The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity Review- Page 2
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity Review
#25The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity Review
Posted: 6/23/10 at 11:38am
Uh-huh. I liked CHAD DEITY so I must be an intern at Second Stage. Because who else liked it? Except, say, the members of the Pulitzer nominating committee. And thousands of others.
And no, I wouldn't expect you to recognize yourselves as weak-minded. That's kind of the thing about being weak-minded: You tend not to know it. That's okay. It doesn't mean you're a bad person. Not everyone has to be smart. The show wasn't meant for you. Carry on.
#26The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity Review
Posted: 6/23/10 at 11:44am
Strangely aggressive shilling, backed-up with pointless insults usually comes off as marketing, yes. Maybe you work for Michael Hartman?
But by all means, you should continue to your back for being so smart, justifying yourself by a pseudo-alliance with the Pulitzer committee. Why you think they're so special is mystifying; they're just daily reviewers, not great thinkers or even theatre scholars, but yes, keep on with that.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#27The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity Review
Posted: 6/23/10 at 12:18pm
God, you are one-note, newintown.
This was an energizing and thoroughly entertaining play.
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#28The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity Review
Posted: 6/23/10 at 12:29pm"They're just daily reviewers, not great thinkers or even theatre scholars." Wrong. This year's Pulitzer committee included not just daily reviewers (there were three, of whom at least one, Charles McNulty, is indeed a certified "theatre scholar," with a PhD from Yale) but also John Clum, a "theatre scholar" at Duke University, and Nilo Cruz, a "playwright." Doesn't mean all of their choices are necessarily unassailable, but get your facts straight at least.
#29The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity Review
Posted: 6/23/10 at 1:09pm
Borstal, thank you, you're sweet. Unlike me, you are a fount of variety, and deserve your own talk show.
Regarding the play - before anyone puts words in my mouth, I enjoyed it, despite some uneven writing; I'm reacting on this thread to Megillah's bizarrely antagonistic insults, which strike me as shrill shilling from someone with a professional connection to the production. I may be wrong. I don't care.
And yes, you're somewhat right about the nominating committee (except McNulty's degree is a DFA, not PhD); I was focusing on the Pulitzer group as a historic whole, yes, dismissing them as press factota. It's an award with an undeserved patina of prestige, cited far too often as proof of a work's quality by those who aren't confident enough to simply state their own opinion.
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