Kirby - There's no doubt the audience was there to see Eve Arden. That's why I was there primarily. It was the first time she'd been on Broadway in forty years.
I don't think Holland Taylor was as well known in 1983 and she is today. GT On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 12:33 PM Kirby McDaniel <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> 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]> 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]> 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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