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Getting On
Topic Started: Dec 16 2013, 04:17 AM (612 Views)
Trotsky
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angora
Dec 17 2013, 08:37 AM
Play sounds intense. Fascinating. I guess this was a small theatre or is NY so sophisticated that such a thing would play in a major theatre. You make me envious.
The good stuff is all small theater. The HUGE productions meant to run for years and years are all geared to appeal to tourists from Omaha and Tokyo.
Once and a while something good moves up though...like A CHORUS LINE, URINETOWN, RENT, AVENUE Q, ONCE. But it's not the usual sequence of events.

The logic is that when a show costs a gazillion dollars to produce it must appeal to the LCD (lowest common denominator) and usually have a big star.

The categories are BROADWAY...OFF-BROADWAY...OFF-OFF BROADWAY and the prices de-escalate dramatically. A great deal of what we see is close to free.

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Broadway plays invariably cost at least $2.5 million to mount these days, while musicals run a wider gamut: Some intimately sized musicals that hold down expenses can be capitalized in the ballpark of plays — the musical “Next to Normal,” for instance, cost $4 million — while bigger-scale musicals tend to cost $10 million to $15 million these days. (The hit musical “The Book of Mormon” cost about $9 million.) The most lavishly produced musicals are even higher: Dreamworks has confirmed that “Shrek the Musical” cost $25 million to mount on Broadway, while the producers of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” have confirmed that the show cost $75 million to stage.

Boggling, isn't it? Producers complain that it costs several times as much to run a show on Broadway than it does in London's West End.
Edited by Trotsky, Dec 19 2013, 05:22 AM.
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Bitsy
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Dec 17 2013, 07:42 AM
I am not big on Dick Van Dyke, rarely watched, so I cannot say, but the woman who is giving her husband/boyfriend (Harry Dean Stanton) blow jobs is driving me NUTS. She is famous...I know the face from decades ago. But the credits ring no bells.
I might be wrong...but I will not rest 'til I get it solved.


Is this her?


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0346893/
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angora
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Yes Bitsy. tks
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Glad you mentioned this show which must have slipped by me. I watched Episode l and 2 today and I must say it really grows on you. At first it seemed too realistic to be humorous but I was slowly hooked. Very funny and oddly touching.
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angora
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Isnt the acting superb, Olive Oil. I think there's no one better than Laurie Metcalfe but she is getting superb support in this.
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Trotsky
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Yep, Guilbert is the one I was thinking of too.


I presume that the last phone call was to the Cleveland Clinic which would be quite a feather in her cap, but of course she will get shot down.
I love the way Metcalf can smile broadly and you can almost see the tears of humiliation just under the surface.

I saw her onstage off-Broadway in 2011 in THE OTHER PLACE where she played a high caliber brain researcher who failed to see her own oncoming Alzheimer's. Really terrific show and she was stellar. The show moved to Broadway a year later but it only ran 61 performances because it was too intimate and thoughtful for the tourists.

Funny thought: Remember when Roseanne Barr was a household item and Metcalf played her sister, Jackie. How the tables have turned.
"Roseanne WHO?"
Edited by Trotsky, Dec 21 2013, 02:53 AM.
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Trotsky
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That's IT? Six lousy episodes?
That's cruel and unusual punishment.

Anyone know if more are planned?
Edited by Trotsky, Jan 5 2014, 02:08 AM.
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angora
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I read yesterday that it likely wont be picked up. Laurie Metcalfe is already in another pilot. And Treme aired its finale - I will be left with nothing I love to watch.
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Jan 5 2014, 02:43 AM
I read yesterday that it likely wont be picked up. Laurie Metcalfe is already in another pilot. And Treme aired its finale - I will be left with nothing I love to watch.
Angroa, like you, I will miss Treme tremendously but I was pleased with the finale; I saw it as a labor of love. Toni and Sofia dancing out the house going to Mardi Gras brought back so many memories of love, pain, and the people’s love affair with a city that never lets you go.
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angora
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I agree, Bitsy. It was a classy finale, with so many little things harking back to the first episode. I will miss those compelling and kinky characters though. I will so miss the music especially all the shots of the various musicians playing in small clubs. It was almost as good as being there.
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angora
Dec 17 2013, 06:10 AM
Better start attending the legitimate theatre instead, Campy
Yeah that would do it.

I have been watching an English comedy called Spy.

I have never seen anything like it.

It's so fast moving you really have to concentrate to catch the nuances.

I find myself laughing aloud by myself.

Edited by campy, Jan 5 2014, 03:35 AM.
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