What is going on with Passing Strange? — Page 2

Go see Passing Strange and Gypsy.

Why?

Because most of you people think that Wicked is the past, present, and future of musical theater.

Since Passing Strange is at 23%....There is probably "lying down room". Im sure you wont have a problem getting a discounted ticket.

I believe things are going to pick up when the Times review comes out. I believe Isherwood gave it a rave off-bway and I am sure the Times will send him again and it will be another rave! If the Times review is great it will be the new "IT" show and I am sure there grosses will go up!

Scaryclowns' one-line plot summary of each musical hardly seems fair. One could easily write:

SPRING AWAKENING:
"A rock musical about emo teens in puritanical 1890s Germany whining about sex, morosely posing, aborting babies, dressing drably and commiting suicide."

PASSING STRANGE:
"A rock musical about a young American boy's rollicking adventures through the wild sex and free-love drugs of '70s Amsterdam and '80s Berlin in search of the man he's destined to be."

This is much more accurate.

Really glad you liked it, Testing.

Please everybody, this show may not appeal to the Wicked-adoring masses, but it's still an amazing show. Sure it's got it's flaws, especially in Act Two (although I don't really agree with them, but shwatever), but what doesn't. And it's a lot better than the majority of shows playing at the moment.

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Maybe they ought to just steal the byline from the Seinfeld musical- Rochelle, Rochelle. They could describe Passing Strange as, "one young boy's strange erotic journey from Los Angeles to Berlin."

It's a very hard show to market because it's about what most middle-class theatergoers don't even want to think about. One of the reasons you hear so many "I didn't understand what it's about" because most White Middle Class people don't ever engage the ideas that Stew is writing about.

Sadly, that will probably be the downfall of the show. Would it have been more popular off-bway? Yes.

Does it deserve to be on Bway as one of the most thought-provoking, musically inventive, soul-stirring pieces of theater in this or indeed the last four or five decades?
Absolutely...

This show deserves to be a classic. I'm sorry, but the reason Gypsy has lasted this long is because it's every Gay man's fantasy fulfilled on stage all about "if I ever showed people what I got there wouldn't be lights bright enough or signs big enough." (As a gay man, I know this to be true) It feeds the unsupported, unloved ego of the average gay male musical theater lover, but is it a good show? No more than any other show, it's nothing special.

Passing Strange is something special.

I didn't want to start a new thread for this, but for anyone who's seen Passing Strange recently, what's the running time?

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Absolutely...

This show deserves to be a classic. I'm sorry, but the reason Gypsy has lasted this long is because it's every Gay man's fantasy fulfilled on stage all about "if I ever showed people what I got there wouldn't be lights bright enough or signs big enough." (As a gay man, I know this to be true) It feeds the unsupported, unloved ego of the average gay male musical theater lover, but is it a good show? No more than any other show, it's nothing special.



- Um. ok? GYPSY is generally considered one of the greatest American musicals of all time, if not the best written musical of all time.

I saw it last night, and I must say that I disagree with the folks who found Act I to be the stronger of the two.

Act II is where, for me, the story really came together and I felt thoroughly engaged. Daniel Breaker's character develops the most in Act II. I found the music to be fantastic throughout, and the story is very special.

I hope this show lasts at least through the Tony Awards. If it gets a Best Musical nod, it can have the opportunity to perform on the telecast, which could give it a boost.

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Updated On: 2/28/08 at 07:06 AM

As much as I wanted to like this show, I did not. Never have I left the theater before with such a mind-numbing, splitting headache.

I said it in my Report that this musical is not for everyone...like SPRING AWAKENING & GREY GARDENS...

Though its different! and I like that.... just getting sick & tired of the same old musical format....

J*

It says that Broadway is able to support tourist drivel like Legally Blonde and Grease, but not a show that tries to be different than anything else in town.

Wait..what? Did you miss Spring Awakening, Spelling Bee, Light in the Piazza and the last 12 years of Rent? If you're angry that a show you like is not selling well, don't blame "Broadway" or "the tourists", but rather blame the marketing and PR team for not getting the name out there. Honestly, I never heard of this show until about a week ago and I'm afraid I haven't been impressed with the four demo tracks on the website. I'm not sure to whom this show is being marketed. I visited the website to find out what the show is about and just got a bunch of confusing quotes and lyrics about Youth and "finding the Real" and whatnot. I ran across the video clip, which does look somewhat intriguing, but still doesn't give you any insight into the show whatsoever. I don't know. So far, this is one I would only see on Broadway if I've seen everything else. Ticket prices are too expensive to waste money on a show that can't be bothered cluing the public in to what they are trying to present.

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