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| re: Question re TDF seating | |
| Posted by: stan 05:03 pm EST 11/23/22 | |
| In reply to: Question re TDF seating - dramamina 04:24 pm EST 11/23/22 | |
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| Many theaters have an envelope with your name on it and your tickets inside. Others peel off your tickets from a pile. Of course the order of the pile could be best to worst or the best were printed first and are on the bottom. Maybe some chatterati have worked in a box office. I usually pick up my seats about a 1/2 hour early since that's when the theater opens and I can go right in. I know you're not suppose to ask for a different seat. | |
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| re: Question re TDF seating | |
| Posted by: huskyital (huskyital@yahoo.com) 10:23 am EST 11/24/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Question re TDF seating - stan 05:03 pm EST 11/23/22 | |
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| Usually the tickets have been polled already but yesterday I asked at the box office and the house manager gave me an orchestra seat Rowe H due to my neuropathy. I have to be in the minority about some like it hot. Osgood and sweet Sue were the standouts and the play really doesn't get that funny until Osgood appears. There are three rousing numbers in a very pleasant score. Sugar has none of the original character who is a vulnerable ditzy girl. Christian Borlein the Tony Curtis role is quite ugly as a woman and really not all that dashing as a man and has a little chemistry with sugar. The two male leads make no attempt to lower the voices or to really look like women. Billy Wilder made two other great films Sunset Boulevard and the apartment and I think that the musicals based on them were more successful. I told the young man next to me that he really needs to see the movie as it is probably the funniest film of all time. This musical pales in comparison. | |
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| Some other Billy Wilder films | |
| Last Edit: AlanScott 11:42 pm EST 11/24/22 | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 11:40 pm EST 11/24/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Question re TDF seating - huskyital 10:23 am EST 11/24/22 | |
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| Some other films directed by Billy Wilder: Double Indemnity, Ball of Fire, Witness for the Prosecution, Sabrina, Ace in the Hole, A Foreign Affair, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, One Two Three, Stalag 17, Love in the Afternoon . . . |
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| Apropos of Wilder and Some Like It Hot | |
| Posted by: stevemr 02:32 pm EST 11/25/22 | |
| In reply to: Some other Billy Wilder films - AlanScott 11:40 pm EST 11/24/22 | |
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| Wilder has one of the all time great gravestones (rivalled perhaps by Jack Lemmon's -- google it) | |
| Link | Billy Wilder's Gravestone |
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| re: Some other Billy Wilder films | |
| Posted by: BobPlak 11:45 am EST 11/25/22 | |
| In reply to: Some other Billy Wilder films - AlanScott 11:40 pm EST 11/24/22 | |
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| This reminds me of something Jack Lemmon said in an interview on the old CNN Larry King show. King asked him why Billy Wilder didn't direct him and Walter Matthau in The Odd Couple and Lemmon replied, "Oh, Billy would never adapt a play. He only wanted to direct his own original screenplays." Billy Wilder directed the following: Stalag 17 Sabrina The Seven Year Itch Witness for the Prosecution One, Two, Three Irma la Douce Avanti! The Front Page ... all based on plays! Lemmon was in the last three of them! I wonder how much we read and hear is just not true. It's a depressing amount, even outside of politicians. |
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| re: "I told the young man next to me that he really needs to see the movie" | |
| Posted by: Dale 10:06 pm EST 11/24/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Question re TDF seating - huskyital 10:23 am EST 11/24/22 | |
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| Was chatting with two women at intermission of "A Beautiful Noise" who they had seen "Some Like It Hot" the prior night and when I mentioned it was one of my top ten favorite movies one stated "I've never seen it!". My knees buckled like I was Ray Bolger! Then her friend asked "Who in it?". Unbuckling I stated "Marilyn Monroe" adding "And Jack Lemmon got an Oscar nomination". I had ran into Marc Shaiman on the subway after we both left Hal Prince's memorial asking him what he was working on so when he told me I quoted "So the one legged jockey said DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME, BABY! I RIDE SIDE SADDLE" to which he gave me a big wide stare! |
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