Where is Riedel's column?
Where is Riedel's column?
#1Where is Riedel's column?
Posted: 8/24/07 at 9:32pmMaybe I'm losing track of time since I'm on vacation, but today is Friday right? Isn't Michael Riedel supposed to have a column out today. It's not on the Post's website yet. Is he no longer writing columns for Friday? Am I missing something here? I was hoping for something about the Grease reviews, which he should really write about.
bwayfan3
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Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#2re: Where is Riedel's column?
Posted: 8/24/07 at 9:38pm
Riedel is very lax over the summer. Generally it's either Wednesday or Friday until the fall.
I was disappointed, too.
#3re: Where is Riedel's column?
Posted: 8/24/07 at 9:38pm
That's right. I assumed he wasn't since he had a piece out Wednesday about today's songwriters and their favorite old standards, but he could be on vacation.
My question is...
Who could take a vacation with such juicy gossip surrounding Grease? I couldn't even resist posting here on my vacation after those reviews came out!
Ah well. Maybe next week.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#4re: Where is Riedel's column?
Posted: 8/24/07 at 9:50pm
He's also been surprisingly lax on Grease, especially since his column months ago where he stated he was "gunning for it to fail."
Maybe David Ian and co. paid him off.
#5re: Where is Riedel's column?
Posted: 8/24/07 at 10:18pm
Oh I hope not. I loved the column. I was hoping we'd see more scathing ones just like it.
At least Barnes jumped on The Posts' Grease-bashing bandwagon.
#6re: Where is Riedel's column?
Posted: 8/25/07 at 11:16pmHow does Michael Riedel compare to Frank Rich? Is M.R. considered Frank Rich lite? Just wondering... from RC in Austin, Texas.. t.o.p.l.f.
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
#7re: Where is Riedel's column?
Posted: 8/26/07 at 5:19amFrank Rich is a critic. Michael Riedel is a gossip columnist.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-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)
-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)
#8re: Where is Riedel's column?
Posted: 8/26/07 at 6:07amWell..yeah.. but what I actually meant is how do they compare in terms of personality. I've read that Frank Rich was feared by many. His critiques could make or break a show or deliver a critical blow to an actor (i.e. Patti LuPone in the World Premiere of "Sunset Boulevard", for example.). Yeah, Michael Riedel is a theatre columnist, but his words do have impact. Is he feared or laughed at..or a little bit of both? from RC in Austin, Texas...
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#9re: Where is Riedel's column?
Posted: 8/26/07 at 9:03amIt's a well-known story of theater lore that Riedel hates Rich.
#10re: Where is Riedel's column?
Posted: 8/26/07 at 9:15am
From today's NY Post: Not sure if posted yet..
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/theater/
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#12re: Where is Riedel's column?
Posted: 8/26/07 at 9:33am
Its kind of a weird title. Looking at it, I thought he was going to go ga-ga, but then mentions a lot of work that needs to be done.
I dont know. I am hoping that I love it, but thinking I am going to leave with that "Spamalot" feeling in me.
#13re: Where is Riedel's column?
Posted: 8/26/07 at 9:55amI am completely mind-boggled as to why Riedel is ignoring GREASE.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-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)
-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)
#14re: Where is Riedel's column?
Posted: 8/26/07 at 10:23am
Maybe he DID get paid off.
His two latest columns have been completely pointless. He basically just said all we know about the show: funny, blatant imitation of the movie, needs to stand on its own, people love it, they're making Act I shorter, has a lot to live up to. I think it was even less interesting that the other column where we at least confirmed that Duncan Sheik is quite the ignorant composer.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#15re: Where is Riedel's column?
Posted: 8/26/07 at 9:34pm
Should I email him begging him for a column? I mean, I thought we'd see a lot of Grease bashing after the one he wrote a few months ago. What's up Michael? Did David Ian REALLY pay you off?
Oh and comparing Frank Rich to Michael Riedel-
They both can be bitchy. They both are dishy. Both are not favorite critics of mine. (Yes, Riedel is a gossip columnist, but he throws in his opinions sometimes, and he certainly discusses his opinions on Theater Talk.) I think Rich honestly, didn't like much during his tenure at the Times. He panned almost everything Kander and Ebb and Jerry Herman did. (Wait. He liked Spider Woman, but because of Chita and Hal Prince. He said Ebb wrote lyrics in his "Liza Minnelli voice" too much.) He even was negative about Merrily and Into the Woods by Sondheim!
Politically they are also different. Mr. Rich writes interesting political commentary for the Times and wrote a poltical book a few years ago (or recently?) and is, to my knowledge, a liberal. Mr. Riedel writes for the Post, which is bascially Fox News on paper, so God knows what he thinks about politics. Their newspapers are also quite different. The Times seems to keep its mouth shut on poltical opinions while the Post, again, is Fox News on paper.
Riedel is not Frank Rich lite at all though. They are very different in many ways.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#16re: Where is Riedel's column?
Posted: 8/26/07 at 10:39pm
Do email him.
Either he was paid off or he's saving everything for a big column....or he just liked the show.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#17re: Where is Riedel's column?
Posted: 8/26/07 at 10:52pm
Thw column says that Riedel was in Seattle for the FRANK opening and even went to the party.
Even after he says negitive things about a show or people involved in the show, he is still courted by them.
I also found the title of the article strange because he says the critics mostly foung fault with the show and that is what he quotes.
I quess the person writing the headline didn't even read the article.
I am sure we will hear more about GREASE and also the out of town receptions of FRANK and MERMAID this coming week.
#18re: Where is Riedel's column?
Posted: 8/26/07 at 10:54pmShould I give my last name (or even my name at all)? I don't want to be put in a Riedel column. (Even though he never names names)
ThankstoPhantom
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/05
#19re: Where is Riedel's column?
Posted: 8/26/07 at 10:56pm
Not about Reidel, but Liz Smith made me somewhat upset today...
The part that spoke about the closures in the West End this past year made it seem like the shows flopped despite big names...um, no...for one, Equus was a limited run (some were flops, of course).
Amazing how easily it can be twisted.
How to properly use its/it's:
Its is the possessive. It's is the contraction for it is...
#20re: Where is Riedel's column?
Posted: 8/26/07 at 11:00pmI'm all for abbreviations (actually, I'm not), but could we please refain from referring to YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN as "FRANK"? It just sounds so darn silly. How about YF? It's even shorter.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-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)
-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)
#21re: Where is Riedel's column?
Posted: 8/26/07 at 11:01pmWhat was the column about Duncan Sheik?
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With Clay Aiken in Spamalot, all of Broadway is singing a collective "There! Right! There!" -Me-
"Not Barker, Todd is the only person I've ever known who could imitate Katherine Hepburn...in print." -nmartin-
#22re: Where is Riedel's column?
Posted: 8/26/07 at 11:07pm
It was a piece about current musical theatre songwriters on their favorite songs from The Great American Song Book. Sheik came off sounding kind of stupid.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#23re: Where is Riedel's column?
Posted: 8/26/07 at 11:11pm
Shiek claimed he never heard "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" until he saw The History Boys.
I've never seen Pal Joey* either, but I mean, come on. It's one of the classic songs from the Great American Songbook. How can he not have heard it, even in a TV commerical?
Updated On: 8/26/07 at 11:11 PM
#24re: Where is Riedel's column?
Posted: 8/26/07 at 11:12pmBewitched is from Pal Joey though. Not Brigadoon.
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