Oh, brenda!
Yep. Your sister definitely wins.
Simon: I swear when it's appropriate. Kaylee: Simon, the whole point of swearing is that it ain't appropriate.
'Jaynestown'
Spike's Bitches 32: I think I'm sobering up.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Topic!Cindy - Oct 24, 2006 12:50:04 pm PDT #8607 of 10000
What is even happening?
Amy - Oct 24, 2006 12:51:39 pm PDT #8608 of 10000
Because books.
Oh my, brenda. Like Cindy said, your sister definitely wins. Weddings are so crazy-making. My mom is the wedding coordinator for her church, and some of the stories she tells me just boggle.
brenda m - Oct 24, 2006 12:58:18 pm PDT #8609 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Totally crazy. And we're talking a matter of a hundred bucks here.
Wonder if they'll be able to find a CD player cheap enough to suit their needs.
t catty
juliana - Oct 24, 2006 12:59:15 pm PDT #8610 of 10000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
My favorite production of Dream was up in Fairbanks in an outdoor theater (during summer, obviously). The theater was in the middle of birch woods, so the fairies came out of that, and the mechanicals had the best entrance EVER. They came roaring up to the playing space in a late 70s dusty-as-all-hell Suburban with naughty phrases scrawled in the dust, bellowing "I am Henry the 8th I am, Henry the 8th I am!" HILARIOUS.
Nicole - Oct 24, 2006 1:15:33 pm PDT #8611 of 10000
I'm getting the pig!
Welcome, Buffy.
And since I can't remember if I've said so already... welcome, Laga.
99% of the time, all the mistaken identity confusion could be solved by one simple conversation that the characters go to extreme lengths to avoid having. It's tiresome after the umpteenth identical plot.
This is *exactly* why I hated that show Three's Company. It infuriated me. And I could never figure out why so many people thought it was so damn funny. Even the theme song still makes me cringe.
Which is, of course, now stuck in my head. Great.
Connie Neil - Oct 24, 2006 1:20:11 pm PDT #8612 of 10000
brillig
The misunderstanding-that-can-be-resolved-by-one-conversation thing annoys me in any show.
askye - Oct 24, 2006 1:23:47 pm PDT #8613 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
I saw a production of Timon of Athens at the theater in Stratford - on -Avon when I was in England. Just me and the tour guide went since no one else wanted to see a play they never heard of. Which turned out to be a good thing considering the simulated forced oral sex and a few other things (the tour trip was mostly Southern Baptists). Then afterwards we walked back and stood on a bridge and watched the swans getting swept by the quick current, it was funny to see them at odd angles sort of racing along.
sj - Oct 24, 2006 1:24:24 pm PDT #8614 of 10000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
A Midsummer Night's Dream is my favorite Shakespeare play, but I have never seen a production of it that is really good.
Cashmere - Oct 24, 2006 1:26:42 pm PDT #8615 of 10000
Now tagless for your comfort.
For younger kids, you can play Midsummer Night's Dream about marriage, rather than the sex, if you need to down play it. It still works, either way.
I'm reading about Rush Limbaugh accusing Michael J. Fox of playing up the symptoms of his Parkinson's for a political ad. WTF? Is Rush back on the pills????
99% of the time, all the mistaken identity confusion could be solved by one simple conversation that the characters go to extreme lengths to avoid having. It's tiresome after the umpteenth identical plot.
OK, that is the big problem with farce. But I've found that people in real life often have communication issues, too. It's just not as funny.
SailAweigh - Oct 24, 2006 1:53:03 pm PDT #8616 of 10000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I have to admit I like Twelfth Night, a lot. My college put it on a few years back when I was taking a stage lighting class, so I got to see a lot of the preproduction stage work. It was wonderful to watch everything slowly come together. But, the actual performance? Knocked it out of the park. I never laughed so hard in my life.
And, welcome, Laga and vroomvroom!