The Country Girl 4/3/08...yikes — Page 2

amoni, PLEASE.

I am so sick of people on these boards that have something to say about every negative review. Believe it or not, NOT EVERYTHING IS GOOD! I, for one, appreciate these early comments. Yes, the posters knowingly went to see the first preview. They KNOWINGLY posted first preview comments. And we're all knowingly reading first preview reviews.

And you're right, some of us don't love theatre at all! Clearly! How dare ANYONE be negative about ANYTHING! I guess I better clean off my rose colored glasses.

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After reading this I'm debating if I still want to go. Does anyone know if they have student rush yet?

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If he had lovely, positive things to say about THE COUNTRY GIRL, would you ask him if he needed to post this on both boards? No.

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No one forced you to open the thread on both boards. You could have skipped it.

To answer the question about the size of the house...the orchestra appeared pretty full (based on what I could see from the front mezz). The front mezz was full, and about half of the center section in the rear mezz was full. The side rear mezz seats were empty.

ShbrtAlley44: I waited at the stage door until 11:15pm and then gave up...

WAT, were you behind me? I was the girl talking about dead velociraptors and doing Jeff Goldblum impressions.

And oh, please, amoni. Please. Yeah, I hate theatre because I posted that a show I paid money to see was extremely underrehearsed. I am fully prepared to forgive a few flubs, of course, but there is no way it should have been in the shape it was. It was frankly embarrassing. I did say that the second act does show some promise. As Simon Cowell often says, it's an opinion. You don't have to listen to it. Keep your mouth shut and stop hurling accusations.

Updated On: 4/4/08 at 12:20 PM

Paid $100 for this show?

Tell me again why booing a show is "rude"?

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Hopefully it will get better, since it was only the first preview. I'm just sort of surprised about the line dropping because these actors are professionals. I mean, I don't know how long they have been rehearsing, but I know if it were me, I'd attempt to memorize as much as possible. Even if you just get the basic gist of the story, it's better than nothing.

But I will say that it is extremely difficult to perform something for the first time in front of people. Especially if your director isn't very experienced. That was an experience I faced in college with just a 15 minute scene. We performed a bit of it for my director's class, and it was not the best we could have done. But, by our last preview before the show, we were awesome. I'll admit, we still sort of messed up in the real show, but it still went smoothly. You just never know what will happen in live theater. Even with professionals who have been doing the show for a long time.

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Oh yeah, with his reputation then, I would expect better as it goes on in previews.

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Well, Deuce started out shaky, and look how it...er, nevermind.

forgive me if you have already been corrected but please do us all a favor and pick up a copy of the book. the two "mrs. dodd" lines were far from mistakes. check the script and stop boring us with lazy flak.

i have to admit, i too thought the "mrs. dodd" lines were mistakes...since practically every line before those lines were mistakes. i guess peter gallagher was the only one who knew his lines last night. unfortunately, due to his imcompetent coworkers, they made him look bad.