is the whole midwest PASSION-less????

[gustof777]

is the whole midwest PASSION-less????#0

Posted: 3/31/05 at 5:40pm

hey
here in milwaukee i dont think we are running passion tonight does anyone know when WI gets it? thanks soo much

RIP Natasha Richardson. ~You were a light on this earth ~

[StickToPriest]

re: is the whole midwest PASSION-less????#1

Posted: 3/31/05 at 5:41pm

We don't get it tonight in Dallas, and I am pissed about it.

"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

[commasplice]

re: is the whole midwest PASSION-less????#2

Posted: 3/31/05 at 5:42pm

It will be on twice in Milwuakee:

Friday, April 1 at 3 AM
Saturday, April 2 at 2 PM

(from http://www.mptv.org/webalpha.txt)

I'm secretly glad it's not on tonight, because otherwise it would seriously impede my studying for the exam I have tomorrow...
Updated On: 3/31/05 at 05:42 PM

[harris007]

re: is the whole midwest PASSION-less????#3

Posted: 3/31/05 at 5:43pm

check your local pbs websites it may be later in the week, but dont worry it will be on dvd

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[suzycat]

re: is the whole midwest PASSION-less????#4

Posted: 3/31/05 at 5:52pm

It's on tonight in Iowa City!

[Tenorific2]

re: is the whole midwest PASSION-less????#5

Posted: 3/31/05 at 5:56pm

It's on tonight in Mpls.-St. Paul

[GovernorSlaton]

re: is the whole midwest PASSION-less????#6

Posted: 3/31/05 at 5:56pm

I hope they'll release it on DVD for all who aren't able to watch it. I'll be sure to enjoy it enough for all of us.

[Michael Bennett]

re: is the whole midwest PASSION-less????#7

Posted: 3/31/05 at 6:05pm

Hey Priest -- didn't realize you were from Dallas -- me too, originally.

You guys might want to check the listings of your local PBS station by searching for when they usually air "Live from Lincoln Center."

Some stations aren't airing it until Sunday afternoon.

*** And DON'T count on this appearing on DVD ***

As in the case with the A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC that was broadcast in the early nineties, Live From Lincoln Center almost always DOES NOT include video/dvd distribution rights in their contracts with the artists/crew.

PASSION will probably be shown twice and then never air again or be distributed on video. Live from Lincoln Center is not the same as GREAT PERFORMANCES who aired the Sweeney Concert.

Tape it now. Be safe.


Updated On: 3/31/05 at 06:05 PM

[msutton]

re: is the whole midwest PASSION-less????#8

Posted: 3/31/05 at 6:07pm

im from dallas, searched, and couldnt even find live from lincoln center period... weird

[gustof777]

re: is the whole midwest PASSION-less????#9

Posted: 3/31/05 at 6:31pm

YAY!!! am soo happy now thanks soo much you guys i love you all

RIP Natasha Richardson. ~You were a light on this earth ~

[Chrysanthemum62001]

re: is the whole midwest PASSION-less????#10

Posted: 3/31/05 at 6:41pm

Atlanta gets it tonight too! I'm making my nephew tape it for me!!!

"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL

[ElTico68]

re: is the whole midwest PASSION-less????#11

Posted: 3/31/05 at 6:50pm

Is this a different version than the one that is already out on dvd?

Happy, smile! Sad, frown! Use the corresponding face with the corresponding emotion! - Kate (Meg Ryan), French Kiss

[Michael Bennett]

re: is the whole midwest PASSION-less????#12

Posted: 3/31/05 at 6:58pm

Yes this is a live broadcast of a concert version being presented at Lincoln Center in New York starring Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald and Michael Cerveris.

[ElTico68]

re: is the whole midwest PASSION-less????#13

Posted: 3/31/05 at 7:00pm

Thanks!

Happy, smile! Sad, frown! Use the corresponding face with the corresponding emotion! - Kate (Meg Ryan), French Kiss

[redmustang]

re: is the whole midwest PASSION-less????#14

Posted: 3/31/05 at 8:40pm

It's on right now in NE Ohio. Lupone is staggering!!

[staticradar]

re: is the whole midwest PASSION-less????#15

Posted: 3/31/05 at 8:48pm

Kentucky gets it tonight...and reairs at 1am (thank god, cuz I forgot about it...i love these boards for reminding me!)

You're always sorry, You're always grateful, You hold her, thinking: "I'm not alone." You're still alone.
-"Sorry-Grateful" Company

[jim]

re: is the whole midwest PASSION-less????#16

Posted: 4/1/05 at 12:49pm

PASSION is not coming out on DVD according to Max Preeo who moderates the Sound Advice release column for ATC and is a contributior on the Cast Recording List. I'd believe him.

[Lauralynn]

re: is the whole midwest PASSION-less????#17

Posted: 4/1/05 at 1:09pm

While this be airing in California as well? I live in Sacramento California and I don't see it listed on PBS out here

[CATSNYrevival]

re: is the whole midwest PASSION-less????#18

Posted: 4/1/05 at 1:42pm

In San Diego it was supposed to be on Thursday at 2am, but instead we got a rerun of antiques road show. now supposedly it's on tonight Friday at 9pm. we shall see...

[Loge]

re: is the whole midwest PASSION-less????#19

Posted: 4/1/05 at 2:17pm

If Passion weren't such a snoozefest I'd tune in.

"What the hell happened to you? You look like a Make-A-Wish Kid. You know, I just knew you were gonna bring shame on this new family of ours, and it just figures you had to go make yourself over into some heroin-shootin skate board chic on the only day E! could interview you!" - Cherry Cherry, on her daughter Mary Cherry

[frontrowcentre2]

re: is the whole midwest PASSION-less????#20

Posted: 4/1/05 at 2:38pm

Passion..a snoozefest? Well, only for people who like to sit back and have their musical theatre served to them like a fast food meal.

PASSION requires concentration and an investment of your own emotions. Those who put a little time and energy into it are rewarded many times over, and not just with a rich tapestry of spoken word, music and lyrics. As with anything in life the more you put into something the more you get out of it.

For me, I would rather see PASSION again than go to see anything currently playing at that theme park we used to call Broadway.

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

[melissa errico fan]

re: is the whole midwest PASSION-less????#21

Posted: 4/1/05 at 2:41pm

Perfectly said, Frontrowcentre2.

[JohnPopa]

re: is the whole midwest PASSION-less????#22

Posted: 4/1/05 at 2:48pm

It was on in Ohio.

It was fine. I think it's easy to pass off anyone not liking the show as having a short attention span or being incompetent but, really, I don't think the whole show is as strong as its good parts and its a rare show where Sondheim over-reprises things to the point that they lose impact. I also think the Clara/Georgio relationship is a classic example of having characters say too much and do too little. All their talk about love for one another can't make up for the fact that they spend most of the show talking ABOUT one another, rather than interacting with one another.

[redhotinnyc2]

re: is the whole midwest PASSION-less????#23

Posted: 4/1/05 at 5:35pm

Frontrowcentre - you just said what I've been feeling for the past few years - just nothing worth seeing on Broadway (as far as musicals go) right now. I'll take Passion any day over the likes of Mama Mia, Beauty and the Beast, Rent, etc...

"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!" Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!

[MusicMan]

re: is the whole midwest PASSION-less????#24

Posted: 4/7/05 at 12:13am

The story is interesting enough in its reverse echoes of Beauty and the Beast, even if its death-haunted platitudes are strictly 19th-century fin-de-siecle gestures and not a little absurd. The score, however, is exhaustingly prosaic in its lyrics, grindingly monotonous in its music, and fails to compensate for the slack and static dramatization (the reading of one letter I could understand, but six?)It plays like a parody of Sondheim's bag of 'tics' and bad 20th century opera and has none of the lustre of his best work. Unsurprisingly, not one measure of music suggests the heat of its title but how could it? Despite Sondheim's claims, this musical isn't a rhapsody on the theme of love but a thanatopsis. Perhaps a different composer could have invested it with greater vitality and variety but I doubt it. This story doesn't seek its release in song but in the grave.


Updated On: 4/7/05 at 12:13 AM