#76
Posted: 2/9/12 at 9:12am
Everyone should come over to my house next week and we can have a pizza party and watch a bootleg of it.
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG First Performance... — Page 4
#77
I'm there. Will there be pizazz?
Posted: 2/9/12 at 9:14am
I'm there. Will there be pizazz?
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#78
Posted: 2/9/12 at 9:15am
It's a gay pizza/broadway party. Duh.
#79
I expect it to be exactly like your "Super Bowl" party.
Posted: 2/9/12 at 9:22am
I expect it to be exactly like your "Super Bowl" party.
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#80
Posted: 2/9/12 at 9:26am
Dude, I need to apologize for that one. I honestly thought the Super Bowl was something you could smoke.
#81
Posted: 2/9/12 at 9:42am
If I could smoke the Super Bowl, I might actually learn to care about Football.
I'm on a diet. Can I bring salad to the pizza party?
I'm on a diet. Can I bring salad to the pizza party?
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#82
Posted: 2/9/12 at 9:44am
As long as it's deep fried and dusted with powdered sugar.
#83
Posted: 2/9/12 at 9:46am
Paula Deen's Merrily Party, y'all!
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#84
Posted: 2/9/12 at 9:48am
"Yall, today to celebrate Murilly We Roll 'Long, we're startin' backwards with desert! And finishin' with it, too!"
#85
Posted: 2/9/12 at 9:48am
What is Gay Pizza?
#86
Posted: 2/9/12 at 9:49am
Pizzazz.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#87
Posted: 2/9/12 at 9:51am
Paula sings:
"Some rolls are greezy, some rolls are cheesy, some rolls will get you lots of back fat ..."
"How did you ever get a big rear? How did it widen year after year? You know ...."
EDIT:
Oh, and of course ... "Meet the blob ..."
"Some rolls are greezy, some rolls are cheesy, some rolls will get you lots of back fat ..."
"How did you ever get a big rear? How did it widen year after year? You know ...."
EDIT:
Oh, and of course ... "Meet the blob ..."
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#88
Posted: 2/9/12 at 9:53am
Can Wilford Brimley sing a song about diabeetus?
#89
Posted: 2/9/12 at 9:55am
Diabeetus ... rhymes with fetus ... and Cletus ... and ...
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#90
Posted: 2/9/12 at 9:58am
Wait, I got it!
"Butter, butter, butter, butter, POUR it on!, butter, NOTHING wrong!, butter, butter, butter, butter, CALL MY LAWYER, JEROME, butter, butter, butter, butter ..."
"Butter, butter, butter, butter, POUR it on!, butter, NOTHING wrong!, butter, butter, butter, butter, CALL MY LAWYER, JEROME, butter, butter, butter, butter ..."
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Updated On: 2/9/12 at 09:58 AM
#91
Posted: 2/9/12 at 9:58am
#92
Posted: 2/9/12 at 11:38am
Fun fact: Pizzazz is the only English seven-letter word that, while technically a legal word for Scrabble, is impossible to play.
#93
Posted: 2/9/12 at 12:04pm
The AP and TheaterMania are very Positive
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/02/09/entertainment/e081405S33.DTL
http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city/reviews/02-2012/merrily-we-roll-along_49892.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/02/09/entertainment/e081405S33.DTL
http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city/reviews/02-2012/merrily-we-roll-along_49892.html
Updated On: 2/9/12 at 12:04 PM
#94
Posted: 2/9/12 at 12:38pm
So, ljay--I was going to skip this, because I had seen the 2002 concert, and I figured nothing would top the emotionality of that performance.
Whaddya think? Should I get tickets?
Whaddya think? Should I get tickets?
#95
Posted: 2/9/12 at 12:49pm
I say do it! I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. I left City Center more overwhelmed than I had left the Kennedy Center after seeing FOLLIES.......
Last night prompted me to buy a ticket for this Sunday's matinee.
Last night prompted me to buy a ticket for this Sunday's matinee.
Updated On: 2/9/12 at 12:49 PM
#96
Posted: 2/9/12 at 12:53pm
But Keenan-Bolger's Mary is rollickingly unfunny, landing none of her booze-drenched-yet-parchment-dry quips (and sounding underequipped for her rangy songs)
I'm hardly ever one to agree with a Matthew Murray review, but I had the exact same problem with Keenan-Bolger. I thought she found a really interesting way in to the latter (or, within the course of the narrative, earlier) scenes, but she felt painfully out of her league at the top of the show, when Mary's supposed to be bitter and jaded and sardonic. It just didn't work. It also bothered me that, usually, a part of the story is how Mary's let herself go and gained weight during her later years, and they've completely dropped that element with Keenan-Bolger, who couldn't be tinier. In regards to her voice, again, its just a total mis-match of performer and material. Mary's songs require a punchy, colorful belt, and Keenan-Bolger doesn't have that (ironically, it's the same grit she's missing from her characterization.)
Overall, I think she delivers a successful performance, particularly toward the first half of the second act, but I couldn't help but feel it would have been a lot more emotionally impactful if they'd cast someone who could truly nail the scenes at the top of the show and provide a full journey for the character, who's already underwritten
I'm hardly ever one to agree with a Matthew Murray review, but I had the exact same problem with Keenan-Bolger. I thought she found a really interesting way in to the latter (or, within the course of the narrative, earlier) scenes, but she felt painfully out of her league at the top of the show, when Mary's supposed to be bitter and jaded and sardonic. It just didn't work. It also bothered me that, usually, a part of the story is how Mary's let herself go and gained weight during her later years, and they've completely dropped that element with Keenan-Bolger, who couldn't be tinier. In regards to her voice, again, its just a total mis-match of performer and material. Mary's songs require a punchy, colorful belt, and Keenan-Bolger doesn't have that (ironically, it's the same grit she's missing from her characterization.)
Overall, I think she delivers a successful performance, particularly toward the first half of the second act, but I couldn't help but feel it would have been a lot more emotionally impactful if they'd cast someone who could truly nail the scenes at the top of the show and provide a full journey for the character, who's already underwritten
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#97
Posted: 2/9/12 at 4:24pm
Ok, I'll stop talking about a transfer now.
http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/theater/reviews/sondheims-merrily-we-roll-along-in-encores-staging.html?pagewanted=1
Regardless of the reviews, I was still very moved by the production, and I look forward to seeing it again on Sunday.
http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/theater/reviews/sondheims-merrily-we-roll-along-in-encores-staging.html?pagewanted=1
Regardless of the reviews, I was still very moved by the production, and I look forward to seeing it again on Sunday.
#98
Posted: 2/9/12 at 4:29pm
I just bought tickets for Tuesday before seeing the Times review. I can't think of a better way for my partner and I to spend Valentine's Day.
#99
Posted: 2/9/12 at 4:43pm
Ouch. Rough review. I'm seeing it tonight. I have never been a fan of Merrily but was hoping that the edits to this version would change that opinion. We'll see...
#100
Posted: 2/9/12 at 5:27pm
"As we all should probably have learned by now, to be a Stephen Sondheim fan is to have one's heart broken at regular intervals."
--Frank Rich
First sentence of his review of Merrily We Roll Along
The New York Times
November 17, 1981
--Frank Rich
First sentence of his review of Merrily We Roll Along
The New York Times
November 17, 1981
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