Yooooooou'lll be swell, you'll be great, gonna have the whole world on a plate!

YaYa

so I'm in New York, and more specifically right next to the theatre district!

I plan on seeing one show a night until I leave, and I already did Memphis tonight

I'm not quite sure what else I'll be heading to, but I did have the foresight to get tickets to



, otherwise known as the show that's sold out till like September next year and apparently the best musical of EVER


so let's talk about broadway, and plays, and acting!

Zonugal

This is the thread where Fiz and I just hug forever.

Antimatter

i have doubts of the book of mormon being good but i'd like to be surprised

Goose!

YaYa wrote:

so I'm in New York, and more specifically right next to the theatre district!

I plan on seeing one show a night until I leave, and I already did Memphis tonight

I'm not quite sure what else I'll be heading to, but I did have the foresight to get tickets to



, otherwise known as the show that's sold out till like September next year and apparently the best musical of EVER


so let's talk about broadway, and plays, and acting!

You bastard. My brother wanted tickets for that for his birthday (yesterday).

Last thing I saw was Catch Me if you Can, and it was pretty good.

YaYa

Antimatter wrote:

i have doubts of the book of mormon being good but i'd like to be surprised

it won all the tonys and literally everyone who I have spoken to who has seen it has utterly lost their shit about it

I think they have 'good' covered

undeinPirat

i like plays

i should see a shit ton more

but im the lazy

Artreus

Yeah I have a friend who will not stop talking about all of the Tonys the Book of Mormom has won

Antimatter

YaYa wrote:

Antimatter wrote:

i have doubts of the book of mormon being good but i'd like to be surprised

it won all the tonys and literally everyone who I have spoken to who has seen it has utterly lost their shit about it

I think they have 'good' covered

i just have trouble believing something by stone and parker could be that good

HellaJeff

I am the most musical dude who has seen little to no musicals.

Zonugal

Last play I saw was UrineTown with the most recent production was a one-act theater festival.

YaYa

Antimatter wrote:

YaYa wrote:

Antimatter wrote:

i have doubts of the book of mormon being good but i'd like to be surprised

it won all the tonys and literally everyone who I have spoken to who has seen it has utterly lost their shit about it

I think they have 'good' covered

i just have trouble believing something by stone and parker could be that good

fair enough, but I do maintain that the South Park movie is one of the best movie musicals ever made, so I may be in touch with their brand of Broadway

Butters

Wanted to find time for Mormon some time this Summer so badly but it's really not looking like it will pan out.

Sucks double because I actually know one of the Tony nominees. Rory O'Malley is from Cleveland was in my parish's youth group.

Shock G

Antimatter wrote:

YaYa wrote:

Antimatter wrote:

i have doubts of the book of mormon being good but i'd like to be surprised

it won all the tonys and literally everyone who I have spoken to who has seen it has utterly lost their shit about it

I think they have 'good' covered

i just have trouble believing something by stone and parker could be that good

they do good things with mormonism

slow

YaYa wrote:

fair enough, but I do maintain that the South Park movie is one of the best movie musicals ever made, so I may be in touch with their brand of Broadway

yes absolutely

Butters

Antimatter wrote:

YaYa wrote:

Antimatter wrote:

i have doubts of the book of mormon being good but i'd like to be surprised

it won all the tonys and literally everyone who I have spoken to who has seen it has utterly lost their shit about it

I think they have 'good' covered

i just have trouble believing something by stone and parker could be that good

Yeah they've only maintained a revolutionary and wildly popular television show for 20 years. How talented could they possibly be.

DirtyDirtyVagrant

What? I really like south park.

Haven't really watched it for a few years, though.

ObiFett

Shock G wrote:

Antimatter wrote:

YaYa wrote:

Antimatter wrote:

i have doubts of the book of mormon being good but i'd like to be surprised

it won all the tonys and literally everyone who I have spoken to who has seen it has utterly lost their shit about it

I think they have 'good' covered

i just have trouble believing something by stone and parker could be that good

they do good things with mormonism

What would those things be?

Antimatter

Butters wrote:

Antimatter wrote:

YaYa wrote:

Antimatter wrote:

i have doubts of the book of mormon being good but i'd like to be surprised

it won all the tonys and literally everyone who I have spoken to who has seen it has utterly lost their shit about it

I think they have 'good' covered

i just have trouble believing something by stone and parker could be that good

Yeah they've only maintained a revolutionary and wildly popular television show for 20 years. How talented could they possibly be.

all of seen of south park is them being offensive pricks to everyone
the only remotely good thing I saw was their episode about scientology, and even then...

YaYa

ObiFett wrote:

Shock G wrote:

Antimatter wrote:

YaYa wrote:

Antimatter wrote:

i have doubts of the book of mormon being good but i'd like to be surprised

it won all the tonys and literally everyone who I have spoken to who has seen it has utterly lost their shit about it

I think they have 'good' covered

i just have trouble believing something by stone and parker could be that good

they do good things with mormonism

What would those things be?

the Mormon episode of South Park is gold, and pretty even-handed

I mean, kinda

slow

also who can forget the end of baseketball, where an older, more vulnerable yet ultimately hopeful morgan freeman makes his way down to mexico, believing against all odds that he might see his old friend andy one last time

Butters

I certainly won't deny they do that, Antimatter, and I know there's been a lot more of that the past few years but it certainly isn't all they've ever done.

I haven't watched in a long time but South Park had some pretty fantastic seasons and it has stayed relevant WAY longer than anyone would have thought after the first season.

Centipede Damascus

Antimatter wrote:

i have doubts of the book of mormon being good but i'd like to be surprised

this is the only song I've heard from it but it sounds pretty good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BO46-7jymA

animal companion

got my second city conservatory audition on friday

took a workshop for it on sunday and it was the most fun I've had in months

so excited!!~~

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DJ Eebs

well if you're going to be offended by things I don't really think it'd be a good idea to see the book of mormon?

but from what I understand it's pretty even handed and doesn't just shit on things for the sake of shitting on them (which I've noticed as being the case in south park most of the time as well, so)

facetious

YaYa wrote:

Antimatter wrote:

YaYa wrote:

Antimatter wrote:

i have doubts of the book of mormon being good but i'd like to be surprised

it won all the tonys and literally everyone who I have spoken to who has seen it has utterly lost their shit about it

I think they have 'good' covered

i just have trouble believing something by stone and parker could be that good

fair enough, but I do maintain that the South Park movie is one of the best movie musicals ever made, so I may be in touch with their brand of Broadway

Yeah I don't even really like the show (well not since the first few seasons) but the South Park film is pretty fantastic. The music is genuinely solid.

facetious

Oghulk wrote:

We put on The Scarlet Pimpernel last fall for our bi-annual musical at my school.

Oh awesome. I love the Pimpernel.

Zonugal

animal companion wrote:

got my second city conservatory audition on friday

took a workshop for it on sunday and it was the most fun I've had in months

so excited!!~~

That is fucking awesome, way to go! I hope you do well.

Goatmon

I was in New York only once, eleven years ago, for one week. While I was there with family, we saw one broadway show.

It was Miss Saigon.

it was completely amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dIZlkMbgnE

animal companion

Zonugal wrote:

animal companion wrote:

got my second city conservatory audition on friday

took a workshop for it on sunday and it was the most fun I've had in months

so excited!!~~

That is fucking awesome, way to go! I hope you do well.

you're the best zonugal

have you read this?


I'm like 50 pages into it and it's changing my perspective on improv/life

Zonugal

I haven't but I'll try to encounter it.

Right now I'm just waiting to head to Seattle so I can jump into the improv scene there.

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Bedigunz

animal companion wrote:

got my second city conservatory audition on friday

took a workshop for it on sunday and it was the most fun I've had in months

so excited!!~~

Good luck Animal! Are you in Chicago or on one of the coasts?

DJ Eebs

Avenue Q came to town earlier in the year, that was pretty neat. First musical I've seen in a theater. Unfortunately, those don't come through too often around here.

redfenix

can i express my manly love of Moulin Rouge in here?

love that movie

animal companion

Bedigunz wrote:

animal companion wrote:

got my second city conservatory audition on friday

took a workshop for it on sunday and it was the most fun I've had in months

so excited!!~~

Good luck Animal! Are you in Chicago or on one of the coasts?

i'm in Chicago. i love that it is the founding place of so much comedic tradition

every class I've taken at the second city was totally awesome

I got the chance to take a directing course with Bernie Sahlins, one of the founders of the place
guy is like 85+ and still so wise and funny

Zonugal

I think within this upcoming year my best friend & I are finally going to sit down and write our long-awaited musical based loosely on the life & death of President Theodore Rooservelt called Don't Call Me Teddy!

facetious

redfenix wrote:

can i express my manly love of Moulin Rouge in here?

love that movie

I know some musical purists who don't like it but man I love it so.

Ewan McGregor got even hotter to me because of his singing.

Centipede Damascus

Moulin Rouge is awesome

it's one of the only movies I like Nicole Kidman in

Lost Salient

@YaYa you're supposed to send out an alert to pertinent parties when you make these threads, you know that!

I have very much been enjoying The Book of Mormon since the album was released and I am ferociously jealous that you're seeing it.

My favourite song is this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxAbw7L-jjY

But it probably requires the rest of the show's context to be really funny.

Tef

I saw Wicked the other week, it was really, really good I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys musicals