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Thom Pain -- it extends again!

Thom Pain -- it extends again!

BwayTheatre11
#0Thom Pain -- it extends again!
Posted: 8/8/05 at 5:13pm

How is this show?...seems to be doing pretty well.

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#1re: Thom Pain -- it extends again!
Posted: 8/8/05 at 5:19pm

I thought it was a monotonous Beckett rip-off, but different strokes for different folks.

MargoChanning
#2re: Thom Pain -- it extends again!
Posted: 8/8/05 at 5:22pm

My words exactly MEF. Third rate faux Beckett without a tenth of the wit or imagination. I found it to be a pretentious bore.


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BwayTheatre11
#3re: Thom Pain -- it extends again!
Posted: 8/8/05 at 5:27pm

What do you two think is making it extend so many times, than? What is making this show so appealing?


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#4re: Thom Pain -- it extends again!
Posted: 8/8/05 at 5:34pm

Honestly, I have no idea. The success of this particular show has gone right over my head. I was actually surprised that it extended again; lately, it's been on TKTS all the time.

MargoChanning
#5re: Thom Pain -- it extends again!
Posted: 8/8/05 at 5:37pm

Isherwood gave it the most over-the-top effusive rave he's ever given anything before and it spurred a massive amount of ticket sales. I take it from comments from him about that review, that he intensely identified with the nihilism and bitterness in the show, so if you, too, feel that none of us "ever survives our childhoods" (as the play says) then go and have a blast and revel in the misery.


"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

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#6re: Thom Pain -- it extends again!
Posted: 8/8/05 at 5:41pm

Ah, yes, I forgot about the Isherwood rave. Out of all the things he's panned (and he's panned a lot in the short year he's been writing for the Times, not to mention his tenure at Variety), he chose to rave for this? It boggles the mind.

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#7re: Thom Pain -- it extends again!
Posted: 8/8/05 at 5:41pm

Count me in as one that did not get it.at.all. Bored out of my mind. I'm surprised it's finding enough of an audience to keep extending.


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#8re: Thom Pain -- it extends again!
Posted: 8/8/05 at 5:47pm

For a show that only runs an hour and ten minutes, it feels more like Nicholas Nickelby.

BobbyRobbyBobbyBaby
#9re: Thom Pain -- it extends again!
Posted: 8/8/05 at 6:07pm

This show is highly overrated and ranks up there as one of the worst things I've seen on stage. Watching paint dry is more interesting.


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