
Posted: 9/29/11 at 1:52am
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
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Judy Garland Musical 'END OF THE RAINBOW' Headed To Broadway March 2012 #170
Posted: 9/29/11 at 3:33amYou mean Queen Elizabeth DOESN'T post on this message board? Well that sure is a shame...
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Judy Garland Musical 'END OF THE RAINBOW' Headed To Broadway March 2012 #171
Posted: 9/29/11 at 5:41am
@ 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+
Judy Garland Musical 'END OF THE RAINBOW' Headed To Broadway March 2012 #172
Posted: 9/29/11 at 8:58am
algy--I can't watch the Tudors either, mostly because I've seen Glenda Jackson and Kate Blanchett.
I will go see this wretched thing if it actually opens here in March. If her performance rises to the level of Judy Davis's and overcomes the lazy and stupid "drunk Judy" in the script, I will eat my hat. And if it doesn't, I will say so.
But you're definitely in the decent-enough-chap category.
Judy Garland Musical 'END OF THE RAINBOW' Headed To Broadway March 2012 #173
Posted: 9/29/11 at 9:04amI checked it again, and it was actually Her Madgesty so I guess it was Madge, herself. Sorry for the confusion, dawg.
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Judy Garland Musical 'END OF THE RAINBOW' Headed To Broadway March 2012 #174
Posted: 9/29/11 at 9:32am@Jordan...thanks. There's no way I would send such a message, plus I didn't understand what he/she was going on about
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