Did you get a chance to watch the live version of "The Sound of Music" with Carrie Underwood?
It was pretty good when it was all said and done. It got savaged by most of the critics and Broadway people but then gay people are never happy anyway. They hate people like Carrie Underwood and her dissing Obama's healthcare plan adds to the fire. Don't get me wrong. She can't act for shit but there are plenty of people like that on TV. Or on Broadway for that matter. When I went to see "Kinky Boots" the main mo couldn't act or sing but he got praised to the sky.
There is a long tradition of TV or Movie stars launching a play because that is only reason why people will come to see the show. We delight in going to Broadway when this happens. Sometimes it is a disaster and sometimes it is great. We have seen Reba, Harry Connick Jr., Brooke Shields,Delta Burke and even the Hoff in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Lifeguard. Carrie was somewhere in between.
So we going to watch it anyway but there was an added special attraction. The wife's cousin by marriage was going to be in the show! He was going to play the Nazi Admiral who comes to get Captain Von Trapp. Well my mother-in-law called and was on the phone while we watched. She kept saying that an actor was the cousin John. But she was wrong. So we kept calling out everyone in the show. "Look they changed John's nose." "Look they made John a black nun." "I see him. He is the dimmest blub in the sconce."
He bursts into the room and starts to say his lines. But guess what? He screws up big time! He speaks over the Vampire guy who plays Captain Von Trap. He has to repeat himself and starts to giggle nervously. Great characterization. Germans are know for their sense of humor. You know those Nazi's love to giggle. Like a little girl.
It was pretty funny. Nothing makes us laugh as much as the humiliation of people we know. I can't wait until Christmas. I want to go up to him and say "Hey John how about a nice piece of Giggling German Chocolate Cake."
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Don't know what the guy's line was, but I do know that I can't say "So they call me Concentration Camp Erhardt, do they ?" w/o giggling.
He is hoping for a revival of "Hogan's Heroes."
I went and saw Hoff in Dr. Jeckel too. The girl in that play was great but I have not seen her since.
Hey given it was a ratings blow out, you can expect NBC and the others to do more than this. Because all the gay broadway caddy comments aside, money talks and SoM made money the other night.
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