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...
― CarsmileSteve, Monday, 17 September 2007 18:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I missed both the Nature Theatre of Oklahoma and the Elevator Repair Service this week. Oh well!
― Casuistry, Monday, 17 September 2007 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 00:31 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― jed_, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 00:37 (sixteen years ago) link
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).
― Casuistry, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 07:16 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117974574.html?categoryid=15&cs=1
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 22:25 (sixteen years ago) link
LOGIN?
Brits, should I go see Stoppard's Rock 'n Roll (or however he punctuates it)?
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 25 October 2007 13:44 (sixteen years ago) link
well, it doesn't matter for now as the stagehand strike has shuttered it...
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 November 2007 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link
not Cymbeline or Pygmalion
― gabbneb, Monday, 12 November 2007 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link
i find theatre incredibly offensive
― sunny successor, Monday, 12 November 2007 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
although i should point out all ive seen are cats, les miserables and rozencrantz and guildenstern are dead.
― sunny successor, Monday, 12 November 2007 19:51 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 November 2007 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
"Phantom," my sole exposure to that variety of "theatre," was quite possibly the worst 2-3 hours of my life
― gabbneb, Monday, 12 November 2007 20:15 (sixteen years ago) link
how has the person who bought tix made it up to you?
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 November 2007 20:27 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Abbott, Monday, 12 November 2007 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Abbott, Monday, 12 November 2007 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I have to admit the poster is awesome, though:
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/2/25/200px-StarlightLogo.jpg
― Abbott, Monday, 12 November 2007 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Abbott, Monday, 12 November 2007 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link
"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)
― Abbott, Monday, 12 November 2007 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Six Starlight posts is sufficient for now...
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 November 2007 20:44 (sixteen years ago) link
thread title made true: no broadway strike discussion! at least i couldn't find a thread.
thoughts anyone?
― tehresa, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 00:56 (sixteen years ago) link
hoping that it kills off The Miserables
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 01:13 (sixteen years ago) link
did the other critics flip for the Broadway revival of The Homecoming like Brantley?
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I think John Lahr did in this week's New Yorker, as proof that the play is the masterpiece he always thought it was.
― Eazy, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Upt0eleven, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 12:40 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 12:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks for that, I'm looking forward to it now.
It seems it is not at all new. 1988 according to wiki.
― Upt0eleven, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― ledge, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― Anna, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 12:52 (sixteen years ago) link
'the new David Mamet play' is on now in nyc
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
The London play is Speed-the-Plow?? I saw it on Broadway w/ Ron Silver, Joe Mantegna, and Madonna. It was meh.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 14:43 (sixteen years ago) link
has anyone in nyc seen the new richard foreman, um, "theater-machine?" been curious to see something of his for awhile now..
― impudent harlot, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
theatre be too expensive for much of ilx i suspect.
― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
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).
― Eazy, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link
macbeth is opening tonight! at bam... should be exciting except the weather is gonna keep people away ;(
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I bet they'll make the Trek. :)
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
=)
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Newsnight Review savaged it
OK, this is probably definitely worth seeing then.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 22:14 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 22:50 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Upt0eleven, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 10:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Patrick Stewart notes possibility of unnamed production that will reunite him with McKellen on stage within next 18 months.
― gabbneb, Friday, 22 February 2008 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link
xcited to see macbeth
― Surmounter, Friday, 22 February 2008 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― tehresa, Friday, 22 February 2008 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
What do you think - True West, American Buffalo, or The Zoo Story?
― Eazy, Friday, 22 February 2008 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Did anyone see Metamorphosis at the Lyric?
― czn, Friday, 22 February 2008 19:58 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Eazy, Friday, 22 February 2008 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Rock 'n' Roll is really great
― gabbneb, Sunday, 24 February 2008 07:46 (sixteen years ago) link
o damn I saw Starlite Express when I was like eleven. pretty silly.
― will, Sunday, 24 February 2008 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Starlight