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This is going to be a long, nowhere near complete list, peppered with completely random thoughts: High School/College Plays/Musicals That Were Decent Productions Death of a Salesman Of Mice and Men - during this play, a lead actor fell off the loving stage mid-line, somehow landed on the floor (this was a tiny theater without a pit) backwards with one hand and foot, and sprang back up to his mark on stage without interrupting the line at all. Literally a blink-and-you'd-miss-it moment of one of the most amazing physical feats I've seen in my life. The Laramie Project Brighton Beach Memoirs Grease soooo much Shakespeare A production of The Wizard of Oz that ran long because intermission ran for about 70 minutes while EMTs wheeled out a guy that apparently died of a heart attack from some minor pyrotechnics during the first act Blood Brothers, which has godawful music and just remembering it brings up the motif in my head, ugh Evita Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat A Chorus LIne Arsenic and Old Lace Notable professional productions: Wicked, the Broadway cast (I think?) in Chicago Chicago, on Broadway The Year of Magical Thinking, performed by Vanessa Redgrave Billie Elliot (which sucked out loud) Avenue Q (which was hilarious, but probably has aged like milk) The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, which was a silent, plotless play about people crossing through a city street, was much longer than an hour, and I probably would have enjoyed a lot more if I wasn't still pissy about having to go to Billie Elliot Speed the Plow starring loving Jeff Goldblum and (ugh) Kevin Spacey War and Peace - the two-play epic version by Helen Edmunson, who we got to meet a few days after the show. This one was incredible. I went into it dreading it, because it was literally two 3+ hour plays with an hour and a half lunch break between them. But it seriously blew me away and it was a real honor to get to ask the playwright some questions. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The Birthday Party The Lover and The Collection - these starred Charlie Cox who was pretty unknown at the time other the 2005 Casanova movie Guys On Ice which I thought was pretty funny at the time but I cringe to think of now Bach at Leipzig - this one's cool, it's a pretty decent farce done in the style of a musical fugue Good Soul of Szechuan Major Barbara But by a huge, huuuuge margin, the worst play I've ever seen in my life was a press premiere of Fram by Tony Harrison. It's all done in extremely forced verse, about half of which are morose poet ghosts bemoaning that they can only eat vomit and dung, and another third or so is spent just fellating the art of poetry itself, badly. It's ostensibly about its titular doomed expedition, which would be a cool idea for an epic play - even in verse, if done better - but it's just so muddled and throws in scenes and messages about Russian and African famines on top of the aforementioned puke poet poltergeists. And it is all so overwrought. Even for four hours of rhyming, it's overwrought. There's a part where the ship rises out of the stage - or maybe it was a plane? I think both were involved and it's been ages - but regardless, a big vehicle is supposed to come out of the stage while a man with his eyes and lips sewn shut scream-moan-hums desperately. Except at our showing, the stage lift gets stuck, and this guy is out there freaking out at the audience for seven or eight minutes straight while the techies try to fix whatever's gone wrong. It was meant to be a really deep, jarring, somber scene, but most of the theater was really politely trying not to laugh too loud by the end.
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A couple of years ago I was curious about how many Broadway theaters I had seen shows in, so I made a list:code:RoastBeef fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Sep 23, 2022 |
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Is this the only musicals thread on the entire forum? I saw Hadestown last night and it could get really corny at parts but visually it's maybe the best show I've ever seen all time all my life
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Rockman Reserve posted:Notable professional productions: Heh this reminded me of something - guy I know who's A) in his late 50s and B) is probably quite far along the spectrum but presumably has never been diagnosed because that wasn't a thing when he was young, LOOOOOOOVES Billy Elliott. Like, he has flown all over the world to attend productions of Billy Elliott. Now to some extent, this is a bit  because of the fact that the show stars young boys and this guy is unmarried and as far as I know has never had a serious relationship, but I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt because he doesn't come across as any kind of predator, he just comes across as....real odd and obsessed with the show itself. (He's a real serious 7th day adventist as well). It's just weird because he'll blather about how the Dublin production was a lot better than the Buenos Aires production and you're just like....dude, ...........what? Like........what? Billy Elliott? Really? (I've never seen the show and don't really plan to, I barely remember the movie but don't remember liking it that much).Anyway, saw Moulin Rouge last night and thought they did a great job updating the show with songs that have been released since the movie came out, and also just a terrific job with the energy and pizzazz of the show. Just one of those great musical experiences - high octane fun, some plot to give it meat but clearly not meant to overshadow the dancing and singing, and good talent all around (saw The Prom a while ago and the singing of the main character was so absurdly nasal it was painful).
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Sep 25, 2022 23:40
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Best play I ever saw was The Inheritance that left me an absolute blubbering wreck and really made me re-evaluate how affecting and important drama can be. It was done in two parts over two nights and was all the better for the day-long gap. Second best was a play called Yerma starring Billie Piper that was similarly devastating. third best was Network starring Bryan Cranston as Howard Beale. Jerusalem with Mark Rylance was also very special. And there’s been a bunch of other plays I can’t remember and a few Shakespeares along the way. There was a production of Hamlet with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart that a lot of people loved but I found a bit flat. There was a version of Frankenstein with Benedict Cumberbatch and Johnny Lee Miller that was pretty cool. Hopefully that’s enough to get me a “hell yeah”.
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Sep 27, 2022 00:31
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I worked backstage for a play version of 1984 in high school that was kinda cool. The only play I've ever been to otherwise was Book of Mormon which was probably a good play but I can't do musicals, so when the play started and I realized I hate the music in musicals and can't understand gently caress-all of what they're saying I looked up the script on my phone and read through it in 10mins and had a few chuckles then tried to turn off my brain for the remaining hour and 50 minutes or whatever that it took them to act out the script I read in 10mins, like unskippable voice acting in a videogame, and had a thoroughly bad time.
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Sep 27, 2022 00:41
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Matinee posted:There was a production of Hamlet with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart that a lot of people loved but I found a bit flat. There was a version of Frankenstein with Benedict Cumberbatch and Johnny Lee Miller that was pretty cool. oh poo poo I saw the official recordings of both of these and Frankenstein was amazing and I had completely forgotten that that production of Hamlet even existed until right this second
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i haven't posted my answer and stone cold steve austin has yet to show himself. starting to think he's a coward.
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On Broadway: Hamilton (in 2019) Chicago (in 2019) Les Miserables RENT West Side Story Spring Awakening Touring productions: Les Miserables RENT West Side Story Jersey Boys Book of Mormon Avenue Q The Lion King Wicked Pippin A Chorus Line Fun Home (a concert performance with the Broadway cast; not a full staging) Local/community productions: Little Shop of Horrors Lend Me a Tenor (hilarious farce; one of the only non-musical plays I've seen) Tomfoolery (a musical built around Tom Lehrer's comedy songs) Assassins Fun Home 1984 (also not a musical)
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I saw Nunsense this past weekend on a whim. With the exception of a few grandchildren, everyone in the audience was at least 30+ years older than me and the vibe was "saucy, young-at-heart grandmas." Very mediocre show but fun as hell due to the crowd. The highlight was when mother superior found some Rush poppers and a guy in his 70s started laughing knowingly long before anyone else knew what it was, enough so that the actress started adlibbing with him about whether he wanted to share it.Deki posted:Lombardi Oh gently caress what are the odds that two people in this thread would've both seen Lombardi. I liked it, for what it's worth. Pony Jabroni posted:hadestown being the most recent and was so glad i went. we did get persephone's understudy at my show and god she nailed it. i kinda liked her more than the original lady. i even liked the guy who played hades almost a little more than the original guy. would still highly suggest it though! long-rear end nips Diane posted:I saw Hadestown last night and it could get really corny at parts but visually it's maybe the best show I've ever seen all time all my life Hadestown is so loving good. I don't like Reeves Carney but I still loved it. Bad Purchase posted:i haven't posted my answer and stone cold steve austin has yet to show himself. starting to think he's a coward. He had to make a run to the store: 
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I've only seen Sweeney Todd on TV Mr. Austin I swear! Please don't cold stun me or my family. E: wait does Avenue Q count?
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