Real Turkeys
Real Turkeys
gettinhep
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/9/04
#0Real Turkeys
Posted: 11/25/04 at 6:20am
Does anyone have a favorite turkey? You know the type of show that had no business being on a New York stage but was, nevertheless, memorable.
Or, perhaps, a favorite turkey moment from a show. For example, there was a moment in 'Moose Murders' - that turkey of all turkeys - when a fella, paralysed in a wheelchair, leaped to his feet and kicked a moose-suit-wearing-dude in the groin. A classic half-baked turkey moment! Does anyone have a favorite turkey moment like this?
Happy Thanksgiving, folks.
'Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.' - Lucy Van Pelt
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#1re: Real Turkeys
Posted: 11/25/04 at 12:38pm
BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE GOES PUBLIC - I saw it closing night (it ran two weeks).
Most embarassing moment - a big production numbrer about phone sex. Eight absolutely gorgeous girls, scantily clad, each encased in a plexiglass cube, about 4 feet square, striking highly suggestive poses. I guess the symbolism is that you can fantasize, but you can't actually touch them. Outside the cubes are eight horny men - all either fat, balding or both - trying t0o touch the women. At a point during the number, the men dropped their pants and danced around the stage with their pants around their ankles.
What was Tommy Tune smoking when he thought this up?
Another classic moment: poor Dee Hoty having to sing the lyric "meaner than a three-balled tomccat"!
gettinhep
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/9/04
#2re: Real Turkeys
Posted: 11/25/04 at 4:29pmOuch!
'Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.' - Lucy Van Pelt
#3re: Real Turkeys
Posted: 11/25/04 at 4:33pm
Most of the lines in "Boy from Oz" were turkeys to me...Especially, and I may not have it completely right...
Peter: I can't believe you did it!
Liza: (thinking Peter means the divorce) What?
Peter: I can't believe you cut your hair!
Yummy turkey!
#4re: Real Turkeys
Posted: 11/25/04 at 4:46pmMost of bat boy lol
When someone blunders, we say that he makes a misstep. Is it then not clear that all the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill our history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. - Moliere
mbjts
Understudy Joined: 10/21/04
#5re: Real Turkeys
Posted: 11/25/04 at 5:02pm
"Bring Back Birdie"
I felt so embarrassed for Chita Rivera and Donald O'Connor. It was the first time I experienced most of the audience walking out of the theatre while the show was still on.
MasterLcZ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/12/03
#6re: Real Turkeys
Posted: 11/25/04 at 5:51pmThe "Foster Home Dream Ballet" (cut in previews after unintended audience hilarity) in MARILYN - THE MUSICAL, an intense psychodrama-dance wherin the child Marilyn dances into one home, where she gets hit with liquor bottles, then prances into another where she gets showered by Bibles and crucifixes...and dances back and forth again.
"Christ, Bette Davis?!?!"
JakeB
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
gettinhep
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/9/04
#8re: Real Turkeys
Posted: 11/25/04 at 6:30pm
What!?! No 'STELLA!!!'?
Painful.
'Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.' - Lucy Van Pelt
#9re: Real Turkeys
Posted: 11/25/04 at 8:00pmI used to have a pet turkey. Then he ran away. It was sad.
The Ninth Show
Understudy Joined: 9/25/04
#10re: Real Turkeys
Posted: 11/26/04 at 5:34amI'll never forget Clive Barnes' review of Moose Murders the next morning in the Post. There was one paragraph on the front page of the entertainment section, saying basically that this show was so bad that he wasn't going to waste anyones time writing a review. Of course, that made everyone run down to the theatre to see how bad it really was.
Did you ever see something and say, "I just have to have it"?
Sometimes a dream appears unattainable...but for anyone who's on the downside of advantage, and relying purely on courage, it's possible.
leeinlondon
Leading Actor Joined: 5/22/03
#11re: Real Turkeys
Posted: 11/26/04 at 6:34am
Perhaps the worst play with real turkey moments I can remember is "Age-Sex-Location"
"Ewen Macintosh well known as Keith in the BBC series "The Office" is Trevor, amongst other degrading acts is called upon to strip to his underwear and roll around the stage pretending to be a dog cleaning itself and then spends the whole of the second act in extremely unflattering drag.
Trevor becomes a cyber woman chasing a "lesbian" relationship with another man pretending to be a woman. "
This is a link to my full review complete with a rebuff of my review from the author of the play:
https://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=546
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