The Light in the Piazza OCR Review- Page 5

[Barihunk]

Posted: 5/26/05 at 2:07pm

On the Aisle - I got my copy on Tuesday at the Tower at Broad and Chestnut and there were plenty of copies. Unless it has sold out (doubtful) - they should have plenty of copies.

[OnTheAisle]

Posted: 5/26/05 at 2:10pm

thanks - I went in this afternoon and didn't see a one (didn't ask, either (duh)) - guess I'll stop again on my way home!

[sparky310]

Posted: 5/26/05 at 2:46pm

not really...its very plain, dull and was emotionally vacant.
although the intent was to be more it never achieved..
i dont need you to tell me what it was suppose to be. duh

[Auggie27]

Posted: 5/26/05 at 7:53pm

By the way -- the album was totally sold out -- even the display sample (with earphone) was taken -- on the Upper West Side. None at Tower, or B&N, or Borders.

But I finally found it at Virgin in Times Square, and they have a ton. As a dissenter here, I vow to listent to it multiple times and try to fall in love with it as others have. I'm all for giving material a chance. I'm curious if it starts to 'land' with increased hearings. For what it's worth, I don't think it's fair to compare it with Caroline, a very different musical idiom, loaded with quasi-recitativo and other flourishes. PIAZZA is very much a classic book show with songs.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 1:16am

stop comparing PIAZZA with anything else
and enjoy it's treasures
if U can't sit back and enjoy
the Musical Story Telling
There's no helping U
it's a JOY
as are a Few other scores of this and current years
CAROLINE of course includedI
I Predict Victoria, of course gets the T
Guettel gets His
Sperling, Guettel and Coughlin have to share a most deserving one
and i think Zuber should Win
and Akerland's Lighting of the PIAZZA
and set
that's 6
on hell
it's the Best Musical

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 9:48am

sparky310 - "although the intent was to be more it never achieved"

I believe it's intent was to be exactly what it was, nothing more. For it's intent to have been to allow you personally to grasp its meaning is quite impossible unless they specifically wrote it for you. "Emotionally vacant"? You must have left at intermission. "I Hate the Bus" and "Lot's Wife" were probably the two most emotionally powerful performances in musical theatre of the season, if not the past ten years. There was vertainly enough emotional availability to the audience to move many to tears and ovations, as was the case at the performance I attended. If you can't tell the difference between Caroline, or Change and The Jeffersons (an ignorant and offensive remark), then it's obvious that either not only did you not get it, but you don't want to get it or you just think being bitchy is funny.

So many of us get what we think we don't need and upon reflection, discover we were wrong. duh

[sparky310]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 10:01am

mister matt. i am well acquainted with the musical theatre and have agreat deal of experience in the genre. your snippy commentary about what you think i did or didnt see is unwelcome in the tone it has been presented. if i choose to say i believe it was vacant. I can. If i choose to compare it to the jeffersons..I can. for you to take such a nasty and venemous approach does not encourage feedback on this site. take a step back examine your tone and look inward to see if maybe you are the one who is not able to analyze something in a fair way or is not able to accept other peoples feedback on a show you like. you should be embarrassed and ashamed of the tone you have taken on this site. you are offensive and i am far from ignorant

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 10:26am

"if i wanted to watch ashow about a grumpy maid i could watch reruns of the jeffersons..at least that was entertaining."

Snippy.

"i dont need you to tell me what it was suppose to be. duh"

Snippy.

Pot, kettle, black.

You said it "lacked any emotional availability to the audience", which you try to say was "your own opinion", but that's a blatant contradiction. Take a step back and analyze that fairly. I will if you will.

"you should be embarrassed and ashamed of the tone you have taken on this site."

I am neither embarassed nor ashamed nor was I any more snippy or venemous than your snarky remark. If I choose to respond to your comments as I interpret them with an explanation, I can.

Interesting that you believe you can say what you feel in whatever manner you wish, but for others to do so when contradicting your post, then it somehow is unwelcome.

[sparky310]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 12:40pm

mister matt
i never made comments about people being ignorant or bitchy.
this will be my last commentary to you as you are obviously unwilling to read without an overly agressive and abusive response. take care and enjoy the theatre.

[shira467]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 12:50pm

Can you guys threadjack your arguement somewhere else?

This thread is about what I believe to be the exquisite recording of Light In The Piazza.

Which cannot be found in Los Angeles for crap!

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/27/05 at 2:39pm

"this will be my last commentary to you as you are obviously unwilling to read without an overly agressive and abusive response."

Not true at all. Just those that I find with offensive remarks. I actually agreed with everything you said about Piazza, just not Caroline and your comments made about it as well as your comments to me personally, which did sound ignorant and bitchy to me. They were as unwelcome in tone to me as you claim my comments were to you, but somehow you seem to feel that yours should be excused and mine are deemed agressive and abusive. Your agression is quite obvisouly as high as mine, but just displayed more passively in a do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do manner. And telling me I should be embarassed and ashamed for voicing my opinion while defending your right to voice yours is not agressive or abusive? You didn't say "bitchy" or "ignorant", true, you said "snippy" and "duh" which are basically the same thing. Like I said, PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH when it comes to criticizing others and being objective.