Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....
Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....
#1Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....
Posted: 6/14/10 at 1:24pm
http://talkinbroadway.com/allthatchat/d.php?id=1868728
YIKES.
#2Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....
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?
#3Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#4Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....
Posted: 6/14/10 at 1:36pmIn 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#5Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....
Posted: 6/14/10 at 1:38pmAnd 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
#6Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....
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
#7Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....
Posted: 6/14/10 at 1:45pmMy 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.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#8Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....
Posted: 6/14/10 at 1:47pmAll 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
#9Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....
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
Understudy Joined: 4/12/07
#10Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....
Posted: 6/14/10 at 2:00pmI find it odd that the man who wrote HAIRSPRAY, which I considered to be very mediocre, is criticizing others.
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#12Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....
Posted: 6/14/10 at 2:06pmI 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
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#13Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....
Posted: 6/14/10 at 2:15pmSergio 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#14Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....
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!
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#16Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....
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
#18Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#19Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#20Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....
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
#21Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#22Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....
Posted: 6/14/10 at 2:36pmHe 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
#23Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....
Posted: 6/14/10 at 2:38pmHey, are you saying my IQ isn't high? Don't make me pull a Ripley on you!
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#24Marc Shaiman on MEMPHIS....
Posted: 6/14/10 at 2:42pmPlease, 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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