Comments on: RENT, or STOMP, or CLOMP, or some piece of crap

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 05 Feb 2005 18:42:09 +0000

Yeah, all that exposed midriff and not nearly enough cleavage going. What were the costume designers thinking??

By: HP

HP — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 21:45:54 +0000

I can’t speak for Cookin’!, but one thing that shows like Stomp, Blast, and anything involving Michael Flately have in common is this: These are all based on extremely dorky, nerdy activities (drum line, bugle corps/brass band, Irish dance) engaged in by middle class children, which typically involve competitions and lots of parental involvement, dressed up by Broadway costumers and presented as entertainment. (I’m just waiting for Flags! to come to the theater.) To the extent that these extravaganzas make marching band or pep squad look “cool,” there’s a built-in audience. Full Disclosure: I was the featured trumpet soloist when Kokomo-Hayworth placed 5th at Marching Bands of America in 1980. It was on PBS and everything. Believe you me, I was being recruited heavily by all the major drum corps. It was pretty intense, but in the end I didn’t want anything to take time away from Stage Band.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 21:24:06 +0000

…she’s holding two phallic shaped pepper mills. And they’re (gasp!) pointed down. I don’t think I could deconstruct it, but it appears she is… peppering?

By: Ted Barlow

Ted Barlow — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:43:59 +0000

The women in the chain-mail bikinis inevitably seem to have a powerful anti-gravity field affecting their breasts. Perhaps the chain-mail is simply ballast.

By: jr

jr — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 00:28:42 +0000

I saw this in London several years ago (we had our children with us and thought it would be a good family outing). It was stupid and loud. The kids fell asleep.

By: Mary Kay

Mary Kay — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 22:12:30 +0000

dsquared: I’m sorry, but chain mail bikinis are for fantasy novels. Science fiction novels have brass brassieres. HTH MKK

By: Andrew McManama-Smith

Andrew McManama-Smith — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 22:07:01 +0000

Hey, but I fell asleep during LOTR ROTK also, and what I saw before that happened was pretty entertaining… D^2, I can think of many different scenarios… It just depends on what sort of purpose you intend the chain mail for…

By: yabonn

yabonn — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 21:57:45 +0000

Can anyone think of a situation in which you’d want to be wearing chainmail, but not want to have it covering your entire body? Yes. But it involves a hamster, and i can’t give all the details here.

By: dsquared

dsquared — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 21:53:32 +0000

It’s rather like the chainmail bikini, beloved of those science fiction novels that my otherwise highly intelligent co-authors read. Can anyone think of a situation in which you’d want to be wearing chainmail, but not want to have it covering your entire body?

By: beowulf888

beowulf888 — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 21:48:30 +0000

Ahhh, but notice that the woman in that picture is the only character NOT holding a knife, but, instead, she’s holding two phallic shaped pepper mills. And they’re (gasp!) pointed down. Deconstruct this, anyone?

By: yabonn

yabonn — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 21:44:28 +0000

they’re cooking a big Korean dinner Bulgogi. Bibimpap! KIMCHI for teh win !! Whatever this show is, can’t be all bad.

By: Kieran Healy

Kieran Healy — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 20:44:59 +0000

Seriously though, I saw this in Korea about 5 years ago and what I saw before I feel asleep was entertaining. Now that’s what I call an endorsement! They should run that in the newspaper ads for the show.

By: Bill Gardner

Bill Gardner — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 20:24:36 +0000

No, that’s an authentic hwrang do costume of the Tu’p`ac Sh:ak’ur period.

By: Andrew McManama-Smith

Andrew McManama-Smith — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:46:09 +0000

You are just hating because you don’t look that hot when you are cooking (sorry cookin’). Seriously though, I saw this in Korea about 5 years ago and what I saw before I feel asleep was entertaining.

By: Edith

Edith — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:41:10 +0000

We actually saw Cookin’ at the New Victory Theater on 42nd Street, before the show moved off-Broadway – my kids loved it. Competitive percussive cabbage-chopping needs to be seen to be believed. The New Vic is a family- and kid-oriented theater – I don’t remember the belly cut-out and the heels in the posters for that version of the show :-)