Reidel's Putrid Swamp!

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 5/26/06 at 11:30pm

"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!

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 5/26/06 at 11:34pm

sometimes the truth is rough. Although, im suprised he didnt throw In My Life in there

[little_sally]

Posted: 5/27/06 at 12:12am

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

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 5/27/06 at 12:15am

in my life was just misguided, misunderstood, narrow visioned, poorly written, poorly directed, not bad.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 5/27/06 at 12:19am

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

[blaxx]

Posted: 5/27/06 at 12:21am

Zoneace, I hope you're not a publicist...you are right, that doesn't make it sound bad, but unwatchable!

Updated On: 5/27/06 at 12:21 AM

[Tiny-Toon]

Posted: 5/27/06 at 12:21am

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.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 5/27/06 at 12:26am

well I did not like it
But I was not that harsh

[jdixon69]

Posted: 5/27/06 at 1:13am

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.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 5/27/06 at 8:59am

He also didn't mention The Woman in White. Last week, he spoke with nominators who said that "comparitively, it wasn't looking so bad."

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 5/27/06 at 9:03am

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.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/27/06 at 9:16am

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.

[Corine2]

Posted: 5/27/06 at 9:53am

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

[MeleeQ]

Posted: 5/27/06 at 12:01pm

The only people who seem to like it are the little kids paying $26 for a rush ticket every other night.

I'm well into my twenties. I don't really think you can call that a little kid. I love Wedding Singer. Is it the most brilliant piece of writing ever on broadway? No, most definitely not. But it's a fun time. Everyone has the right to their own opinion of a show though, you're allowed to hate it (no show is for everyone), but I think it's unfair and rude to make comments about the people who DO like it.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 5/27/06 at 12:05pm

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.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 5/27/06 at 12:06pm

TARZAN's Mother is Dead.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 5/27/06 at 12:16pm

Pulldowner, thanks for the spoiler alert!

[hushpuppy]

Posted: 5/27/06 at 1:51pm

Is there a way to access this article other than paying $3.95 to the Post on-line? I don't mind paying $100 for a theatre ticket but paying the Post anything to read their should-be-for-free archives just galls me.
Thanks

[jdixon69]

Posted: 5/27/06 at 2:50pm

"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...

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/27/06 at 8:50pm

Sometimes Reidel himself reminds me of a putrid swamp

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 5/28/06 at 3:48pm

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.

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 5/28/06 at 3:53pm

As mean as it sounds, it's true.

And I agree front row about the POST.