Norbert Leo Butz quotes about John Lithgow: "He's really clumsy. One of the joys in life is to watch a great big huge man totally wipe out backstage. It takes John about three minutes to hit the floor. It's like watching a Great Sequoia falling gracelessly."
Definitely Lestat and The Little Mermaid (I'm sorry, I LOVED the movie, but a piece of me died when I saw that atrocious show on stage).
Off-Broadway, The Musical of Musicals: The Musical. To this day, the only musical I've ever walked out of. I was bored senseless and the guy asleep to my right had more energy than the cast.
Also, did anyone see the Jesus Christ Superstar video from a couple of years ago? Worst piece of garbage to ever grace my DVD player. Thank God FYE bought it back for like $4. Suckers.
There are some people in the world who say that writing stories, or composing music or dancing sparkly dances is easy for them. Nothing interferes with their ability to create. While I celebrate their creative freedom, a little part of me just wants to punch those motherf*ckers in the teeth...[tos]
I will give my top two that I happened to see this year, both for the very first time and it will be very last time as well. They would be: 1) Ring of Fire 2) CATS
I'm still dumbfounded at how CATS ran as long as it did. I wasn't expecting a whole lot from it but I thought it would be somewhat decent...NOPE! I couldn't wait for it to end. And I won't even get started on Ring of Fire
If you hide from yourself, be someone else for someone else's sake, that would be the greatest mistake - bare
I would have to say my least favorite musical, as a whole, would be Titanic. The book was just lousy and never focused on any character long enough for me to give a damn. The score is beautiful though. My least favorite production I have ever seen is the most recent national tour of Sweeney Todd. If it weren't for Judy Kaye and the kid playing Toby, I would have walked out at intermission.
Cats!! I had been looking forward to seeing it and was extremely disappointed.
You see, obsessions are very personal things, they come from deep inside us, where we are open and vulnerable, which is why I consider them sacred, not to be belittled....PalJoey
Cats XXII [I don’t know what the roman numeral for 50 is, and therefore cannot do forty, so if someone doesn’t clue me in by the next turn, Cats is just going to be numbers!] Phantom of the Opera XVIII Grease XVII Oklahoma IX Rent VIII Wicked VIII The Fantasticks VIII Les Miserables VIII Mamma Mia VIII High School Musical VII BKLYN VII The Lion King VI Spring Awakening VI The Music Man V Brigadoon V Annie V Seussical V Follies V Cry-Baby IV 1776 IV Xanadu IV Movin' Out IV Godspell IV The Producers IV Footloose IV Jesus Christ Superstar IV The Little Mermaid IV Chicago IV South Pacific IV Thou Shalt Not III Tarzan III Avenue Q III Joseph III Carousel III Hairspray III Camelot III 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee III Into the Woods III Sweeney Todd III Good Vibrations III Titanic III Ring of Fire II Wonderful Town II Fosse II Bye Bye Birdie II Dance of the Vampires II Sunset Boulevard II Young Frankenstein II Hot Feet II I Love A Piano II A Catered Affair II Kismet II Starlight Express II Passion II Honk II The Sound of Music II Passing Strange II Fame II A Chorus Line II The Color Purple II High Fidelity II Aida II Lestat II The Pirate Queen II The Boy Friend II Glory Days II Working II I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change I Oliver I Back to the 80's I Lucky Stiff I Mimi le Duck I The Scarlet Pimpernel I The Mystery of Edwin Drood I Jersey Boys I Light in the Piazza I Nick and Nora I La Cage Aux Follies I Dr. Dolittle I Jelly's Last Jam I My Fair Lady I Flower Drum Song I Miss Saigon I Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat I Bring in Da Noise I They’re Playing Our Song I We Will Rock You I Notre Dame de Paris I Blame it on the Movies I Annie Get Your Gun I The Wedding Singer I Gypsy I Café Crown I Do Black Patent Shoes Really Reflect Up? I Sweet Smell of Success I NunCrackers I Starmites I Whistle Down the Wind I The Ark I All Shook Up I Spamalot I Lennon I The Hunchback of Notre Dame I Legs Diamond I Shogun the Musical I Kismet I Meet me in St. Louis I Ain’t broadway Grand I Frankie I Curtains I Smokey Joe’s Café I Swinging on a star I My favorite year I Copacabana I 70 Girls 70 I The Last Five Years I House of Flowers I Naked Boys Singing I Cinderella I Company I Sunday in the Park with George I Children of Men I The Knife I The Look of Love I Carnival I Evita I Lil abner I Beauty and the Beast I West Side Story I By Jeeves! I The Wild Party I An Almost Unholy Picture I The Musical of Musicals: The Musical I Gigi I
RING OF FIRE - for pure torture, still the most excruciating Broadway experience I've had. So bad it was just really awful.
NEXT TO NORMAL, at least in the incarnation at Second Stage, I understand some DRASTICALLY needed changes have been made.
NEVER GONNA DANCE - whoa.
PASSING STRANGE - I've posted on this elsewhere.
GREY GARDENS - two very good performances managed to pull the wool over the eyes of almost the entire planet, making them ignore the fact that this is an extremely drab little show based on an endlessly fascinating and disturbing film.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
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