Just saw Lennon.....and Yoko!

[MTRBOI24]

Posted: 7/15/05 at 11:14pm

Well, I caught Lennon tonight. This, I think, is going to be a good show. The audience loved it. Everyone around me was SOBBING. It was a really nice show. You will definitely like it if you were a fan of Lennon and The Beatles. It was an AMAZING experience to be there and hear all this stories of Yoko and her being acted out onstage and then the REAL DEAL sitting right in front of you. It was awesome. She seemed to really be enjoying herself. Talked with, who I think is, the director during intermission and they were both taking notes down. That's great that they can get her to help out. She had a body guard right next to her at intermission so no one would bother her. After she gave it a standing "O" they escorted her out a side door in the back. Go and see it, especially if you are a fan of Lennon.

Three show day tomorrow, time for rest.=)

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 7/15/05 at 11:25pm

Actually, I think it might be the people who were the real fans of John Lennon who are having the most difficult time swallowing this drivel.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/15/05 at 11:36pm

Yoko is applauding getting herself some more attention and cash.

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 7/15/05 at 11:52pm

She is a small woman with a huge ego. And IMO she is using this show to advance things as she would have liked for them to be.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 7/15/05 at 11:54pm

That's pretty mean, iflitifloat.

[LaCageAuxFollesFan2]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 12:33am

Industry word and buzz on the street hasnt been that favorable so far...hoping things change by press week, but won't hold my breath on this one.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 12:53am

Iflit, I respect your opinion. I love Yoko and John Lennon did too. I think that's something a lot of Beatles fans never quite could cotton to.

Rathnait, you're disgusting. Yoko Ono is so frickin rich her involvement with the show is most likely her desire to see Lennon's legacy continue. Funny how money making is the first line of defense when you rave about pubescent lip-synching girls with breast implants, but it's officially a negative thing where Yoko's concerned. But of course, it's the reason Jennifer Saunders shouldn't tell you (the little person) why she'd like to give up performing. That's three points including opposite ends of the same spectrum on the topic of making money. Maybe you should try to stick to one opinion per 24 hour period.

Before he was killed, Lennon gave an interview to Playboy. In it, he described driving young Sean around and heard a news report that Yoko had just got a record price for a head of cattle from their farm that she had brought to auction. "ONLY your mother..." he said to Sean. She's an artist in her own right. AND she's an astute businesswoman, a skill that made her wealthy beyond most people's imaginings BEFORE her husband was killed.

God, I hate some person.

Updated On: 7/16/05 at 12:53 AM

[Thenardier]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 1:16am

I want to see this for Julia Murney and Terrence Mann.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 1:19am

Don't do it. You'll just be contributing to Yoko applauding and getting herself some more attention and cash. We mustn't let THAT happen.

[Thenardier]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 1:23am

Yoko getting cash...or...me getting entertainment...

Sorry to sound self-indulgent, but I want the entertainment.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 1:25am

Hey, I'm just quoting your pro-gay-bashing friend.

[Thenardier]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 1:28am

Namo, you threadjacked.

And didn't return the thread to its original context, the new musical called "Lennon."

Now, can anyone tell me which songs they used in the show?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 1:30am

THAT'S how steaming pissed off she made me this time.

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 1:33am

Guys, you're all missing the point that regardless of the negative affect she had on John Lennon, he was deeply inspired by and in love with her. The production, as told from Lennon's point of view, makes sense to cast her in this light. And I really don't think this is a selfish move - I do believe she wanted to continue to show her love to her late husband.

[Thenardier]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 1:34am

Wait, is Julia playing Yoko?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 1:49am

But she didn't have a negative effect on Lennon. According to him, and he would know, she was an extremely positive force in his life. UNLESS we're all a bunch of misogynists and think she tricked him into marriage or something?

[MTRBOI24]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 1:55am

Id the only reason why youre going is for Terrance Mann and Julia Murney. Stay home. They don't do much in it. Go because it's a Broadway show and it will entertain you. Just dont go expecting much from them. IMO, they are wasted in this. It was so weird to see Terrance Mann in the ensemble of a show(it is an ensemble show). I couldn't stop thinking of all his big shows like Scarlet Pimpernel, and Beast, and all the other roles he has done.

[Thenardier]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 1:56am

I only want to see him because he was my first Javert...not even my favorite...but whatever.

Eh, whatever, I have other stuff to see first.

[Shawk]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 1:57am

The songlist can be found here:
http://lennonthemusical.com/songlist.html

Julie Danao-Salkin plays Yoko. Julia Murney plays John's Aunt, as well as John's first wife.

[Thenardier]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 1:59am

Yeah, that makes sense.

[LuvBroadwayHugs]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 11:33am

I've been a huge Beatles/ John Lennon fan for my entire life.I was just sitting there wondering how this is supposed to be appealing to people who are familiar with the life and times of Lennon. I had comp tickets and if the people who gave them to me weren't sitting infront of us, we probably would've left during intermission. Not to mention the fact that I couldn't take my eyes off Will Chase! So cute. Anyway. Lennon...not such a good idea.

Updated On: 7/16/05 at 11:33 AM

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 11:58am

Let me be clear, the Yoko "factor" is incidental to my dislike for this ill-conceived mish-mash of a show.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 12:11pm

Oh how I wish the whole wide world could have seen the retrospective of Yoko's early installation work, "Yes Yoko Ono" which has opened at the Japan Society Gallery in NYC, and travelled to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami and the List Visual Art Center at MIT, and other places. These are not minor art institutions.

I saw the show about five years ago and the memory of the ingenuity of her work has stayed vivid with me ever since.

And, Iflit, I am sure you would have been as much of a blubbering peacenik as I was as I read (and took home) the teeny tiny peace poems that were placed in pockets around the place. It was fricking great.

So when I read ignorant comments about Yoko based on the received wisdom that "she broke up the Beatles" (uh, no she didn't) and not any real exposure to her genius (and hearing a 30 second clip of one of her primal screen tracks doesn't count as exposure, Skeletor Joan Rivers) pisses me the frick off.

Updated On: 7/16/05 at 12:11 PM

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 12:19pm

Sorry...my comment about being "mean" was in response to Raithnait's comment ("Yoko is applauding getting herself some more attention and cash." Not iflitifloat's. However, iflitifloat managed to get nasty afterwards with "She is a small woman with a huge ego. And IMO she is using this show to advance things as she would have liked for them to be."

Why do people think they "know" what is in other people's hearts and behind their motivations? And more to the point, WHAT DOES THAT MATTER? This is "entertainment," remember? A show can be about anything its creators want it to be. There is not one show in the history of musicals that is 100% loyal to the facts. Not Gypsy, not The Sound of Music, not even 1776.

So if you didn't like the show, please let us know why you feel that way, but leave all the personal and petty namecalling to Paul McCartney, okay? (At least he was actually THERE when it all transpired!)

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 12:19pm

Just found this review of the retrospective and it brought back such great memories. Telephone Piece was a very cool installation as was Amaze, which was pretty hilarious. This is something that people who need to believe the (racist, misogynist) myth that Yoko is a dragon lady will never grasp: she's FUNNY. Why do we think a man as inherently humorous as John Lennon would love her so much? As the review says, she's "modest, reserved, mildly amused; an aging experimental artist in celebrity sunglasses," and funny as hell.


Yoko link