Who saw "The Red Shoes?

First of all, I never saw The Red Shoes, I never heard of The Red Shoes, I don't give a f*ck about The Red Shoes. I decided to be a Rockette because this girl in my home town - Louella Heiner - had actually gotten out and made it in New York. And she was a Rockette. Well, she came home one Christmas to visit, and they gave her a parade. A goddamn parade! I twirled a friggin' baton for two hours in the rain. Unfortunately though, she got knocked up over Christmas - Merry Christmas - and never made it back to Radio City.
That was my plan. New York, New York. Except I had one minor problem. See, I was ugly as sin. I was ugly, skinny, homely, unattractive and flat as a pancake. Get the picture? Anyway, I got off this bus in my little white shoes, my little white tights, little white dress, my little ugly face, and my long blonde hair - which was natural then. I looked like a f*cking nurse! I had 87 dollars in my pocket and seven years of tap and acrobatics. I could do a hundred and eighty degree split and come up tapping the Morse Code. Well, with that kind of talent I figured the Mayor would be waiting for me at Port Authority. Wrong! I had to wait 6 months for an audition. Well, finally the big day came. I showed up at the Music Hall with my red patent leather tap shoes. And I did my little tap routine. And this man said to me: Can you do fankicks? - Well, sure I could do terrific fankicks. But they weren't good enough. Of course, what he was trying to tell me was...it was the way I looked, not the fankicks. So I said, "F*ck you, Radio City and the Rockettes! I'm gonna make on Broadway!"

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Updated On: 7/13/07 at 02:57 PM

Kringas i thought the same thing!

k just checking


PS Krings what is that?

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It was very dull and had way too many ballet sequences. IIRC, there was one part in Act II that was basically 20 minutes of ballet with no dialogue. The music however was not bad, and it did produce some nice songs. No doubt the failure was in part due to all the drama going on backstage.

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I saw it in previews as well. The only things I remember are being bored stiff and wondering why they cast Roger Rees, since the score was way beyond his limited vocal abilities.

I saw it midway through previews. It was a total mess at that point because they were overhauling it on a daily basis, and it was fascinating disaster. Roger Rees was quite possibly the most miscast person ever on a Broadway stage. I didn't think the ballet sequences were the problem at all. It was the slash-and-burned book, bad songs, and lack of transitional material and staging that killed it.

For those of you who don't know, Kringas has quoted Val from "A Chorus Line."

And it's Lar Lubovitch, not Lars. Lar makes even less sense, of course.

Updated On: 7/13/07 at 04:37 PM

I saw it. Oh boy, did I see it.

Poor, poor Hugh Panaro.

Poor, poor Roger Rees.

Poor, poor Shirley Booth. Her lovely song from Jule Styne's LOOK TO THE LILLIES, "I, Yes, Me, That's Who" was recycled into the entr'acte for this misguided mess.

I kinda loved how the ballerina leapt to her death in grand jatte, arms in fifth.

But way too little, way too late.

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I love the movie. I love it sooooooo much. I love dancing and melodrama, so, with those two combined, the movie is just an extended orgasm for me.

Too much information?

I can't possibly imagine a stage production of it, though. To me, it's a very cinematic story, just as Moulin Rouge is, which also should not be onstage.

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Sorry, but I have to ask. Kringas, where is that from?

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Sheila, Bebe, and Maggie.


(wink.)

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Kringas you just rock my world

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