Michael Longoria in Jersey Boys Tonight- Page 4

[Ebonic_Singer]

Posted: 7/30/06 at 11:43pm

I like you harrington. I like you a lot.

[Chanticleer148]

Posted: 7/30/06 at 11:45pm

Just to be clear: The Box Office managers at both shows were offering exhange tickets. Again, this failure to acknowledge the obvious has a familiar ring to it.

The personal attacks against me tell us much more about the writer than the accused.

I am glad that you know Ann Coulter. This must be your basis for calling yourself an intellectual.

The commercial implications of the failure of performers to show up for work will be lasting.

I wonder if any of you have seen any of the previously mentioned shows?

[eve harrington2]

Posted: 7/30/06 at 11:50pm

"The personal attacks against me tell us much more about the writer than the accused."

And your statements tell us a lot about YOU. You're attacking two people you don't know, better steel yourself and get ready to be attacked, too. You're operating off your own invented innuendo and completely IGNORING someone who says they know for a fact that one of the actors is actually out sick this week.

I hope they give your high school graduates a nice bottle of visine and box of kleenex on their way out, because there must be a lot of wide-eyed, drooling, exhausted young people emerging from your torture chamber.

[dreamz]

Posted: 7/30/06 at 11:54pm

Those who are complaining so much about these actors being out need to wake up in the real world. Besides probably most of you are RUSH or STUDENT RUSH TICKETS. YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!! JLY being out has not affected the attendance of the show. You act as though people are walking out because he is not in. His understudies are very good.

[Chanticleer148]

Posted: 7/30/06 at 11:55pm

Eve: No doubt your overacting made you a "star" in High School and the darling of your Director. I'm sure she has "fond" memories of you. LOL.


Updated On: 7/31/06 at 11:55 PM

[eve harrington2]

Posted: 7/30/06 at 11:57pm

! (29)

[eve harrington2]

Posted: 7/31/06 at 2:35pm

bumping for Sueleen

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 7/31/06 at 3:49pm

You know, I missed Beth Leavel, Tony winner, in DC and I was disappointed. The lady sat down next to me, opened her Playbill and excalimed loudly "Aw, Beth's not here!"

But you know what, the (hilarious) show goes on.

And, you know, just because someone wins the Tony doesn't mean they deserve the Tony.

[song_mage31]

Posted: 7/31/06 at 3:56pm

^ agreed. and while it's always a little disheartening to see little slips of paper come out of your playbill, I've had times where, according to people who'd seen the show before, the u/s was better than the regular performer. I'm not saying that JLY didn't deserve the Tony (because I completely think he did)but honestly, give it a rest. The man is a wonderful performer, but even wonderful performers get sick. You take that risk when you buy tickets, and there's nothing the actor or the producers can do about human illness. (Goodness knows that JLY takes great care of himself...read all those interviews where he details his regimen.) Beside that, many people have attested that Michael Longoria is almost as good and certainly a joy to watch. The show is hard enough to get tickets to...I would think you'd be glad to be seeing it at all, with most of the cast intact.

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 7/31/06 at 4:28pm

Chanticleer, what do you think of the Socialist , treasonist New York Times for reporting on the US government's multitude of violations of the law and their subsequent coverups?
Or is the Times just failing to report on the much-more-important status of Broadway performer's horribly audience-damaging failure to show up for shows 8 times a week?
I mean, priorities and all, I can understand how a Broadway name, unknown in the hinterlands, is going to completely halt the sales of a show like Jersey Boys or the Color Purple...you know, shows selling on the names of the Four Seasons and Oprah Winfrey. I mean, god! What are LaChanze and John Lloyd Young thinking? These shows DEPEND upon them! If they are not there, angry theatregoers - most of whom have never heard of a Broadway actress daring to "pull a Madonna" and use only one name! - will revolt, leaving a disheveled house staff and scores of returned theatre tickets, sinking the Broadway industry overnight and plunging all of Times Square into a socialist chaos.

[Craig]

Posted: 7/31/06 at 4:30pm

It's just so much funnier when you think of Edna Garrett saying all that

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 7/31/06 at 4:33pm

No, no, Craig, she would sing it!

[Chanticleer148]

Posted: 7/31/06 at 5:29pm

After a day of thinking about it, I agree with all of you and the flawless logic you employ.

All shows on Broadway are so wonderful that it matters not who plays in the show. We should all go to the theater and love it-regardless of the performers. And oh, by the way, don't voice a divergent view that states that announced performers should be at the performance, because this doesn't fit the paradigm of thinking by the dominant influences on Broadway World.

Also, don't challenge the New York Times-they are obviously journalists of biblical proportions to those who subscribe to the religion of excuse makers.

And for ""bwaysinger" and all those who think that the producers of shows could careless who performs this stellar material, why don't you check with your producer friends about negative publicity closing a show.

By the way, how close are Jersey Boys and The Color Purple to returning their total capitalization. And why we're thinking about it, has anyone asked the Producers why they would allow the box office to exchange tickets when the announced performer is not there. This would defeat your entire reason for existing. Then what helpless little player could you defend then? LOL. LOL. and more LOL.

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 7/31/06 at 5:35pm

Tell me, Chanticleer, exactly how many times have you done a Broadway show? Or any show?
Lord. You're acting like a child. We can debate the merits of what you think of a performer being gone from a show unannounced all day but YOU, sir (or madam), brought your editorializing into the New York Times.
I suppose the New York Post is more legitimate since it reports on these oh-so-important stories for you? Granted, they're in the form of Michael Reidel's gossip trash-talk but I suppose we can't all hope to reach your lofty journalistic standards.

[Chanticleer148]

Posted: 7/31/06 at 5:45pm

Thank you! At least someone is willing to debate the merits of the case. Should performers announced to be in a show be expected to be there? It's a debate no one else wants to happen.

They evidently hope to "shout down" any opposition, and reduce themselves to unseemly language on blog postings.

[eve harrington2]

Posted: 8/1/06 at 12:10am

Not half as unseemly as that ugly-ass set you've got as your avatar.

[eve harrington2]

Posted: 8/1/06 at 12:11am

Not half as unseemly as that ugly-ass set you've got as your avatar.

[Chanticleer148]

Posted: 8/1/06 at 12:43am

Great Point.

It's shocking how you continue to demonstrate your intellectual prowess and your extensive knowledge of the theater. Doubtless, these are the charcateristics that endeared you to your High School Director. LOL.

It' really great that you have that stellar vocabulary to go along with the total package. LOL.

[Chanticleer148]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 11:36pm

For the purpose of being clear: I have made peace with many of you on this issue, but I was not making up any innuendo.

JLY had to miss a whole week, and it was a big deal to many people who missed him.

You can see some comments about his absence by using the link!
Thespis Review: The Jersey Boys

[PottstownTeacher]

Posted: 8/3/06 at 12:20am

Not that it matters, but I wanted to throw this in ... both times I saw JERSEY BOYS, John Lloyd Young was present. And when I saw THE COLOR PURPLE, La Chanze was in as well. Actually, for someone who apparently has a poor attendance record as La Chanze, she has actually performed in all the shows I have attended with her in the company, SUPERSTAR (in Philly 100 years ago), BABY at Paper Mill, and THE COLOR PURPLE.

[Chanticleer148]

Posted: 8/3/06 at 12:31am

I'm happy for you, and if you are a teacher: You deserved it!

Thanks!

[Trav0708]

Posted: 8/3/06 at 12:43am

being newly introduced to this posting as well as a cast member of this exact "half-assed" production of Rumors along with many other shows under Chanticleer's direction with more to come in the future, i must honestly say that a personal vendetta against a high school set, of all things, is not relavent to the topic at hand. i feel that not the appearance of set, but the actors' performance should make a show distinct. it appears that this topic should be redirected to personal bitternesses over a morally simple issue. also, i find it interesting to see that someone who must be so closely related to the arts would say that a masters degree in voice is useless. ironic, almost oxymoronic if u will.
Updated On: 8/3/06 at 12:43 AM

[Trav0708]

Posted: 8/3/06 at 11:35am

is it wrong for an actor who has missed a small streak of performances to announce beforehand how many more are planned to be missed, not just keep it under wraps? i believe that would be a great help to the audience

[eve harrington2]

Posted: 8/3/06 at 1:53pm

It is not wrong, and I believe many (including JLY) announce their vacations and scheduled absenses when they actually know in advance. However, when someone is sick, how on earth can that be known in advance? That cannot be known. And I think that has been discussed at length on this board. Are you expecting actors to be psychic?

[Trav0708]

Posted: 8/3/06 at 5:18pm

when an actor is extensively sick, such as a throat infection, that actor should maybe release that information to the public and announce their absence for however long they are expected to be sick, such as that week or so. thats the point that is overlooked. if a doctor tells the actor that he/she will be fine in a week or so, as well as a planned vacation, let the public know it and when they can expect to see them in the show
that cant possibly be too difficult for someone who made broadway status to do something as simple as that

Updated On: 8/3/06 at 05:18 PM