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Post by Darius on Apr 4, 2005 14:44:56 GMT -5
Hey,
Someone who's in NY, you have to go see Pillowman which opens in about a week. It's my favorite new script I've read in a very, very long time and I want to do a production of it out here after it closes on Broadway... and my hunch is it will have a very short run because it's so dark. But if the production is any good at all, it will be well worth the time and I'd love to get a personal (i.e. non-newspaper/magazine) review.
Darius
p.s. Is it just me or does this "gopher" fellow I've got as my icon look a lot like Penfold from Danger Mouse?
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Post by Noah on Apr 4, 2005 22:12:58 GMT -5
I didn't know anything about this play, but I just read up on it (for example, here) and it sounds really really interesting. (That's two reallys. Howard Kissel of the Daily News gave it four.) And yes, your avatar really does look like Penfold. I forgot all about Danger Mouse. What a weird show that was. Remember Bananaman? Your avatar also looks a little bit like Simon, of the Chipmunks.
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Post by Darius on Apr 5, 2005 13:57:37 GMT -5
Not only do I remember Bananama, I loved it. The Danger Mouse/Bananaman pairing was unbelievably amazing. Just recently, at my old job, I spent a day trying to convince my co-workers that Bananaman even existed. We looked it up online and found some cool stuff - including the theme song, which I had completely forgotten.
I'd never heard the word avatar before.
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Post by Noah on Apr 5, 2005 14:21:11 GMT -5
It's really a religious term for the mortal form of a deity who's come to Earth -- Buddha, Mohammed, Christ, Krishna, the Beatles, et al. Then it came to refer more generally to people who are symbols for things, as in "Cole Porter is an avatar of class and sophistication." And in cyberspace it refers to a little graphic representing one's online presence. I guess this is the attempt of programmers to make us feel that when we go online, we're deities.
ERIC -- IS -- BANANAMAN!
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Post by Noah on Apr 19, 2005 7:11:09 GMT -5
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Post by Darius on Apr 19, 2005 11:28:41 GMT -5
I can't get this show out of my head. It's ideas and language and the images it conjured have almost literally haunted me since I read it. I've read a few reviews - though I hadn't seen this one, so thank you. I hope it's still running when I go to NY this summer. And I want very much to be involved in a production of it in Portland after it closes on Broadway.
Darius
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Post by wowposter on Nov 16, 2008 1:59:28 GMT -5
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