THEATRE GOSSIP #500: FOLLIES and Other DL Faves Over the Years or, There's Gotta Be Something Better than that other thread!

We're Still HEEEEEERE!

Well, OP...it's something.

Please use this other lamely named but earlier one. Having two is a disaster.

Please.

The Museum of Broadway will open on Nov 15. Tickets are $39 and $49.

Will I see you in the Merman Room, the Prince Room or the Sondheim room?

It has to be better than the Academy of Motion Pictures Museum.

I hope there's a Gwen Verdon Room, too!

501

Here we are world!

This theatre thread is still around if you aren't in a hurry to get to stupid Reba, or if you want to annoy that thread-starter for starting one so early.

R10 is a petty cunt

r10 is just telling it like it is, r11.

GO WOKE, GO BROKE.

Politics and showtunes...

Politics and poker...

Maybe a still hopeful "You're Gonna Love Tomorrow" might be in view? Repubs didn't do as well as they and the press and all those polls were saying.

"Come to me, bend to me" as they sing in "Brigadoon" before you venture over to silly Reba.

Let’s finish this thread before that Reba one, just to piss off that douchebag that started it. Hehehehe

Let’s just post in whatever conversation we want to, and ignore the babies who are using these threads to masturbate their egos.

Let's have more threads where we talk about how many threads we have.

Let's talk about...Threads

Sure, let's talk about furnishing a bed in restaurants...covered by luxurious sheets with a 600 thread count

Or, we could talk about Flings -- here's the Thelma Ritter, Tony-winning (tied with Gwen Verdon) kind:

The other 500 is filling up.

Both of the other 500s are full. It's this or (eventually) the Reba thread.

This thread has 25 posts and 14 mentions of the word ‘thread’

Miss Runolfsson

Happy to put off Reba for as long as we can.

Maybe some Charlotte Greenwood would help...

Carmen Miranda and Charlotte Greenwood enlivened many a 20th Century Fox spectacular, alongside the likes of Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Don Ameche and DL fave John Payne. Actually the Fox musicals, for years relatively hard to see, are more down to earth and sometimes more enjoyable than the more readily available and re-shown MGM musicals. Fox certainly had wonderful Technicolor.

Charlotte was in the legitimate theatre...

All those other stars worked in the theatre as well.

More Charlotte Greenwood.

This was just on...

NY, NY

Miss Tonya

MARILYN

A post from Michael Misita on the FB Broadway Remembered group:

A Katharine Hepburn story!

While we were performing in the Broadway hit "APPLAUSE" which starred Lauren "Betty" Bacall, Katharine Hepburn was starring in the Broadway show "COCO", a show about Coco Chanel. One night when we were "on" and her show was dark we were all excited because we knew Miss Hepburn was coming to see the show. Betty Bacall and Ms. Hepburn were of course friends from their Hollywood days. The show started and there she was, on the aisle in the front row. She had her feet tucked under her, arms wrapped around her legs, chin on knees, wearing, (naturally), pants and scarf. She stayed in that position for the entire show with a rather stern look on her face. She never applauded, and never moved.

After the show I was in Bacall's dressing room with two other cast members (hoping to meet Hepburn of course) when Miss Hepburn came in. After introducing us Betty asked her, "So how did you like the show?" All Hepburn said was, "Full. Very full." and left. The three of us were confused and just looked to Betty who rolled her eyes and laughed. I told her I didn't understand what she meant by "full." Bacall explained to us that her show "COCO" wasn't selling as many tickets as APPLAUSE and Hepburn had come over, not so much to see her, but to see why we were selling out houses. Later while Bacall and I were in the wings waiting to go on I mentioned the incident. Bacall said that Katharine told her that she didn't care for the show and found it "daft, and uninspiring" and couldn't understand why we were doing so well.

So you know most everyone is here at #502 now. YOu're welcome to come there

Here it's peaceful, r39, here it's serene...

This thread could use a little Trixie Fraganza...

Gina!

Merrily...