We really don't care about theatre do we?

the world in pictures was amazing, i thought. i totally agree that they are the ones pushing the boundaries at the moment.

hmmm, i thought it was a bit of a one-trick pony, like a sketch that had expanded to fill two hours (obviously if it had expanded to fill 12 hours i'd have been happier ;)), rather than a show on it's own...

I missed both the Nature Theatre of Oklahoma and the Elevator Repair Service this week. Oh well!

put on for the cast and crew's friends week after week.

It seems wrong to call that theater. It's just the dramatic equivalent of third graders writing poems that their mothers put up on the refrigerator.

i'm sure tracer was exaggerating. a large number of the, literally, thousands of fringe shows get very small audiences. it doesn't make them not-theatre though.

re. forced entertainment - i saw the revival of the sophie calle show in london recently and thought it was terribly boring. it didn't put me off them though.

Aimless says that as if most third graders aren't better than most published poets (or certainly better than anything that gets published in, say, the New Yorker).

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117974574.html?categoryid=15&cs=1

LOGIN?

Brits, should I go see Stoppard's Rock 'n Roll (or however he punctuates it)?

well, it doesn't matter for now as the stagehand strike has shuttered it...

not Cymbeline or Pygmalion

i find theatre incredibly offensive

although i should point out all ive seen are cats, les miserables and rozencrantz and guildenstern are dead.

well, that's offensive.

They were interviewing sad Irish tourists who'd come all the way to NY to see PHANTOM, and all I could think was Lucky for you, bugger off and get some actual culture while you're here, now.

"Phantom," my sole exposure to that variety of "theatre," was quite possibly the worst 2-3 hours of my life

how has the person who bought tix made it up to you?

Okay I just realized the other day that the Webber target that is in need of some serious, vicious bagging is STARLIGHT EXPRESS. It is about TRAIN PEOPLE. He wrote it for his GRANDKIDS, which is always an ill omen.

http://www.ramada.de/bildarchivdb/16025_1156921595.jpg

http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/51868170.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF19390335F8FA9CA92A691656D5B1677BA2578A0E721FD50B7AE

http://www.nrw-tourismus.de/fileadmin/user_upload/images/starlight-express.jpg

I have to admit the poster is awesome, though:

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/2/25/200px-StarlightLogo.jpg

Poppa, an old steam engine and past racing champion, tells Rusty the legend of the Starlight Express, a midnight train who helps engines in distress. The Starlight visits Rusty in a dream, telling him that true power comes from within. In the end, the underdog, Rusty, triumphs over the more powerful engines, winning the final race, Pearl's love and his self-confidence.

"A Lotta Locomotion" was changed on the US/UK tours to "A Whole Lotta Locomotion". There have also been three different raps:

* Hey, you! (1984-1991)
* Check it out, can you believe this? (1992-2001)
* It's race time! (2004 onward)

Six Starlight posts is sufficient for now...

thread title made true: no broadway strike discussion! at least i couldn't find a thread.

thoughts anyone?

hoping that it kills off The Miserables

did the other critics flip for the Broadway revival of The Homecoming like Brantley?

I think John Lahr did in this week's New Yorker, as proof that the play is the masterpiece he always thought it was.

I'm going to see the new (not sure if it actually is or not) David Mamet play tonight. (By which I obviously really mean that one with Kevin Spacey and Jeff Goldblum in it.) Is it going to be shit? I'm quite hard to please when it comes to the theatre.

Definitely not a new play. I was tempted by this - I love Goldblum but not so sure about Spacey. It's a great play though.

Thanks for that, I'm looking forward to it now.

It seems it is not at all new. 1988 according to wiki.

Spoke to a couple of people at the weekend who'd seen it, they were impressed.

I live just round the corner but haven't seen anything there since Spacey took over - this is the first one that's looked vaguely tempting.

Newsnight Review savaged it, but other than that I know very little about it. And Nick Broomfield was one of the people doing the reviewing and he hates everything.

Has anyone seen The Masque of The Red Death?

'the new David Mamet play' is on now in nyc

The London play is Speed-the-Plow?? I saw it on Broadway w/ Ron Silver, Joe Mantegna, and Madonna. It was meh.

has anyone in nyc seen the new richard foreman, um, "theater-machine?" been curious to see something of his for awhile now..

theatre be too expensive for much of ilx i suspect.

I saw that Mantegna/Silver/Madonna Speed-The-Plow too. Direction was top-notch. In retrospect, I wish I had also seen the replacement cast (Bob Balaban, David Rasche, Felicity Huffman).

macbeth is opening tonight! at bam... should be exciting except the weather is gonna keep people away ;(

I bet they'll make the Trek. :)

=)

Newsnight Review savaged it

OK, this is probably definitely worth seeing then.

has anyone in nyc seen the new richard foreman, um, "theater-machine?" been curious to see something of his for awhile now..
Haven't seen this but I've seen his stuff in the past and it was really good.

The play was really good, although very short. Hard to get over the 'that's Jeff Goldblum and Kevin Spacey' aspect of it though. Seemed to me to be more about sex and power contextualised by the movie business that an actual critique of Hollywood itself, but what the hell do i know?

My ticket for last night was only twelve quid so if ILXors go to gigs they can afford to go to plays.

Patrick Stewart notes possibility of unnamed production that will reunite him with McKellen on stage within next 18 months.

xcited to see macbeth

hear it's good. i wish he would shave that awful mustache off though!

things i will be seeing in next few months:
ghosts @ the pearl
sunday in the park with george @ studio 54
parlour song @ the atlantic
gypsy (preview for the revival w/ patti lupone! lols! awesome!)
some other stuff i'm forgetting.

Patrick Stewart notes possibility of unnamed production that will reunite him with McKellen on stage within next 18 months.

What do you think - True West, American Buffalo, or The Zoo Story?

Did anyone see Metamorphosis at the Lyric?

Did not.

Saw Doctor Atomic at the Lyric last month, or at least the last two hours of it -- took someone's 10th row seat at intermission instead of shelling out $160 for a ticket.

Fantastic show.

Rock 'n' Roll is really great

o damn I saw Starlite Express when I was like eleven. pretty silly.