Where were you when the Music Died???

[Chuck50]

Anyone standing in line tonite to go to a show in NYC. Guess it was a bummer. I am sure that Gaiety and some other places got a boost. Or do they rely on Muscians (Unionized as well) A penny for your thoughts especially those effected by it and live in NYC. Jack guess you picked a good week to come and avoided this. BUT not sure if you ever got to see a show you were in the SHOWS. LOL HUGS Chuck

[+ Lucky]

Quite a few were stroking their instruments at the Gaiety tonight.

[gulliver]

My broadway night was definitely not a bummer. My favorite NYC escort (Colin-Bicollegejock) got first row seats for "Take Me Out" the play centering on a gay baseball player who comes out. It was sizzling hot and i dont give two hoots about baseball. As all of you who know anything about the Broadway scene are probably aware of - there is MUCH full and lengthy nudity in this great play. Daniel Sunjata (who plays the gay ball player) has a magnificent face, eyes, lips and body - nice dick too. What a huge piece and huge low hanging balls on Kohl Sudduth, the tall co star. No need to to use opera glasses to see what he has!! The Gaiety could not be much better. Have never been but got to make it there some night.

 

Of course, after seeing all that dick and ass onstage, my buddy and I had to go back to my apartment for some realtime action as we were both pretty horny.

 

Isn't it amazing that seeing nudity on Broadway can be so incredibly erotic (kind of like seeing a straight boy toweling off in the gym or a glimpse of cock under someones shorts) as compared to other nudity or porno.

 

Its seeing dick right out in front of you that makes the saunas of Rio so incredibly hot for me. Am off with another poster this Thursday to have him show me Cuba for four nights. When some of you posters are going to the gaiety later this month, email me - I'd like someone to show me the ropes.

 

Check out "Take me Out" - you won't miss the music.

[+ deej]

I don't support this musicians' strike.

 

I say that as a former professional musician and card-carrying member of the AFofM.

 

I see both sides.

 

Theater owners want to lower the minimum number of musicians they must hire for a show. As things stand now, if a show REALLY only needs piano, bass, and drums, they must hire 14 musicians even if 11 of them spend the evening sitting on their hands.

 

(Sitting on my hands is not what I wanted to do as a musician.)

 

Musicians worry that if the minimum is lowered, producers will try to produce a show that really NEEDS a 28-piece orchestra with 7 players. And they probably will.

 

Audiences should be the arbiter. Not the AFofM. And the audiences will vote with their credit cards in ticket sales.

 

New York is already a damn tough town for theater. Always has been. (Anyone remember Annie II?) If a show under-uses musicians, audiences will reject it. The show will close. Producers will learn to use "enough" musicians.

 

I just don't see why either side is really arguing about it. Does anyone have better information about what this strike is really about?

[jackhammer91406]

Chuck,

Yes, I picked a good time to come to NYC for a number of reasons, but this is one. Several of the nights that Cooper, Lucky and I were walking around Times Square, we did see musicians picketing. In spite of that, in addition to 4(!)trips to the Gaiety, I got to see HAIRSPRAY and THE PRODUCERS. Two great shows that are dark tonight I guess. HAIRSPRAY I hear is one of those shows that deej was talking about. The orchestra pit has extra musicians who sit because the orchestrations require fewer musicians than the union demands. In that show I didn't notice a lack of instruments and the sound was full. It's sad to think all of that energy and talent I saw last week is silent tonight. Hope they can work things out.

 

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