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The Toxic Avenger Musical
So I am working on the internet marketing for The Toxic Avenger Musical. I have never seen the movie (I wasn’t born yet) but I did watch the preview on YouTube and it seems like if it came out today, John Heder would play the nerdy kid who ends up being the Toxic Avenger. I must say though, as I was looking at the Wikipedia page and was typing in the names of the songs, my excitement for this show sky rocketed. I mean come on, with songs like I Did Donald Trump, Thank God She’s Blind, and B*tch/Slut/Liar/Whore how can this show not be the hilarious. The Toxic Avenger Musical has its world priemere at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey on September 30 so if you happen to be in town go see it.
Now watch the cheesy (and by cheesy I mean awesome) old school preview below:
Best Musical Nominees
I saw “Xanadu” this past weekend with two of my friends. I have been avoiding seeing the show because, despite overall positive reviews I still didn’t really think it would be that good and that the show is just contributing to the slow and painful death of the art form known as musical theatre.
I have been told, and I agree that I am some what of a theatre snob….Is it really that big of a deal if I enjoy a good night of quality theater! Anyway, so I went into “Xanadu” with some doubts but I still was telling myself that I would not judge the show until the end.
So I must say that I did enjoy it. “Xanadu” is a sugary sweet, diabetic coma inducing good time. I mean you really can’t leave the show unhappy. The show knows its not Sondheim or even Schwartz and plays that to their advantage. It is campy, funny and the cast is really a lot a of fun (especially Mary Testa and Jackie Hoffman).
Now the interesting thing is that, is it really any kind competition for Best Musical? This year’s nominees are strange. No show has really captured the audience and is completely selling out and all shows are kind of feel good shows (I have not seen “Cry Baby” and I actually believe that “Cry Baby” is a throw away nomination since no other musical this season aside from “In the Heights,” “Passing Strange” and “Xanadu” got good reviews).
I am interested to see what happens on Tony night. “Xanadu” is trying to pull an “Avenue Q” with their viral marketing campaign Cubby Bernstein but the three nominees for best musical all leave you with the same smile on your face.
I believe that “In the Heights” is favored to win Best Musical because but I can’t really discount “Passing Strange” or “Xanadu” just yet. I think “Xanadu” and “In the Heights” have the best touring possibilities (and that is important to the Tony voter) but “Passing Strange” is also a very new type of musical, and it started at the Public which is a great New York institution. All of the nominees have their flaws and they all still need to attract a wider audience and none of the nominees (again ignoring “Cry Baby”) have something kind of new and different to offer. I guess we shall see in a week.
Week o' Theater: God's Ear, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Two Men Talking
Ah, what a fabulous city I live in, what a fabulous line of work I’ve chosen: 3 great plays, 1 great week.
God’s Ear: Ordinarily, a play about parents grieving for their dead son while struggling through layers and layers of repetitive, endless dysfunction would have been too heavy for me to enjoy. However, the plot was fairly lost on me because the play was very non-linear and 90 degree angle sleek, where my emotions need slightly more linear, over-stuffed softness to be truly engaged. Stripped of emotional entanglements, I could concentrate on the language of the play, and its cadences and puns and lists of cliches were mezmorizing.
Days later, I found myself talking in the rhythm of God’s Ear.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: A great night of theater, with legendary actors speaking legendary words. I saw the movie with Paul Newman, and this production, which was Tennessee Williams’ original play, was much better than the censored version.
Two Men Talking: Just 2 men on a stage, talking about their own lives growing up in South Africa, their coincidental reunion as adults in New York City, and their deep friendship. There’s heaviness here because one of them is HIV+, but the overall tone is light. It’s less theater and more pure storytelling, with no set design and an ever-changing script.
The whole genre of storytelling has always appealed to me on a primitive level. If I focus just so, I can pretend I’m some cavewoman sitting around a fire, listening to a story about the big hunt.