Whoopi Goldberg in "Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" in 1997. The whole Jerry Zaks pacing of the show missed the point that old-time vaudeville and schtick jokes need to be ACTED, not just raced through. What a lead-pipe-to-the-head production that was.
"I don't know if it was Laura Bell Bundy's acting choices, or if she was told to do them, but she made Elle come off very obnoxious."
Marianne2: My problem with her is that she's somewhat goofy-looking, as is her voice. It's especially evident on the DVD, where you get a lot of unflattering close-ups. She just doesn't scream Beverly Hills princess. I thought her blonde sorority sister had the better look (and speaking voice) for Elle.
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Spamalot was another one I just didn't "get". Didn't laugh once. Saw it with the original cast, so it was a thrill of course to see such great performers onstage, but the material was so awful for me.
Title of Show. I've never before seen a show try so hard, and fail so miserably, to create a punchline and land a laugh. Absolutely one of the least funny shows I've ever seen - and I'm plenty "insider" enough to not have had the jokes fly over my head, thankyouverymuch.
Wicked - The actual lines aren't funny to me, and the real cheesy ones make me cringe, but if the performers are good and funny enough to make a certain line work, then I'll laugh. (Examples: The catfight scene, when Elphaba is yelling at Dorothy, "There's no place like home," pretty much any Wizard of Oz reference).
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-Felicia Finley-
I want to give Jordan Catalano a tounge bath for his description of THE PRODUCERS. And I love old-time vaudeville shtick.
I have a very odd sense of humor and the majority of the comedies (or musical comedies) today I am at best only mildly amused by. Some that come to mind are THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED, GOD OF CARNAGE, ALLERGISTS' WIFE and SPELLING BEE (I love William Finn, but thought this show unendurable).
A special case is ENTER LAUGHING at the York last season. It was supposed to be this tuneful funny show, yet aside from the terrific Josh Grisetti, I thought the show deadly. Grisetti's character was supposed to be this adorable Jewish noodnick who wants to be an actor and puts the sucessful make on a number of beautiful women. But as written, the character came across as a slimy and smugly obnoxious creep. I kept hoping that one girl on the recieving end of his leers would have kicked him in the balls. The score is known for "The Butler's Song" an -oh-so-naughty catalogue of sexual references to 1930s Female stars that if you hear it once, it's cute. Hearing it again, it's stale.
"Hurry up and get into your conga clothes - we've got to do something to save this show!"
I love Wicked but I HATED how the audience ate up the crappy dialouge whenever a WoO refrence was made..
(boq getting punch for nessa "melons, berrys, and pears. Oh my!" Or "why did you come back here?" "They say theirs no place like home")
I also really thought it was corny but the audicent loved it when glinda and elphie went to see the wizard and he said "which is witch" and paused and looked at the audience.
I don't get how 'For the first time, I feel WICKED' (or whatever that line is) is funny. I didn't find it funny. Not one bit.
"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.
Jazzy --- I think that line only works if its done right. When I saw the tour, Carmen Cusack said it in a VERY over the top sexual way lol and it got a laugh.
Wicked Tour (2/26/08); Wicked Bway (7/1/08); HAIR (7/1/09); Rock of Ages (7/2/09); Wicked Bway (7/3/09); Mary Poppins Tour (8/2/09); Wicked Tour (11/18/09); Wicked Tour (12/5/09)
But me down for The Producers as well, everything was too forced and overdone.
Also, I didn't find Spelling Bee very funny. Parts here and there made me laugh, but for a show that's supposed to run on its comedic effect, it didn't succeed for me.
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-Neil Patrick Harris
All I heard for quite some time was how funny and touching Spelling Bee was. I went, I saw, I fell asleep for three minutes. I NEVER sleep at the theatre, but that score (some of the clunkiest melodies I've ever heard) combined with POOR direction (when the children became others' parents, I was completely lost (that should NOT happen) led to a sum of terrible.
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