Tick Tock- Company — Page 2

#26

Tick Tock- Company

Posted: 7/1/13 at 5:51pm

"Maybe you and your Gramma Wilhemina were confused and bored, but not me or anyone I know. "

She, I, and 99.9999999999999% of audiences who saw it.

#27

Tick Tock- Company

Posted: 7/1/13 at 6:45pm

That was some sophisticated polling you did, all things considered.

#28

Tick Tock- Company

Posted: 7/1/13 at 8:26pm

Oh, I readily admit I was confused by the stage reality of the number when I was 17! But I was a teenager and the show was like nothing I had ever seen.

42 years later, the show is a classic, we're all used to non-representational devices that used to be avant garde, and COMPANY should be performed with a healthy respect for its original conception. I don't mind Bobby playing the piano or singing "Marry Me a Little", but cutting "Tick Tock" is to excise a sizable chunk of the show.

Other posters have articulated what is lost without the number and it isn't just Kathy's fair share of the evening.

#29

Tick Tock- Company

Posted: 7/1/13 at 8:52pm

"42 years later, the show is a classic,"

42 years later, the show seems even more soulless than it did back then, which is saying something! On top of that, it now appears hopelessly dated as well.

So Tick Tock? We're just talking small change here --- It's really time to lay the whole kit and kaboodle to rest.

#30

Tick Tock- Company

Posted: 7/1/13 at 9:18pm

I believe I speak for everyone in saying it's time to lay After Eight to rest.

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#31

Tick Tock- Company

Posted: 7/1/13 at 9:22pm

^

Uhh.... I'm included in "everyone," and you certainly don't speak for me.

#32

Tick Tock- Company

Posted: 7/1/13 at 9:29pm

Phone rings, door chimes, in comes After Eight ...

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"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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blocked: logan2, Diamonds3, Hamilton22

#33

Tick Tock- Company

Posted: 7/1/13 at 10:01pm

After Eight has begun to qualify superlatives ("even more soulless").

It's only a matter of time now.

#34

Tick Tock- Company

Posted: 7/1/13 at 10:45pm

After Eight, weren't you warned that if you ever posted in a Sondheim thread again, someone would pour a pail of water on you too?

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#35

Tick Tock- Company

Posted: 7/1/13 at 11:08pm

^

Just trying to offer the OP sound advice.

And the only one to do so!

#36

Tick Tock- Company

Posted: 7/1/13 at 11:12pm

Yeah, what would we do without you, After Eight? Always full of such sage, friendly advice and insightful, positive opinions.

#37

Tick Tock- Company

Posted: 7/1/13 at 11:15pm

After Eight, you are entitled to your opinions. It's the grandiose hyperbole and sweeping generalizations and infinite superiority that inspire antagonism. There's literally no reason but trolling to express your (often unpopular but rarely inconceivable) opinions the way you often do.

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Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

Updated On: 7/1/13 at 11:15 PM

#38

Tick Tock- Company

Posted: 7/1/13 at 11:23pm

Believe me, After Eight knows he's entitled to his opinion. Because it's the only opinion that matters. And it's always right. Anyone who disagrees is an idiot.

#39

Tick Tock- Company

Posted: 7/1/13 at 11:31pm

Jnb,

BA-LO-NEY.

I was actually CONFIRMING the OP's own opinions, which mirrored mine. And again, I was the only one to do so.

Truth is, this is the last place the OP should have come to for input on this question. It's like going into a steakhouse to seek people's opinions on the value of veganism.

Updated On: 7/1/13 at 11:31 PM

#40

Tick Tock- Company

Posted: 7/1/13 at 11:38pm

in the 1995 revival, Nancy Hess u/s Kathy for d'Amboise. Not that I'm a fan of Hess, but I don't see why the "Tick-Tock" dance would be cut.

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A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.

#41

Tick Tock- Company

Posted: 7/1/13 at 11:38pm

Well, considering the fact that you strongly inferred that I'm unintelligent and have bad taste because I enjoyed NOBODY LOVES YOU and you didn't, I wouldn't exactly call my comment "BA-LO-NEY. "

Updated On: 7/1/13 at 11:38 PM

#42

Tick Tock- Company

Posted: 7/1/13 at 11:41pm

Let's face it, After Eight is the definition of the "C word."

#43

Tick Tock- Company

Posted: 7/1/13 at 11:43pm

The ^ was meant for jnb. You posted before I sent it. I'll change that.

#44

Tick Tock- Company

Posted: 7/1/13 at 11:46pm

LOL, so you do think your opinion is always "right" and everyone else is unintelligent and has bad taste. Glad we cleared that up.

#45

Tick Tock- Company

Posted: 7/1/13 at 11:55pm

After Eight, nothing I said attacks the content of your opinions. The form with which you express them ("99.9999999999999%" is needlessly hyperbolic, and does you no favors rhetorically) was what I addressed.

Were I to be as rhetorically inflammatory as you, I would state that I'm now expecting an apology. But I don't really care that much. I'll go to bat to defend your unpopular opinions, Voltaire-style, but I'll never see the point in your reckless way with expressing them.

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Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

Updated On: 7/1/13 at 11:55 PM

#46

Tick Tock- Company

Posted: 7/2/13 at 12:05am

Jnb,

A) i have nothing to apologize to you for.

B) I'm not reckless. Just trying to provide a little sorely-needed balance here, and, just as importantly, to represent the views, not of the diehard Sondheim brigade, but of the regular theatregoing public.

#47

Tick Tock- Company

Posted: 7/2/13 at 12:18am

So now you speak for the "regular theatergoing public"? Every single one of them? You are truly insufferable and delusional.

#48

Tick Tock- Company

Posted: 7/2/13 at 12:23am

Mr. Rocks,

Not EVERY single one of them.

Just 99.9999999% of them, none of whom, unfortunately, seems to post here.

#49

Tick Tock- Company

Posted: 7/2/13 at 12:37am

We must all comprise that .000000000000000000001% then. Seems logical.

#50

Tick Tock- Company

Posted: 7/2/13 at 12:41am

Mr. Rocks,

Think about how many people comprise the theatregoing population. Then think about the fifty or so Sondheim diehards here. Then do the math.

"Seems logical'" you say? Seems logical to me as well.

At last, a meeting of minds.