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#1

taxi + Beauty and the Beast =

Posted: 8/10/06 at 10:19pm

So I heard that a cab crashed into Beauty and the Beast and the driver got arrested this evening in Times Square around showtime. Anyone else know anything more?
"I thought that that was just going to be a like one shot deal for me, you know, but they kept talking about it like, 'when we do the production, when we do the production', and I was like, 'yes, yes, when you do the production, cool, I will come and see it'". - John Gallagher Jr. on SA

Updated On: 8/10/06 at 10:19 PM

#2

re: taxi + Beauty and the Beast

Posted: 8/10/06 at 10:20pm

I had nothing to do with this, I swear.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson
#3

re: taxi + Beauty and the Beast

Posted: 8/10/06 at 10:22pm

I'm confused

Did the taxi run into the theatre, the stage, the actors, a sign...?
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#4

re: taxi + Beauty and the Beast

Posted: 8/10/06 at 10:23pm

Whaat?
http://www.beintheheights.com/katnicole1 (Please click and help me win!) I chose, and my world was shaken- So what?
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#5

re: taxi + Beauty and the Beast

Posted: 8/10/06 at 10:24pm

Oh snap. There is new definition to the phrase "road rage".
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#6

re: taxi + Beauty and the Beast

Posted: 8/10/06 at 10:24pm

Ha ha, I'm confused too! My friend who was there left me a message and then went to the play he was on the way to see, so I thought I'd ask here.. the imagery sounded pretty funny as long as no one was hurt.
"I thought that that was just going to be a like one shot deal for me, you know, but they kept talking about it like, 'when we do the production, when we do the production', and I was like, 'yes, yes, when you do the production, cool, I will come and see it'". - John Gallagher Jr. on SA

Updated On: 8/10/06 at 10:24 PM

#7

re: taxi + Beauty and the Beast

Posted: 8/10/06 at 10:25pm

I didn't hear anything about it. Your friend's show is almsot over, if it's not already. Could you get them to explain?
http://www.beintheheights.com/katnicole1 (Please click and help me win!) I chose, and my world was shaken- So what?
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
"And when Idina Menzel is singing, I'm always slightly worried that her teeth are going to jump out of her mouth and chase me." - Schmerg_the_Impaler
#8

re: taxi + Beauty and the Beast

Posted: 8/10/06 at 10:56pm

Okay, heard from my friend. Apparently, there was a huge crash during the massive downpour we had tonight and he walked by the Beauty and the Beast theater shortly after he heard it. It looked like a cab rode up onto the sidewalk and crashed the front left headlight area into the theater near the stage door (missed the crowd of people waiting to get into the show). There was an ambulance there already, and the police were as well. Three were on the driver, who was trying to resist being hand-cuffed.

That's all I've got!
"I thought that that was just going to be a like one shot deal for me, you know, but they kept talking about it like, 'when we do the production, when we do the production', and I was like, 'yes, yes, when you do the production, cool, I will come and see it'". - John Gallagher Jr. on SA

Updated On: 8/11/06 at 10:56 PM

#10

re: taxi + Beauty and the Beast

Posted: 8/11/06 at 7:08am

Taxi + Beauty and the Beast = (possibly) a good night. Depends if you're in the front of the taxi or the back...
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.

Derek Mahon

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

Arthur Miller
#11

re: taxi + Beauty and the Beast

Posted: 8/11/06 at 7:24am

WHAT!? Beauty And The Beast is still running on Broadway!?

What is wrong with the world!?
#12

re: taxi + Beauty and the Beast

Posted: 8/11/06 at 8:36am

I actually like BatB. It's not that bad.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.

Derek Mahon

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

Arthur Miller
#13

re: taxi + Beauty and the Beast

Posted: 8/11/06 at 9:23am

Maybe not...but how long has it been running? Ridiculous.

Sorry, I just get annoyed when I realise that things that should have shut ages ago are still going. Like Chicago in London for instance...it's been rubbish for ages - really sloppy - but still it keeps going. All those shows should just CLOSE! Phantom, Les Mis , Chicago, STOMP...it's ridiculous that they're still going.
#14

re: taxi + Beauty and the Beast

Posted: 8/11/06 at 11:42am

camp actor - don't be an ass...do you realize how all the shows you mention keep actors and musicians and a whole slew of others working??
#15

re: taxi + Beauty and the Beast

Posted: 8/11/06 at 1:04pm

Yes, yes I do. But what I've found is that as a VIEWING experience as a member of the AUDIENCE, shows that I have seen (in the West End - I have't been to NYC yet) that have been on for years and years just seem tired. I saw Chicago a few months ago and it was SO sloppy. I just think close the shows, bring in new shows. What's wrong with saying that I'm sick of these shows. It would do them good. It did Les Mis good. Close them, in a few years time do an interesting revival with maybe a different slant on the material. Shows get old and tired...it's the way it is. All these great new shows are lined up for Broadway next season and people are actually saying "I don't know if there'll be theatres for that show...". Well then, close the old warhorses and bring in the new shows, and the revivals. New productions.

Bring in something fresh.

Have I made my point?

P.S. I'm training to be an actor myself at the moment, so I get your point about keeping people in work, but I think it's a pretty moot point. If they're good they'll get work elsewhere. Read "Making It On Broadway: Actors Tales of Climbing To The Top"...not a great book, but interesting. Most of the actors who were involved in the big warhorses like Les Mis, Phantom etc bitched like anything about there being no soul in them anymore. It's true and you can see it as an audience member.

P.P.S. Don't call me an ass. It's rude and it wasn't warranted.
#17

re: taxi + Beauty and the Beast

Posted: 8/11/06 at 1:18pm

"...do you realize how all the shows you mention keep actors and musicians and a whole slew of others working?"

And wouldn't a new production also employ actors/musicians/stagehands, etc.?
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#18

re: taxi + Beauty and the Beast

Posted: 8/11/06 at 1:23pm

that's a pretty interesting scenario
sounds sorta cool
well, not cool for the taxi driver, but yeah
so, as curtainpulldowner said, what about the taxi driver? what happened with him? is he in jail? hospitalized? six feet under?...
:P

#19

re: taxi + Beauty and the Beast

Posted: 8/11/06 at 1:27pm

Is that the same block where Mary Stout got hit by the Hot Dog Cart?
That's a Dangerous street.
#20

re: taxi + Beauty and the Beast

Posted: 8/11/06 at 1:32pm

I saw the subject line and hoped Marilou Henner and Judd Hirsch were going into the show as Belle and Maurice!
#21

re: taxi + Beauty and the Beast

Posted: 8/11/06 at 5:01pm

camp_actor, the shows don't stay open if people don't go to see them, so if they're still running they are obviously popular, so some people apart from you obviously go to them and keep them open. Blood Brothers has run for ages, and has a cult following, the Mousetrap has been on 54 years! Is that not too long?

And in my personal opinion, not only should list theatres to keep them there, they should giv Les Mis a protection order, it's still as brilliant as it ever was and should run and run.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.

Derek Mahon

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

Arthur Miller
#22

re: taxi + Beauty and the Beast

Posted: 8/11/06 at 5:53pm

"Is that the same block where Mary Stout got hit by the Hot Dog Cart? That's a Dangerous street."

What?! Explain!!
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To Kill A Mockingbird
#23

re: taxi + Beauty and the Beast

Posted: 8/11/06 at 6:21pm

The Mousetrap is ridiculous. I saw it a couple of years ago and it was SO bad. The cast didn't have any life.

I realise that people want to go and see these things, but that is mostly due to the fact that they have been there so long they are "tourist attractions". It's like "While we're in London we have to catch The Mousetrap - it's been on 54 years, don't ya know!" It's a new kind of landmark - is that art? Does it actually say anything anymore?

Don't think that I haven't thought of the economic reasons - of course that's the reason they're still there, because they're still popular. That doesn't mean that they're any good. What it means is that producers know that it's a safe bet, whereas gambling on new projects is what it says on the tin - a gamble.

But theatre is about creating art and entertainment, it is a LIVING thing. And it is sad to go and see a show that is obviously very much past its sell-by-date.
#24

re: taxi + Beauty and the Beast

Posted: 8/11/06 at 11:27pm

Go see (TITLE OF SHOW)
They talk about how Mary was run down by a Hot Dog Cart
near the LUNT.
They heard her screaming in MACY'S!
#25

re: taxi + Beauty and the Beast

Posted: 8/11/06 at 11:42pm

I guess no one told Billy Joel that Movin Out isnt playing on that block any more.
"Have they come yet?"

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