Quote from: lechienfou@sbcglobal.net on September 22, 2014, 01:10:24 AMHate: Everything about THE WIZ. And CATS, because it has no story.Enjoyed, even though can never be as funny as the film, or actors, from which it was conceived: SPAMALOT.I don't "hate" them, but I'm not a big fan of CATS or THE WIZ for like reasons. I love SPAMALOT. Also RAGTIME.Wish they would make both into movies.
Hate: Everything about THE WIZ. And CATS, because it has no story.Enjoyed, even though can never be as funny as the film, or actors, from which it was conceived: SPAMALOT.
TODMy choice would be Cats.If I wasn't reviewing it for the radio station I was working for at the time I would have left at intermission. I remember meeting a fellow critic and he asked me if the brief version of Memory at the end of act one was the whole song. I told him no that the longer version was still to come. He said Sh*t! You mean I have to come back for act two"?
Quote from: Druxy on September 22, 2014, 07:38:41 AMQuote from: lechienfou@sbcglobal.net on September 22, 2014, 01:10:24 AMHate: Everything about THE WIZ. And CATS, because it has no story.Enjoyed, even though can never be as funny as the film, or actors, from which it was conceived: SPAMALOT.I don't "hate" them, but I'm not a big fan of CATS or THE WIZ for like reasons. I love SPAMALOT. Also RAGTIME.Wish they would make both into movies.Isn't the movie version of Spamalot called "Monty Python and The Holy Grail" and the movie version of Ragtime called "Ragtime"?
Here's a photo that Mary Linda posted on Facebook last night, captioned "Welcome to our luxury kitchenette."
I just finished watching GOTHAM.It was okay, but it didn't blow me away.I've never really been a Batman fan. Hopefully, the series will be more of a cop than a superhero show.
TOD:I don't think that hate is the right word, but I'm really tired of the overproduced warhorses, especially the "important" Rodgers and Hammerstein shows. I know I never need to see "Sound of Music" ever again, but I'm also tired of "South Pacific," "King and I" and "Oklahoma!" And the sounds of another "My Fair Lady" or "Camelot" doesn't thrill me. But I'm up for a revival of "Most Happy Fella," "Gypsy," "Anything Goes" (any script at all, because the script doesn't matter), "Guys and Dolls" anytime.
Spare me.
For your Banned Books Week entertainment:Which Banned Book Are You?Even when I change a couple of answers, I still get Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer - maybe I should read it...
Tonight we will watch Madam Secretary, after Strain.
Quote from: Ginny on September 22, 2014, 01:30:13 PMFor your Banned Books Week entertainment:Which Banned Book Are You?Even when I change a couple of answers, I still get Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer - maybe I should read it...I'm "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley (1932), which I haven't read.
Quote from: Ginny on September 22, 2014, 07:17:59 AMHere's a photo that Mary Linda posted on Facebook last night, captioned "Welcome to our luxury kitchenette."Very nice! It's smaller than my little kitchen, but it's a heck of a lot cleaner.