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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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