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

[LyTeMyCanDyI]

Posted: 3/21/07 at 10:31pm

While that might be true about I Love You You're Perfect, it definately ISN'T about Perfect Crime.

[DRSisLove]

Posted: 3/21/07 at 10:42pm

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.

[Kringas]

Posted: 3/21/07 at 11:52pm

If we are talking about the same person, she also took our tickets when we saw it

Yeah, according the articles on the website, she did. It's too bad people say she sucks in the role, because there is something fascinating about playing the same character for twenty years. It's not like something episodic where the character grows and changes. I wonder if she plays the same character different at 50 than she did at 30.

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 12:06am

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

Either way, what a piece of garbage.

[Esparzafan]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 8:50am

Iluv,
I saw it last year and left at intermission as well. Seriously, I'll pretty much sit through anything but you couldn't pay me enough to stay through act 2. I wondered then how it was still going (with an audience of maybe 10 people) and here we are a year later. Scary.

[parker russel]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 12:05pm

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?

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 12:39pm

No one's making fun of her for anything except the sheer fact that SHE CANNOT ACT. That is undeniable.

[Bubba2]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 1:02pm

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.

[LyTeMyCanDyI]

Posted: 3/22/07 at 9:09pm

When this first opened decades ago, how were its reviews. I'm assuming horrible, unless Catherine Russell was the critic, as well.

[HughE2030]

Posted: 3/23/07 at 7:39pm

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

[blaxx]

Posted: 4/18/09 at 3:30pm

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/128383.html

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 4/18/09 at 3:39pm

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

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 4/18/09 at 3:57pm

Amazing. Is it a one woman show? Do you wonder what her income is like?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/18/09 at 5:04pm

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

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 4/18/09 at 8:31pm

Oh my God! This is nuts.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 4/18/09 at 8:36pm

RentBoy, it's a cast of four.

[tourboi]

Posted: 4/18/09 at 9:31pm

Anyone else find it odd that the only one with something nice to say about Russell has the name russell in their screen name?

That said, I've met her once, and she seemed a perfectly nice person. I can't comment as to her performing capabilities because i've never seen Perfect Crime. Not because I hear it's bad, but because it just holds no interest for me.
Updated On: 4/18/09 at 09:31 PM

[BroadwayBound062]

Posted: 4/19/09 at 8:46am

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.

[thetinymagic2]

Posted: 4/19/09 at 1:29pm

My bit of knowledge on this thread....I have to agree mostly w/"Parker Russel", however other neg posters have very valid points.

I was her House Mgr. about 12 yrs. ago for about 6 months at the old location, next to HOJO's, up the stairs on top of that gay porno joint around the corner of 46th st. She may not be a lot of things, and the show may not be good, however, for the SHEER, HARD WORK ETHIC, there's no one like Cathy Russell. She not only runs and "acts" in the show every nite, but she's an NYU professor, has private acting students, manages and runs the theater, etc, and has a killer booty for about age 50 due to incredible daily workouts, like a Navy Seal!
Being House Mgr. there was partly hilarious, because the toilet hardly ever worked properly, I had to manually throw gallons of water in it after every intermission, clean the entire place, run the concessions, and sometimes have a "discussion" with the porno place mgr. when their "noisy"(a-hem) sexual goings on were so loud you could hear them in the house. I only have respect for this woman. She could succeed in ANY profession with her drive.
By the way, her sister was briefly a judge on one of those design shows on HGTV, and is an editor of ELLE DECOR.

[BrianIdol]

Posted: 4/19/09 at 3:37pm

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

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

[thetinymagic2]

Posted: 4/19/09 at 3:49pm

brian, I mean *any* profession.
Garbage Collector, doctor, scientist, homemaker, house cleaner...anything....
One can criticize anyone about anything, but the one thing I can never quibble over is the *work ethic*...working really hard, talent or not, putting in the hours, contributing to your family and/or profession, being a nice person.
Updated On: 4/19/09 at 03:49 PM

[BrianIdol]

Posted: 4/19/09 at 4:31pm

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.

[MezzA101]

Posted: 3/22/25 at 8:54pm

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[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 3/22/25 at 9:02pm

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