The Perfect Crime - How is this still running? — Page 2

I remember doing TKTS in '03 and we were hounded in the line about seeing "Perfect Crime" not "THE Perfect Crime", , but anyway...

We didn't see it because someone behind us was like "Last night you told us how good it was, and we saw it... and it sucked. Do yourself some good [referring to us] and see something else."

Needless to say I say LSOH that day.

It is certainly fascinating, but also very strange.. Same thing, sometimes, I guess.

Either way, what a piece of garbage.

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If every producer and general manager were as smart and had as much passion as Catherine Russell there would be a lot more shows still open and running.

I have nothing but the utmost respect for some one who can keep a show, which according to people on this website wasn't their favorite, open for so long and turn it into a piece of NY theater history. More power to her. Regardless of what you think of her she has created her own bit of theater lore. She has done what NO ONE ELSE IN THE HISTORY of Ny theater (or I guess the world really) has done. I think thats pretty cool.

I'd also like to point out that she does A LOT of good for the off-broadway community and women in the arts. She's on, or leads, several boards...and as far as I can tell she has a lot of respect from people in the theater scene. Maybe not from the chatteratti, but certainly from the important people.

I don't have too much to say other than any one who can do what she does gets my respect.

And she doesn't have a child...however, if she did she definitly would have given birth between the matinee and the evening performances and not missed (j/k of course)...but I think its to be commended. We bash people on this board for missing so many performances and make fun of them for not missing...whats up with that?

I was at TKTS one day last week and overheard one of the "play pushers" say how great it was to two ladies. I quietly went over to them after and advised them they should save their money and get a more pleasing root canal.

If they really wanted to see something good, go to Grey Gardens.

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The best time to see it is New Year's Eve like I did last year. Then at the stroke of 10:30PM pop out into 50th Street and watch the ball drop from there. Its great, you got to wait inside, eat M&M's and sit down instead of standing in the cold to get that spot, because by that time of the night if you were to arrive for the last 2hrs before the ball dropped you would be at 59th Street like our friends who tried to meet us.
Confessions of a Paparazzi

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blaxx, you might want to just put that in its own thread. It's worthy of discussion and celebration on its own, I think.

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When we saw it years ago, the leading lady also took our tickets. This tells you a lot.

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RentBoy, it's a cast of four.

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I went to the Fantasticks and 2 of my friends went and saw Perfect Crime and said it was the worse thing they had ever seen in their life.

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"She could succeed in any profession with her drive."

-it depends what you're definition of 'success' is.

and I meant that if you considering giving a bad performance in a bad play for 20 years 'Success', then great. But I don't.

Wow. Happy Anniversary to this thread. 18 years later the question in the title is still relevant.