STING: Knocked 'em out at The Last Ship
STING: Knocked 'em out at The Last Ship
#1STING: Knocked 'em out at The Last Ship
Posted: 10/2/14 at 11:09pm
#2STING: Knocked 'em out at The Last Ship
Posted: 10/2/14 at 11:11pmHow many threads are you going to start, hon?
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#2STING: Knocked 'em out at The Last Ship
Posted: 10/2/14 at 11:18pmThank you, employee of The Last Ship, for yet another thread about the same show.
#3STING: Knocked 'em out at The Last Ship
Posted: 10/2/14 at 11:22pm
You have just raised the bar for how annoying a shill can be.
No easy feat.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#4STING: Knocked 'em out at The Last Ship
Posted: 10/2/14 at 11:23pm
"Wow. He's the real deal, that guy."
What does that even mean?
#5STING: Knocked 'em out at The Last Ship
Posted: 10/2/14 at 11:32pm
Come on, Namo. Not that hard. It means he's the real mccoy, the genuine article, the real thing.
Buffalo Bill, will you be reviewing Betty Buckley's cabaret show?
followspot
Broadway Star Joined: 12/27/11
#6STING: Knocked 'em out at The Last Ship
Posted: 10/2/14 at 11:37pm
Buffalo Bill can't be a shill because no shill would be dumb enough to make a public mockery of the show he's shilling.
Couldn't happen.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#7STING: Knocked 'em out at The Last Ship
Posted: 10/2/14 at 11:40pmSting rushes the stage and sings with them, or else Sting gets the hose again.
#8STING: Knocked 'em out at The Last Ship
Posted: 10/3/14 at 12:14am
Miriam134
Swing Joined: 7/22/14
#10STING: Knocked 'em out at The Last Ship
Posted: 10/3/14 at 7:06amI don't understand one word that BB posted [he's kinda cute though-don't speak !].
iWannaBEaSedaris
Stand-by Joined: 6/1/08
#11STING: Knocked 'em out at The Last Ship
Posted: 10/3/14 at 8:15am
The OP is talking about the fact that Sting came onstage after the final bow last night since it was his birthday. He explained that he always sings to celebrate his birthday, and this year he wanted to share it with this amazing show. The band in the pit played a raucous arrangement as Sting proceeded to prove why he's still one of the most potent and sincere figures in rock with a song that had the entire audience willingly and joyfully clapping, singing, and screaming out in excitement. It was a special night, and the show moved both myself and my companions to tears. A spectacular finale makes it an incredibly fulfilling piece of stage craft to watch.
Side note: Shawna M Hamic seems like an incredible breakout talent. I could see her guest starring on every NYC based TV show very soon.
Pootie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/14
#12STING: Knocked 'em out at The Last Ship
Posted: 10/3/14 at 8:24am
^A better description of what happened.
Buffalo Bill's spam makes me not want to watch this show, though. Congrats, I think.
#13STING: Knocked 'em out at The Last Ship
Posted: 10/3/14 at 8:53amSting needs to do that every night after the show.
Liza's Headband
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
#14STING: Knocked 'em out at The Last Ship
Posted: 10/3/14 at 9:09amI read on a different thread that Buffalo Bill is a vendor or bartender (?) at THE LAST SHIP theater. Can anyone confirm?
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#15STING: Knocked 'em out at The Last Ship
Posted: 10/3/14 at 10:31am
^^^ Just go with it. Threaten him with the fact that his bosses might not like some of his posts. Then add a vaguely ominous "Just sayin'." Just sayin'.
"to prove why he's still one of the most potent and sincere figures in rock"
It takes all kinds of taste.
#16STING: Knocked 'em out at The Last Ship
Posted: 10/3/14 at 10:44am
Actually, I agree with "to prove why he's still one of the most potent and sincere figures in rock" ... he is to my taste. He is quite the brilliant rock auteur.
However, my question is this: after I see THE LAST SHIP later this month, and if I want to post an opinion, ON WHICH THREAD SHOULD I POST IT?
dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#17STING: Knocked 'em out at The Last Ship
Posted: 10/3/14 at 10:46ambruce-none of Buffalo Bill's if you want to be taken seriously.
#18STING: Knocked 'em out at The Last Ship
Posted: 10/3/14 at 10:50am
I don't know why it took me so long to realize Buffalo Bill's strategy here, but it finally hit me - he's creating a very clever satire showing that only bat-sh!t-crazy idiots are fans of The Last Ship.
Bravo, sir. Bravo to you.
#19STING: Knocked 'em out at The Last Ship
Posted: 10/3/14 at 10:57am
I want to see a "debate" between After Eight and Buffalo Bill on the greatness/awfulness of The Last Ship.
jetcap
Chorus Member Joined: 8/26/14
#20STING: Knocked 'em out at The Last Ship
Posted: 10/3/14 at 1:08pm
Sting Rant:
While I respect everybody's taste and to each his own, I can't imagine anything short of a burlap sack over my head and my ankles bound with barbed-wire to get me to this show, which with the size of Sting's ego, I'm surprised isn't opening at MSG.
We all have our likes and dislikes in the music world, but Sting is into his 5th decade of annoying me. Saw a pretty decent Police show off the 1st album in Toronto in '79 but by the time they toured on the 2nd album later that year, all hope was lost. Sting had his bass turned up SO loud compared to the rest of the band that i could feel every note in my chest in the first row of the balcony, crushing my lung capacity, like Joe Frazier was hammering away eventually trying to take me down. Sting hadn't become STING yet but you could tell, even that early, that a divivide between him and the band was going to develop.
A year or two later on Zenyatta Mondatta (so cute all those early album names...he said sarcastically, trying to sound sarcastic)and that tour, it was definitely STING TIME. He combed and fixed his hair on stage as girls shrieked and did more scatting than Ella Fitzgerald. Not only on Do-De-Dum or whatever it was called, but on almost friggin' song. It was horrible and I was done.
So too was the band, the next album they hated each other so much that none of it was recorded together, each going into the studio seperately to play their own parts. No surprise they broke up soon after.
Somewhere in there, not sure exactly where, Sting figured that music wasn't feeding his Bono-sized ego enough and acted in Quadrophenia where I think he played Zeus, Ruler of the Mods. Thankfully his acting career never really took off.
Ever since, all I've ever heard, and believe me, I've tried my best to avoid, is how great Sting is as told by Sting. How his marriage is better than others, how his sex is better than others, how he great blah blah blah.
The fact he is up on stage celebrating with everyone on the greatness of Sting after a Broadway performance comes as no surprise.
By the way, I don't like Sting.
Rant over.
Thank you.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#21STING: Knocked 'em out at The Last Ship
Posted: 10/3/14 at 1:13pm
You made me laugh.
It's so hard for me to stretch my understanding of rock music to include The Sting Variations. It's noodly meandering lite jazz, that's for sure. I TOO saw that awful Police tour, with the extended jams and scat singing on what were meant to be short, sharp pop rock songs. JUST TERRIBLE.
I missed the tour for the first album because they suddenly felt they were too big to be playing the club they had booked. Major plus, opening act XTC headlined that night instead and it was rapturous.
But yeah, whatever it is that Sting is doing, it seems like something entirely else than rock.
Theater'sBestFriend
Featured Actor Joined: 3/5/13
#23STING: Knocked 'em out at The Last Ship
Posted: 10/3/14 at 1:31pmBuffalo Bill is approaching AndrewAndrew levels off hatred.
#24STING: Knocked 'em out at The Last Ship
Posted: 10/3/14 at 2:12pm
Could anyone be worse than Kyle from the WOMEN ON THE VERGE preview thread?
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