Groovy.

[kickaha]

Yes, it exists.

We have opening night Playbills to prove it. (Image to come later.)

When ginkgo gave me the news that she had gotten us tickets, she *apologized*, if you can believe it, that the 'Splatter Zone' was sold out, and that all she could get according to the online theatre map were, if not nosebleed seats, at least slightly thin air.

Turns out the online theatre map was *utterly* wrong. One row behind the poncho section, slightly right off of center.

Darn.

Yes, they handed out ponchos, and the seats in the first three rows were covered in plastic. It was like a Gallagher show, but with brains instead of watermelons. (Not nearly enough, if you ask me, but...)

In a word: FANFUCKINGTABULOUS!

OMG, they nailed it. From rousing numbers such as "What The Fuck Was That?!?" to "All the Men in My Life Have Been Killed by Candarian Demons", they fricking got it damned near perfect. There were a couple of *cough* prop malfunctions, but nothing *too* serious, and one led to a brilliant bit of improv by a supposed corpse. It's not every actor that will pull out his own intestines and beat them against the stage floor as a distraction... that's giving it all for your *ART*, man! There was even a bit of back and forth with the audience in the second act, as people loosened up a bit.

Every memorable quote made it in, every character (but one, and they had an explanation that was beautiful), and good god damn if they didn't point out *every* flaw, inconsistency, and bit of illogic in the film. Utterly beautiful.

They even, swear to god, had a credited role for Fake Shemp.

If you're anywhere near NYC, go see this. Just do. You won't regret it.

(And for the Buffy fans, the choreographer was Hinton Battle, aka the demon Sweet from Once More With Feeling.)

Comments

[tealynx.livejournal.com]

This fantastic piece of theaterical art was what exactly?

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Since I don't have the pic up yet, added a link.

[marq.livejournal.com]

When I first heard about it, it sounded amusing. You're description sparked my interest a little more. ...but when you mentioned that Fake Shemp credit...I was sold!

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

It was obviously a labor of love.

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

How long is it running?

[jinasphinx.livejournal.com]

*laugh*
Wow. Sounds...amazing.

[ginkgo.livejournal.com]

I went in thinking, "it's going to be bad or it's going to be cheesy, but it'll be fun either way." It totally blew my expectations out of the water. The pacing is much better than the average musical, even. I was never bored, which I normally am by musicals. The show's only fault is that it made me a rambling idiot, unable to write a coherent review.

[ginkgo.livejournal.com]

Open run at this point. Previews Oct 2-31, officially opens Nov 1. I can't imagine that it would close any time before early December.

[marq.livejournal.com]

no doubt...now I must see!!!

[marq.livejournal.com]

wow...now that in itself is pretty damn amazing. I'm always amazed when someone takes an initially dorky concept and runs with it in a way that takes ya by surprise.

[ginkgo.livejournal.com]

I didn't want to ask this last night, but... do you think they had the seat covers and ponchos on hand from Naked Boys Singing playing one theater over?

Tee hee!

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Probably, but then I'd be more worried about splatter from *behind* me...

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

It really was. I haven't laughed that hard in a *long* time, and there's just one problem.

I WANT THE CAST RECORDING DAMMIT!

*whiiiiiiiine*

[badger.livejournal.com]

Sweet. I *loved* that character. The show sounds wonderful.

[lirrin.livejournal.com]

I'm so jealous I could kick you right now.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

So fly on out, give me a kick, and we'll go catch the show. ;)

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

It is. It works as a comedy, a spoof, and a musical, ambitious as it is.

"My flight from Cairo was fine, but the in-flight movie was Spiderman. Ick. Talk about horrible directing."

[badger.livejournal.com]

I can only respond with - "Dude. You're so *meta*."

( - from my forthcoming remake of the film _Swingers_ "reimagined" in graduate school.)

[ginkgo.livejournal.com]

Thankfully, there were very few lines in that style. I feared that there would be too many.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Indeed. That was about the only one. Most of the digs were at the ED films. :)

[badger.livejournal.com]

That is good - self-referential pomo meta is fine to a point, then after that I like a little content to be meta about later.