Lempicka vs. Suffs: Which will close first?
THEATRE GOSSIP #556: The Bring in 'da Funk, Bring in 'da Illinoise Edition
by Anonymous | reply 50 | April 28, 2024 12:08 AM |
Well, we'll be ready when the current one closes in about a week.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 20, 2024 12:33 PM |
Thread closed—until 555 is finished.
Foolish Op
by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 20, 2024 12:56 PM |
I forgot this extra #556 existed, so I created a new thread #557. Here's the link.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 5, 2024 12:39 PM |
I like this thread. I like this thread title (thank you, OP!). I'm staying right here.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 5, 2024 1:03 PM |
Water for Elephants, Lempicka, Suffs, Gatsby, Hughey Lewis and the Newsies
They will all be closed by Labor Day. I'm probably forgetting a few others.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 5, 2024 1:05 PM |
Hell's Kitchen?
by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 5, 2024 1:16 PM |
Hell's Kitchen will close after the Christmas holidays.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 5, 2024 1:35 PM |
What? Where will all the gays cruise for dick?
What about the rats? Has anyone thought about the rats?!
by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 5, 2024 2:21 PM |
[quote]Hell's Kitchen will close after the Christmas holidays.
But, I made reservations.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | April 5, 2024 3:15 PM |
Where is everybody?
by Anonymous | reply 11 | April 6, 2024 12:44 PM |
Here.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | April 6, 2024 12:49 PM |
They skipped a thread—due to overzealous thread creators…🤷🏻♂️
by Anonymous | reply 14 | April 6, 2024 3:04 PM |
I'm not sure that a thread was "skipped." I explained above that I had created a new thread #557 because I had forgotten that there had been two threads #556 created. I hope I can be forgiven for forgetting this thread, as it was created weeks ago and no one was using it, everyone was using the other #556.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | April 6, 2024 3:45 PM |
Not forgiven. You’ve caused great consternation.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | April 6, 2024 4:03 PM |
Read between the lines, R16. (I'm holding up my three middle fingers at the moment.)
by Anonymous | reply 17 | April 6, 2024 4:41 PM |
Can you uncurl them despite the arthritis?
by Anonymous | reply 18 | April 21, 2024 3:49 PM |
Are returning to this thread or will there be a new one
by Anonymous | reply 19 | April 25, 2024 1:26 AM |
Is this the new thread?
by Anonymous | reply 20 | April 25, 2024 1:30 AM |
I expect when The Motive and the Cue arrives on Broadway it will be with some fabulously beautiful American actress to play Elizabeth Taylor. Not Pippa Middleton. I do hope both Mark Ga(y)tiss and Johnny Flynn are permitted by Equity to make the transfer.
Who should play Liz??
by Anonymous | reply 21 | April 25, 2024 1:47 AM |
How are the reviews for UNCLE VANYA, opening tonight?
by Anonymous | reply 22 | April 25, 2024 1:48 AM |
Gabby Beans IS Elizabeth Taylor!
by Anonymous | reply 23 | April 25, 2024 1:49 AM |
Thrilled to hear “The Motive and the Cue” is reportedly heading to Broadway, but with the glut of shows now, I can’t imagine it will come soon. I can’t imagine any actors but Gatiss and Flynn in the leads.
I didn’t think Middleton was terrible as Elizabeth Taylor. She wasn’t beautiful enough, but who would be? And frankly I can’t think of an American actress in her early 30s that would be better. Or even as good.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | April 25, 2024 1:55 AM |
Anyone here seen the Brian Cox/Patricia Clarkson "Long Day's Journey into Night" in the West End?
by Anonymous | reply 25 | April 25, 2024 2:09 AM |
"The Motive and The Cue" is the poster child for Goldman's definition of a "snob hit." I'm so tired of all this Brit tripe.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | April 25, 2024 2:11 AM |
Funny, I was going to say the same thing about "Patriots," and "Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club." Although in the later's case, it seems to be aligning with Goldman's writeup on "George M!"
by Anonymous | reply 27 | April 25, 2024 2:19 AM |
Controversial opinion? I'd be okay with us filling up this thread over the next week, up until the Tony nominations announcement and then having that be what sparks the #559 thread.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | April 25, 2024 2:21 AM |
Jesse Green mistakenly includes George C. Scott as one of the famous actors who've played Vanya in Broadway revivals. While Scott was indeed in the famous Mike Nichols 1973 Circle-in-the-Square revival, he played Dr. Astrov. And I'm not sure Jesse got a couple of the other actors right either.....did Sir Ralph Richardson really play Vanya and not Astrov in another revival?
For shame, Jesse! For shame, NY Times!!
by Anonymous | reply 31 | April 25, 2024 2:32 AM |
Green is mixed but The Post and Vulture are more negative on VANYA.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | April 25, 2024 2:33 AM |
Did the last poster in the last thread really try to rhyme “Lempicka” and ”stinka”??
by Anonymous | reply 33 | April 25, 2024 2:50 AM |
Let’s not do this thread and actually use # 559. It makes more sense.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | April 25, 2024 2:52 AM |
r33 I don't see the problem
by Anonymous | reply 35 | April 25, 2024 2:53 AM |
[quote]Jesse Green mistakenly includes George C. Scott as one of the famous actors who've played Vanya in Broadway revivals. While Scott was indeed in the famous Mike Nichols 1973 Circle-in-the-Square revival, he played Dr. Astrov. And I'm not sure Jesse got a couple of the other actors right either.....did Sir Ralph Richardson really play Vanya and not Astrov in another revival?
Someone has corrected Green in the comments section re George C, Scott. Ralph Richardson did play Vanya to Olivier's Astrov on Broadway in 1946. Margaret Leighton was Yelena. Great cast.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | April 25, 2024 5:28 AM |
[quote]r24 I didn’t think Middleton was terrible as Elizabeth Taylor… frankly I can’t think of an American actress in her early 30s that would be better. Or even as good.
Was Liz in a portly period?
Because, Beanie… ?
by Anonymous | reply 37 | April 25, 2024 6:04 AM |
[quote]Did the last poster in the last thread really try to rhyme “Lempicka” and ”stinka”??
Yes, I did! Ya wanna make something of it?
by Anonymous | reply 38 | April 25, 2024 7:09 PM |
R26 — I love “snob hits” from London. There’s enough on Broadway now to please most theatergoers except for those middlebrow, well-written plays that used to be the staple of Broadway. You don’t like it, don’t go. I will be.
R37 — Liz may have had a few extra pounds in her “The V.I.P.s” period, but she still had a defined waist. She didn’t become Beanie-like until her marriage to Senator John Warner in the ‘70s.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | April 25, 2024 7:25 PM |
I literally cannot think of a single American stage actress who could convincingly play Elizabeth Taylor in The Motive and the Cue on Broadway. She'd be about 30 at the time of the play's events and fresh off of filming Cleopatra.
Honestly, no one has that kind of voluptuous and unearthly beauty any more. Carla Gugino comes closest but she'd be too old now.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | April 25, 2024 10:30 PM |
This is a far superior thread and I'm bumping it now.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | April 26, 2024 12:37 AM |
Looks like Jessica Lange will be taking home a Tony this year.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | April 26, 2024 1:44 AM |
Orlando? Danza? Yazbeck?
by Anonymous | reply 43 | April 26, 2024 2:16 AM |
Robert Alda had such a beautiful voice. Unlike his squawking son.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | April 27, 2024 11:06 PM |
Alan Alda sounds just fine on the OBC of The Apple Tree—not as strong as his dad, but, in general, a better actor. His dad was known, before Guys and Dolls, primarily as a “tit singer”—the singer who “legitimized” the presence of topless women onstage in burlesque shows. (He also played Heorge Gershwin in the film “Rhapsody in Blue.”)
by Anonymous | reply 48 | April 27, 2024 11:15 PM |
[quote](He also played Heorge Gershwin in the film “Rhapsody in Blue.”)
Herb Rudley of "The Mothers-in-Law" played his brother Hira Gershwin.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | April 27, 2024 11:43 PM |
Stand up and take a bow, Hira!
by Anonymous | reply 50 | April 28, 2024 12:08 AM |