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By: Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Top 10 Things for Conservatives to Look for in the Upcoming Broadway Season

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:25:31 +0000

[...] as last season brought a record number of plays as well as stellar gross sales (despite doom-sayers in the industry) this season already looks locked and loaded with a huge [...]

By: Bill_Brandt

Bill_Brandt — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:48:52 +0000

I read one explanation to this slang that I didn't need to read – and not on your list. 'Nuff said

By: Bill_Brandt

Bill_Brandt — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:46:37 +0000

The Producers was a film in 1968 that seemed to go under the radar – only made a play 30 some years later – The Lion King another movie -> play can't think of too many others – most of the time like South Pacific or Oklahoma it is the other way around. Phantom of the Opera bombed at the box office if I am not mistaken but the play still goes on after many years…

By: tublecane

tublecane — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:05:04 +0000

"the film that became a hit play that became a hit movie"

That should be the film about a hit play that became a hit play that became a film that bombed at the box office.

By: cassandra

cassandra — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:01:49 +0000

I believe the spelling is "pantywaist", not "waste".

However, the label is apt:

1 [Historical] a child's two-piece undergarment that buttoned together at the waist
2 [Slang] a man or youth considered as like a child in lacking strength, courage, etc.; sissy

By: Bill_Brandt

Bill_Brandt — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:14:25 +0000

Just to add a few things guys – I have regularly attended my town's plays – named appropriately the 'Broadway Series" – and the theater is usually sold out or nearly sold out each year. Seen everything from 12 Angry Men to Mama Mia. To me if you are an actor the Theater is the top of the food chain – forgot all those re shoots for those movie people – you and the audience are there live – and there have been a few times where an actor flubs a line (I remember years ago in SF watching Showboat with Donald O'Connor and he flubbed a line – Donald O"Connor – and the audience was sympathetic with him and cheered him on. Like Yul Bryner and the King and I O'Connor owned Showboat.

If you are ever traveling our scenic Hwy 49 – along the foothills of the western Sierras – and stop at our state park Columbia – you have to see a play at the historic Fallon Theater. Columbia is a gold rush version of colonial Williamsburg and the scene of some movies like High Noon.

Anyway the local people host actors from all over the west coast who appear here. The theater is as it was pretty much in 1860 and you feel like at the end everyone should take their 6 shooters and fire into the ceiling

We've seen in past years (my car club) South Pacific, Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat and (appropriately for Columbia) Paint Your Wagon.

We're going Aug 1 for Damn Yankees.

By: jaciscully

jaciscully — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:39:22 +0000

Wow, I love that sketch. I don't really watch SNL (just never did, not as a statement or anything) but that made me laugh.

You are an oracle, Mr. Right. Good to have you on our side. It's like anything else economy-related – it's cyclical. Pretty sure EVERYONE was hitting a slump there for a while, or are going through a slump, or are about to, but then it cycles back around and sales pick up again.

By: JamesArmstrong

JamesArmstrong — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:14:44 +0000

Good point. Then again, I'm pretty sure people pretend to "get" Warhol's crap to seem "artistic" or "sophisticated".

By: kadaka

kadaka — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:04:10 +0000

Not if they are wildly successful sellouts, then they are artists. Andy Warhol was an artist, for example.

By: JamesArmstrong

JamesArmstrong — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:53:06 +0000

Oh, didn't you know? Artists that make money are called "Sellouts". It can't be art if the majority of people like it.