Side Show Returns to NY in New Off-Bway Production
Side Show Returns to NY in New Off-Bway Production
#0Side Show Returns to NY in New Off-Bway Production
Posted: 8/14/06 at 2:35pm
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"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Updated On: 8/14/06 at 02:35 PM
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
workmanarts
Understudy Joined: 2/28/05
#1re: Side Show Returns to NY in New Off-Bway Production
Posted: 8/14/06 at 2:43pmSave the time and effort....Ive seen this director's work in LA before...its not good, to say the least.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#2re: Side Show Returns to NY in New Off-Bway Production
Posted: 8/14/06 at 2:47pmSave the time and effort...I've seen this show on Broadway...it's not good to say the least.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#3re: Side Show Returns to NY in New Off-Bway Production
Posted: 8/14/06 at 2:49pmawwwwwww...i'm kind of curious...could it really be THAT bad?
workmanarts
Understudy Joined: 2/28/05
#4re: Side Show Returns to NY in New Off-Bway Production
Posted: 8/14/06 at 2:54pmOh yes, oh yes....if you'd have seen his Merrily We Roll Along out here.....you could believe it.......save the time......
#5re: Side Show Returns to NY in New Off-Bway Production
Posted: 8/14/06 at 3:00pmI may get roasted for saying this since folks here seem to love this show, but I hated it. It did seem to have a love-it-or-hate-it feel in the audience. We (and others) applauded politely at the end of the show, while some folks leaped out their seats with tears streaming down their cheeks.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#6re: Side Show Returns to NY in New Off-Bway Production
Posted: 8/14/06 at 3:53pmWell I will be at one of the performances regardless! I love Side Show and so I will be getting tix to this production. Especially since it is so close to home!
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#7re: Side Show Returns to NY in New Off-Bway Production
Posted: 8/14/06 at 4:40pmI am so seeing this because Side Show is such an amazing show.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#8re: Side Show Returns to NY in New Off-Bway Production
Posted: 8/14/06 at 4:42pmis there any nudity involved?
andyf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#9re: Side Show Returns to NY in New Off-Bway Production
Posted: 8/14/06 at 5:28pm
Oh yes, oh yes....if you'd have seen his Merrily We Roll Along out here.....you could believe it.......save the time......
Are you talking about that God-awful production of Merrily a little while ago that charged $50 per ticket and was supposed to be getting in trouble for it, since it was - I believe - a non-Equity and just really TERRIBLE production? I think it was at that really small space on 45th where they usually host the "At This Performance..." concerts?
If so, I just might have to see this.
If it's going to be anything like that Merrily it should be quite the sh*tshow.
Andrew, tonight isn't about you! It isn't even about me!!! - [FD]
Updated On: 8/14/06 at 05:28 PM
#10re: Side Show Returns to NY in New Off-Bway Production
Posted: 8/14/06 at 5:52pm
oh. my. lord.
PLEASE let this show die peacfully.
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#11re: Side Show Returns to NY in New Off-Bway Production
Posted: 8/14/06 at 6:08pmSide Show was a musical that deserved a better fate. Great score & great show
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touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#12re: Side Show Returns to NY in New Off-Bway Production
Posted: 8/14/06 at 7:37pm
The show may not have the most clever lyrics, but it does tackle some big issues with some serious effect. I agree that the lyrics are more off than they are on, but the themes explored outweigh all that.
I'll be seeing this show. Mekenian is a very young director, and should be supported by his community -- not ridiculed by his peers.
"Fundamentalism means never having to say 'I'm wrong.'"
-- unknown
workmanarts
Understudy Joined: 2/28/05
#13re: Side Show Returns to NY in New Off-Bway Production
Posted: 8/15/06 at 1:22pm
No it was a MWRA in Los Angeles, that was close to painful...very close.
And no one is ridiculing young Mekenian...but expressing a personal opinion, with enough proof to back up and support.....
#14re: Side Show Returns to NY in New Off-Bway Production
Posted: 8/15/06 at 2:09pm
is there any nudity involved?
Well, I hear there is a lot of girl-on-girl action. 
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Updated On: 8/15/06 at 02:09 PM
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#15re: Side Show Returns to NY in New Off-Bway Production
Posted: 8/15/06 at 2:13pmThe score is fantastic!! I wish it was done more regionally.
#16re: Side Show Returns to NY in New Off-Bway Production
Posted: 8/15/06 at 2:24pmI have always loved this show.
"The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love." -Little Fish
#17re: Side Show Returns to NY in New Off-Bway Production
Posted: 8/28/06 at 11:09am
Just wanted to bump the thread and see who's coming! We had an all-day rehearsal/runthrough yesterday (first time the full orchestra and cast were together), and I think you guys are REALLY going to enjoy the production.
The cast is quite good, particularly our Jake...during "You Should Be Loved", I could barely play, I was crying so much. He also tears the ROOF off the place during "The Devil You Know".
Hope to see some of you there!
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Julia: Pardon me, I never knew they were so solicitous at the K-Mart.
touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#18re: Side Show Returns to NY in New Off-Bway Production
Posted: 8/28/06 at 11:14pmThanks for the insider report, Jailyard. I'm glad to hear the cast is good. You never know what to expect when seeing a one weekend run show.
"Fundamentalism means never having to say 'I'm wrong.'"
-- unknown
#19re: Side Show Returns to NY in New Off-Bway Production
Posted: 8/28/06 at 11:22pmI have a friend in the show. I'll be there the 31st!
#20re: Side Show Returns to NY in New Off-Bway Production
Posted: 8/28/06 at 11:57pmI'll be there Thursday too...I *love* Side Show and I am excited to finally see the show live.
TheEnchantedHunter
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/27/05
#21re: Side Show Returns to NY in New Off-Bway Production
Posted: 8/29/06 at 12:24am
Take a turd, spray it with Chanel Number 5, enclose it in a velvet-lined box, wrap it up in exquisite Florentine paper, tie it up with gold leaf-embossed ribbon, and place it on a throne, and you know what?
It's still a turd.
Catherine Sloper
Washington Square, New York
#22re: Side Show Returns to NY in New Off-Bway Production
Posted: 8/29/06 at 12:27amWow. I happen to think SIDE SHOW is an excellent musical...to each his own.
#23re: Side Show Returns to NY in New Off-Bway Production
Posted: 8/29/06 at 12:41amI'm so excited this score is so much fun, I'll be there the 31st.
So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.~Office Space
touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#24re: Side Show Returns to NY in New Off-Bway Production
Posted: 8/29/06 at 9:53am
Besides some obvious inconsistent lyric writing (some of the lyrics are beautiful and others are really forced into rhymes), this score and show are beautiful.
And, from what I've heard, this young cast is really knock your socks off. I'm excited about this.
"Fundamentalism means never having to say 'I'm wrong.'"
-- unknown
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