Posted on 04/30/2025 7:57:15 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
That was the fun.
I remember in Florida, when we watched, the best line the audience would shout out was, “FSU! FSU! Where the girls are girls and the guys are too!”
I see you shiver with antici...................................
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Curry had a stroke awhile back, I thought he was still confined to a wheelchair.
Never been able to sit through it on TV. Too faggy for me.
The movie Cabaret, of course, tidies things up considerably. There have been much darker treatments, not as easy a watch but truer to the realities of the debauched Weimar scene. This one is not as enjoyable -- it's not meant to be -- but it's more honest and is also brilliantly done: Jane Horrocks as Sally Bowles in stage adaptation of Cabaret
The inspiration for Christopher Isherwood's Sally Bowles was Jean Ross, a British girl from a wealthy family who rebelled against all conventions and moral codes, spent her youth in the Weimar sewers, and came back home to become a prominent member of the British communist party, so a Stalin worshiper. Pathways to hell .... Jean Ross apparently hated Sally Bowles' treatment in the play, and she hated the movie adaptation. I don't think she would have liked the Jane Horrocks interpretation either.
Liza Minnelli found a different path to hell (following her mother's example) and became a grotesque. I'll withhold comment on RHPS until I've seen it, but the glamorization of evil is not something that attracts me, even if it's done in the spirit of campy comedy because ... well, you know, liberation and all that stuff.
Great Scott!
Recently for me means something made in the past 20 years
From the UK, but still a useful cheat sheet for the curious and uninitiated...
https://www.timewarp.org.uk/1virgins.htm
Just substitute the American slang for the word used when referring to Brad.
That’s it!
I did. When I started college, it was at the theater at midnight every night for months, maybe a year. Had to bring rice for the wedding, and toast, girls would dress in short skirts with fishnet stockings. Good time!
Have you seen it with a live audience? In full costume?? Who all know their parts by heart???? They're what makes the show.
Literally. It's such a bad movie it was dying until people started going watch it just to heckle it. Then little pockets got together and came up with a standardized dialogue and activities for the audience. It was never anything formal, it just became a craze, something all the "hip" kids did.
With a properly trained and equipped audience (water pistols, rice, flashlights, newspapers, etc), it's hysterical, every time you see it because the audience participation is live and never the same from one "performance" to the next.
If you've only been watching it on video at home to avoid rubbing elbows with all the crossdressers, you haven't really seen it.
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