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Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show

Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:07pm

Michael Riedel made many valid points. He seems to be more realistic about the show than Julie Taymor and the producers of "Spiderman." from RC in Austin, Texas
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
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Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show

Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:32pm

But see, Michael has been against it from the beginning.

Before he even saw it.

So this means nothing except another crazy post from DLMM.
"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
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Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show

Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:40pm

That makes no sense whatsoever! There is a long list of reasons for people to be against the show. Most of these reasons happened BEFORE the first preview. Technically the first preview should have been February 25th! This is enough cause for people to have hatred towards the show before it's actual first preview.

Riedel speaks rationally with these two reporters on the show. But because he's found other reasons to be against it, nothing he says is credible. That is ridiculous!
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Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show

Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:41pm

"That makes no sense whatsoever! There is a long list of reasons for people to be against the show. Most of these reasons happened BEFORE the first preview."

And THAT is what makes no sense whatsoever.
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#9

Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show

Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:42pm

Not to mention - who cares what Riedel and two people NOT involved in the show say?

I'm sorry, but I think the only people to ask are those who ARE involved (don't really care about Alice Ripley's opinion, either).

And, maybe the question should be "Should the show you're currently in, and which is paying your bills through this Christmas season, and into the future, at the moment, be shut down? Would you like to be unemployed 3 days before Christmas?"

Seriously - all I see on here is the opinion of people who aren't involved - which for me means nothing.

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Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show

Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:44pm

And I see DLMM as a crazy person standing on a street corner, yelling to anyone who glances at him that HE MUST BE LISTENED TO, AT ALL COSTS!
"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
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Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show

Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:45pm

"Should the show you're currently in, and which is paying your bills through this Christmas season, and into the future, at the moment, be shut down? Would you like to be unemployed 3 days before Christmas?"

What the hell? What do you do for a living? If you found that it could possibly put you in a hospital or take your life, would you not speak up?

That kind of mentality is disgusting. Scaring actors into thinking that they have to PUT THEIR LIVES AT STAKE to keep a job through the Holidays?!?!?!

BROADWAY SHOULDN'T BE PUTTING PEOPLE'S LIVES IN DANGER. PERIOD!
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Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show

Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:52pm

Then what about all of those people who work on oil rigs, or as police officers, or fire fighters?

YOU MAKE NO SENSE CRAZY MAN!
"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
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Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show

Posted: 12/22/10 at 4:33pm

"Then what about all of those people who work on oil rigs, or as police officers, or fire fighters?"

The comparisons in these Spider-Man threads border on the absurd. The above examples are considered high risk jobs. Performing on Broadway is not.
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Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show

Posted: 12/22/10 at 4:35pm

"The comparisons in these Spider-Man threads border on the absurd. The above examples are considered high risk jobs. Performing on Broadway is not."

Thank you. My brand of crazy might be out there, but so is hers.
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Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show

Posted: 12/22/10 at 4:39pm

This is similar to the boy who cried wolf. Riedel has been talking smack from the beginning, now that he has a genuine point to make, I don't really care what he has to say. CNN really should not have gone to a gossip columnist for an opinion.
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Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show

Posted: 12/22/10 at 4:44pm

Because everyone else is still supporting Taymor's madness.

Audience members are buying tickets now because they hope to see someone injured during the live performance:

"I’d quite enjoy it if someone would have an injury," she said, not joking. "It would be quite exciting. I’d be on the edge of my seat."

http://www.dnainfo.com/20101222/midtown/spiderman-train-wreck-go-on-despite-actors-injury

Welcome to the new Broadway. Let's just put Broadway actors in cages and find interesting ways to kill them.
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Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show

Posted: 12/22/10 at 4:49pm

Riedel is a moron and I can not take anything he says seriously. To say "Kids are buying tickets to this to see Jackass live..." Come on. Any valid points the man has are thrown out the window when he makes childish comments like that. That man disgusts me.
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Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show

Posted: 12/22/10 at 4:55pm

"I’d quite enjoy it if someone would have an injury," she said, not joking. "It would be quite exciting. I’d be on the edge of my seat."

You're right! This must be the first time human beings have sought out macabre thrills to quench their sadistic appetites! Julie Taymor is more of a visionary than we thought!

There is simply NO WAY the news could be sensationalizing the events. It just can't happen.

Welcome to the new Broadway. Let's just put Broadway actors in cages and find interesting ways to kill them.

I hope you had a glad rag handy when you typed that.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

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