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Broadway Hopes to Attract Audience Members With Buff Men

Saxon 212 — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:53:09 EDT

Mario will make Nick his bitch anyway.

Saxon 212

Broadway Hopes to Attract Audience Members With Buff Men

Rumpelstilskin — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:46:45 EDT

Fine and good but let's see the jazz hands.

@SeeingI: True, once the hair is out of his face, it's puppy-dog-geigh. Still pretty nice though...

Rumpelstilskin

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SeeingI — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:22:41 EDT

Nick Adams suffers from serious gayface.

SeeingI

Broadway Hopes to Attract Audience Members With Buff Men

valet_of_the_dolls — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:09:44 EDT

Spencer ftw, since he's the only one who looks like a human being, not a live-action manga character/genetically engineered porn star.

valet_of_the_dolls

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Pope John Peeps II — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:05:33 EDT

@Colonel Mustard: TWO? Who do you think you are, Conbon or something?

Pope John Peeps II

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fileunder — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:43:48 EDT

I wonder if Craig Stevens will be appearing any of these productions.

fileunder

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Colonel Mustard — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:35:53 EDT

Um, I'll take two of Nick Adams. To go? Pretty please?

Colonel Mustard

Broadway Hopes to Attract Audience Members With Buff Men

hallsoats — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:22:09 EDT

Ah, lest we forget how much Slater loves to kick out the jams:

hallsoats

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FrankieButtons — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:20:04 EDT

As Jack McFarland said, "Acting is attracting."

FrankieButtons

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EleanorRigby — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:10:18 EDT

@SurplusJ: yes, but 2.5 hour long movies are either a. good enough to ignore your bladder or b. even if they're not, there's not an obvious break in the acts. i think cassie's solo should serve as an intermission because it's when the rest of the cast rests anyway (and the actress I saw as Cassie was sub-par at best). intermissions in live-action shows are just as much for the cast as the audience, no?

EleanorRigby

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SurplusJ — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:09:29 EDT

Oh, but word, wonder if pretty boy can do this.

Done image searching Michael Berresse now. Though is is probs the closest my bloggy procrastination has gotten to my actual job in a long time.

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SurplusJ

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SurplusJ — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:07:44 EDT

Um, did Michael Berresse do the role in a tank top?

(No.)

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SurplusJ

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the cajun boy — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:07:39 EDT

@bytememehard: I thought that Nick was a top?

@Richard: i actually meant to send that to you yesterday but it slipped my mind. just trying to be service-y, you know.

the cajun boy

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SurplusJ — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:05:42 EDT

@EleanorRigby: Movies are 2 1/2 hours long all the time. I have a small bladder, too, but I don't know why plays have to be broken up more than movies, except that maybe attention spans are harder to sustain when it's actual people in front of you.

SurplusJ

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EleanorRigby — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:01:35 EDT

It doesn't even matter how buff he is because the director/Zack spends the majority of the play offstage. (I had to suffer through this show once. It's 2.5 hours long and there's no intermission! Some of us have small bladders, Chorus Line producers.)

EleanorRigby

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Astigmatism — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:01:07 EDT

So I guess this means that David Archuletta's inevitable Broadway career is doomed from the start. Or will he live on in the title role of the all-male revival of Annie, tentatively titled Manny?

Astigmatism

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Elektra — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:00:43 EDT

@Hamud Ibn Hamud:

I'm sensing a motif in your oeuvre. Not unlike Bergman and his ticking clocks.

Elektra

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Richard — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:48:20 EDT

@the cajun boy: Oh thanks! Adding.

Richard

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Hamud Ibn Hamud — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:47:04 EDT

By any chance is this restaging of Chorus Line going to include a scene in which a hairy former Marine bodybuilder douses Adams and Lopez with mineral oil and then forces them to engage in a whole lot of homosexual activity?

I just think it's important that musical theater liberate itself from the conventions and cliches that prevent it from really speaking to today's audience.

Hamud Ibn Hamud

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bytememehard — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:46:38 EDT

@the cajun boy: He forgot to mention that Mario is doing Nick. Isn't he?

bytememehard

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bytememehard — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:45:06 EDT

Thank you, Gawker, for hearing my cries yesterday. If you want to keep your base readership happy and stay competitive with D-listed, you need to feature a semi-nekked hunk every day, no matter what journalistic pretext you must invent to do it. There is precedent -- that British paper and its Page 3 girls.

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the cajun boy — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:42:54 EDT

ny post theater guy michael riedel touched on this very subject, more specifically mario's supposed jealousy over his rival's buff-ness, in one of his typically bitchy columns yesterday...

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the cajun boy

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Ed — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:42:39 EDT

Conversely, somebody on that messageboard whose initials are DataLounge said they went to see "Legally Blonde" (why? I dunno, there's a reason it's an anonymous board) and they said many of the women in the belly-revealing outfits were a bit flabby.