what went wrong between YF reading & the show?- Page 2

[Liverpool]

re: what went wrong between YF reading & the show?#25

Posted: 11/10/07 at 3:30am

BECAUSE MEL BROOKS IS RAPING MY EYES. we covered this.

[WickedForever2]

re: what went wrong between YF reading & the show?#26

Posted: 11/10/07 at 3:30am

"I'd probably go, and then walk out halfway into the first act just for the effect."



As you would have every right to and I'm sure it would teach that "douchebag" a lesson.

[Liverpool]

re: what went wrong between YF reading & the show?#27

Posted: 11/10/07 at 3:32am

oh it wouldn't be about teaching ole money bags mel a lesson, i'd do it to give those poor people who wasted there money something interesting to look at for a few minutes while i fight my way through the row of people in the dark. It would be a welcome distraction from the painful death they were dying in their seats just watching the show.

[WickedBoy2]

re: what went wrong between YF reading & the show?#28

Posted: 11/10/07 at 3:33am

pathetic! its amusing listening to you lot. god help the future of the theatre with people like you

A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!'' Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'

[Liverpool]

re: what went wrong between YF reading & the show?#29

Posted: 11/10/07 at 3:34am

no, god help the future of theatre with people like mel brooks.


Oh, and the clowns behind Spring Awakening.
Updated On: 11/10/07 at 03:34 AM

[wonderfulwizard11]

re: what went wrong between YF reading & the show?#30

Posted: 11/10/07 at 3:35am

"He's too cool to release the numbers"

I've asked this before, but why does this matter? So he won't release the grosses, it's his show, and his right not to. How does that make him a douchebag?

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.

[WickedForever2]

re: what went wrong between YF reading & the show?#31

Posted: 11/10/07 at 3:36am

Oh come on WickedBoy2! I am rather enjoying this. I always love a good debate in which I can use my logical and rational reasoning to counter the opponent's intelligent viewpoint. *please read the sarcasm here...*

[Liverpool]

re: what went wrong between YF reading & the show?#32

Posted: 11/10/07 at 3:38am

I'm also rather enjoying this. Watching people blindly defend greedy millionaires makes me laugh (eventually it makes me weap, but at first it makes me laugh)

[WickedForever2]

re: what went wrong between YF reading & the show?#33

Posted: 11/10/07 at 3:41am

Hmm, I do not believe I have ever defended Mel Brooks in this conversation. I merely asked how you knew he was a douchebag, but I never said I didn't agree. Perhaps you have assumed that fact based on my request for you to explain your reasoning, but that assumption could indeed be incorrect.

[Liverpool]

re: what went wrong between YF reading & the show?#34

Posted: 11/10/07 at 3:44am

so you're saying Mel Brooks is indeed a douchebag. Well im glad we could agree.

[WickedForever2]

re: what went wrong between YF reading & the show?#35

Posted: 11/10/07 at 3:46am

Again you jump to conclusions. I have yet to comment on my feelings about Mr. Brooks.

[Liverpool]

re: what went wrong between YF reading & the show?#36

Posted: 11/10/07 at 3:48am

so which is it? I she a douchebag, or your personal jesus?



Have an opinion, cause discussions with people who have no opinions is pointless. Updated On: 11/10/07 at 03:48 AM

[WickedBoy2]

re: what went wrong between YF reading & the show?#37

Posted: 11/10/07 at 3:50am

if this is your attitude to theatre im not surprised your a starving artist!

A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!'' Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'

[Liverpool]

re: what went wrong between YF reading & the show?#38

Posted: 11/10/07 at 3:51am

this isn't my attitude to theatre, this is my attitude to the bloated douchebag that is Mel Brooks (and the clowns behind Spring Awakening).

[cooperross]

re: what went wrong between YF reading & the show?#39

Posted: 11/10/07 at 3:51am

"I'm also rather enjoying this. Watching people blindly defend greedy millionaires makes me laugh (eventually it makes me weap, but at first it makes me laugh)"

So, basically you're just a bitter old hen because you're poor.

-Politics is like driving. To go backward, put it in R. To go forward, put it in D.

[WickedForever2]

re: what went wrong between YF reading & the show?#40

Posted: 11/10/07 at 3:53am

Neither. I do not know Mr. Brooks personally and I feel that makes me incapable of issuing such a decree about his character. When I buy a ticket to the theatre I am paying for an evening of entertainment. I purchased a ticket to this show for $78 in Seattle and felt I received what I had paid for. For some people, that price is too steep, for others, they are willing to pay more. Mr. Brooks' moral integrity has very little to do with what I or anyone else watches onstage.

[Liverpool]

re: what went wrong between YF reading & the show?#41

Posted: 11/10/07 at 3:53am

Old? I'm far from old. As for being bitter and poor, I am both but not one because of the other. I'm bitter than **** theatre keeps getting pushed to the forefront instead of something decent, and worth seeing. And I'm bitter that people who have no business making shows continue to make them.

[WickedBoy2]

re: what went wrong between YF reading & the show?#42

Posted: 11/10/07 at 3:53am

Way bittttttter

A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!'' Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'

Updated On: 11/10/07 at 03:53 AM

[cooperross]

re: what went wrong between YF reading & the show?#43

Posted: 11/10/07 at 3:56am

" I'm bitter than **** theatre keeps getting pushed to the forefront instead of something decent, and worth seeing. And I'm bitter that people who have no business making shows continue to make them."

and I have no doubt if you got offered a role with an Equity contract in one of those shows you so despise you wouldn't think twice about taking it.

-Politics is like driving. To go backward, put it in R. To go forward, put it in D.

[Liverpool]

re: what went wrong between YF reading & the show?#44

Posted: 11/10/07 at 3:58am

And I wouldn't be able to look at myself in teh mirror as long as I was in the show.

[WickedBoy2]

re: what went wrong between YF reading & the show?#45

Posted: 11/10/07 at 4:01am

Then your in the wrong business. There are so many more deserving people out there than you, thats obvious now.

A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!'' Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'

[Liverpool]

re: what went wrong between YF reading & the show?#46

Posted: 11/10/07 at 4:05am

oh because I'd be ashamed of being in a ****ty project?

Please, spare me the moral superiority routine.

I never once said anything about the actors in YF. I don't fault them for being in the show. A paying acting gig is an acting gig (hell a non paying acting gig is still an acting gig). I don't fault the designers for designing the show or the director of directing the show. If i ever saw the show and didn't like the way any of said people did their jobs I'd fault them that.

I fault Mel Brooks because i don't need to see the show to know he's a hack. His behavior leading up to this show tells me all i need to know.

[WickedForever2]

re: what went wrong between YF reading & the show?#47

Posted: 11/10/07 at 4:07am

And so Liverpool, it would seem I have made my point and you have moved on to a new battle and with that, I say good night.

[Liverpool]

re: what went wrong between YF reading & the show?#48

Posted: 11/10/07 at 4:09am

Good theatre can be done cheap. If braodway producers would realize that, they'd be able to make more profitable shows that can actually last longer than a few months.

[nygrl23]

re: what went wrong between YF reading & the show?#49

Posted: 11/10/07 at 9:55am

After seeing some of the show in previews, I saw a couple of clips of the show on that video site we're not talking about, and I decided not to go based on those clips. Thought it was a lot of hoopla over nothing--trite songs, boring choreography ("don't resist it's all in vain-ia, it's the latest craze"...no thanks).

I like Mel's humor when he's not trying to be Benny Hill, but it's not enough to make me pay any price to see a show that sounds like the songs were thrown together during a traffic jam.


Updated On: 11/10/07 at 09:55 AM