The Lights WILL Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers- Page 6
The Lights WILL Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
#125The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 9:38pm
Thank you BroadwayWorld, for dimming the BWW logo in honor of Joan.
Maybe your action will shame the troglodytes at the League into taking appropriate action.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#126The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 9:57pmI think people should dim the damn lights themselves in an act of civil disobedience. Be punk rock about something for once in your lives. If y'all love Joan as much as you claim, I mean.
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#127The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 9:57pm
Can't some queen just flip a switch?
I signed.
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#128The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 9:57pm
Can't some queen just flip a switch?
I signed.
#131The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 10:14pm
If it's only those theaters, I'm wondering where the beat place to be is. I'm thinking KINKY BOOTS.
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#132The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 10:15pmNICE!
#133The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 10:27pm
I've come to the sad conclusion that dimming of the lights is far more based on the deceased's celebrity than any connection to theatre.
I have no objections to ANYone being honored; but a theatre stalwart with well over 40 credits (in mainly featured roles) was ignored, while people with more "name recognition" and scant theatrical credits do get the respect.
KathyNYC2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/10
#134The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 10:33pm
^^"If it's only those theaters, I'm wondering where the beat place to be is. I'm thinking KINKY BOOTS."
Yes absolutely. Joan was at KB opening night and was vocally supportive as well. Nice gesture, Jujumycn theaters.
#135The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 10:43pmThe Shuberts and Nederlanders will have to follow. Otherwise, they'll look churlish.
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#136The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 10:55pm
"The Shuberts and Nederlanders will have to follow. Otherwise, they'll look churlish."
Nonsense. The others didn't join in for Steinbrenner.
"Let this be a lesson. You can't talk crap about people for 30 years and be elevated to "great lady" status by everybody. You just might piss off the person who controls the dimmer switch."
Really, pretty much the case. Williams got the nod b/c he had been on Broadway in the past five years and went to school at Juilliard. I don't see how it matters that Rivers made fun of her own looks, that she crassly did it to others is likely the primary reason she was denied the honor. She was tacky, mean and negative.
If it had to do with celebrity, Tharon Musser would not have been honored, nor Doris Eaton Travis or Harry Edelstein.
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#137The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 10:57pmExcuse me, we had the theaters darken for that man of all theater seasons, James Gandolfini? Come on, folks. Really?
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#138The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 11:02pm
Assuming Nederlanders and Schuberts will follow. The Broadway League really effed this one up. God, they look awful. So many outraged fans....
I'll be outside a Jujamcyn theater to honor her tomorrow night.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#139The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 11:08pmStart a boycott of Broadway. I won't cross any of your picket lines.
#140The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 11:10pmNamo is right. I won't see any Broadway show until they dim the lights for Lea Michele.
Wilmingtom
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/11
#141The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 11:11pmI agree that the Shuberts and Nederlanders will follow suit and well they should. This is becoming a PR debacle for The League. After all credit is easy, it's money that's hard.
#142The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/8/14 at 11:14pmI hope they do. It would be nice to stand there on 45th Street with hundreds of fans to celebrate her life tomorrow night, even for that one minute.
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#143The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/9/14 at 12:35amI couldn't agree more, Jordan.
#144The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/9/14 at 12:51amThe lights of the Helen Hayes theater will be dimmed as well.
#145The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/9/14 at 2:02amI hope many theatres dim their lights- It just seems like the right thing to do.
Broadway Joe
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/15/10
#146The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/9/14 at 2:48am
Even WWE did a nice tribute to her...
http://youtu.be/as5Ag9cQMnM
#147The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/9/14 at 5:41amI thought that was going to be a joke but that was actually sweet.
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#148The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/9/14 at 8:26am
"Even WWE did a nice tribute to her... "
Yes, that was a very nice tribute.
It shows you to what depths Broadway has sunk when even professional wrestling shows more class than the arbitors of Broadway honors.
dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#149The Lights NEED To Be Dimmed For Joan Rivers
Posted: 9/9/14 at 8:35am
I think the chances of the other theaters falling in line with Jujamcyn are pretty good. I think they know it would make them look bad if they didn't do it.
This is not the right set of circumstances to re-write the rules or tighten them. They shouldn't do that when someone has just died. That seems wrong.
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