Reidel's Putrid Swamp!

"The fourth slot fell to THE WEDDING SINGER which emerged from the same putrid swamp as TARZAN, LESTAT, LENNON and HOT FEET."
jezz i thought I was critical.....
that's harsh!

TWS is nowhere near as bad as Tarzan, Lennon, In My Life, or Hot Feet.

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It sounds like In My Life it was at least an entertaining form of bad, though.

Updated On: 5/27/06 at 12:19 AM

Hmm well if you go to the "Search" option on the board, and type Curtain's username, you can find more then 50 posts bashing Wedding Singer. This should tell you something.

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Didn't anyone else get the impression Riedel talked to, like, one disgruntled nominator, and tried to blow it up into a scandal?

And somebody at "Wedding Singer" must owe him money. Every column he slams it.

That probably wasn't the best choice of words, but The Wedding Singer is painfully unwatchable. The only people who seem to like it are the little kids paying $26 for a rush ticket every other night.

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I disagree. I found the Wedding Singer very entertaining.

I also loved Shuler in Tarzan and Andy Pellick makes a beautiful and elegant butterfly in Tarzan.
Tarzan needs to eat more! He is gorgeous but skin and bones.
Where is his MOTHER?
(Feed TARZAN, PLEASE!)

Updated On: 5/27/06 at 09:53 AM

Perhaps he didn't include In My Life in that list because for as bad as it was at least it was ORIGINAL, both the score and the book.

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Pulldowner, thanks for the spoiler alert!

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"I can't speak for Act II but Act I of The Wedding Singer was about as bad as I've ever seen. I'm glad Reidel informed us why the show got a Best Musical nomination."

Getting "information" from Riedel is a dicey proposition. He is so tied up with being "the Bad Boy of Broadway" and creating scandals that he can jump in the middle of that the "truthiness" of his column rivals Pravda, circa 1975.

Only a few people know "why" TWS got nominated, and they ain't telling. My best guess? The nominators felt it was one of the four best original musicals of the year. And I agree. Why don't you let the WS people enjoy it, rather than imply their nomination was the result of trickery and deceit?

Believe me, Wedding Singer Despisers are the same as Drowsy Despisers, Color Purple Despisers and Jersey Boy Despisers - a small, vocal minority. By all means, have fun with it, but don't pretend that most theater people agree with you.

Lestat Despisers, on the other hand...

You can't take Reidel all that seriously: He writes for the POST for god's sake! Hardly a paper known for its journalistic integrity!

He just wants to make a name for himself as a Broadway gossip columnist, and the Post just wants to sell papers.

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