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Mostly Broadway and Movie relatedly ranting. Not too interesting, I suppose.
The only thing I really meant to talk about I suppose, is some Broadway thoughts. I hate how every show is based on a movie nowadays. I know, everything, is based on everything. But still, there was a time with more originality than this, wasn't there? It's depressing because I love theatre and I still somehow, hope to be making my living doing it. I know that's not realistic and I know I have to figure out something better with money soon (my money situation isn't as bad as it could be, but honey, it's not great.) but I'm not going to give up loving that.
That said: I saw two movie based musicals in the past few months and yes, I do enjoy them thoroughly.
Young Frankenstein was hilarious. Sutton Foster is the goddess of Broadway and Roger Bart, Andrea Martin and Megan Mullaly all hammed it up wonderfully. Christopher Fitzgerald was adorable. (He was the original Boq!) I cheered for him above everyone, damn it all. The songs were excellent and everything was done very well. However, the jokes were almost exactly the same as the ones in the movie. Still funny, mind you but...it would have been a lot funnier if I hadn't seen the movie.
Cry-Baby, however, was not very much like the movie it was based on at all. And I respect it for that. Again, it was the supporting actors I adored most of all...particularly Alli Mauzey as Lenora. Screw Loose was the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. I'd love to play that role. (I think Kim would be good as Allison...this is my imagined production of Cry-Baby. Laura, Jeanne and...someone... can be the awesome gang of girl drapes. Cry-Baby can be ummm...Johnny Depp? Again?)
Anyway, Young Frankenstein may have been funnier but the humor in Cry-Baby was much fresher and I really appreciated that. I hope it does well. It's not perfect but it definitely got it's moments.
I also hated how Megan Mullaly got the second to last bow in Young Frankenstein even though she was one of the smaller parts and certainly much smaller than Sutton's part. Honestly, I watched Will & Grace too but she needs to get over herself.
No one really cares about any of this, do they?
I need some new icons but I hate throwing anything away, even digitally.
You know the movie that's coming out starring Patrick Dempsey? Made of Honor? That looks like the stupidest thing ever. I kind of hate you McDreamy. Maybe I always did. The only way the movie could be good is if it secretly has the exact same ending as Bender's Big Score.
Maybe I'm being too judgemental.
IIt's just that f I had a one and only best friend who was male and I was getting married he could be my freaking Best Man. Or whatever he freaking wanted. Who the hell cares? Honestly. As long as he didn't try to say, sabotage my wedding.
I don't really hate this movie that much. I've never seen it. But I see the ad every day as well as the ads for all the broadway shows and the big tv shows coming out and the movies currently playing and uhhhh....
Seriously, writer's strike's over guys. We can go back to writing now. Oh. We stopped twenty years ago, huh? Oh, okay. Carry on, then.
But I'm not great either. I have so little motivation and word doesn't even work on my computer. In taking notes on the first read through of Sweet Prince on thursday I wrote to myself "This play is too talky. Someone tell the writer." Everyone in the room seemed alarmed at my self deprecation there but really, it kind of is. I'm too talky, is the problem. And how do you even reflect on Hamlet without being that way. It is cool to see things that I wrote more than a year ago finally being read though. It's weird to see, behind all my weirdness that one or two things...actually work. They still work. And I'm happy and feel great about myself.
And then I remember how much money I make, how little I write, how confused I am about where I'm going to be even a month from now and how I keep loosing my metro card.
Ah, well. Gotta think positive.
Well, that turned out to be more than I thought it would be. Yay?
The only thing I really meant to talk about I suppose, is some Broadway thoughts. I hate how every show is based on a movie nowadays. I know, everything, is based on everything. But still, there was a time with more originality than this, wasn't there? It's depressing because I love theatre and I still somehow, hope to be making my living doing it. I know that's not realistic and I know I have to figure out something better with money soon (my money situation isn't as bad as it could be, but honey, it's not great.) but I'm not going to give up loving that.
That said: I saw two movie based musicals in the past few months and yes, I do enjoy them thoroughly.
Young Frankenstein was hilarious. Sutton Foster is the goddess of Broadway and Roger Bart, Andrea Martin and Megan Mullaly all hammed it up wonderfully. Christopher Fitzgerald was adorable. (He was the original Boq!) I cheered for him above everyone, damn it all. The songs were excellent and everything was done very well. However, the jokes were almost exactly the same as the ones in the movie. Still funny, mind you but...it would have been a lot funnier if I hadn't seen the movie.
Cry-Baby, however, was not very much like the movie it was based on at all. And I respect it for that. Again, it was the supporting actors I adored most of all...particularly Alli Mauzey as Lenora. Screw Loose was the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. I'd love to play that role. (I think Kim would be good as Allison...this is my imagined production of Cry-Baby. Laura, Jeanne and...someone... can be the awesome gang of girl drapes. Cry-Baby can be ummm...Johnny Depp? Again?)
Anyway, Young Frankenstein may have been funnier but the humor in Cry-Baby was much fresher and I really appreciated that. I hope it does well. It's not perfect but it definitely got it's moments.
I also hated how Megan Mullaly got the second to last bow in Young Frankenstein even though she was one of the smaller parts and certainly much smaller than Sutton's part. Honestly, I watched Will & Grace too but she needs to get over herself.
No one really cares about any of this, do they?
I need some new icons but I hate throwing anything away, even digitally.
You know the movie that's coming out starring Patrick Dempsey? Made of Honor? That looks like the stupidest thing ever. I kind of hate you McDreamy. Maybe I always did. The only way the movie could be good is if it secretly has the exact same ending as Bender's Big Score.
Maybe I'm being too judgemental.
IIt's just that f I had a one and only best friend who was male and I was getting married he could be my freaking Best Man. Or whatever he freaking wanted. Who the hell cares? Honestly. As long as he didn't try to say, sabotage my wedding.
I don't really hate this movie that much. I've never seen it. But I see the ad every day as well as the ads for all the broadway shows and the big tv shows coming out and the movies currently playing and uhhhh....
Seriously, writer's strike's over guys. We can go back to writing now. Oh. We stopped twenty years ago, huh? Oh, okay. Carry on, then.
But I'm not great either. I have so little motivation and word doesn't even work on my computer. In taking notes on the first read through of Sweet Prince on thursday I wrote to myself "This play is too talky. Someone tell the writer." Everyone in the room seemed alarmed at my self deprecation there but really, it kind of is. I'm too talky, is the problem. And how do you even reflect on Hamlet without being that way. It is cool to see things that I wrote more than a year ago finally being read though. It's weird to see, behind all my weirdness that one or two things...actually work. They still work. And I'm happy and feel great about myself.
And then I remember how much money I make, how little I write, how confused I am about where I'm going to be even a month from now and how I keep loosing my metro card.
Ah, well. Gotta think positive.
Well, that turned out to be more than I thought it would be. Yay?