We really don't care about theatre do we?

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

I have to admit the poster is awesome, though:

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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.

Starlight

Dennis Letts (father of Tracy Letts and 'til now appearing in August: Osage County) has died of cancer, alas.

parlour song was pretty good. a little heavy-handed at times, but chris bauer was excellent. emily mortimer, a little blah.

gypsy was... uh... i don't even know how to describe it. traumatizing?

wot, you don't like psycho-mama musicals?

except for the fact that surprise! bill raymond aka 'the greek' from the wire was in it (though a v. small part). funny, seeing two wire actors on stage w/in days of each other!

morbs i spent the whole time wishing i was watching bernadette do it. really the production was just very ehhh and not what you would expect for a 'broadway' production (it's a city center transfer). also, arthur laurents must be getting pretty senile...

I've never seen it, i just know a few of the songs... I would wish I'd seen Merman or Lansbury.

Rock 'n' Roll only has a few days left, and it ain't cheap, and attention is required, but you guys won't regret it.

i wanted to see it, but no time before it closes :(

dunno if jaymc is still reading this thread but if he's interested in checking out goat island's final work it opens in chicago on the 27th of March.

http://www.goatislandperformance.org/current.htm

sadly i'll miss it in glasgow because i'm away that weekend.

Cool, thanks for the tip, jed.

ATC curtain-raises South Pacific

i'd like to go to the theatre in the next couple of weeks, and i want to see something hard-going and bleak, for about a tenner (don't care if i get a shitty seat). in london. any suggestions?
-- emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 18 February 2006 12:32

West Ham v Everton?
-- Alba (Alba), Saturday, 18 February 2006 12:41

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Bravo!!

LAT Review

I really dislike musicals on the whole, but my aunt wants to take me to that and I'm tempted to see it because it has so many great songs.

Haha, going to a musical about sailors with my aunt. So gay.

i wish i had been at south pacific tonight instead of mamma mia (with visiting in-law who sprung for the tickets).

sting for nolte!!