Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show
Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show
Disneyland Magic Man
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#1Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show
Posted: 12/22/10 at 2:53pm
Despite how crazy I might seem, watch this video. He still has the respect to not officially review the show because it's not open yet. He admits he's seen it, but does not give a review. Just him and the reporters rationally talking about this irrational show.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/12/22/new.york.spiderman.fall/index.html?hpt=Sbin
#2Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show
Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:07pmMichael 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)
#2Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show
Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:22pm
Despite how crazy I might seem, watch this video.
"Seem"? I think you're the only one calling that into question.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#3Michael 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.” <<>>
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#4Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show
Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:34pm
He's not talking about the show being bad! He's talking about actor safety! With two people who are not involved with the show!
They should be shut down!
FindingNamo
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#5Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show
Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:37pmThe problem with people who have it in for a show before the first preview is that if and when they have legitimate points, their credibility is out the window. Like Riedel and DMM.
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#6Michael 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!
FindingNamo
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#7Michael 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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figaroindy
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#8Michael 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.
TheatreDiva90016
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#9Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show
Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:44pmAnd 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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#10Michael 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!
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#11Michael 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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#12Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show
Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:54pmI thought Natalie Mendoza was already back in the show.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
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#13Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show
Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:54pmDMM, is your name Michael Beener?
Fosse76
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#14Michael 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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#15Michael 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.
jimmycurry01
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#16Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show
Posted: 12/22/10 at 4:39pmThis 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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#17Michael 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.
#18Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show
Posted: 12/22/10 at 4:49pmRiedel 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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#19Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show
Posted: 12/22/10 at 4:51pmRead the article above. And the woman quoted is 38. Everyone wants to see people injured.
#20Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show
Posted: 12/22/10 at 4:53pmNo, not everyone. People who are sick and twisted want to see people injured (coughMIKERIEDELcough). The way that he joked about someone dying next....its disgusting. I do not wish to see people injured or getting themselves hurt.
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#21Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show
Posted: 12/22/10 at 4:54pmYou should talk to the press then. Because Kristen did. And she wants someone to get boo boos during the show.
#22Michael 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
#23Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show
Posted: 12/22/10 at 4:55pmWho the heck is Kristen?
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#24Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show
Posted: 12/22/10 at 4:57pm
The woman going on record saying:
"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."
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