Uninteresting Season, 2004-2005

[Unknown User]

Uninteresting Season, 2004-2005#0

Posted: 8/23/04 at 1:01pm

There is really nothing coming out this season that I want to see, other than "Dracula" (saw, was good and entertaining), "Brooklyn", and "Sweet Charity". I am undecided with Little Women because the story seems bleh, but I love Sutton Foster. All Shook Up looks like a Bye, Bye, Birdie that is trying too hard to be the next Mamma Mia!, so that doesn't sound too great. Maybe I am missing some or, could anyone help, please?

[jayem1968]

re: Uninteresting Season, 2004-2005#1

Posted: 8/23/04 at 1:19pm

Spamalot should be great fun!

Everybody goes down well with beer.

[millie_dillmount]

re: Uninteresting Season, 2004-2005#2

Posted: 8/23/04 at 1:21pm

Yay for Spamalot! Also, I have to agree about Little Women, but I am a fan of Sutton Foster, so I will definitely buy the cast recording and maybe even see the show.

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

[Matt_G]

re: Uninteresting Season, 2004-2005#3

Posted: 8/23/04 at 1:24pm

How can you say it's going to be an uninteresting season?

12 Angry Men
'Night Mother
Spamalot
Little Women
Brooklyn
Laugh Whore
Gem of the Ocean
Dame Edna
Pacific Overtures
Billy Crystal's 700 Sundays
La Cage Aux Folles
Whoopi Goldberg on Broadway
The Pillowman
The Pajama Game
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?
HITCHCOCK Blonde
A Streetcar Named Desire
American Buffalo
Glengary Glen Ross
A Light At The Piazza

and......

Marc Kudisch in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

I can't remember being this excited about a Broadway season in a LONG time.

"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."

Updated On: 8/23/04 at 01:24 PM

[Unknown User]

re: Uninteresting Season, 2004-2005#4

Posted: 8/23/04 at 1:27pm

Oh yeah! I forgot about Spamalot, that looks really funny! When does that come out, does anyone know if Tim C.(sorry, don't want to spell his last name wrong, I'm blonde get over it) is still signed on for it!

Oh, and that Jerry Springer: The Opera sounds horrible.

[uncageg]

re: Uninteresting Season, 2004-2005#5

Posted: 8/23/04 at 1:27pm

I agree with Matt. I am trying to schedule the right times to be in New York to catch as much of the season as possible.

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[midtowngym]

re: Uninteresting Season, 2004-2005#6

Posted: 8/23/04 at 1:27pm

i wonder if Little Women is the same dreadful show I saw two years ago produced by NYCOpera. It was dull, dull dull.

'The Devil be hitting me!'--Whitney Houston

[Matt_G]

re: Uninteresting Season, 2004-2005#7

Posted: 8/23/04 at 1:28pm

Noooo, it's completely different!

"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."

[Rathnait62]

re: Uninteresting Season, 2004-2005#8

Posted: 8/23/04 at 1:29pm

Matt, baby you FORGOT ONE!!!!!!!!

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

[millie_dillmount]

re: Uninteresting Season, 2004-2005#9

Posted: 8/23/04 at 1:32pm

My mom knew someone at work who saw a Little Woman show - I'm guessing it was the one at the Opera. Anyways, the co-worker said it was boring.

Tim Curry.

Spamalot is coming to Broadway with previews beginning Feb. 7, 2005 and opening March 10, 2005...according to Playbill.com.

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

[Rathnait62]

re: Uninteresting Season, 2004-2005#10

Posted: 8/23/04 at 1:34pm

Wait - you forgot TWO.

1. If I'd Saved, I Wouldn't Be Here: Martin Short on Broadway

and I'm not going to tell you the other because I just can't believe you don't know what it is...

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

[Taryn]

re: Uninteresting Season, 2004-2005#11

Posted: 8/23/04 at 1:34pm

I have a friend who starts as a freshman at Duke this year, and I'm charging him with seeing Little Women so I can get an opinion. I'll make sure to mention it.

[midtowngym]

re: Uninteresting Season, 2004-2005#12

Posted: 8/23/04 at 1:34pm

Millie--Little Women was like root canal without the novacaine. Your mom's friend was at the same show i was! I pray this is completely different.

'The Devil be hitting me!'--Whitney Houston

[millie_dillmount]

re: Uninteresting Season, 2004-2005#13

Posted: 8/23/04 at 1:39pm

Well, there is hope with Sutton Foster.

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

[Unknown User]

re: Uninteresting Season, 2004-2005#14

Posted: 8/23/04 at 1:42pm

LOL, I think I was definately missing a few. But even as I read the long list, none of them sparked some interest (other than the ones I have listed previously), I read 12 Angry Men and hated it, and I know some of you will hate me for saying this, but I don't want to pay $100 to see a play, I would rather spend it for a lavish night of pure Broadway musical fun!, btw I have a theatre right by my house and I always go to see plays there so that might also be the reason. But I still hold to my ground that this season uninterests me, because last season held very few musicals, but look what came out, Avenue Q, Wicked, Caroline or Change, Asassins, and Boy From Oz.


PS: Thanks Millie for the info on Spamalot!

[MusicalDirector109]

re: Uninteresting Season, 2004-2005#15

Posted: 8/23/04 at 1:46pm

The plays are very exciting in the 2004-2005 season. I can't wait to see "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", 'The Glass Menagerie", "Streetcar", "The Foreigner" and "12 Angry Men".

[Matt_G]

re: Uninteresting Season, 2004-2005#16

Posted: 8/23/04 at 1:47pm

Well, this is definately a season filled with incredible plays and I for one would rather spend my $40 (The most I would EVER spend on a theatre ticket) to see a play like VIRGINIA WOOLF or STREETCAR than something like WICKED or BFO.

"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."

[Rathnait62]

re: Uninteresting Season, 2004-2005#17

Posted: 8/23/04 at 1:47pm

Matt, what show did you forget...

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

[musicalfandukie]

re: Uninteresting Season, 2004-2005#18

Posted: 8/23/04 at 1:48pm

i think it sounds like a very interesting season!!

[MargoChanning]

re: Uninteresting Season, 2004-2005#19

Posted: 8/23/04 at 1:50pm

Top price for plays on Broadway is $85, however discounts are always steep and plentiful and always available (last season, I saw "Frozen," "I Am My Own Wife" "Match" and "Golda's Balcony" for $45 each; $55 tickets to "Jumpers" and "Retreat From Moscow" were also widely available).

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

[bobbysworld]

re: Uninteresting Season, 2004-2005#20

Posted: 8/23/04 at 1:51pm

what about The Color Purple?!?!?!

[kissmycookie]

re: Uninteresting Season, 2004-2005#21

Posted: 8/23/04 at 1:51pm

Hardly uninteresting... Updated On: 8/23/04 at 01:51 PM

[MargoChanning]

re: Uninteresting Season, 2004-2005#22

Posted: 8/23/04 at 1:53pm

Color Purple is tentatively scheduled for Fall of 2005 (with La Chanze and Adriane Lenox)

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

[bobbysworld]

re: Uninteresting Season, 2004-2005#23

Posted: 8/23/04 at 1:53pm

aaah thanks margo :) It'll be good to see La Chanze again!!

[Unknown User]

re: Uninteresting Season, 2004-2005#24

Posted: 8/23/04 at 1:54pm

AHHH! Everyones ganging up one me! Gee golly Batman, help me!

Is Frozen still around, I really wanted to see that.