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

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 9/28/11 at 4:26pm

Since 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"!

[hermajesty]

Posted: 9/28/11 at 4:33pm

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

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

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 9/28/11 at 4:35pm

Well, it's never too late to learn, even for odd 70 year old grandmothers!

[ClapYo'Hands]

Posted: 9/28/11 at 4:41pm

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

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 9/28/11 at 4:43pm

It would seem to, according to her royal heinie.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/28/11 at 4:56pm

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

[hermajesty]

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

Updated On: 9/28/11 at 06:12 PM

[Scripps2]

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.

[hermajesty]

Posted: 9/28/11 at 6:25pm

@ Paljoey, yea but Annie get Your Gun was a musical

[algy]

Posted: 9/28/11 at 6:43pm

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

[Reginald Tresilian]

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?

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 9/28/11 at 7:35pm

P.S. LOL

[hermajesty]

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

Updated On: 9/28/11 at 07:41 PM

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 9/28/11 at 7:42pm

That was a great response, actually.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 9/28/11 at 8:05pm

I think the problem is that in the UK they spell it "shouw".

[hermajesty]

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

[PalJoey]

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.

[Jordan Catalano]

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. "

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/29/11 at 1:29am

One would be quite jiggy with that, wouldn't one?

[algy]

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

[chewy5000]

Posted: 9/29/11 at 3:33am

You mean Queen Elizabeth DOESN'T post on this message board? Well that sure is a shame...

[hermajesty]

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+

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

[PalJoey]

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.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/29/11 at 9:04am

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

[hermajesty]

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