You have one week in New York...
You have one week in New York...
Albin
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#0You have one week in New York...
Posted: 4/23/05 at 8:33am
and you get to see 8 shows currently running on or off Broadway. Which do you pick?
1 La Cage
2 DRS
3 All Shook Up
4 Little Women
5 The Producers
6 Hairspray
7 Naked Boys
8 Spamalot
Updated On: 4/23/05 at 08:33 AM
vicatella
Understudy Joined: 12/29/04
#1re: You have one week in New York...
Posted: 4/23/05 at 8:38am
does this include shows that haven't opened yet? hopefully.
1. wicked
2. avenue q
3. the producers
4. mamma mia
5. mambo kings
6. rent
7. dirty rotten scoundrels
8. chicago
"I'm tough, ambitious, and know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch- ok."
~Madonna
ikmbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/05
#2re: You have one week in New York...
Posted: 4/23/05 at 9:07am
1. RENT!!!
2. Wicked
3. Avenue Q
4. FB: SVU
5. Spamalot (although i did hate the movie)
6. RENT (again)
7. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
8. Hairspray (or maybe RENT for what would be my 4th time seeing it)
Therese
Broadway Star Joined: 1/2/05
#3re: You have one week in New York...
Posted: 4/23/05 at 9:29am
1. Avenue Q
2. Avenue Q
3. Avenue Q
(Yes, I am serious. Would have tix AND try for lotto in the hope of better seats, and would spread the three trips over the week, first show, last show, one in the middle.)
Now, for the rest:
4. Spelling Bee - the more I hear about this, the more curious I am.
5. Spamalot - Still want to see DHP.
6. Twelve Angry Men
Edit - OOPS! I forgot!
7. Forbidden Bway: SVU Yeah!
Now, for the last ONE... I'm flexible. Depending on tix and further recommendations... One probably should see Wicked (and I would like to), still have a soft spot for Chitty, would be game for DRS, Producers, Hairspray... No interest in the "jukebox" shows, and (I may be proven wrong, and no offense to those who like it) Piazza does not appeal to me at all. Honestly, though, there's a part of me that might vote to go back to Spelling Bee and try to get picked for the Bee on the second trip! 
"In my own little corner..."
Updated On: 4/23/05 at 09:29 AM
Lome2
Stand-by Joined: 1/23/05
#4re: You have one week in New York...
Posted: 4/23/05 at 10:23am
- Piazza
- Smapalot
- DRS
- All Shook Up
- Phantom
- Wicked
- Avenue Q
- Little Women
playbill_signer_05
Leading Actor Joined: 1/23/05
#5re: You have one week in New York...
Posted: 4/23/05 at 10:36am
1. Spelling Bee
2. Avenue Q
3. DRS
4. Phantom
5. Forbidden Broadway: SVU
6. La Cage aux Folles
7. Hairspray
8. Rent
#6re: You have one week in New York...
Posted: 4/23/05 at 10:37am
Spamalot
Wicked
Hairspray
Little Women
DRS
Twelve Angry men
Spelling Bee
Pillowman
Light in the Piazza
SPAMALOT (again!)
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#7re: You have one week in New York...
Posted: 4/23/05 at 10:47am
in the spirit of therese
1. Altar Boyz
2. Piazza
3. All Shook Up
4. Altar Boyz
5. Avenue Q
6. Dessa Rose
7. DRS
8. Altar Boyz
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#8re: You have one week in New York...
Posted: 4/23/05 at 11:04am
Easy:
1. Avenue Q
2. Hairspray
3. Dessa Rose
4. Dame Edna
5. Piazza (Just because Matt Morrison gives the performance of a lifetime. Did not love the music or story)
6.Forbidden Broadway- A MUST SEE
7. Museums in NYC- The Met, Moma, MO SEX
8. La Cage (The Cagelle's, Gavin Creel and my pal Gary Beach)
9. Fiddler (HARVEY..... Don't bomb anybody it's not nice!)
Have fun.
Updated On: 4/23/05 at 11:04 AM
#9re: You have one week in New York...
Posted: 4/23/05 at 12:56pm
1. Spelling Bee
2. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
3. Pillowman
4. Light in the Piazza
5. Dessa Rose
6. Doubt
7. Fiddler on the Roof
8. Sweet Charity
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
#10re: You have one week in New York...
Posted: 4/23/05 at 1:01pm
wicked (i am cuurently reading the book and wow is it good!)
spelling bee
virginia woolf
altar boys
the pillowman
light in the piazza
forbidden bway
la cage
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
Elizabeth_DeBris
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/05
#11re: You have one week in New York...
Posted: 4/23/05 at 1:03pm
1. Altar Boyz
2. Forbidden Broadway
3. The Light in the Piazza
4. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
5. Altar Boyz
6. Fiddler on the Roof
7. Avenue Q
8. Altar Boyz
Not to copy Therese and Juliet, or anything, but in all honesty...
Updated On: 4/23/05 at 01:03 PM
#12re: You have one week in New York...
Posted: 4/23/05 at 2:00pm
Here's a tip: if you can arrange your "week" to go from a Wednesday to a Wednesday you can, in theory, see 12 shows:
2 on both Wednesdays, 2 on Sat, 2 on Sun and 1 a day Thu, Fri, Mon, Tues. Since I do theatre reviews and interviews, when I go to New York I try to cram in as many shows as I can, and usually cannot go back and cover shows I have already seen.
If you are going in the next few weeks your priority should be trying to get into as many of the potential Tony nominated shows as possible (PIAZZA, LITTLE WOMEN, DRS, SPAMALOT, CHITTY CHITTY, ALL SHOOK UP) and a visit to FORBIDDEN BROADWAY is always a great "finale" to every trip. Beyond that, try and catch any of the Tony winners you haven't yet seen: AVENUE Q, HAIRSPRAY, or PRODUCERS.
It's great for people in the New York area to keep going back to see WICKED and RENT over and over, but it's a luxury us out-of-towners can't really afford.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
#13re: You have one week in New York...
Posted: 4/23/05 at 2:05pm
1. RENT!
2. Avenue Q
3. Wicked
4. Spamalot
5. Dirty Rotten Scroundrels
6. Altar Boyz
7. Hairspray
8. Phatom of the Opera
1. Ted Allen: Everyone has an interesting life if you ask the right questions.
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
#14re: You have one week in New York...
Posted: 4/23/05 at 2:06pm
1. Wicked
2. RENT
3. Altar Boyz
4. Spamalot
5. Ave Q
6. FB:SVU
7. DRS
8. Sweeny Todd
"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.
Elizabeth_DeBris
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/05
#15re: You have one week in New York...
Posted: 4/23/05 at 2:06pm
I thought this was all hypothetical...
Anyway, if I could arrange for four more shows, I'd say Spelling Bee, The Phantom of the Opera, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Dame Edna. But alas, twelve shows in one week isn't quite in the budget, in the unfortunate world of reality.
rice and beans AND cheese
Leading Actor Joined: 1/28/05
#16re: You have one week in New York...
Posted: 4/23/05 at 2:09pm
1. Rent
2. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
3. Chicago
4. Fiddler on the Roof
5. Spamalot
6. Forbidden Broadway
7. Phantom
8. Chitty Chitty, Bang Bang
"It's a long story, althought it's kinda-of a short one." ~~
Wolfwood
#17re: You have one week in New York...
Posted: 4/23/05 at 2:22pm
A Streetcar Named Desire
Doubt
Glengarry Glen Ross
Julius Caesar
Rent
Spelling Bee
The Pillowman
Shockheaded Peter
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
ASOOS04
Stand-by Joined: 2/2/05
#18re: You have one week in New York...
Posted: 4/23/05 at 2:22pm
1. Wicked
2. Spelling Bee
3. Doubt
4. Dame Edna
5. Avenue Q
6. Beast on the Moon
7. Piazza
8. 12 Angry Men
#19re: You have one week in New York...
Posted: 4/23/05 at 2:39pm
1. A Light In The Piazza
2. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
3. Steel Magnolias
4. Hurlyburly
5. Hairspray
6. Avenue Q
7. Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?
8. Chicago
"Y'all have a GRAND day now"
#20re: You have one week in New York...
Posted: 4/23/05 at 2:42pm
1. LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
2. DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
3. THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
4. WICKED
5. DOUBT
6. LITTLE WOMEN
7. AVENUE Q
8. THE PRODUCERS
In that order :)
QtKt
Leading Actor Joined: 9/15/04
#21re: You have one week in New York...
Posted: 4/23/05 at 2:43pm
1.Avenue Q!
2.Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
3.Wicked
4.Light in the Piazza
5.Hairspray
6.Altar Boyz
7.Spelling Bee
8.All Shook Up
#22re: You have one week in New York...
Posted: 4/23/05 at 2:51pm
1. Wicked
2. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
3. Rent
4. Spelling Bee
5. Piazza
6. La Cage
7. Little Women
8. Brooklyn
"If I have something to say, the whole world (BroadwayWorld) should hear it." - Thenardier
Joshua488
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#23re: You have one week in New York...
Posted: 4/23/05 at 3:21pm
This list may include shows I've already seen but want to see again:
1. WICKED
2. HAIRSPRAY
3. THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
4. SWEET CHARITY
5. HURLYBURLY
6. STEEL MAGNOLIAS
7. DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
8. RENT
#24re: You have one week in New York...
Posted: 4/23/05 at 3:27pm
1. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
2. RENT
3. Avenue Q
4. Pillowman
5. A Streetcar Named Desire
6. Spelling Bee
7. Producers
8. DRS again
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
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