Why all the "Passing Strange" Love?

because youre stupid!

Updated On: 6/13/08 at 11:23 PM

I'm confused because in the show Youth is clearly at his mother's funeral as he is giving her eulogy. He didn't make it home to see her before she died.

As for the rest of your review...that's purely opinion. Many loved the score and found the message to be affecting.

Fyi- John Simon is 83 yrs old!

J*

wow holbee, thank you! You took the thoughts right out of my head.

On the other hand I actually agree with winter_sky on something (then again that's because it's a fact, but never the less its worht celebrating) I'm not sure what you missed, but youth (which by the way, I find a very pretentious charactor name, unless you're edward albee, but i'll let that one slide) DOES go to the mother's funeral in the show.

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That is ok - PS can soon join Grey Gardens, Piazza, Urinetown, Caroline or Change, etc. in the DESERVING list.

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hahah blaxx, im in the minority of people here who thought that grey gardens was also incredibly boring and INCREDIBLY overrated. The only thing that wasn't overrated (and if anything was UNDERRATED) about that show was Ebersole's outstanding performance.

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To the Original Poster:

The reason why you don't 'get' the love for PASSING STRANGE was answered in your own damn post. No need to pose a question like that. Seriously? You (defend) a show LEGALLY BLONDE and RENT and SPRING AWAKENING ... All the while, PASSING STRANGE has been pullin' himself up by his bootstraps since Day 1 - From Berkley, to Papp's Pub, to Broadway - It DESERVES to be here, and I'll be damned if I'm not the only one who believes it. What you have to do is open your eyes, open your heart, and your mind to a new breed of musical theatre - with a freshness and splendor that hasn't been exprienced... It's time.

It's rock 'n' roll at the very core, the essenece isn't just 'presented' - it's FELT throughout the Belasco night-after-night; young, old, black, white, green, purple, straight, gay, bi, short, tall. We are the masses that have seemingly embraced a show with substance, with heart and with a bee.yoo.tee.full message of acceptance and just how to go about reclaiming that creative spark within you, how to reclaim that love that your heart once lost, that itty-bitty space in the bowels of your being that you only turned to in your darkest of moments - when you felt confused, out-of-place, out-of-touch with the rest of the world. It's ain't Shakespeare, it's STEW, baby!

Spread the Buzz,
Feel the Love,
Find the Real!

One Love.

Best,
- Mike

Updated On: 6/14/08 at 12:20 AM

I haven't seen the show, nor have I heard the cast album (I've been broke for a while), but I have heard some of the songs and I love them. My sentiments are similar to ljay's, it feels like real rock music. I think it's great and from what I've heard, I would be happy if PASSING STRANGE or IN THE HEIGHTS won best score. They're both pretty great (and I have heard the whole score of IN THE HEIGHTS).

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wow, tinymagic, there is someone on this board who actually accepts that people have different opinions and that it is OKAY!!! kudos, and thank you for being rational!!

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Thank you Mealz.

i still don't get how you can say they are stereotyped when they are based on real people in lin's life...

and why must everything related to passing strange be compared to ITH? They really have nothign to do with eachother except that they are both original shows up for the tony...

But anyway, even though we disagree about pretty much everything, (except most things rent) i still respect your opinions, and think you're hilarious (in a good way, like a laughing with you way)

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They're constantly compared because they're hotly competing in multiple Tony categories.