"...backstage hissy fits aren't punishable offenses."
"...backstage hissy fits aren't punishable offenses."
#1"...backstage hissy fits aren't punishable offenses."
Posted: 1/12/11 at 4:32pm
Riedel's column makes the "Dracula" goings-on sound totally cray-cray! Money quote in the headline.
http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/theater/dracula_crew_raises_stakes_zZjzDpQruhzrNmgmKUfDXJ?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4d2e0e6b10987bf1%2C0
Riedel
#2'...backstage hissy fits aren't punishable offenses.'
Posted: 1/12/11 at 4:35pmOne thing that interests me--based on this, and Riedel's previous column--was that the designers had worked for weeks without being paid, and had in some cases put up their own money. Willa Kim has been in the business for over sixty years. She should know better.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#2'...backstage hissy fits aren't punishable offenses.'
Posted: 1/12/11 at 4:38pm
The good news is that they're trying to re-open the show on Thursday! Hey, that's tomorrow!
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#3'...backstage hissy fits aren't punishable offenses.'
Posted: 1/12/11 at 4:44pmThe producers probably spent all the budget on Dracula's wig.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#4'...backstage hissy fits aren't punishable offenses.'
Posted: 1/12/11 at 9:51pm
That's the show they should have done: crossing DRACULA with NOISES OFF, and making the reposessions and the lack of stakes part of the fun.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#5'...backstage hissy fits aren't punishable offenses.'
Posted: 1/12/11 at 9:59pm
'The producers probably spent all the budget on Dracula's wig.'
All of about 12.00.
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#6'...backstage hissy fits aren't punishable offenses.'
Posted: 1/12/11 at 11:58pmDid anyone see the performance with the street clothes?!
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#7'...backstage hissy fits aren't punishable offenses.'
Posted: 1/13/11 at 12:44amWhoever said that, has obviously not worked with The Pone.
#8'...backstage hissy fits aren't punishable offenses.'
Posted: 1/13/11 at 2:45am
I believe, or from what I gathered in the article that there was no performance done in street clothes. I think when the writers states they called the costume designer and promised her a check the next day it was before the show and they were able to get her to allow the costumes to be worn. I think that is what is meant when it says "8:00pm The red velvet curtain at The Little Shubert rose majestically on our handsomely costumed production of "Dracula."
Tom1071
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/1/04
#9'...backstage hissy fits aren't punishable offenses.'
Posted: 1/13/11 at 11:01amThey probably spent all their money on the firing of Thora Birch. Wouldn't her contract have had to been bought out?
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#10'...backstage hissy fits aren't punishable offenses.'
Posted: 1/13/11 at 11:03am
LadyoftheWood-
I took it to mean the opposite. She still took the costumes (She said it had been removed from the theatre) but that they were returned for the final performances.
#11'...backstage hissy fits aren't punishable offenses.'
Posted: 1/13/11 at 11:07amThis reads like the stuff of good old-fashioned Golden Age flops.
#12'...backstage hissy fits aren't punishable offenses.'
Posted: 1/13/11 at 11:22amUtter delight - I hope some playwright sees the farce potential here and gives us the gift of laughter soon.
sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#13'...backstage hissy fits aren't punishable offenses.'
Posted: 1/13/11 at 11:39am
I love every word of it.
The Baker's Wife??
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#14'...backstage hissy fits aren't punishable offenses.'
Posted: 1/13/11 at 11:45am
"They probably spent all their money on the firing of Thora Birch. Wouldn't her contract have had to been bought out?"
Not necessarily. It depends on how the contract was written. If the reports of her father's weird behavior (threatening another actor) are true, then they could end her contract without a payout.
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