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'TABOO' DEBUT [Rosie O'Donuts Schadenfreude]
NY Post ^
| November 14, 2003
| ALISHA BERGER and BILL HOFFMANN
Posted on 11/14/2003 2:58:13 AM PST by Pharmboy
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:17:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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November 14, 2003 -- It was do or die for "Taboo" last night, as Rosie O'Donnell's troubled musical starring Boy George debuted on Broadway. The glitzy show, about the androgynous London club scene of the early '80s, opened at the Plymouth Theatre following weeks of less-than-stellar previews.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: androgyny; boygeorge; broadwaybomb; gayculture; gayrod; rosie
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To: truthandlife
Any idea what other critics had to say?
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posted on
11/14/2003 6:53:48 AM PST
by
sarasota
To: johnb838
Anne Heche wasn't a lesbian in the first place; she wasn't even dabbling. Heche is straight and used Ellen Degeneres to advance her own career. I think her behavior was as cruel as it was disgusting. Ellen was pathetic to fall for it and it hurt her career. Degeners's humor had never been about sex; it was very clean. Thanks to her bizarre affair with Heche -- an affair that was a sham on Heche's side -- poor Ellen will always be a LESBIAN comic instead of a comic.
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posted on
11/14/2003 7:22:22 AM PST
by
utahagen
To: sarasota
Loved these other critiques:
The Post described it as "a production with such an acute case of meaning-deprivation that you almost forget what's happening as it's happening".
The American national paper USA Today said the musical was "a delightful experience" but added "that is, if you leave after the first act".
It said the show - about the hedonism in the 80s London club scene - turned into "preachy melodrama in which drug abuse, Aids, gay-bashing and the perils of fame are explored with all the imagination of a TV movie-of-the-week".
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posted on
11/14/2003 8:06:16 AM PST
by
Amityschild
(Practice makes perfect...practice makes perfect)
To: Amityschild
Thanks for posting these. I'm not normally mean-spirited but the Queen of Mean appears to have gotten back the bad vibes that she's sent out.
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posted on
11/14/2003 8:12:53 AM PST
by
sarasota
To: utahagen
Rosie thanked her "wife" Kelli....YUK.
To: sarasota
I'm not normally mean-spirited but the Queen of Mean appears to have gotten back the bad vibes that she's sent out.
Yep. Along with Schadenfreude, there's a bit of Karma going on here.
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posted on
11/14/2003 9:15:46 AM PST
by
MamaLucci
(Clinton met with a White House intern more than he did with his CIA director)
To: Ann Archy
Sad and sick. Growing up isn't easy for anyone, but the fuor children Rosie and her galpal are raising are going to have a particularly difficult time of it.
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posted on
11/14/2003 10:37:51 AM PST
by
utahagen
To: All
How disgusting are these two?
To: NYC Republican
I wish someone would hurt Boy George and make him cry.
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posted on
11/15/2003 9:27:54 AM PST
by
Ssrn53
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