We really don't care about theatre do we?

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that's gorgeous! congratulations

thanks!

that look intersting!

rearranging the deck chairs
;_;

srsly guys 3.5 minutes KILLS your message.

rumors of steel to save nyco... hmmm!

didn't he just go somewhere else?

Wow, bad review in today's Times for Pal Joey.

Silver lining to Piven having to leave Speed-The-Plow:
On Thursday the producers of “Speed-the-Plow” said that Mr. Piven’s role as the Hollywood producer Bobby Gould would be taken over first by Norbert Leo Butz and then by William H. Macy. Mr. Butz is to play the role from Tuesday through Jan. 11, they said, and Mr. Macy is to take it on from Jan. 13 through Feb. 22, when the show is scheduled to close at the Ethel Barrymore Theater. Mr. Piven’s understudy, Jordan Lage, will continue to perform the role through Sunday.

yeah he just went to dalas....

lol see ask tehresa thread for my take on that review!

i want to see speed the plow - i've heard it's really great. macy is gold for them!

working on getting in to see hedda gabler w/ mary louise parker :D

the one with cate blanchett was so gooood, i dunno if i can take another hedda! but it would be interesting. it's hard for me to see her in the part. i wonder how modern they're going to go with it

the last thing i ever saw in the theatre (that wasn't dance or experimental movement stuff) was "Long Day's Journey Into Night," with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robert Sean Leonard, Vanessa Redgrave and Brian Dennehy.

which explains why i never will go to see anything on Broadway again-- that experience trumped all, and will always forever trump all.

No, it doesn't! I saw LDJiN twice in the '80s w/ 2 diff casts, and would see more.

despite my theatre nerdiness in high school, never again-- it took one college production for me to say, 'fuck this shit' for the rest of my life. i'll write them, though, and i love reading a good one. Will Eno and Martin Scrimp are my current faves. Doug Dorst is pretty good, too.

in high school, i was:
- Sky Masterson (hah hah, luck be a lady, that was some funny stuff for my young faggot voice to be crooning)
- Pishchik in the Cherry Orchard
- assistant director on Endgame
- the H.L. Mencken character in that one about the Scopes Monkey Trial.
- Lord Goring in An Ideal Husband (best role ever)
- the son in Curse of the Starving Class, which I also directed and was my senior 'thesis' or whatever. fun but exhausting, got me smoking cigarettes again by the end, a habit i have never quite again except for some brief months.

anyway....

Did you do that naked part in Curse of the Starving Class?

Next month, the Goodman in Chicago is doing a whole bunch of O'Neill, including one by the Wooster Group and another one directed by Robert Falls (who did that Long Day's Journey on Broadway), featuring Dennehy and the cute female agent from Entourage.

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FYI, EZ, we're going to see Jon tonight after all.

Oh, good. I'll probably be there for the post-show talk with G. Saunders.

That's lovely jed!

thanks, julio.

can i recommend something for you?

http://www.sadlerswells.com/show/Alain-Platels-pitie

sam and i may come and see it too so maybe we'll meet again! i'll keep you posted. Les Ballets C. de la B. are amazing.

That looks excellent. I'll put it on the calendar but yeah keep me posted!

ok so...my mom's visiting nyc in february and since she likes theater i usually take her to something as a belated christmas present. usually off-broadway, she's not really interested in the musicals and whatnot. looking around this year, i'm thinking about buying tix for upcoming "uncle vanya" w/denis o'hare, maggie gyllenhaal and peter sarsgaard. what are the odds that it will be worth a look? (and/or does anyone have any other suggestions?)

Get a ticket early for Our Town at the 199-seat Barrow Street Theatre. I know, Our Town, but it's going to be the big show of early '09, based on how it ran in Chicago and the all the justifiable NYC hype that director David Cromer has been getting. (NY Times critic picked the Chicago version as one of the top 10 shows of '08.)

hmm. does sound good. maybe i'll wait a week and see if they announce dates.

tipsy i'm gonna see hedda gabler soon maybe that is another good option?

also if anyone is interested in this on saturday:

Founded in 1984 under the artistic direction of Maggi Sietsma, Expressions Dance Company is known across the globe for its highly athletic and theatrical brand of dance. This Australian company performs the New York City premiere of Score!, a new multimedia dance-theater piece inspired by Michel Fokine's ballet Petrushka and set in the insanely competitive world of reality TV. Packed with strikingly physicality, Score! incorporates live footage, video projections, and spoken word into this gripping tale of two contestants battling for the ultimate prize.

free if you don't mind making the trek to flatbush with me.

seeing this tomorrow night @ Here:

Removable Parts:
A theatrical series of love songs about voluntary amputation in which the unrequited lover – whose heart is broken – begins to question the usefulness of his other body parts.

kinda psyched

Gypsy tom'w night for me.

Robert Ashley operas at La Mama starting on the 15th; i'm probably going to all three, if anyone wants to do drinks or dinner before or after one night shoot me an e-mail.

Removable parts was awesome. Really touching but just when it started to get heart-wrenching it switched gears to keep you from being a sad sack. I really liked it!

Ian, I'm totally down.

I might have time for one of those.

Not a big fan of LuPone's (current) voice, but Gypsy was worth the discount ticket. Now I gotta get a gimmick.

*shaking head*

what're yer gripes?

the staging was horrendous, the acting was horrible. i thought benanti was lame and uninteresting and not tony caliber at all and lupone was screechy and over the top (but not in a good way, even for mama rose). i enjoy old musicals, so it's not that i just don't like the show, i just felt like it was some of the worst 3 hours of my life in that theater.

wtf @ that sheep!

You're just not gonna see that on stage anywhere else, and American culture is poorer for it.

wait american culture is poorer for not seeing bad acting and a shitty production?

oh, c'mon. I'd hate to think where you'd place the 3 hours I spent seeing The Wild Party!

We live in a world where revivals of Grease run for years every decade.

that doesn't mean that anything not hairspray or grease revival is automatically better!

even if the show might be better on the surface, you still need a good production/cast. if you can't make me feel anything, i don't care how famous you are. even the bette midler tv movie was more moving imo.

xp: It does if it has a song called "Have an Eggroll, Mr. Goldstone."

I'm not sure the audience even got that the June/Louise acts were sposed to be bad until the characters said so.

Sorry tza, I did get a mild case of goosebumps at "Everything's Coming Up Roses."

I never saw any other version, but I recall Peter Riegert was Herbie opposite the Dreaded Bette. dnw Midler tho.

plus, you felt disgust lol

my audience "got it"

fwiw hairspray and this gypsy were both mounted by the same producers so i don't think you can really make any argument that one is inherently more artful in its intent, regardless of the date it was written.

i was not goosebumped by ecur.

All sorts of variable persons and things are mounted by Broadway producers.

It's harder to screw up Gypsy than a John Waters film whose chief asset is the period music THAT'S REMOVED for a new score!

(i decided against the gyllenhaal vanya mentioned above; going to cripple of inishmaan instead.)

good Irish miserabilism!

When I re-read your post saying "denis o'hare and maggie g in vanya", I started thinking of Denis Leary in Vanya. I'd like to direct that.