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    Answered Prayers: Thriller the Musical
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    01/26/09

    In reply to Answered Prayers: Thriller the Musical
    By the way, what genius thought it was a good idea to have Mary Louise Parker attempt to play Hedda Gabler?


    Talk about miscasting. That's like picking Tom Hanks to play Richard III.

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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    01/26/09

    In reply to Answered Prayers: Thriller the Musical
    "One of the worst revivals I have ever, ever seen."


    I like Brantley's poetic repetition of the adverb. In the same vein, he could have been even more poetic and gone with:


    "It is a far, far worse revival that I am reviewing now than I have ever reviewed before."

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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    01/26/09

    @MisterHippity: Maybe if Mary Louise flashed her butt the way she did in the print ads for Weeds the reviews would be better.
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    01/26/09

    In reply to Answered Prayers: Thriller the Musical
    Michael Jackson in HEDDA! THE MUSICAL would likely be more inspiring than this Roundabout revival, or really Mary-Louise Parker in anything.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    01/26/09

    In reply to Answered Prayers: Thriller the Musical
    But how could Parker's "Gabler" be awful? It has such a brooding poster? That's all anyone will see if it's ever filmed and released to video.
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    Image of Rock_Hunter Rock_Hunter
    01/26/09

    In reply to Answered Prayers: Thriller the Musical
    From the poster, this looks like "Wes Anderson's Hedda Gabler." At the end she shoots herself in slow motion while The Kinks' "Waterloo Sunset" plays in the background.
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    Image of Lizawithazee Lizawithazee
    01/26/09

    @Rock_Hunter: Um, spoiler alert?!
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    01/26/09

    @Lizawithazee: Make that "Tequila Sunrise" and I'll go for it.
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    Image of pufflehuff pufflehuff
    01/28/09

    @Rock_Hunter: Hah! You are excellent at Gawkering.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    01/26/09

    In reply to Answered Prayers: Thriller the Musical
    I am cautiously excited about this. I think if Jackson is going to disappear into a translucent, open-faced husk of silicone and sequins, then this should be his final Hurrah. I'll probably pay to see it, and I may wear a certain red jacket that's been in my closet for twenty-six years. (I'm totally lying.) No, not really.
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    Image of Steverino Begins Steverino Begins
    01/26/09

    @Spirit Fingers: I want to see his last hurrah, too, but I think it should be in Vegas, in lieu of a proper tour. He needs to stop pretending he's an 80 year-old elephant man and get on stage.


    This "Thriller" musical will be fun and nostalgic, but it won't seem like "his" show to me. Why should he put his efforts into an impersonator's show anyway? He might as well choreograph a routine for E. Cassanova or one of those other weird hardcore impersonators.

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    Image of Almostbanned Almostbanned
    01/26/09

    In reply to Answered Prayers: Thriller the Musical
    I'll wait for the Indian Thriller musical.
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    01/26/09

    @Almostbanned: Michael Jackson in "Horndog Millionaire"
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    Image of ScottieB ScottieB
    01/26/09

    In reply to Answered Prayers: Thriller the Musical
    Oh, in the right hands Thriller might not be any worse than say, Mama Mia which, is stunningly still going strong after seven years.
    If the millions reaped from nonsense like that allow producers to give us the occasional August:Osage County, I suppose it's a good trade.
    People from around the world come to Broadway and they want a big sugary mouthful of American Culture. (read: Michael jackson)
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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    01/26/09

    @ScottieB: "big sugary mouthful" and "Michael Jackson" are two things that I did not want to associate with each other.
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    Image of Colander Colander
    01/26/09

    In reply to Answered Prayers: Thriller the Musical
    Okay, y'all, I know Mikey is a kid-toucher now and all, but if you Youtubes search the making of Thriller (and you are into the production of things like dance, makeup, ideas, etc), you will be entertained. I did so the other night and do not regret it (also it's the 80s, so they're being ironic without even knowing it).
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    Image of Colander Colander
    01/26/09

    @Colander:


    Probly easier

    ">this way.

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    Colander was starred Colander was unstarred
    Image of Colander Colander
    01/26/09

    @Colander: Ugh, HTML-challenged, you guys!
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    Image of Steverino Begins Steverino Begins
    01/26/09

    @Colander: "Making of Thriller" is great. I could probably recite most of it by heart. It's sad to me that we now have to apologize for enjoying MJ's output from the 80s, most of which is flat-out awesome.
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    Image of uninspired uninspired
    01/26/09

    In reply to Answered Prayers: Thriller the Musical
    I for one believe zombie pedophilia has no place on Broadway.
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    Image of Colonel Mustard Colonel Mustard
    01/26/09

    @uninspired: Exactly. That sort of thing belongs in the home.
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    Image of La Cieca La Cieca
    01/26/09

    In reply to Answered Prayers: Thriller the Musical
    This thing looks like that thing.
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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    01/26/09

    In reply to Answered Prayers: Thriller the Musical
    Next up: A show based on that Rick Astley video.
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    Image of interpretedworld interpretedworld
    01/26/09

    In reply to Answered Prayers: Thriller the Musical
    It pains me to think of Michael Cerveris as a participant in a trainwreck.
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    01/26/09

    @interpretedworld: He's badly miscast.
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    Image of terlett_trash terlett_trash
    01/26/09

    In reply to Answered Prayers: Thriller the Musical
    Here I Go Again: a new musical about one of the most unremarkable bands of the 1980s and their meteoric rise to the middle, Whitesnake.
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    Image of dado dado
    01/26/09

    @terlett_trash: Similarly, "I Know a Perfect Way" the Scritti Politti story.
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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    01/26/09

    @terlett_trash: @dado: The Milli Vanilli story actually has dramatic potential.
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    Image of contradicto contradicto
    01/26/09

    In reply to Answered Prayers: Thriller the Musical
    Looks like that Filipino tranny might have something to do once she gets out of jail.
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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    01/26/09

    @contradicto: I remember that. The fact that I know exactly what you're talking about means I need to spend less time on the internet.
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