Petition for IN MY LIFE OBC recording... — Page 2

Who knew one little word could open such debate!!?? I feel so American right now. (oops! Isn't it bad in Cyberland to say you are American?)

I would not want to get anyone associated with this site in trouble. Perhaps discussing the term bootleg (oops I said the word)shouldn't be a bad thing, only the sale of them online should be.

That said, and forgive me if I am "over reacting", but the outright HATE MAIL I've gotten should be what is illegal, and in fact is.

To those of you who sent me mean notes (especially the guy who threatened to find my home and beat me with the magnet he is going to use to erase my ALLEGED bootlegs) I have forwarded them all to the webmaster. NOW GET OFF MY BACK.

To those of you who have nicely corrected me and shared opinions not threats, you have my respect.

By the way... is the "B" word to be whispered like the "n" word or the "f" word? Whispering or not saying them doesn't make bootlegs, racism or sexuality go away.

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Thanks for the measured response!

Um, I just joined this on Friday, and I read the Terms of Service. I missed the part about using certain words. Can we say illegally gotten recordings?

Again using the words shouldn't cause a problem... promoting/selling them should be. For example, racism is a terrible thing, right? But it should be discussed (i.e: racism as a theme in The Color Purple, Wicked, and Avenue Q), not condoned or used (i.e. making a comment about Ben Vereen as a black Wizard, etc.). I'm pretty sure acknowledging the existence of you-know-what isn't going to get the nice people at Broadwayworld.com in trouble. I bet having people openly selling them would, and it should. That really is my only point.

(I only flailed a little)

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As far as souvenirs, all they had when we went was a hat & T shirt but no one was even selling them so it was a moot point

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"I need to publicly apologize for my comment regarding bootlegs, I guess. What I meant was, since the show was folding so soon, a recording seems unlikely and therefore would only be represented by the multitude of bootlegs that there must be out there. (In fact, you'd be shocked, those of you in your smart little ivory towers, at how many offers of bootlegs I've gotten... 5 or 6 times as many of the evil toned little messages I've gotten about how wrong it is to bootleg.) BUT! I'm sorry."

Ok, you have attempted to apologize but then showed you insincerity by adding "I guess". Personally, and maybe someone will back me up on this one if they agree, I don't care how many bootleg offers you have received since you posted. It just goes to show...you're not sorry. How could you be if you are continuing to seek bootlegs over PM? All you are doing is back pedaling because someone called you on your error.

You want to see and support the show? Seems like you're a fan of so why don't you try to support it legally and buy a ticket to see it?

"I'm pretty sure acknowledging the existence of you-know-what isn't going to get the nice people at Broadwayworld.com in trouble"

Acknowledging is fine...but asking for a bootleg on this site is not. And the fact that you have had an attitude and put up your defenses in the few posts I have read on this thread alone...people are going to point out when you are doing something wrong in order to preserve the integrity of this board. It's not to be mean, it's just because they have respect for the board.

"Um, I just joined this on Friday, and I read the Terms of Service. I missed the part about using certain words. Can we say illegally gotten recordings?"

"Illegally gotten recordings"? Between that and your punctuation, you know...I'm not even going to go there. It's too easy.

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Updated On: 12/4/05 at 12:23 AM

I love lemons.
I love skeletons.
I love Dr. Pepper.
I love "In My Life."

How about I perform Secrets for y'all.

Get back in your closet!

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Awww, too bad. Did/has he ever go(ne) on as J.T.?

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Same here. And I only say that because it hurts my brain to imagine him doing the same role as Chris Hanke.

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Oh, that they're different. From just my limited experience of seeing Halling only as Enjolras and Hanke only as Tom Sawyer. :)

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That's interesting. Because he was really, REALLY good. I mean, I'd follow him to the barricades or even to Starbucks. :)

Although when I first saw him, my thought was, "He looks like just about every other generic replacement Enjolras in the early '90s." And it was an off-night, but after that, I saw him several more times and I really enjoyed him. One of those performers who made each show a little different. I had no idea he was leaving, and it turns out I saw his final perf in Les Miz.

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I really, really DISLIKED Christopher Mark Peterson as Enjolras and I wish I'd seen him as Grantaire. I heard from a few people he was better as Grantaire.

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Updated On: 12/4/05 at 01:16 AM