So long to the 2 best shows of the year thus far
So long to the 2 best shows of the year thus far
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#1So long to the 2 best shows of the year thus far
Posted: 7/20/08 at 9:40am
PASSING STRANGE and ADDING MACHINE
we hardly knew ye.
OrdinaryJukebox
Featured Actor Joined: 6/7/06
#2re: So long to the 2 best shows of the year thus far
Posted: 7/20/08 at 1:58pm
Really....
-Vincent
#2re: So long to the 2 best shows of the year thus far
Posted: 7/20/08 at 2:41pmThis thread is not needed
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#3re: So long to the 2 best shows of the year thus far
Posted: 7/20/08 at 3:21pm
Neither are a number of others.
So there.
::sticks out tongue::
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#4re: So long to the 2 best shows of the year thus far
Posted: 7/20/08 at 3:58pmYou scared the bejesus out of me. I thought you were going to say [TOS] possted their closing notice.
#5re: So long to the 2 best shows of the year thus far
Posted: 7/20/08 at 4:20pm
I didn't see Adding Machine. But I'm really going to miss Passing Strange 
fanpires
Stand-by Joined: 6/25/08
#6re: So long to the 2 best shows of the year thus far
Posted: 7/20/08 at 8:57pmBoth were kind of a joke. :)
#7re: So long to the 2 best shows of the year thus far
Posted: 7/20/08 at 10:16pmHow was the Adding Machine a joke?
#8re: So long to the 2 best shows of the year thus far
Posted: 7/21/08 at 3:48amAdding Machine easily had the most complex score from last season.
#9re: So long to the 2 best shows of the year thus far
Posted: 7/21/08 at 6:35amImpossible. SITPWG Act I and SITPWG Act II already closed.
#10re: So long to the 2 best shows of the year thus far
Posted: 7/21/08 at 10:46amI'm with Tony on this one.
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
Okayfine
Stand-by Joined: 6/2/08
#11re: So long to the 2 best shows of the year thus far
Posted: 7/21/08 at 3:22pmYankeefan - I'm guessing you haven't seen a lot of shows this season.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#12re: So long to the 2 best shows of the year thus far
Posted: 7/21/08 at 3:28pmShould I post the list?
#13re: So long to the 2 best shows of the year thus far
Posted: 7/21/08 at 3:32pmNo, you don't have to explain yourself to these people. Waste of time.
#14re: So long to the 2 best shows of the year thus far
Posted: 7/21/08 at 3:43pm
These are easily two of the smartest new musicals of last year's lot. Commercial, of course not. Hummable, nope. But moving works of musical theatre that move the genre forward? You bet.
Sure, last season had some FUN shows. ANd you're allowed to like them. But don't discount Passing Strange and Adding Machine because of their dark, challenging material. Especially Adding Machine.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#15re: So long to the 2 best shows of the year thus far
Posted: 7/21/08 at 3:45pm
They're both the future of musical theater, picking up where Spring Awakening left off.
#16re: So long to the 2 best shows of the year thus far
Posted: 7/21/08 at 3:48pm
Yes, but with no white male eye candy or a past cast member of Rent or Wicked, what's the point? 
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#17re: So long to the 2 best shows of the year thus far
Posted: 7/21/08 at 3:55pm
The key word in that sentence is "white."
Wanna figure out Yankeefan's theory on why PASSING STRANGE didn't last?
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#19re: So long to the 2 best shows of the year thus far
Posted: 7/21/08 at 4:12pm
But Phantom will be coming back, LPF. Louder than ever.
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#20re: So long to the 2 best shows of the year thus far
Posted: 7/21/08 at 4:45pmITH isn't white though...
whatever2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/06
#21re: So long to the 2 best shows of the year thus far
Posted: 7/23/08 at 12:38am
i agree yankeefan; Adding Machine was pure genius. (as is quite a bit that comes out of the NEXT theatre company in evanston.)
sorry, but SITPWG is only half a show so it doesnt qualify -- the first act is brilliant (especially the mernier revival), but the second act is a big old sloppy mess that completely ruins the experience. i saw SITPWG four times, and coined (i think) a new phrase in the process: first-acting (i.e., leaving at intermission).
ko74612
Chorus Member Joined: 6/22/08
#22re: So long to the 2 best shows of the year thus far
Posted: 7/23/08 at 1:12am
Legally Blonde!
oh wait... what?
that doesn't count!?
ha.
Why do we follow leaders who never lead?
Why does it take catastrophe to start a revolution?
Tick Tick BOOM
#23re: So long to the 2 best shows of the year thus far
Posted: 7/27/08 at 11:39pmpassing strange was, by far, the best musical of the year. however, adding machine was BIZARRE! the first hour was so off the wall. i was so physically uncomfortable. then after he's executed it all of the sudden became this really funny, poignant, intriguing, and though provoking show. unfortunately, for the next two days i had the voice of the wife singing "mrs. zeroooooo" stuck in my head.
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