Avenue Q. I think I actually laughed out loud just twice. Anyone who knows me IRL knows (as one friend put it) that I'm a slutty laugher, but I couldn't get into Avenue Q. I even saw it twice to be sure.
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If we're talking things that were meant to be funny, not just things other people find funny...Young Frankenstein. I laughed maybe twice, both times at Andrea Martin.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
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I found both 39 Steps and Boeing B. KIND of cute and funny, but not hugely funny. Coincidentally I was able to see each in both New York and London and I felt the same way after each city.
"The 39 Steps," "Avenue Q," "The Drowsy Chaperone," "Thoroughly Modern Millie," "Shrek," "9 to 5," "November," "Dame Edna," Sandra Bernhard, "The Norman Conquests," "The Play What I Wrote," "How's the World Treating You?," "Laughter on the 23rd Floor."
The excruciating hour and 45 minutes of THE NORMAN CONQUESTS that I was able to stand before I just had to get the hell out of that theatre. All the hilarity of concentration camp footage.
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BOEING BOEING - All that physical shtick was done so much better by John Ritter in Three's Company.
2016 These Paper Bullets (1/02) Our Mother's Brief Affair (1/06), Dragon Boat Racing (1/08), Howard - reading (1/28), Shear Madness (2/10), Fun Home (2/17), Women Without Men (2/18), Trip Of Love (2/21), The First Gentleman -reading (2/22), Southern Comfort (2/23), The Robber Bridegroom (2/24), She Loves Me (3/11), Shuffle Along (4/12), Shear Madness (4/14), Dear Evan Hansen (4/16), American Psycho (4/23), Tuck Everlasting (5/10), Indian Summer (5/15), Peer Gynt (5/18), Broadway's Rising Stars (7/11), Trip of Love (7/27), CATS (7/31), The Layover (8/17), An Act Of God (8/31), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (8/24), Heisenberg (10/12), Fiddler On The Roof (11/02), Othello (11/23), Dear Evan Hansen (11/26), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (12/21) 2017 In Transit (2/01), Groundhog Day (4/04), Ring Twice For Miranda (4/07), Church And State (4/10), The Lucky One (4/19), Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (5/16), Building The Wall (5/19), Indecent (6/01), Six Degrees of Separation (6/09), Marvin's Room (6/28), A Doll's House Pt 2 (7/25) Curvy Widow (8/01)
I L-O-V-E Hairspray. As a whole, I think it is an excellent show...but I only laughed out loud 3 or 4 times. It really isn't that funny.
"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas." -Danmeg's 10 year old son.
The Producers. One of the most unfunny, painfully excruciating evenings ever spent at the theater. 2 hours and 45 minutes of Nathan Lane hamming it up while Matthew Broderick sheepishly looks on trying to be the "straight man" to a house full of people determined to make the $300 they spent on each ticket worth the price, all the while listening to a score that can burn in hell, does not make for an enjoyable theatrical experience.
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I chose, and my world was shaken- So what? The choice may have been mistaken,
The choosing was not...
"Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
"And when Idina Menzel is singing, I'm always slightly worried that her teeth are going to jump out of her mouth and chase me." - Schmerg_the_Impaler
I thought I was the only one who hated 39 STEPS. Thank God I'm not alone. What a waste of time and props.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/