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#26

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 5:01pm

One of my friends (now sort of a theatre geek, but she wasn't then) asked me the same thing, once. I can't really blame them, because I thought the same thing, before I got into theatre. ^^;;
#27

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 5:02pm

RentBoy, that's hilarious!

Bwaybaby, after we told her that it wasn't a real show, she tried to convince US that it was! lol. We're like "Just give up. You know nothing about theatre..stop" lol
And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps... What did she realize, Kitten? That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs. What's wrong with that? Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had... Where? On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.
#28

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 5:02pm

Guilty as charged.

I shouldn't share this with you people...some of you will find it unconscionable but... I had a disagreement with someone once at the TKTS line about "that the woman who won a Tony for Modern Millie is in Little Shop of Horrors." Can't believe that came out of my mouth.

See what happens you get three hours sleep and then get in line at TKTS...color me stupid as charged.

It only took me about 2 minutes to realize my mistake, but it certainly humbled me for that weekend in NYC.
BLAH BLAH BLAH
#29

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 5:07pm

Rentboy, I've heard that too! "So how do they get all those sets in one theatre?" *bangs head on wall*

A lot of people tell me they want to see this-or-that and it's a show that hasn't been on broadway in years. The Broadway Supremists- who only have ever heard Wicked, Chicago and Phantom- drive me up the wall too. 'Sondheim who?' Even my high school's director is guilty.

Me: Is that from Wicked? *pointing to souveneir program*
Her: Yeah.
Me: Did you see it?
Her: No, Sarah did. I want to see it though, look at how fantastic it is. *points to the picture of Idina in No Good Deed* Look at her eyes- she's a great actress. Her name is Eyedena. I want to see her perform.
Me: Excuse me, I've got to find a bandaid for my tongue. I had to bite it to keep from laughing just now.

Ok, the last part didn't happen, but the rest is pretty close.
#31

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 5:29pm

My MUSICAL THEATRE teacher (I don't really consider her a teacher, however, as you will soon see) thought that Sondheim wrote Cabaret as well.
#32

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 5:41pm

About ten years ago my high school performance choir was preparing for our trip to NYC. Our director handed out a list of shows currently playing and their schedules so people could pick what they wanted to see and when. One guy raised his hand (this was in 1996) and asked, "How come Chess isn't on here? I really want to see it." Our director replied, "That's because Chess closed 8 years ago." The guy cried. A poser AND a drama queen, all in one.
#33

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 5:47pm

::looks up:: haha that reminded me of a story. My friend told me last year that she was going to NYC for the first time and she was like "I really wanna see Cats!!!" I had to break the news to her that it closed a while back but she wouldn't believe me. We argued and argued and I even showed her that it's not listed as a show on broadway.com and she was like "that doesn't make it offical, how do you know if that site lists all the shows on the broadway" (yes she said THE broadway" and I just laughed and laughed and I was like fine whatever, try and get tickets for it, you'll see. When she got to NYC she called me and apologized after searching for the show all over B'way. She ended up seeing Phantom instead. lol we laugh about it today.
"Have a child for warmth and a baker for bread and a prince for... whatever!"
#34

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 5:51pm

I have a friend who still insists she wants to see "Cats" on Broadway.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#37

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 6:00pm

HAHA thought of another... ONe of my good good friends (who is VERY smart..just not so much on MT and she doesn't pretend to be) took her Musical theatre History Final..and the prof told me and some of my friends that on the short synopis section one of the questions was:
"Jews flee the village of Anatevka" (or something along those lines

Her answer: "Cabaret"
and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...
#39

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 6:17pm

Just thought of another one.

I had just seen RENT with some friends. This was her first time seeing a show on Broadway.

Her:"Everybody was so good!"
Me:"Yeah. I liked a lot of them."
Her:"Geez I didn't know there were so many good people on Broadway."
Me:"Actually, that's not all of them."
Her:"What? You mean there are more people on Broadway?"
Me:"Yeah."
Her:"I thought there was just one group of people and they do all the shows."
Me:"Ummm... no. Not every person performs in every show on Broadway. Every different show performs every night."
Her:" Really? Every show is on every night?"
Me: "Uh huh."
Her: "Wow."

She actually thought that there is only one cast of people on Broadway and they do all the shows and every show only goes on every once in a while. Lol.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#40

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 6:26pm

WOW---Ashley...that be a pretty damn talented cast! ahhaaa

That's my favorite part of Cabaret too Thenardier! ahha
and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...
#41

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 6:39pm

Ooo heres mine

Him: Did you know that Norbert Leo Butz is in...
Me: DRS
Him: No...Spamalot
Me: Hahaha No its DRS
Him: No your wrong its Spamalot

and he walked off
#44

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 8:56pm

I have a broadway book that has defintions for theature terms and such. Some are helpful some are stupid...for example...

Curtain: The cloth the seperates the audiance from behind the stage.
"Every exit is just an entrance to somewhere else."
#45

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 8:59pm

BwayBaby- My school just honored Stephen Schwartz for some reason or another, and when I was listening to 'Follies' on my iPod, this girl comes up to me and goes "Oh, what are you listening to?" 'Follies" "What's that?" "It's a show Stephen Sondheim wrote the score to." "Oh, isn't he the guy who we're honoring?" I gave her an evil eye. I then quickly changed my iPod to 'Wicked' and I go "He wrote THIS." Because their first name is Stephen doesn't mean they're the same person.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
#46

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 9:19pm

haha yeah i know, just because they are both named stephen and they have the same initials doesn't mean they are the same person! gah! hehe jk!
"Have a child for warmth and a baker for bread and a prince for... whatever!"
#47

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 9:44pm

I once did a getting-to-know you activity with this girl and we had to learn as much as we could abouth the other person in the time we were given. I had recently played Helena in Midsummer and I told her that. When my teacher quizzed my partner on who wrote the play, the girl pointed at me and said "She helped." I'm still cringing and wanting to slap her for that.

And of course the stupid high school girls at a production of Kiss Me Kate who thought Shakespearew wrote it.
#48

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 11:00pm

My own damn theatre teacher calling Clifford Odets, CLIFTON Odets. My desire to punch her in the face had never been stronger.
"This is what I trained to do, and this is what I love about theater. What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being. And out my own self, to shape and form and fashion a real human being--and to present that in such a way that people see something of themselves or their own understanding in that human being." --Phylicia Rashad
#49

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 11:04pm

My friend and I were in Colony because she wanted to get the SITPWG DVD and we couldn't find it, so we asked one of the people there if they had it and he goes "Uhhhh...Sure...............Who wrote that...?"
Andrew, tonight isn't about you! It isn't even about me!!! - [FD]

Updated On: 5/20/05 at 11:04 PM

#50

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 11:30pm


Mine's hysterical. I was describing this show to an unknowing little victim. It stasrts in a junkyard with lots of tires and cats-eyes and etc. A cat enters the stage and waves a red banner very slightly. Then a chain gang emerges and sings a very dreary song called Facade. Then a bunch of peasants gather around in cats suits, smothered in garlic, and a vampire with a phantom's mask sings a version of I Dreamed a Dream, with cats crooning along to Lovely Ladies and Logic from Dance of the Vampires. Then at the end of the act, as Fantine rose from the dead and sang Memory, in counterpoint with Valjean's Music of the Night, a chandelier came crashing to the stage and crushed all the cats. All the sets were swept aside - in a bizarre night of a double-bill a la Song and Dance, invoking a performance of Evita in drag, La Cage-style, with Jesus and the Disciples romping around the stage like hippies at a be-in, with a massive leader who has been expelled from Hollywood and trying to make her come-back. And then, at the end, they cut up the cats... and mash them, with the remains of the chandelier, and serve 'em up - freaky people, in vampire costumes, remotely resembling Sweeney Todd. My friend fell for it - but we were pretty drunk at the time.

No, seriously: I once had a dream about Cats where they all sang scary songs and murdered each other. It was really creepy


Who can explain it, who can tell you why? Fools give you reasons, wise men never try -South Pacific

Updated On: 5/19/05 at 11:30 PM

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