Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....

[ljay889]

Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....#1

Posted: 6/14/10 at 1:24pm

http://talkinbroadway.com/allthatchat/d.php?id=1868728


YIKES.

[newintown]

Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....#2

Posted: 6/14/10 at 1:26pm

He's only saying it because it's true.

[adamgreer]

Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....#2

Posted: 6/14/10 at 1:26pm

He's 100% right, of course, and good for him.

I guess he won't be getting a Christmas card from David Bryant, though, will he?

[WesternSky2]

Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....#3

Posted: 6/14/10 at 1:26pm

O_o Holy crap.

Haven't seen Memphis, but I do have to say that after the awards ended last night, I found myself with 'You Can't Stop the Beat' stuck in my head...

[Borstalboy]

Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....#4

Posted: 6/14/10 at 1:36pm

In COLORED LIGHTS, Kander and Ebb talked about how Harold Prince got all pissy when he saw CHICAGO because he thought it was a direct rip of CABARET. Similarities here. At least Prince didn't have the audacity to threaten a lawsuit...jokingly or otherwise.

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

[TheatreDiva90016]

Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....#5

Posted: 6/14/10 at 1:38pm

And here I thought it was just a repeditive mess of NA NA NA's...

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[LizzieCurry]

Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....#6

Posted: 6/14/10 at 1:41pm

It might help to read the entire Facebook (not Facebox) thread.

I'm not his FB friend, so I'm not sure if he's public or enabled to friends of friends, but I can see it just fine. It makes more sense when you read the replies as well as his replies to them...

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=538200412&v=wall&story_fbid=108353655879064&ref=mf

"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt

[uncageg]

Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....#7

Posted: 6/14/10 at 1:45pm

My friend e-mailed me during the show from NYC last, night after their performance, and said MEMPHIS ripped-off of Hairspray.

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[Borstalboy]

Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....#8

Posted: 6/14/10 at 1:47pm

All in good fun! Why not?

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

[phantom39]

Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....#9

Posted: 6/14/10 at 1:59pm

"Lin-Manuel Miranda
You can stop the beat."

haha!

"Movies will make you famous; television will make you rich; but theatre will make you good." - Terrence Mann.

Updated On: 6/14/10 at 01:59 PM

[bwayrose2]

Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....#10

Posted: 6/14/10 at 2:00pm

I find it odd that the man who wrote HAIRSPRAY, which I considered to be very mediocre, is criticizing others.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....#11

Posted: 6/14/10 at 2:04pm

Well you're in the minority there.

[StageManager2]

Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....#12

Posted: 6/14/10 at 2:06pm

I hated HAIRSPRAY!

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

[Jason Bennett]

Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....#13

Posted: 6/14/10 at 2:15pm

Sergio is SOOOO freaking out...

Chillin' and teachin' acting and voice to muh Bway/Film peeps... (Betty Buckley is teaching a workshop for me at my school, check it out.)

[FindingNamo]

Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....#14

Posted: 6/14/10 at 2:18pm

And of course, I've always considered the delicious Hairspray finale number to be a direct descendent, spiritually-speaking, of Sandra Bernhard's "Do You Wanna Funk?" segment of "Without You, I'm Nothing."

You can't fight the funk, because the funk is the beat, and the beat is the rhythm, and the rhythm is LIFE!

Twitter @NamoInExile Instagram none

[Jordan Catalano]

Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....#15

Posted: 6/14/10 at 2:18pm

[Jason Bennett]

Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....#16

Posted: 6/14/10 at 2:21pm

Um, wrong Sergio, Jordan....

Chillin' and teachin' acting and voice to muh Bway/Film peeps... (Betty Buckley is teaching a workshop for me at my school, check it out.)

Updated On: 6/14/10 at 02:21 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....#17

Posted: 6/14/10 at 2:21pm

There's only one Sergio.

[Jason Bennett]

Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....#18

Posted: 6/14/10 at 2:22pm

Well I know your IQ is about 50 points higher than many posters, but, um, whatever you say...


p.s. - Findingnamo will chime in, he/she has a wittle bit of an obsession wit me. It's so cute. Also, lizzie curry who makes up a fake quote about me in his/her signature....they're spending LOTS of time on me...of course...theatrediva also seems to be hot for me. I wuvs it.

Chillin' and teachin' acting and voice to muh Bway/Film peeps... (Betty Buckley is teaching a workshop for me at my school, check it out.)

Updated On: 6/14/10 at 02:22 PM

[FindingNamo]

Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....#19

Posted: 6/14/10 at 2:25pm

"Well I know your IQ is about 50 points higher than many posters, but, um, whatever you say..."

Don't you make claims to the effect that you're not condescending?

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[TheatreDiva90016]

Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....#20

Posted: 6/14/10 at 2:30pm

"Well I know your IQ is about 50 points higher than many posters, but, um, whatever you say..."

Says the poster with one of thelowest IQ's...

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[LizzieCurry]

Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....#21

Posted: 6/14/10 at 2:31pm

Wow. Shaiman deleted the post.

(Or fiddled with his security settings.)

"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt

Updated On: 6/14/10 at 02:31 PM

[Borstalboy]

Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....#22

Posted: 6/14/10 at 2:36pm

He visits this board and knows "a Ripley" when he smells it.

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

[Jordan Catalano]

Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....#23

Posted: 6/14/10 at 2:38pm

Hey, are you saying my IQ isn't high? Don't make me pull a Ripley on you!

[FindingNamo]

Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....#24

Posted: 6/14/10 at 2:42pm

Please, don't challenge JB's bona fides, because he WILL list his intelligence percentiles all the while insisting that he's not acting superior.

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