| re: Broadway Grosses 2/4 — Box office fumbles by nerly 10% from prior week | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 12:52 am EST 02/07/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Broadway Grosses 2/4 — Box office fumbles by nerly 10% from prior week - CCentero 12:30 pm EST 02/06/18 | |
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| Firstly, you've already walked back from the claim of "moronic vilification campaign", which was indeed an alternative reality, although one that I think you believe. Secondly, when the play was first announced, I simply said that it seemed risky in terms of subject matter. Some people said that they felt it would sell well because of Mark Rylance, and I said that this was certainly possible, and that I would glad to be wrong in my original assessment. I never spoke to the play's quality, nor said it wasn't very good. Meanwhile, you hysterically accused me of trying to trash the play because it was written by a woman, for which you never offered any proof. Thirdly, I've only posted about the show two or three times since it opened. I thought so little of it when I saw it that I didn't even bother to write a review, because it didn't seem worth the effort. Sure, some of my quick posts on the play were dismissive, but writing "it's not much of a play" doesn't strike me as catty nor disrespectful, and I happily engaged in conversation on the play when asked. I wrote that its a strong production, and I explained why I view it as a poorly written play. I also explained that I don't view the concept of it as a jukebox musical as derogatory, because it follows the form of a jukebox show. (The extent to which it is a musical - and they added three songs to it for Broadway - challenges your putting PLAY in all caps). My posting was a few paragraphs that weren't even written to you, and while I'm flattered that you read the whole thing since you hate my writing so much, it's agains hysterical to compare a few paragraphs of writing to the works of Trotsky (though I'm semi-flattered by the comparison). I don't know why some of you feel that anything longer than three sentences is a textbook, but that's on y'all. And, hey, if you don't want to debate, then don't bring up the subject. You invited this thread, not me. Fourthly, you don't know anything about my bosses, so that's another absurd statement. I don't know why it rankles you so much that I work in this business, nor why you need to criticize my work and passive aggressively imply that I'm lying about my job. I do think that if you knew much about my realm of the theater world, you'd know that we all make our best guesses at what our audiences want to see, and we're often surprised by what they do or don't respond to. I never staked my reputation on whether "Farinelli" would sell tickets. In any event, it's not my job to pick which plays or musicals should come over from the West End (though I do think "Everybody's Talking About Jamie" is one good rewrite and a new set design away from a successful New York run), and I've never claimed otherwise. |
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