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tulip
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Username: Braveheart
Post Number: 3261
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 8:19 pm: | 
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See Michael Sommers review in today's Star Ledger Ticket section. It really was a blast.
You have to see it, only now, the cheapest tickets are $66.00. Just goes to show, you
have to stick with what you think might be fun, and go for it. We saw it for $40.00 each, because it was in "limited engagement."
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tulip
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Username: Braveheart
Post Number: 3078
Registered: 3-2004
Posted on Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 10:04 am:
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Wow!!! A thrilling, vibrant tribute to the original version of the musical. Harry plays the piano, sings and dances and the whole thing is marvelous. Go see it. Limited engagement, I believe.
Duncan
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 5652
Registered: 12-2001
Posted on Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 2:47 pm:
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"Limited engagement" is about the best thing that can be said for it.
Sorry Tuliip.
tulip
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Username: Braveheart
Post Number: 3084
Registered: 3-2004
Posted on Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 7:54 pm:
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Well, I know you are the expert, being a playwright and all, but I like music, and I actually performed in Pajama Game as a kid, in the chorus, in a summer theater. I loved the show, and Roundabout Theater Group really did it well.
So, chacun a son gout, meaning, each to his own taste, sir.
Please, don't apologize for expressing your views. I'm one of the crazy posters who like to hear reasonable opinions from all sides, unless their insulting, of course.
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Duncan
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 5779
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 11:40 pm: |
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I am happy for you Tulip. I am glad you enjoyed the show. Just because Mr. Sommers said nice things doesn't change my opinion of it. I have been praised when I sucked and slammed when I shined, so I don't hold no truck with critics, beyond putting butts in the seats. And if you have a limited run with Harry Connick Jr., that shouldn't be a problem.
I am genuinely glad you enjoyed the show. Not sure why you felt you had to justify your pleasure though. Enjoy what you enjoy! |
tulip
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Username: Braveheart
Post Number: 3262
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, February 25, 2006 - 7:20 am: |
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Do you just not like musicals, Duncan, or specifically this one?
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Duncan
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 5781
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, February 25, 2006 - 7:29 am: |
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I have BFA in Musical Theater from the Boston Conservatory of Music, so it would be hard to say I don't like musicals. 
My problem, if it is one come to think of it, is being frustrated and tired at the lack of any real American Musical Theater anymore. Stephen Sondheim sure was AMT for a while, now its English imports and Revivals and this new disaster the Juke Box musical.
Pajama Game is a "musical comedy" and I don't generally like them, but I confess it is splitting hairs to say that I LOVE MUSICAL THEATER and dislike musical comedy. Pajama Game was thrown together (if any piece of theater is "thrown together") to accomodate Harry Jr.'s schedule..as i understand it. I may be wrong.
Any way...the bottom line is I am really glad you liked it and found some validation in Mr. Sommers review. I hope the people who have seen A Thousand Clowns and enjoyed it find validation in todays NY Times. |
tulip
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Username: Braveheart
Post Number: 3264
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, February 25, 2006 - 7:38 am: |
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A Thousand Clowns is a marvelous play.
I thought you might have an issue with musical comedy. I have a musical son who shares that sentiment.
Personally, I love the "musicals" of the fifties, sixties and seventies. They tended to have interesting, if not gripping story lines, as well as melodic music. Rogers and Hart, Rogers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Lowe, all my midwestern heart could want. Sondheim has his lyrical moments, and Bernstein can do absolutely no wrong, of course. When Sondheim can blend his own style with some sweeping, emotional melodies as Bernstein did in West Side Story, I am transfixed. I rather like Andrew Lloyd Weber, but I was a dancer (modern/theatrical) as a younger person, and tend to like the dramatic and florid.
As a playwright, I am sure you are more in tune with the stark, cerebral and symbolic, and quintessentially modern.
I like the old stuff, and the actual emotion and warmth of musicality of this rendition of Pajama Game. Sommers at least noticed that this version is quite loyal to the original, with the exception of the really hysterical "Hernando's Hideaway" sequence in which Connick plays the piano in a funny, honky=tonk sort of way.
Of course, Connick is no dancer, and he did look a little self-conscious.
It didn't detract from the character he plays.
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upondaroof
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Username: Upondaroof
Post Number: 568
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 25, 2006 - 3:00 pm: |
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Duncan, I'm curious as to what you base your opinion on since your posts lead me to believe that you didn't actually sit in the audience yourself.
BTW, saw that you got a rave review by News 12, NJ on Friday. Kudos! |
Duncan
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 5783
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, February 25, 2006 - 3:24 pm: |
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Thanks uponaroof, i missed that. Oh well.
I base my opinion on a few things, many assumptions which I should have made clear, and the word of a pair of friends at the Roundabout whose opinions I trust.
And a general prejudice against revivals that bank on celebrity to sell tickets. Witness the recent Odd Couple.
I did not sit in the audience, nor would I, with the info I have and the prejudices I carry. Sweeney Todd I would go see again. And again. And again. |
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