PASSING STRANGE Film on Ch 13 (PBS) tonite, NY 9 pm. Yay!

[thetinymagic2]

Posted: 1/13/10 at 2:55pm

Let's just say ,ya had to be there closing nite!
Hi, to all the original and subsequent fans....enjoy!
A special shout out to Greg, the girls, Steve, VCNY, and Jen.
Oh, and of course, Mike the Doctor.
And Heidi, for the tour! And party.

ps. oops, I almost forgot Joe5 for starting the original craziness!
Updated On: 1/13/10 at 02:55 PM

[kate2]

Posted: 1/13/10 at 10:23pm

I just turned this on at like 10 and it's... different. I guess if I caught the beginning it would make sense haha

[lakezurich]

Posted: 1/13/10 at 10:26pm

So far there have been some parts where I have not been able to hear what Daniel Breaker is singing.

[Dangerous Divine]

Posted: 1/13/10 at 10:37pm

Kate, I've been watching from the start and I still have no clue.

(And the sound is TERRIBLE when more than one person is singing.)

[lakezurich]

Posted: 1/13/10 at 10:52pm

^ YES!

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Posted: 1/13/10 at 10:54pm

I love this show so much.

[Luv2goToShows]

Posted: 1/13/10 at 11:19pm

I thought the show was great at the theater, it is really a shame it did not last longer. Unfortunately the film version did not capture that greatness and did not do the show justice, (in my opinion).

[lakezurich]

Posted: 1/13/10 at 11:19pm

This is just terrible... Definitely not my cup of tea.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 1/13/10 at 11:55pm

not a fan. watched most of the first hour and turned it off.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 1/14/10 at 12:12am

Even worse than I remembered it being in the theater, which I didn't think was possible.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 1/14/10 at 12:13am

Loved it, I think it was captured really well.

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 1/14/10 at 12:21am

Just watched it and if Stew did that 8 times a week I would expect him to be SKINNY because that was INTENSE!

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 1/14/10 at 12:21am

Just watched it and if Stew did that 8 times a week I would expect him to be SKINNY because that was INTENSE!

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 1/14/10 at 12:21am

Just watched it and if Stew did that 8 times a week I would expect him to be SKINNY because that was INTENSE!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/14/10 at 12:25am

I got bored and turned off Into the Woods on PBS and I had worshipped the show when I saw it at the beginning of the run.

As much as we clamor for filmed records of these shows we love, they usually blow. They're a nice memento of something you experienced in the real world, but as a stand-alone object, not very good. It's in the magic and the melancholy of live theatre.

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 1/14/10 at 12:29am

It's a bit upsetting that "Grey Gardens" was not filmed and this was though......

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/14/10 at 12:31am

Grey Gardens would suck to people who hadn't seen it live. I saw and loved Passing Strange at the Belasco, but now I know not to make somebody who never saw it watch it with me.

[perfectlymarvelous]

Posted: 1/14/10 at 12:51am

I knew next to nothing about this show before watching it tonight. I definitely felt like I would've loved it had I seen it live but it was hard to connect to it on film.

[canmark]

Posted: 1/14/10 at 6:47am

I thought Passing Strange was great. I have the cast CD, but hadn't seen the show in the theatre. What an amazing cast! Great band. I really liked the staging and the design of the show. And the music, of course, was excellent.

[MiracleElixir]

Posted: 1/14/10 at 8:42am

Missed this last night, but when I saw it in the theater, it was pretty rollicking/energetic, and seemed to expertly re-create the energy of seeing it at the Belasco.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 1/14/10 at 9:11am

Sat through it at the Belasco, really hated it. Sat through about ten minutes last night, just to see if anything had changed, and NO -- it still sucks.

[MusicSnob1]

Posted: 1/14/10 at 11:41am

Go back to bed, Mr. Grumpy

xoxo

[TulitaPepsi]

Posted: 1/14/10 at 11:59am

Found it even more impressive on the small screen than in movie theaters (Where I kept thinking "Damn, that is one SWEATY cast!"). Wonderful to experience the scenes and dialogue that aren't on the CD, like "French Movie" , "Arlington Hill" and the extended church scene.

And it has the finest Broadway score since GREY GARDENS.

[clever name]

Posted: 1/14/10 at 3:45pm

When I saw it on Broadway I was blown away. I watched it on pay per view and loved it...and I'm pretty sure I will be buying the dvd.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 1/14/10 at 3:55pm

Guess you missed Smokey Joe's Cafe and Ain't Misbehavin'.