Twyla to the critics: F**k You.
Twyla to the critics: F**k You.
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
re: Twyla to the critics: F**k You.#1
Posted: 11/1/06 at 11:22pmDo you have a source?
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
re: Twyla to the critics: F**k You.#3
Posted: 11/1/06 at 11:24pmLMAO
re: Twyla to the critics: F**k You.#4
Posted: 11/1/06 at 11:25pmIs she taking a page from Streisand now?
Broadway Star Joined: 6/15/06
re: Twyla to the critics: F**k You.#5
Posted: 11/1/06 at 11:54pm
Good stuff
"Over at the Brooks Atkinson, that other critics' darling who was dinged last week - Twyla Tharp - is taking a f - - k you attitude. Literally.
The day after her new musical "The Times They Are A-Changin' " opened to the worst reviews of any show this season, Tharp gathered her cast together onstage and said (according to someone who was there): "Look, we didn't get what we were hoping for but f - - k this! We're staying here and we're going to fight!"
Tharp did feel "battered" by the reivews, but she's not one to crawl under the covers feeling sorry for herself. She told the cast she was going to be at the theater every night, prompting Michael Arden, one of the show's stars, to jokingly break down in tears.
The cast adores Tharp, but she's a taskmaster who routinely hits performers with reams of notes.
Jokes an insider: "These kids are sweating their guts out every night, and she'll go backstage and say: 'You should do those splits five seconds faster.' "
Tharp's producers are joining the fight. They've slashed their weekly overhead, rolled out a television commercial and are vowing to keep the struggling show on the boards at least until the end of the year.
"We'll see what happens," says a production source. "But right now, nobody's talking about closing.""
EGOS HAVE LANDED
Updated On: 11/1/06 at 11:54 PM
re: Twyla to the critics: F**k You.#6
Posted: 11/2/06 at 12:03amhttps://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=bway&thread=915649
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
re: Twyla to the critics: F**k You.#7
Posted: 11/2/06 at 12:04amAhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
re: Twyla to the critics: F**k You.#8
Posted: 11/2/06 at 9:57am
This ought to have been titled "Twyla to the audience, "F*ck you."
I try to find something good about a show (the cast is very talented and the songs are good), but Tharp who is Bob Dylan's co-star for Times/Changin', does below sub-standard work. Her staging is mediocre at best.
Close it and save the investors' money. Sad.
re: Twyla to the critics: F**k You.#9
Posted: 11/2/06 at 10:00amhowsz coood teh crreetics sayyy teheez bout timmze?// itz teh bestet show evar!!!!!!111111111111 i ddeeendint no ett goot badreviwz!11111111
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
re: Twyla to the critics: F**k You.#10
Posted: 11/2/06 at 10:11am
Many audience members have enjoyed this show.
Let the producers do what they want.
Broadway Star Joined: 6/15/06
re: Twyla to the critics: F**k You.#11
Posted: 11/2/06 at 1:11pm
Tharp is a choreographer and NOT a director. That's problem #1
Unlike "Movin' Out," this show is not only about the dancers. If you saw Arden on The View you could tell he had absolutely no direction (not his fault). He didn't seem to know if he was supposed to move around the stage, pretend the play the guitar, etc...
To make a show like this work, a good director should have been hired. The three lead singers looked lost in this production.
With a good director and better story line, this show could have worked.
Joined: 12/31/69
re: Twyla to the critics: F**k You.#12
Posted: 11/2/06 at 1:16pmAs odd as this production looked on The View, I'd still go see it. I enjoyed the music I heard on The View, and how the cast performed vocally. The visuals were scary--- I don't enjoy clowns, so clowns freaked me out. But, Micheal and the cast sang the song very well, at the least, it should get a cast recording.
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/14/04
re: Twyla to the critics: F**k You.#14
Posted: 11/2/06 at 6:38pmJason Wooten did an incredible job filling in for Arden the day before opening. Too bad the show wasn't nearly as incredible.
"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
re: Twyla to the critics: F**k You.#15
Posted: 11/2/06 at 6:47pmEven though the show is not our cup of tea, I applaud her for something long overdue - F the critics
re: Twyla to the critics: F**k You.#16
Posted: 11/2/06 at 6:48pmWell, Barbra F'd the audience.
"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher
re: Twyla to the critics: F**k You.#17
Posted: 11/2/06 at 6:52pmI will never understand that woman or her taste.
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
re: Twyla to the critics: F**k You.#18
Posted: 11/2/06 at 6:58pm
A little bit of an over reaction.
Didn't MOVIN OUT open to awful reviews? Then it was closed, redone, then reopened?
re: Twyla to the critics: F**k You.#19
Posted: 11/2/06 at 7:02pmPlus, is Arden a dancer? At least Jason can shake it baby! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher
Joined: 12/31/69
re: Twyla to the critics: F**k You.#20
Posted: 11/2/06 at 7:04pmCoyote doesn't do much "shakin" in the show, so it's luckily not an issue...
re: Twyla to the critics: F**k You.#21
Posted: 11/2/06 at 7:05pmI recall some rollin' though, I think.
"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher
Stand-by Joined: 5/4/04
re: Twyla to the critics: F**k You.#22
Posted: 11/2/06 at 7:22pmare they planning on recording the show?
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
re: Twyla to the critics: F**k You.#23
Posted: 11/2/06 at 7:43pm
"...Tharp gathered her cast together onstage and said (according to someone who was there): "Look, we didn't get what we were hoping for but f - - k this! We're staying here and we're going to fight!"
Didn't she give that same speech to the cast after the reviews came in for SINGIN' IN THE RAIN?
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
re: Twyla to the critics: F**k You.#24
Posted: 11/4/06 at 11:34am
From the begining I felt the whole concept was a bad idea and couldn't understand why anyone would go for it ($$$ money wise)
I know Twyla has a brilliant rep and "Movin' Out " was a success ( Not necc by my standards) but still the songs of Bob Dylan? I hear an ego @ work.
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