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| At Home with Diane Paulus | |
| Posted by: towel 02:52 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
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| I give you the home of the woman who makes lowbrow musicals, who consider the lowest common denominator as the highest achievement, who runs a multimillion dollar theatre at a multibillion dollar university that had a fundraiser to renovate their women's bathroom, but she lives with 5 bathrooms. Five. She is the artistic director at a theatre that just got rid of their academic program theatre program because it was too expensive. She fired a resident acting company. She refers to the collaboration with designers as “Swatches are put in front of me constantly.” This theatre charges you $50 for the privilege of buying tickets (until 6 weeks before opening night). Sleazy. BOOM. |
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| re: At Home with Diane Paulus | |
| Posted by: bobby2 01:19 am EDT 08/14/17 | |
| In reply to: At Home with Diane Paulus - towel 02:52 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
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| I don't know much about Paulus BUT five bathrooms is not that unusual if you buy a new house these days. When I was a kid we had a four bedroom house with 2 bathrooms and a half bathroom downstairs. Nowadays the trend seems to be that houses come with a bathroom attached to every bedroom. So your average new four bedroom house would probably come with four and a half baths. | |
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| Since when is it bad for artists to be successful!!?? | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 09:25 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
| In reply to: At Home with Diane Paulus - towel 02:52 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
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| She hit the jackpot with some big Broadway gigs. It is not on her to renovate bathrooms at ART. Geez. And she can have as many fucking bathrooms that she can afford. Good for her. Not sleezy at all. And who knows what charities she privately gives to, by the way. | |
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| re: *Boom* alert in thread above n/m | |
| Posted by: Guillaume 06:50 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
| In reply to: At Home with Diane Paulus - towel 02:52 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
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| Don't stop being you! | |
| Last Edit: Naughty_Rob 06:05 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
| Posted by: Naughty_Rob 06:04 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
| In reply to: At Home with Diane Paulus - towel 02:52 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
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| We are theatre lovers where difference is celebrated. Talk and write the way you want toooooo. Don't let the bully's tell you what you can and cannot say. Remember Ben Platt's amazing Tony acceptance speech. Cheers Rob |
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| re: Don't stop being you! | |
| Posted by: ryhog 12:41 am EDT 08/13/17 | |
| In reply to: Don't stop being you! - Naughty_Rob 06:04 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
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| In the context here, you are mocking Platt's speech. And your platitudes are of course misplaced. But by all means say whatever you like, even at the expense of others. | |
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| re: Don't stop being you! | |
| Posted by: TheHarveyBoy 07:48 am EDT 08/13/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Don't stop being you! - ryhog 12:41 am EDT 08/13/17 | |
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| Or did you mean Plattitudes? | |
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| re: Don't stop being you! | |
| Posted by: ryhog 09:32 am EDT 08/13/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Don't stop being you! - TheHarveyBoy 07:48 am EDT 08/13/17 | |
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| :-) and yet, this early on a Sunday morning, my first thought was that I was surprised I have always spelled the word incorrectly. |
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| re: Don't stop being you! | |
| Posted by: mermaniac 10:37 am EDT 08/13/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Don't stop being you! - ryhog 09:32 am EDT 08/13/17 | |
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| Speaking of which, it's "bullies." | |
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| re: Don't stop being you! | |
| Posted by: ryhog 11:13 am EDT 08/13/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Don't stop being you! - mermaniac 10:37 am EDT 08/13/17 | |
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| I assumed that blatant mistake was an inviolable expression of the poster's essence. | |
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| Please, please, stop with the BOOM. | |
| Posted by: royscho 04:10 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
| In reply to: At Home with Diane Paulus - towel 02:52 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
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| We have enough of this here already. Let's not make it this forum's new style. Also, she may be a horrible human being - I don't know her, but if you say so - but the TONY-winning revivals of Porgy and Bess, Hair and Pippin were not lowbrow. Hair, particularly, was almost a theatrical alchemy, from its first central park 3-day concert to its final returning engagement at the St. James. Also, the equivalence you make between the number of bathrooms in her private property with the fact that a fundraiser was thrown to renovate the public bathroom in the theater in which she's employed (or runs) makes no sense to me. |
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| re: Please, please, stop with the BOOM. | |
| Posted by: Snowgrace 07:35 pm EDT 08/13/17 | |
| In reply to: Please, please, stop with the BOOM. - royscho 04:10 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
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| Paulus is suoer-talented....AM, though, in shock if this is true re the 2 year program A.R.T had with MXAT being dissolved!!! | |
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| re: Please, please, stop with the BOOM. | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 11:18 pm EDT 08/13/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Please, please, stop with the BOOM. - Snowgrace 07:35 pm EDT 08/13/17 | |
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| Greg Hildreth (Andrew Jackson, Starcatcher, Cinderella, Frozen) came through that Harvard/ART program. At the time he was there, a friend of mine was the voice teacher for the program, and she brought me in to accompany a few times - and I remember him. Fun to say I knew him when... | |
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| re: Please, please, stop with the BOOM. | |
| Posted by: Snowgrace 10:55 am EDT 08/15/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Please, please, stop with the BOOM. - Chromolume 11:18 pm EDT 08/13/17 | |
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| That's so good...:) A lot of fine actors came out of there, gaining much from working with the brilliant Russian talent and the greenhouse of Cambridge & A.R.T. Was so blessed, as one of about 20 referred from the NOT passed audition for that program in its 1st year ('98) to at least spend a summer in Cambridge working with outstanding teachers/directors from Russia, & returned 2 winters in a row to see Yuri Yeremin's staggeringly great Chekhov productions on the A.R.T mainstage, with terrific grad student actors working alongside masters like Alvin Epstein...& someone who was really, really fine in IVANOV, Debra Winger!!!! End of an era...makes me sad. | |
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| You might want to avoid productions or recordings of "Little Me" | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 12:50 am EDT 08/13/17 | |
| In reply to: Please, please, stop with the BOOM. - royscho 04:10 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
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| which has the French entertainer sings the song "Boom Boom" -- "When a man Boom Boom/And a girl Boom Boom/And they get together and they both Boom Boom/C'est le grand Boom Boom/That's the grand Boom Boom/ Save the grand Boom Boom for Me!" , etc. Of course, we used to have the guy here who always asked about loud noises and firearms in a show before getting tickets... |
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| re: Please, please, stop with the BOOM. | |
| Posted by: bmc 06:20 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
| In reply to: Please, please, stop with the BOOM. - royscho 04:10 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
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| "Please sir, pretty Admiral, no boom boom"- ............I don't mind it, but if its bothering some of your fellow posters, perhaps alternate it with bah dah dum(the snare drum Effect) | |
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| re: Please, please, stop with the BOOM. | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 07:22 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Please, please, stop with the BOOM. - bmc 06:20 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
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| perhaps alternate it with bah dah dum(the snare drum Effect) God no. The Choice Hotels commercials are bad enough. I'd go with no boom boom myself. And no more elonnnngggggatttteddddddd worrrrrrrrddddddssss. |
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| re: Please, please, stop with the BOOM. | |
| Last Edit: towel 04:51 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
| Posted by: towel 04:48 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
| In reply to: Please, please, stop with the BOOM. - royscho 04:10 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
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| I found Porgy and Bess, Hair and Pippin to be very lowbrow. I learned nothing about the pieces I didn't already know. Pippin's concept of circus was imposed on the piece and wasn't an original idea. I enjoyed the circus that kept interrupting the musical that was also happening. Porgy and Bess was surrounded by controversy. I saw the first preview where Paulus's concept was still in full view - it was a nightmare. It was a watered down version of what the show can be. I went back to see it later and it was only slightly better. Hair had no edge and was so poorly staged. BOOP |
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| re: Please, please, stop with the BOOM. | |
| Last Edit: royscho 07:22 pm EDT 08/13/17 | |
| Posted by: royscho 07:15 pm EDT 08/13/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Please, please, stop with the BOOM. - towel 04:48 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
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| I would say to each his own, especially in art, but your original post indicates that you're anything but objective towards Diane Paulus and her work. You also don't say why you think her work is lowbrow. You just say it's "poorly staged" or a "nightmare". Her Broadway revivals were commercially successful. She won Tonys for them and got mostly good reviews, some of them are raves. You're entitled to an opinion (biased as it is) but it looks like you're the minority. |
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| re: At Home with Diane Paulus | |
| Posted by: CCentero 03:13 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
| In reply to: At Home with Diane Paulus - towel 02:52 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
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| re: At Home with Diane Paulus | |
| Last Edit: lordofspeech 05:25 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
| Posted by: lordofspeech 05:24 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
| In reply to: re: At Home with Diane Paulus - CCentero 03:13 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
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| So happy that this SUCCESSFUL theatre artist can afford an apartment and furniture. I'm sure she still has less than politicians like Obama, the Clintons, Trump, the Bushes....BUT SHE HAS A NICE PLACE TO LIVE!!!! I think that's something to celebrate. Artists should have as much as politicians! My opinion. And I went to a number of her productions and never felt gypped I liked HAIR. A lot. A whole lot, and not just because of Creel and company, but for some way the chaos surprisingly made way for a cohesive plea for peace. I thought her staging was wonderfully invisible and yet cohesive. I never saw the original Fosse PIPPIN, but I liked this one pretty well, and I think putting the circus thing in it made both critics and audience feel good about it and gave it a sell-able brand. And Paulus' production brought us the multi-layered performance of Rachel Bay Jones (hope I have the right name) redefining the Jill Clayburgh role. That was a performance for the ages. So that made the whole show worthwhile. PORGY AND BESS may have made a mistake in having Porgy not be a cripple (which threw everything else in the plot and every other character, especially Bess, in the piece askew), but it was worth a shot to try that, even if only to make sure no one ever tries that again But it was pretty exciting to watch (and be astonished by) Audra McDonald's virtuoso technique, and to see it and then reflect upon all the different criticisms and histories of the original script which were occasioned by this production. I also saw Ms. Paulus' production at Columbia of her adaptation of my favorite James Baldwin novel. And that was good, too. She's no slouch. She's not perfect, but, then, probably neither was Abe Burrows, and even Hal Prince wasn't. |
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| Lordofspeech, we don't... | |
| Posted by: andPeggy 11:06 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
| In reply to: re: At Home with Diane Paulus - lordofspeech 05:24 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
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| ... say gypped anymore. Yell at me all you want. BURP! |
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| re: Lordofspeech, we don't... | |
| Posted by: lordofspeech 11:19 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
| In reply to: Lordofspeech, we don't... - andPeggy 11:06 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
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| Thank you. I'm not sure what the BURP meant. Maybe you were having dinner when you posted? Anyway, I got it. "Gypped" is a word derived from when "gypsies" were thought to be a people who swindled and hoodwinked and took payment for less than satisfactory goods. And I just wasn't conscious of that. Shoot. I like the word, "gyp," but I guess it can be retired. I could say "taken" or "taken for a ride." Is the word "gypsy" also off-limits? Esmeralda the Gypsy. Lots of legend about gypsies stealing babies. Thank you for bringing this to my attention, and my apologies to any....Bohemians (?)....my word choice offended. |
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| re: Lordofspeech, we don't... | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 01:58 pm EDT 08/13/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Lordofspeech, we don't... - lordofspeech 11:19 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
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| "my apologies to any....Bohemians (?)....my word choice offended." Technically, Roma or Romani, though we don't tend to hear that word used outside of Europe, where there is still a significant (and stateless) Roma population. |
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| re: At Home with Diane Paulus | |
| Posted by: BigM 09:37 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
| In reply to: re: At Home with Diane Paulus - lordofspeech 05:24 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
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| I echo your sentiments. All artists should have nice places to live, and she's not responsible for what Harvard does with its theater program. The only show of hers I've seen is Pippin; it didn't match the Fosse original, but I would have thought the piece was unrevivable, and her concept made for a perfectly respectable production. As for the rest of her shows, I can't name a director who hasn't gotten a variety of pro and con judgements on this very board; in this art, in the end, it's largely a matter of subjective opinion. | |
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| re: At Home with Diane Paulus | |
| Posted by: NYCscribe 10:23 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
| In reply to: re: At Home with Diane Paulus - BigM 09:37 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
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| Diane comes from a family with money. As does Ben Platt. Should we be mad at them for this? | |
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| re: At Home with Diane Paulus | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 01:19 pm EDT 08/14/17 | |
| In reply to: re: At Home with Diane Paulus - NYCscribe 10:23 pm EDT 08/12/17 | |
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| Exactly...it's highly unlikely that Paulus is paying the rent on her UWS townhouse strictly with money earned from her career as a director. In addition to family money, I imagine her husband probably has a job that brings in a nice salary for their family. I know it's gauche to talk about money, but part of me wishes that the writers of these "let's meet these working theatre artists living in fabulous NYC homes" profiles would find a way to mention exactly how these folks pay for their homes and expensive furniture. Something like "A legacy from grandparents helped Mr. Smith and his partner afford to make the move to blah blah blah." I also wondered whether ABC had perhaps given Paulus a discount on her furniture in exchange for being plugged in the article. The other part of me recognizes that it's none of anyone's business how these folks pay for their lives. These profiles are pure fantasy aspiration for those of us without family money who need to pay the bills with what we earn from our work. |
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| Her husband does have an income.... | |
| Posted by: towel 09:42 pm EDT 08/14/17 | |
| In reply to: re: At Home with Diane Paulus - JereNYC 01:19 pm EDT 08/14/17 | |
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| Paulus' husband came up with a name for ART's second performance space. He had a contest and the winning name was "Oberon." According to The Boston Globe "The university owns the Oberon building and takes in the revenues from it, but Weiner owns the trademark to Oberon and is paid a monthly royalty." This is for use of the name. He "wrote" The Donkey Show so he gets royalties from their consistent performances of his show produced by the theatre his wife runs | |
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