this thread is SO [title of show] cuz it [you know what] ROCKS!!! — Page 35

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Frustrating that i had to leave ny last weekend and not this weekend! Heidi and Susan a this week's Chatterbox: http://www.playbill.com/news/article/120527.html

Not at all, Logan. It's a great anger management solution.

I'm now highly amused that such a sweet, heartfelt show annoys the sh*t out of so many posters.

tshell, I feel your pain. But the next best thing will be that videos of the Heidi/Susan CHATTERBOX will be (probably) available at the Flea Market next month.

I was terrified they would be booked on August 28 (when I'm out of NYC for the week).

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Oh yeah, this thread is totally a haven for me. It seems that every time a thread about [tos] is started it becomes nothing more than a bash-fest. I mean, sure, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but how often do they think they're going to repeat it before it's completely shoved down everyone's throats?

"The most common hypothesis I've heard about what drives this vitriol is that these [dis]sers are folks who wanted to break into theater and were either not talented enough or too lazy to figure out how to get to where our [tos]sers are."

Oh here we go again, the most frequently overused and pathetic excuse for not liking [tos]. Could it be that those of us who didn't like it thought it was just plain bad?

Well, speak of the haters.

Why the **** would you even come in this thread? Were your ears ringing?

I'm submitting them as a show idea to Oprah. Its an inspirational story and they used the Secret as well, which we know Oprah loves.

So should y'all!

submission form

I submitted them too.

Naah...both of them are "it's all about me" but Oprah has a far bigger platform. I think it would be cool for her to showcase them for the exposure alone (and quickly please), but her "aren't I wonderful for bringing this to you and doing this for you" attitude lost me years ago.

I'm done cause this isn't the place for Oprah, it's a place for the Fantastic Four (or five--sorry Larry).

Secret that **** mother****ers

Here's what I'm submitting (once the online submission for decides to work):

Dear Oprah

I'm writing to turn your attention to a show that has truly inspired me and many others and has one of the most amazing messages of hope on Broadway currently. The show is titled [title of show]. It’s an extremely smart, funny and inspiring story of two "nobodies" named Hunter and Jeff who are writing a musical about 2 guys writing a musical. They are joined by their two lady friends Heidi- the only one of the foursome to have been on Broadway but constantly stuck as Understudy/Ensemble and Susan- a "downtown" actress who, after 9/11, has opted out of the performer's lifestyle of constant auditioning in lieu of a life of climbing the corporate ladder.

The musical uses only 4 chairs, four actors and an accompanist on a keyboard. The protagonists give themselves 3 weeks to write a musical for the NY Musical Theater Festival. They are accepted and the show was then picked up to workshop and run off-Broadway. After a lull of over a year, they still hadn't made it to Broadway but by using "The Secret" they begin to virally promote the show as being on its way to Broadway (without having anything to back that up).

The show is so amazingly funny but there are such moments of poignancy that left me in a pool of tears when I attended Opening Night. Susan performs a song titled "Die Vampire, Die," which at first sounds like it a wacky comical number as that is the nature of Susan's on (and off)-stage persona, but it is actually a song chronicling the pitfalls of creative self-expression. A vampire is the embodiment of anything that tells you that what you are doing is irrelevant, been done before or you are not talented enough to accomplish. Later in the show, when the characters discuss childhood memories Heidi sings an amazing ballad titled "A Way Back to Then" which chronicles her growing up dancing in her backyard to her life at that moment and the search for the innocence and happiness of childhood. One of the final numbers is titled "Nine People's Favorite Thing" which states that they would rather be nine people's favorite thing than 100 people's 9th-favorite thing.

This show is so beloved by the theater community. The cast is so humble in being proud of just making it thus far, but I think their story is so amazingly applicable to anyone's life that it would be hugely inspirational as a part of your show.

www.titleofshow.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os71u7VB2jc

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I had originally put a line in after the "most inspirational show on Broadway currently" that said "since your production of the Color Purple" but I was over 2000 characters so I cut it :/

VERY well written Logan. If that doesn't work, maybe a petition will. I'd sign it.

Oprah has better taste than to embrace the rank mediocrity of title of show, even if the rest of you dullards don't.