The Offical Passing Strange Love Thread (Scaryotypes Unite) — Page 32

I probably should have mentioned this tonight, but Passing Strange now has souvenir programs for 10 bucks. It's on the smaller side, but the pictures and text snippets are really great.

Great seeing everyone today.

Ditto, frogs_.
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/allthatchat/d.php?id=1575659
Wow, I'm plotzing -- some posters on ATC actually "like" PS? (except that adamgreer guy, as per usual).

http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=566004

story on d'Adre Aziza.

the thing about Aziza's son is SO CUTE

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It was great meeting everyone tonight (and thanks Tiny for everything!). I wore my T-shirt to the show tonight (a couple of the actors commented on it at the stage door). The audience was filled with theater folk (in addition to the people mentioned earlier, I think I saw Lenny Wolpe from Wicked/Drowsy Chaperone, and one of the actors mentioned that friends from Rent were also there. Also, the people sitting next to me work for the Shuberts, and there must have been at least 25 people who went backstage after the show). The audience was really supportive with a lot of cheering and clapping. It was a great experience.

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Posted by: VanSchenck 04:42 am EDT 05/26/08
In reply to: re: Oh, please. - adamgreer 11:29 pm EDT 05/25/08
but you don't get it. Or maybe I didn't make my thoughts clearer.

It isn't the race factor (I don't instantly think you are racist if you don't like PASSING STRANGE) it's the Pin-Up factor. It's pretty clear that one of the selling points of SPRING AWAKENING is its easy-on-the eyes, nearly all-white cast. Its most prominently featured poster looks like it was taken from a bodice-ripping Romance novel. If you think that Mr. Groff's appeal was based on his stage talents alone, there are several heavily-breathing threads on other sites that concern his other, more physical aspects. :)


One of the things I love about PASSING STRANGE is that doesn't travel that obvious (though arguably more successfully marketable) path. It doesn't feature a conventionally pretty cast (though Rebecca Naomi Jones is quite the stunner). Stew even cheerfully jokes about being a fat guy in his mid-40s.
I'd feel the same way if it had an all-white cast.

I'm pleased that PASSING-STRANGE eschews soft-core physical nudity in favor of songs that are directly, emotionally naked instead. Even the delightfully frisky "We Just Had Sex" !

And I'm delighted to see a gay character (and a flamboyantly queeny one at that) not treated a joke for once, but rather as a shaman who instructs The Youth to explore and celebrate his artistic impulses.
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Stew's Blog, below...great reading (long) if you have time...)

http://stewsez.artlung.com/

That line, I believe is right before the intermission (after "Where you gonna go??"), after "Amsterdam". I believe it also is reiterated in different parts of the play, as a musical motif.

Bump, because I am really curious as to whether anyone has an answer to coolkid's question...

I will check at midnight for sure, because I CANNOT WAIT for this recording!

Do I need to get ITUNES?

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BTW: Scaryotypes....I have a SPECIAL SUPRISE for you guys, next WEDNESDAY!!! 6/4!!

I'm excited!

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Whoa! I want my t-shirt!

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Hey, J* the shirt looks great! I'm going to the listening party tomorrow night, but not w/a camera, but I'll post a report later on....

Wow, haven't had this much fan club fun since The Beatles Fan Club 1964! I was only 10.

Updated On: 5/26/08 at 08:10 PM

wELL, THANKS j*, but I'm such a techno-idiot,..I never how how to post anything!? BTW, what's the best membership for iTunes, the 3 year? And what's the perks over the 1 yr., if i don't have that much time to sit around and download? Besides, someone told me "no Beatles" on iTunes? What??