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[taylorPHENOMENON2]

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Posted: 8/25/08 at 7:36pm

Hey y'all. I'm going thursday. Will i see any of you?

[wonderfulwizard11]

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Posted: 8/25/08 at 8:04pm

Hunter does an entertaining Food Network guest blog

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

[logan0215]

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Posted: 8/25/08 at 10:19pm

My Oprah submission was too long (didn't know 2000 characters meant INCLUDING spaces) but I tweaked it to send in to Ellen:

Dear Ellen

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 (got that?). 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. Hunter and Jeff 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 virally promoting the show as being on its way to Broadway (without having anything to back that up), they chronicled, they created the hysterical “[title of show] Show” on YouTube.

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 should be 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 all the way 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. You actually get a shout-out in the musical as well in “Two Nobodies in New York:” “Are we writing for art/And is art a springboard for fame/And will fame get us a sitcom/And will a sitcom get us on Ellen/And will Ellen get folks to like us/And if they like us/Will they mike us/Me and You/Two nobodies in New York”

This show is so beloved by the theater community but is struggling to keep full capacity because of their grass roots publicity campaign. 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.

I hope this doesn’t come off as a plea for free publicity because I truly believe in what this show has to offer people. There have been numerous viewers who have gone in with absolutely no Broadway knowledge and unknowing of what it takes to make a Broadway show and have left so inspired regardless of their profession or walk of life that I think it truly is a universal piece. To top that off the cast is incredibly delightful and take the time at the stage door to speak to EVERYONE who is waiting, and not with a simple hello but with a generous offering of time and listening.

Thank You!

www.titleofshow.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os71u7VB2jc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TswUU7h-cs

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Keep the letters going folks
Updated On: 8/25/08 at 10:19 PM

[Trekkie2]

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Posted: 8/25/08 at 11:00pm

Great letter logan! I hope it works!

"I think of avant-garde as downtown shows where you rub waffles and chocolate on yourself."- Hunter Bell

[logan0215]

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Posted: 8/26/08 at 11:47am

Thanks! I hope everyone else is taking a few words to drop them a message as well :]

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

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Posted: 8/26/08 at 8:52pm

Random question. Do you think the theatre will stop me from bringing in a bag? (as in like a gift bag)

[logan0215]

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Posted: 8/26/08 at 8:55pm

I doubt it. They may ask to search it, so for as long as you're down with that, you should be OK.

Plenty of people have shopping bags while seeing shows, so that shouldn't be considered any different.

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

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Posted: 8/26/08 at 8:58pm

That's what I was thinking. Thanks Logan!

Thursday!

[logan0215]

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Posted: 8/26/08 at 9:03pm

Have fun! I was there last Thursday and I think they need to make a name up like Funday (for Monday) because the crowd was amazing and the performance was outstanding.

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

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Posted: 8/26/08 at 9:10pm

:) Im so excited! How's the lottery lately? Because i'm depending on that and if not going to try a cheap balcony seat.

[spiritx33]

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Posted: 8/26/08 at 11:06pm

After reading the Gypsy Robe thread earlier, I started thinking about [tos] and their ceremony. Do any of you know who got the robe?

[logan0215]

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Posted: 8/26/08 at 11:14pm

Eek. I hope they let Courtney and Benjamin share it.

Or gave it to Mindy... or the "ground beef in a cup" lady...

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

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Posted: 8/27/08 at 5:05am

Thanks for the info Kfullerton!

[PalJoey]

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Posted: 8/27/08 at 7:50am

Go say happy birthday to PattiLuPuppy in his birthday thread on the Off Topic Board.

[WonderRobbie]

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Posted: 8/27/08 at 8:25am

And speaking of birthdays... Jeff's [birthday] is this Saturday!

WR: "Jeff, are you going get this game when it comes out?" JB: "I wouldn't be able to write another musical..." ~NY ComicCon 2/8/09

[believe]

[dancingthrulife04]

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Posted: 8/27/08 at 12:59pm

After reading the Gypsy Robe thread earlier, I started thinking about [tos] and their ceremony. Do any of you know who got the robe?


As there was technically no 'ensemble,' [tos] did not do a Gypsy robe ceremony.


I need to lotto this week. How have Saturday matinees been?

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

[fvalle24]

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Posted: 8/27/08 at 2:08pm

I need to fly back to NY... The cast album is just not enough!!!

[Wanna Be A Foster]

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Posted: 8/28/08 at 12:43am

[tos] made it into The Huffington Post!

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

[logan0215]

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Posted: 8/28/08 at 2:50pm

"the show’s director, Broadway favorite Michael Berresse, who is Bowen’s longtime boyfriend"

Wha wha whattttt?
link

[Trekkie2]

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Posted: 8/28/08 at 4:24pm

^ Anybody know if that's true?

"I think of avant-garde as downtown shows where you rub waffles and chocolate on yourself."- Hunter Bell

[Yankeefan007]

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Posted: 8/28/08 at 4:31pm

I didn't think there were people who didn't know hat.

[logan0215]

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Posted: 8/28/08 at 6:09pm

I don't know hat

And I didn't know that

[Trekkie2]

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Posted: 8/28/08 at 6:13pm

I too didn't know that. But I know ALL about hats.

"I think of avant-garde as downtown shows where you rub waffles and chocolate on yourself."- Hunter Bell

[Trekkie2]

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Posted: 8/28/08 at 6:15pm

And that Huffington Post article is awesome.

"I think of avant-garde as downtown shows where you rub waffles and chocolate on yourself."- Hunter Bell

[logan0215]

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Posted: 8/28/08 at 8:51pm

a. Welcome

b. Heart [tos] love

c. Thanks for getting on a letter! Send one to Ellen & Oprah :]