Posted: 3/11/16 at 11:24pm
I legally changed my name to Jay Lerner-Z in a court of law, I'll have him know.
Posted: 3/11/16 at 11:27pm
I am getting confused with so many threads, did BK's big diatribe to FN get deleted?
Also I feel like the REAL Patti shares our deep passion for theater, the good AND the bad. I surely hope she won't be joining the crusade against us.
Updated On: 3/11/16 at 11:27 PM
Posted: 3/11/16 at 11:29pm
I'm not as inside baseball is a lot of people here, but I've been meaning to ask - does that Broadway.com dude who tweeted that tweet about cancelling their message boards in 2002 still run Broadway.com? Because that's an off a lot of smugness from a site that seems to exist solely to bilk unsuspecting people with outrageous service fees.
Posted: 3/11/16 at 11:31pm
Yup. And poor dead gothampc assigned the blame to me!!!!! Whatever the Republican version of RIP may be.
Posted: 3/11/16 at 11:35pm
The Broadway.com of the mid-aughts was a great theatre resource. They posted reviews for virtually everything in NYC, including fringe and NYMF.
Then they totally revamped, ditched all of that, and became a glorified broker.
Posted: 3/11/16 at 11:40pm
Thanks, bwayto!
I miss goth. Now that he's gone, I guess there's no harm in admitting that I met him once.
Updated On: 3/11/16 at 11:40 PM
Posted: 3/11/16 at 11:45pm
This whole thing has gotten dumb. I can guarantee had Nerds decided to go forward with performing, none of this would have happened. I can't believe that a bunch of grown adults care so much about what strangers think about them. If they really do enjoy whatever it is they might have for a show, that's all that should matter.
Posted: 3/11/16 at 11:48pm
The saddest nerd words: what might have been.
Posted: 3/11/16 at 11:55pm
Matthew Murray goes off again!
https://twitter.com/MMurrayOnBway
Posted: 3/11/16 at 11:59pm
Thank you for keeping us up with him! He is really killing it.
Updated On: 3/11/16 at 11:59 PM
Posted: 3/12/16 at 12:05am
It said something about FindingNamo and "his ilk". That's all I remember.
Posted: 3/12/16 at 12:07am
I can! Yesterday I had a comment deleted within seconds.
Posted: 3/12/16 at 12:17am
Meanwhile, over on the OT board, tazber's thread headed "DELETE" is still up. :)
Updated On: 3/12/16 at 12:17 AM
Posted: 3/12/16 at 12:46am
LOL I don't log into BW for a couple days and come back and nothing but drama and scandal! I leave you alone for 2 days....
Posted: 3/12/16 at 12:58am
We need to keep a list of who is #withpatti in case you don't want to spend money on them
so far I saw
Hilty, Rannells, Salonga, Miles and Pasquale
If she is able to get her demands met, what does that say about the powers that be? Weak. Why debut the abuse button right after she complained? Now she has declared it a victory for her and looks like they are kissing her butt. Some B/C lister complains and they are falling over themselves to make her happy- what happens when an A+ star complains? A bad precedent is being set. Pacino got torn apart BAD and he didn't cry.
Posted: 3/12/16 at 1:04am
Hellob said: "If she is able to get her demands met, what does that say about the powers that be? Weak. Why debut the abuse button right after she complained? Now she has declared it a victory for her and looks like they are kissing her butt. Some B/C lister complains and they are falling over themselves to make her happy- what happens when an A+ star complains? A bad precedent is being set. Pacino got torn apart BAD and he didn't cry. "
Yeah, if I'd known it'd be this quick, I'd have asked an actor to become an essayist about the racism and misogyny here years ago!
Posted: 3/12/16 at 1:14am
Murray makes so much sense but it's being drowned out by the self righteousness of Murin and her minions.
Reading her twitter feed makes me feel like the one sane person at a Trump rally.
Posted: 3/12/16 at 1:19am
There are few among us who can survive suffocation by #theshroudofmurin!
Posted: 3/12/16 at 1:20am
The fact that the Patti Murin thread was closed off is disgusting. But I loved how it was kept going long enough for the "scandal" to heighten BWW's trafficking. But with these new rules, BWW Message Board is completely safe. There's no need to shut it down - after all, then where would BWW get its news?
Posted: 3/12/16 at 1:28am
Turns for the worse are matters of opinions, but I wasn't here so I don't have one.
I I sure hope the shroud of Murin becomes more obvious BO poison than her track record already shows her to be!
Loathe ya, Patti! Don't wanna have drinks with ya!!!!!
Posted: 3/12/16 at 1:30am
Hellob said: "We need to keep a list of who is #withpatti in case you don't want to spend money on them
so far I saw
Hilty, Rannells, Salonga, Miles and Pasquale
If she is able to get her demands met, what does that say about the powers that be? Weak. Why debut the abuse button right after she complained? Now she has declared it a victory for her and looks like they are kissing her butt. Some B/C lister complains and they are falling over themselves to make her happy- what happens when an A+ star complains? A bad precedent is being set. Pacino got torn apart BAD and he didn't cry. "
I totally respect this even though I'm fans of many of these people. I'm disgusted by the language in Murin's post yet these theater professionals are jumping on the bandwagon.
I wanted to reply to them all via Twitter and tell them of the misinformation they are spreading but (a) I don't use Twitter for that purpose (b) Twitter doesn't let you have meaningful discourse.
Edited: Lea is not involved at all. I had to double check because I follow her on Twitter and she has never tweeted about this. Turns out it is her FAKE Facebook page with the nasty post. She hasn't been involved at all.
The list is actually way too huge now as the misinformation spreads like wildfire, so it looks like we would have to boycott theater. But I would definitely appreciate this list to be compiled, so that if I ever got to meet them at stage door I could politely correct them as to how UTTERLY WRONG they are.
Is there no one on the theatergoers' side or is that professional suicide??
Updated On: 3/14/16 at 01:30 AM
Posted: 3/12/16 at 1:34am
I didn't bother to read each and every actor's ringing endorsement of her post, but I wonder how many agree with her 100%. Did some actually want the boards gone, or did some just want people to be nicer? I suspect there are more of the latter, but that the majority didn't really want to elaborate/get into a tweetstorm.
