NY Times Reviews LA's Mark Taper PARADE
NY Times Reviews LA's Mark Taper PARADE
fade2black2
Chorus Member Joined: 7/21/09
#1NY Times Reviews LA's Mark Taper PARADE
Posted: 10/13/09 at 6:46pm
NYT/Isherwood Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/theater/reviews/14parade.html?emc=eta1
Updated On: 10/13/09 at 06:46 PM
dramamama611
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#2re: NY Times Reviews LA's Mark Taper PARADE
Posted: 10/13/09 at 6:54pmYour link isn't working (at least not for me).
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fade2black2
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#3re: NY Times Reviews LA's Mark Taper PARADE
Posted: 10/13/09 at 7:05pm...the saddest production I've ever seen. I couldn't sit through it again no matter how sterling the reviews.
#4re: NY Times Reviews LA's Mark Taper PARADE
Posted: 10/13/09 at 7:21pm
Once a month to clarify do you mean sad as in depressing or pathetic?
And it seems like a very good review, praised a lot, but the actually premise of the show. Still I am excited.
#5re: NY Times Reviews LA's Mark Taper PARADE
Posted: 10/13/09 at 7:30pm
Its a good review. Its not a money review. I think whats going to be interesting to see is if there are enough producers out there who are willing to lose money to see this show have a New York revival, because its just never going to make back an investment outside of a company like Lincoln Center or CTG funding it.
I think ultimately if PARADE is revived, its going to need to be at MTC or the Roundabout. Unless there is somebody with a lot of money who just believes this strongly in the material...
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#6re: NY Times Reviews LA's Mark Taper PARADE
Posted: 10/13/09 at 8:15pmIsn't TR coming to New York this spring in a revival of "Lend Me A Tenor"? which would preclude his participation in a spring transfer for "Parade"...
#7re: NY Times Reviews LA's Mark Taper PARADE
Posted: 10/13/09 at 8:19pmI think "Lend Me a Tenor" is still tentative. I would think if somebody stepped forward to transfer PARADE he would go with it. Of course a transfer involves alot more than just physically moving this production.
#8re: NY Times Reviews LA's Mark Taper PARADE
Posted: 10/14/09 at 10:51amThis is one of the few shows I think could benefit from a feature film treatment. I would love to see this on the big screen with beautiful cinematography.
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#9re: NY Times Reviews LA's Mark Taper PARADE
Posted: 10/14/09 at 11:07am
Parade was SAD, not at all pathetic. I enjoy a good tear jerker but I was so horrified by the story and man's inhumanity that I couldn't deal with it musicalized. There is a lot of lovely music, it was just a production I never wanted to relive again...sort of like the movie Schindlers List. They actually bothered me more than they uplifted me.
Maybe it's that old northern Catholic German guilt, lol!
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