I would see anything with Eve Arden (of course, that's no longer POSSIBLE) or Taylor Holland (got to see her do Ann Richards), even if they couldn't remember their lines!
> On Jan 10, 2023, at 2:12 PM, Glenn Taranto <[email protected]> wrote: > > Larry - > > Yes, it's true. I saw the show twice. After seeing the show the first time > with Eve Arden in the lead I wanted to go back and see Holland Taylor, and of > course, to see if the show was as bad as it was the two weeks before. As I > recall when Arden left the show they took some time off to put Taylor in. > > My memory may be a little fuzzy after all these years but I definitely > remember three things that happened. > > One, Eve Arden had a little trouble with her lines. > > Two, There was a point when she came out and tried to light a cigarette with > a lighter the audience already knew didn't work from the scene before. The > actress tried and tried to get it to work to no avail. Then moments later > poor Eve Arden comes out and picks up the lighter and the audience was way > ahead of her. > > Third, The little girl, who was supposed to be an ersatz Shirley Temple, was > a very annoying character. She was being chased by the killer late in the > show and someone in the audience yelled out, "Get her! Kill her!" which > brought more laughter than any part of the show. > > When I went to the opening, knowing it was going to close that night, I tore > my ticket and showed the stub to the ticket taker telling him I'd already > been in. I wanted to keep the whole ticket as a souvenir. > > The first time I went I had Even Arden sign the playbill. On opening night I > waited by the stage door again and got the whole cast to sign another one. If > I ever put them on eBay the starting price is 5,000! LOL! > > As to Frank Rich's review... > > Many years later, on separate occasions, I ran into two of the actors, Jack > Dabdoub and, after a taping of Two and a Half Men, Holland Taylor. They both > said the same thing when I said I saw the show, only Holland Taylor's > reaction was a bit more, shall we say, "pointed". > > "If everyone who ever told me they saw Moose Murders actually saw it it would > still be running!" > > GT > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 11:27 AM Larry Brooks > <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> You saw Moose Murders? TWICE? OMG I soooooooo envy you. I have read about >> it over the decades; this legendary play sounded like the most mindboggling >> show ever to hit the Great White Way. When one comes across something like >> that, which truly defied description, you know you're in the presence of >> some sort of genius, however twisted it may be. >> >> I remember coming across chief theater critic Frank Rich's review in the New >> York Times, and Glenn - this applies directly to you: >> FROM now on, there will always be two groups of theatergoers in this world: >> those who have seen ''Moose Murders,'' and those who have not. Those of us >> who have witnessed the play that opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theater last >> night will undoubtedly hold periodic reunions, in the noble tradition of >> survivors of the Titanic. Tears and booze will flow in equal measure, and >> there will be a prize awarded to the bearer of the most outstanding antlers. >> As for those theatergoers who miss ''Moose Murders'' - well, they just don't >> rate. A visit to ''Moose Murders'' is what will separate the connoisseurs of >> Broadway disaster from mere dilettantes for many moons to come. >> Here is how he described the second half of Act I: >> The wealthy Hedda Holloway, the lodge's new owner, arrives with her husband, >> Sidney, a heavily bandaged quadriplegic who is confined to a wheelchair and >> who is accurately described as ''that fetid roll of gauze.'' Sidney's >> attendant, Nurse Dagmar, wears revealing black satin, barks in Nazi-ese and >> likes to leave her patient out in the rain. The Holloway children include >> Stinky, a drug-crazed hippie who wants to sleep with his mother, and Gay, a >> little girl in a party dress. Told that her father will always be ''a >> vegetable,'' Gay turns up her nose and replies, ''Like a lima bean? Gross me >> out!'' She then breaks into a tap dance. >> Glenn, you were a witness to history and I truly envy you. >> >> Larry Brooks >> >> P.S. You can read all of Mr Rich's crazed review at >> https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/23/theater/stage-moose-murders-a-brand-of-whodunit.html >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at 11:03:46 AM PST, Glenn Taranto >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> >> Break a leg Doug! >> >> I saw nearly 500 Broadway shows when I lived in New York. All the greats, >> near greats and famous floperoos like Moose Murders! Twice! Once with Eve >> Arden and opening/closing night with Holland Taylor. >> >> There's nothing like that moment when the lights dim and the orchestra hits >> that first note. >> >> May Parade run longer than Phantom! >> >> Glenn >> >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 10:12 AM Douglas B Taylor >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> I'm very proud to say that my wife and I are investors bringing this >> important show back to Broadway. >> >> Tickets on sale today. 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