All About Ruprecht
This is by far the funniest thread ever.
I don’t know why I ever developed an addiction to the Broadway World dotcom message boards. Maybe it was a morbid fascination with the “Manoel Felciano Love Thread” with its unintentional references to the hilariously and embarrassingly bygone People’s Republic of Clay. Maybe it was the high school students who have petulant, punctuation-filled tantrums over the shows their Church theatre groups didn’t get the rights to. Maybe it’s the names like “WickedRentQ,” which aren’t nearly as enjoyable as the ones used by the awesomely, anachronistically Man In Chair-like old-school theatre queen posters on All That Chat (like allineedisthegirl…who is probably situated in Tul-sa!) that can only be totally redeemed by avatars of Rock Hudson, Stephen Sondheim, and Donna Lynne Champlin. But a post like this one by a user with the handle “RuprechtJr.” made me believe again.
Well, I'm only 15 and Wicked bugs the heck out of me because I actually took the time to listen to something else, like Herman or Sondheim. I hate the people who say: It'll introduce kids to theater. Bull. The only way Wicked fans get introduced to theater is if they loose the Rush or lotto, etc. and are forced to see something else, in which they will sit through unhappily because they don't get to see a person being lifted up by a cherry picker or someone who doesn't know how to sing scream their lungs out and sing pop songs. The only way to get kids introduced to theater is to show them real theater. Start them with Hello Dolly or something simple (no offense) like that. Nothing as complicated as Sondheim in the begining, just real theater. They are lied to by thinking that "Getcha Head in the Game" is a musical style song since it's in a musical. Listen to "I Am What I Am" or anything that is a true musical. That is the ONLY way you can get kids introduced to theater. *Just my opinion*
Smart kids, man. Smart kids.
Makes me glad I didn’t have the Internet when I was fifteen.
I don’t know why I ever developed an addiction to the Broadway World dotcom message boards. Maybe it was a morbid fascination with the “Manoel Felciano Love Thread” with its unintentional references to the hilariously and embarrassingly bygone People’s Republic of Clay. Maybe it was the high school students who have petulant, punctuation-filled tantrums over the shows their Church theatre groups didn’t get the rights to. Maybe it’s the names like “WickedRentQ,” which aren’t nearly as enjoyable as the ones used by the awesomely, anachronistically Man In Chair-like old-school theatre queen posters on All That Chat (like allineedisthegirl…who is probably situated in Tul-sa!) that can only be totally redeemed by avatars of Rock Hudson, Stephen Sondheim, and Donna Lynne Champlin. But a post like this one by a user with the handle “RuprechtJr.” made me believe again.
Well, I'm only 15 and Wicked bugs the heck out of me because I actually took the time to listen to something else, like Herman or Sondheim. I hate the people who say: It'll introduce kids to theater. Bull. The only way Wicked fans get introduced to theater is if they loose the Rush or lotto, etc. and are forced to see something else, in which they will sit through unhappily because they don't get to see a person being lifted up by a cherry picker or someone who doesn't know how to sing scream their lungs out and sing pop songs. The only way to get kids introduced to theater is to show them real theater. Start them with Hello Dolly or something simple (no offense) like that. Nothing as complicated as Sondheim in the begining, just real theater. They are lied to by thinking that "Getcha Head in the Game" is a musical style song since it's in a musical. Listen to "I Am What I Am" or anything that is a true musical. That is the ONLY way you can get kids introduced to theater. *Just my opinion*
Smart kids, man. Smart kids.
Makes me glad I didn’t have the Internet when I was fifteen.
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