Showing posts with label Playbill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Playbill. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

God, I hope you get these

Bendy people try to stand out so they can dance like clones.

The way you do your hair is a metaphor for the idea that it doesn't matter what you look like.

A group of women with 50 years of age differences who've never worked together and who've probably never even met somehow simultaneously remember the choreography and staging to a generations-old song. Oh, and something about a coffee cup.

All the neighbors' cats disappeared so ...

Dude can't commit.

Mom makes too many sandwiches and moves out.

Dude dots Dot, dies.

Cats with stupid names pretty much do nothing.

Pray for a tech malfunction if you want to see some dicks at the end.

Six boobs and a garage-door opener.

Tons and tons of plotlines about French people--half of whom are poor and uneducated--who for some reason all sing in perfect English.

Dancing guys in tight jeans take a stab at cultural harmony.

Slinky Fosse choreography makes the plot irrelevant.

Drag queens overcome adversity and teach everyone a valuable lesson about discrimination and tolerance.

Then, 40 years later, the exact same plot happens again.

Tuesday, May 01, 2018

Two days until my Big Birthday Broadway Binge Bash!

I'm glad I listened to the buzz, followed my show-tune-loving heart and bought my tickets early, because the Tony nominations came out this morning and I freaking SCORED on tickets that will for the foreseeable show-tune-loving future be impossible to get.

To wit:SpongeBob Squarepants: 12 Tony nominations!
Mean Girls: 12 Tony nominations!
Frozen: 3 Tony nominations!
The Boys in the Band: 0 Tony nominations, but it's about gay people and gay people are gross and besides even though "band" is CLEARLY in the title it's not a musical and why the hell would anyone do a show about gross gay people that isn't a musical?

I still have room for one more show, which I plan on letting the vicissitudes of TKTS decide for me. I'm interested in seeing Lobby Hero (3 Tony nominations!), Hello, Dolly! (Bernadette Peters!), Waitress (Katharine McPhee! Because I have a weird gay crush on her!), Dear Evan Hansen (Better late than never!), The Iceman Cometh (Kidding! Hate that show!), or anything any trusted friend or stranger recommends.
But hurry--recommendations are being accepted only until Thursday night when I stand before the oracles of the TKTS ticket booth. So throw them at me!

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