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

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 1:53pm

"She said it had a) birds and b) grammar. Perfect for Jeffy. "


It would be better if it had Wonder Women!

[WonderRobbie]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 2:41pm

Like this?

[fvalle24]

Posted: 8/18/08 at 11:51pm

I hope you enjoy the show Stanley3! Let us know what you thought!

[tshell88]

Posted: 8/19/08 at 9:57am

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

[logan0215]

Posted: 8/19/08 at 11:16am

Is it bad when I use this thread as a safe haven when **** like "49%" gets posted?

And that I want to reach through the computer and punch the haters (/vampires) in the face?

[TulitaPepsi]

Posted: 8/19/08 at 11:31am

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).

[Pocketsquared Fanadu]

Posted: 8/19/08 at 11:39am

I, too, am using this thread as a safe haven. When I read deliberately hurtful words like "lousy" and "turkey" I have to refrain from trying to communicate with the wild bores (sp intended) who write them. 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. (Takes deep, cleansing breath...)

I'm also bummed that I'm leaving town on Thursday and won't be able to see Susan and Heidi at the Chatterbox (where Hunter and Jeff were so engaging).

[dalefully]

Posted: 8/19/08 at 2:31pm

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?

[fvalle24]

Posted: 8/19/08 at 2:55pm

I am on the same boat! It's very disheartening to hear people talk so negative about a show, let alone [tos]. I would never wish for a show to close, or say that it's a piece of shiz! That’s rude! It’s not them up on that stage night after night! I can be critical but NOT rude or obnoxious!

My [tos] haven is here!

"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. "

I totally agree with you! I've felt like that too! Maybe they're just bitter, because Jeff, Hunter, Susan, and Heidi are ON BROADWAY!!! (That made me smile!) Whether they like it or not, they are going in history...
Updated On: 8/19/08 at 02:55 PM

[Kalimba]

Posted: 8/19/08 at 3:04pm

"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?

[fvalle24]

Posted: 8/19/08 at 3:06pm

OMG I just found out about the [tos] gals being at Seth's. I HATE not living in NY!!

[logan0215]

Posted: 8/19/08 at 3:42pm

Well, speak of the haters.

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

[Pocketsquared Fanadu]

Posted: 8/19/08 at 4:19pm

Why indeed would somebody post that snark on this thread. I saw that (off-topic, considering the thread subject) post and was going to respond, but it's already been said:

"I would never wish for a show to close, or say that it's a piece of shiz! That’s rude! It’s not them up on that stage night after night! I can be critical but NOT rude or obnoxious!"

"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?"

[logan0215]

Posted: 8/21/08 at 2:48am

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

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 8/21/08 at 7:37am

I think the only way I'd want Oprah involved is if she spent some of her money on blocks of tickets.

I may be in a minority, but I can't stand her anymore. She'd find some way to make their story all about her.
Updated On: 8/21/08 at 07:37 AM

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Posted: 8/21/08 at 10:08am

I submitted them too.

[logan0215]

Posted: 8/21/08 at 11:26am

I think you're confusing Oprah with Tyra Banks...

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 8/21/08 at 12:07pm

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).

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 8/21/08 at 12:07pm

If enough tossers submit the story to Oprah, it's just GOT to happen....

[logan0215]

Posted: 8/21/08 at 12:11pm

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 :/

[fvalle24]

Posted: 8/21/08 at 12:45pm

Logan, that was amazing! Well said. Oprah would be dumb not to bring [tos] to her show.

I also agree with Broadwayjim about Oprah and Tyra. My friends and I always mock them. It's always "I know that when "I" was on Broadway" or "I know what you mean, because "I" went through a similar situation."

I hope that after Oprah they go on Ellen! I like her!

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 8/21/08 at 1:11pm

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

[logan0215]

Posted: 8/21/08 at 1:17pm

Well I think if the Oprah team gets a handful of individually written e-mails regarding the show they'll be more prone to feature it rather than simply a petition with e-signatures.

Even if you can't make the 2000 word mark, anything would be helpful.

I can see where one could see Oprah as making things about her, but I feel like she does such amazing work as well. She HAS had a lot of life experiences ranging from being dirt poor with cockroaches as pets to living as one of the richest women in the world. The fact that she is able to relate to most any guest on her show is a large part of her charm.

Tyra, on the other hand, just seems like an airhead with entirely too much to say and I'm still concerned over the mental stability of the person who gave her a platform on which to say it. Had they watched ANTM before booking her talk show?

[Nick Plasia]

Posted: 8/21/08 at 1:29pm

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

[logan0215]

Posted: 8/21/08 at 1:32pm

Glad to have the opinion of someone who comes on barely twice a month to trash any musical they can possibly get their hands on.

Updated On: 8/21/08 at 01:32 PM