Motherf**ker with the Hat In Danger of Closing
Motherf**ker with the Hat In Danger of Closing
#1Motherf**ker with the Hat In Danger of Closing
Posted: 4/6/11 at 8:22pm
I know Perezhilton.com is rarely a reliable website, but according to it, if the show doesn't get rave reviews when it opens next week, the show will close the following Sunday.
I just wanted to see what everyone thought about it.
Perez Hilton article
thismyshow
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/11
#2Motherf**ker with the Hat In Danger of Closing
Posted: 4/6/11 at 9:25pmthis is the site that reports movie news 2 months after the fact.... this is general speculation.....
Rotel1026
Broadway Star Joined: 8/12/06
#2Motherf**ker with the Hat In Danger of Closing
Posted: 4/6/11 at 9:29pmIf you follow the link, you'll notice that Perez is just picking up what Riedel posted today. Most of the time that Perez posts Broadway stuff, he's really just reporting what Riedel's latest article is about.
#3Motherf**ker with the Hat In Danger of Closing
Posted: 4/6/11 at 9:48pm
Yes it is nearly identical.
Here's Riedel's article:
http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/theater/rock_in_hard_place_o1v1l8lqUkmmKwvmy7F50H
bwayfan7000
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/09
#4Motherf**ker with the Hat In Danger of Closing
Posted: 4/6/11 at 10:08pm
Shame that this show can't find an audience.
This reminds me of something I overheard walking by the TKTS booth a couple weeks ago. It was an exchange between someone working to promote the show and a random passerby:
Promoter: Does anyone want to see The Motherf*cker with the Hat?
Passerby: No.
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#5Motherf**ker with the Hat In Danger of Closing
Posted: 4/6/11 at 10:09pmOh no! I feel so sorry for all the actors who will be out of work!
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#6Motherf**ker with the Hat In Danger of Closing
Posted: 4/6/11 at 10:22pmRiedel reaches a new low in that article...his mockery of Stephen Adly Guirgis' depression--which, as we all know, is a legitimate medical condition--is disgusting.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#7Motherf**ker with the Hat In Danger of Closing
Posted: 4/6/11 at 10:58pm
Who cares what the critics say these days anyways, right?
They should have started something like on Twitter and/or Facebook to get more people to see it and talk about it.
Finian's Rainbow (2009/2010) got really good reviews but that didn't help it one bit.
#8Motherf**ker with the Hat In Danger of Closing
Posted: 4/6/11 at 11:01pmHonestly, I wouldn't be surprised if this shuttered quickly. I didn't like the show at all when I saw the first preview...plus, it is a very difficult show to advertise (given the title).
#9Motherf**ker with the Hat In Danger of Closing
Posted: 4/6/11 at 11:08pm
As much as I love the idea of all these new shows coming this Spring, it's simply spreading audiences too thin, especially at these prices. Discounts aren't deep enough and not everyone has time for rushes and lotteries. So it's inevitable there's going to be some high-profile flops.
A real shame because I was going to buy tickets when I got paid next week - I guess I'll be seeing closing weekend.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
#10Motherf**ker with the Hat In Danger of Closing
Posted: 4/6/11 at 11:16pm
Sorry, I have to defend what I saw and liked.
@WithoutaTrace You can't comment on what you saw the first night/first week of previews because it's like judging something by it's rough draft.
From my understanding, this used to be a 2 hour and 15 minute show with an intermission. What I saw was something funny as hell and it was cut down to 1 hour and 40 minutes without an intermission.
But I'm not throwing shade, I just don't want this show to die hated.
I also have to say that I'm a fan of Chris Rock. 
#11Motherf**ker with the Hat In Danger of Closing
Posted: 4/6/11 at 11:20pm
Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuull Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
Dont want to be judged on a preview performance? Don't charge money for it and come our before hand saying the audience is there to see an unfinished work in progress. I'm sick of that being used as excuse for shows that aren't ready to be put in front of the public.
That said, I actually enjoyed this play.
#12Motherf**ker with the Hat In Danger of Closing
Posted: 4/6/11 at 11:21pmThat's a bummer, I was looking to rush this during my Spring Break toward the end of the month.
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#13Motherf**ker with the Hat In Danger of Closing
Posted: 4/6/11 at 11:34pmFunny, I got to see MOTHER and IMPRESSIONISM as their unfinished two-act versions - both in the same theater - and both were awful. I can't imagine that MOTHER got any better by cutting 20 minutes (and keeping Chris Rock, who couldn't act).
#14Motherf**ker with the Hat In Danger of Closing
Posted: 4/6/11 at 11:35pmI asked and was told the only thing cut in the show was the intermission.
#15Motherf**ker with the Hat In Danger of Closing
Posted: 4/6/11 at 11:46pm
" I asked and was told the only thing cut in the show was the intermission."
I guess I did see the final version then...yikes!!
#16Motherf**ker with the Hat In Danger of Closing
Posted: 4/6/11 at 11:56pm
PopAria, the show does have a Facebook page.
My thought on promoting it is that it should be easy to promote. But we are so darned PC now. Rock was on GMA and they showed the playbill with "Motherf**ker" totally blacked out and for the first minute of the interview they stumbled in conversation about not being able to say the title. Rock was there to promote the show and cracked jokes for 90% of the interview not related to the show. The interview with him and Cannavale doesn't entirely talk about the show either. I don't know, but my thought was that these kinds of interviews "About the show" can't help. They have a title that with someone smart behind promotions they could have fun with. I love the Elaine Stritch promo for the show. I think Rock has a solid fan base on his tours. They just don't seem to be marketing the show to these people. I also enjoyed the show and hope it doesn't close shortly after it opens.
Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder
JudasIscariot
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/05
#17Motherf**ker with the Hat In Danger of Closing
Posted: 4/7/11 at 12:56am
From Stephen Adly Guirgis's Facebook regarding the Riedel post:
i have now experienced what's it like to have someone write something about me personally that is literally, completely, actually, utterly, factually, categorically and completely UNTRUE. unbelievably untrue. welcome to showbiz i guess.... if you liked the play, please keep telling friends. we're all proud to bring it to you. and we're bringing it together and with love. thanks.
#18Motherf**ker with the Hat In Danger of Closing
Posted: 4/7/11 at 1:25am
See without knowing any thing about the show, bar the title and Chris Rock's name, I always thought this was a solo stand up comedy show of his.
That I think this maybe one of the problems with the marketing
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
Tazber's: Reply to
Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian
Fosse76
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/05
#19Motherf**ker with the Hat In Danger of Closing
Posted: 4/7/11 at 1:38am
"I asked and was told the only thing cut in the show was the intermission."
Then someone lied to you. They cut out an entre scene, and trimmed a few others here and there. The ending was restaged, thereby shortening the final scene as well.
As for the early closing, I haven't heard anything. But since Chris Rock's appearance on GMA, the audience size has noticeably increased, so if they can maintain it then I don't see it closing.
#20Motherf**ker with the Hat In Danger of Closing
Posted: 4/7/11 at 1:41amThank you Fosse. I mentioned in another thread that I saw it the first night they cut the intermission and I was told nothing was cut. Based on the time we got out, I figured something had to be cut but I didn't want to get into a back & forth about it.
Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder
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Broadway Star Joined: 3/19/09
#21Motherf**ker with the Hat In Danger of Closing
Posted: 4/7/11 at 2:02ami think the fact that Perez calls it the "first" casualty of the season says something of his theatre knowledge
Without bread we'd just be hungry
but without theatre we'd be dead
#22Motherf**ker with the Hat In Danger of Closing
Posted: 4/7/11 at 8:49amJust gotta jump in on AC126748's disgust with Riedel's mockery of Guirgis' alleged depression issues with his "pajamas" crack. Extremely cruel--even for him. Totally over the line.
#23Motherf**ker with the Hat In Danger of Closing
Posted: 4/7/11 at 9:33amThanks, Baritone. I couldn't agree more.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#24Motherf**ker with the Hat In Danger of Closing
Posted: 4/7/11 at 10:05amFosse76, which scene was cut?
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