Family took a couple days off and we went into the city to stay over, see friends, and take in some shows. I took Ariel to see “42nd Street” at a Wednesday matinee. “What’s this show about?” she asked. “It’s about putting on a show,” I told her, and there’s really not much more to it than that. Lots of tap dancing, plus several songs that she knew. A fun time. That evening, while I tended to Caroline, Kathleen took Ariel out to a very different type of musical: “Hairspray.” Ariel said she liked it better than “42nd Street.”
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42nd Street always makes me of an old “Saturday Night Live” sketch from the early ’80’s (back when 42nd Street was a far different place)…the premise was a live-sex show where the star o.d.’s and the young ingenue has to take her place…I think Eddie Murphy was in that one.
I am going to take my 7 year old to 42nds street at the end of the month. Cant wait to see it. Also,recently saw Man of La Mancha. That was a phenomenal show.
Maybe sometime you can try another show about making a show, “Noises Off”. I watch the movie whenever I need to see a *really* dysfunctional troupe of actors. 🙂
Maybe sometime you can try another show about making a show, “Noises Off”. I watch the movie whenever I need to see a *really* dysfunctional troupe of actors. :
Saw it a few months ago when Patti Lupone was in it (except she was out the day we went. Thanks loads, Patti.) It’s since closed, which is a shame, because it was hysterical.
Indeed, I was thinking about it on Wednesday when I heard them announcing “The show will start in five minutes.” I kept waiting for them to say four minutes, then five, then three, then four, etc.
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I thought I’d just help make up the numbers.
I just want to answer the question about the best super hero movie ever, and it’s so crowded that I’m afraid no one will read it and the world will be less than it could be because of that. So let me say right now, that the best super hero movie ever is “It Happens Every Spring” with Ray Milland. He plays a professor who gets anti-wood powers. It’s not until he loses those powers and becomes “wood friendly” that he gets the girl. Thank you.
I never saw the original movie “42nd Street” until the night I had to dub it from film to videotape, on my overnight shift. (This was about 1978.) It was very affecting, from the desperate, self-doubting show director to the dancers who would wind up begging, or worse, if they didn’t keep employed as dancers. The very real despair of the Great Depression informed that film, and shocked a very cynical television engineer. I take it from the generally sunny review that none of this appears in the current Broadway version.