Who's watching The Pirate Queen documentary tonight? — Page 2

Are you kidding? It was an absolute bore.There have been plenty of better produced docs on the making of a Bway show-this is not new territory. It did nothing to engage you and exposed all its weaknesses. Poor music, dark tone, irish step dancing in circles, ridiculous excerpts from book, and pretentious authors. It looks nothing more than a Les Mis that floats. I'd rather see Johnny Depp in "Pirates" again.

Unbelievable that the Pirate Queen haters can even find a way to "dismiss" a well produced "making of" video. I've seen lots of these types of things, and whatever your thoughts might be on the show, this documentary was clearly one of the most well put together videos of a Broadway show I've ever seen.

And apparently a lot of people felt the same way. My mother tried to call late in the broadcast to get tickets, and they had sold out of their allotment by the time she called. I would call that a successful evening of marketing!

Kudos to the producers for putting together a quality documentary. I can only hope they will release it to a wider audience to help spread the word of The Pirate Queen.

-QB

PLEASE
anyone who recorded this,
please PM me and be a merciful theater-lover.

thanks! :)

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Anakela, that was in the Chicago production. I don't know if it's NY, but it was definitely in Chicago.

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Anakela - That was cut out. She now says something about "all those fops...?" There was a little discussion about it because it sounded like something else at first.

EDIT TO ADD:

Definition of Fop:
"A man who is preoccupied with and often vain about his clothes and manners; a dandy.

[Middle English, fool; probably akin to Middle English fob, trickster, cheat}"

Updated On: 3/13/07 at 02:16 PM