WorryRock02 Posted March 14, 2014 Author Posted March 14, 2014 http://www.yalerep.org/ Tonight show has been cancelled
GDM Posted March 14, 2014 Posted March 14, 2014 What's frustrating is that Yale put it on their website some time during the last day, and sent out emails at 10:24 this morning to people telling them it was canceled. Nothing on their Twitter or their Facebook. That's just sucky customer relations. Bad form.
Heather. Posted March 14, 2014 Posted March 14, 2014 No. But most likely, technical aspects of the show aren't ready yet. Lights, music production, staging. It happens with previews. It's just a nightmare since a few people are actually flying in to see it tonight. That's SO incredibly shitty for people flying in. Any of those people GDCers? If they're making a trip just for the show, hopefully they'll be free to see it Saturday night and no harm done............
Heather. Posted March 14, 2014 Posted March 14, 2014 Here is what seems like a video parody of the Quartos coming to Yale. Cute Beatlemania vibe. I wonder if the "reporter" is one of the actors in the play, and if the girl who sings at 0:36 seconds is singing one of the songs! Looks like a fun show.
*withoutadoubt* Posted March 17, 2014 Posted March 17, 2014 Did anyone get to see this Saturday or Sunday? A lot of us were supposed to go Friday, and we weren't able to reschedule as yesterday's performance was almost sold out. I've been wondering how it went.
Fuzz Posted March 17, 2014 Posted March 17, 2014 Did anyone get to see this Saturday or Sunday? A lot of us were supposed to go Friday, and we weren't able to reschedule as yesterday's performance was almost sold out. I've been wondering how it went. This makes me sad I was looking forward to all your thoughts.
*withoutadoubt* Posted March 17, 2014 Posted March 17, 2014 This makes me sad I was looking forward to all your thoughts. We made the best of it and had a great time anyway, but we were all so looking forward to seeing it. I can't believe no one else went after Friday. :/
lizziebix Posted March 17, 2014 Posted March 17, 2014 We made the best of it and had a great time anyway, but we were all so looking forward to seeing it. I can't believe no one else went after Friday. :/ Someone did go but they reviewed it in this thread: http://www.greendaycommunity.org/topic/92902-billie-joe-armstrong-to-write-songs-for-yale-repertory-theater-show/page-3
*withoutadoubt* Posted March 17, 2014 Posted March 17, 2014 Someone did go but they reviewed it in this thread: http://www.greendaycommunity.org/topic/92902-billie-joe-armstrong-to-write-songs-for-yale-repertory-theater-show/page-3 Thank you so much!!
lizziebix Posted March 17, 2014 Posted March 17, 2014 Thank you so much!! You're welcome. /off topic question... and btw...did you really tweet that the Tubbies should retire? Why? (although we should probably discuss that in the Tubbies thread or the GD tweets thread!)
*withoutadoubt* Posted March 17, 2014 Posted March 17, 2014 You're welcome. /off topic question... and btw...did you really tweet that the Tubbies should retire? Why? (although we should probably discuss that in the Tubbies thread or the GD tweets thread!) That wasn't me! I didn't see the Tubbies. We saw Pippin /end off topic
Ryan Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 My friend, who's at the show tonight, just sent me the audio for Baby Blue...just sayin! I will post it when I get home and have a chance to upload it. Im a fan.
Jax Teller Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 My friend, who's at the show tonight, just sent me the audio for Baby Blue...just sayin! I will post it when I get home and have a chance to upload it. Im a fan. I will wait.
AngelBlue_ Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 My friend, who's at the show tonight, just sent me the audio for Baby Blue...just sayin! I will post it when I get home and have a chance to upload it. Im a fan. omg
WorryRock02 Posted March 20, 2014 Author Posted March 20, 2014 My friend, who's at the show tonight, just sent me the audio for Baby Blue...just sayin! I will post it when I get home and have a chance to upload it. Im a fan. *_* thank you
Ryan Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 I actually have three songs..."Baby Blue," "Keeps You Satisfied," and then one other one that I don't have a name for. Uploading to Soundcloud now.
Ryan Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 "Baby Blue," written by Billie Joe Armstrong, performed by James Barry, Bryan Fenkart, and Lucas Papaelias. that's much better than the recording I have, so I will only post the other two once I get them uploaded
Fuzz Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 New thread for the video of Baby Blue http://www.greendaycommunity.org/topic/96379-new-song-baby-blue-by-billie-joe-for-these-paper-bullets/
sallysimpson Posted April 7, 2014 Posted April 7, 2014 I FINALLY got to see "These Paper Bullets" yesterday and very much enjoyed it. It was worth the wait (I originally had tickets to the cancelled March 14 show) and the 4 hours in the car. Brief synopsis (if you know Much Ado, you'll recognize this quickly): Four mop-top lads, The Quartos, return to 1960s London after effectively conquering America with their infectious music. The group comprises Claude, the cute bass player; Ben, the cheeky rhythm guitar player; Pedro, the overly cheerful drummer; and Balth, the quiet and truthful one and the most likely to be without his pants lead guitarist. He also looks like a young Ringo Starr [my personal favorite Quarto]. Ben has been linked romantically with Bea, a clothing designer. Bea has a cousin, Higgy, a drug-addled model, and an uncle, Leo, Higgy's father, who owns the Messina Hotel, which is where everyone lives and where everyone stays and the Quartos record (because why wouldn't they record there?). Pedro has a half brother, Don Best, who had been the drummer for the group but had been ousted in favor of Pedro. Now he's the band's lacky and he's pissed. So Bea and Ben are on the outs, but Higgy and Claude take one look at each other and WHAM! they are in love and wanting to get married. In their premarital bliss, they decide they'll trick Ben and Bea to fall back in love by arranging to have them overhear conversations of how the other is dying from unrequited love. Meanwhile the menace Don Best decides to seek his revenge by doctoring a photo of another model Ulcie and reporter for a celebrity rag shagging so Claude will think that Higgy actually cheated on him right before the wedding. Because this is based on a Shakespeare comedy, all of these ruses work perfectly -- Ben and Bea think the other is pining for them and Claude thinks Higgy is more of a tramp that he is. Which is unforgivable. He thus decides to shame her by leaving her at the altar because he's classy and it makes for great print. In the trauma after the not wedding, Ben and Bea profess their love for one another, and Bea asks Ben to kill Claude. Ben refuses, but decides to do something even worse -- go solo. Higgy is inconsolable and after some time (she is an addict after all) she convinces her father and others that she is not the girl in the photo. In fact Ulcie comes forward as the shaggee. Higgy runs into the bathroom crying and it's determined that perhaps it would be good to let her stay there to make Claude and the lads feel guilty once they find out they've wrongly accused her. At a press conference announcing Don Best as the newest Quarto (now that Ben has left), the local constabulary bring in the shagger and force him to admit that the shaggee in the photo is not Higgy, and that Don Best was behind the whole plot. All run to Bea's penthouse to apologize to Higgy, who is on day 3 of sobbing in the bathroom. Claude sings "Regretfully yours" to express his folly and his shame. Higgy appears in a new wedding dress and with a priest there (conveniently), they are immediately married. Ben and Bea realize they've been the objects of plots as well, but admit that they two have feeling for each other. FINIS First thing that everyone is most interested in: the music. It is most definitely a play, not a musical. Like "Much Ado About Nothing", the focus is on the banter between Ben and Bea (and the Claude and Higgy subplot). The music supports the text -- not the other way around (as is typical in musicals). There are 6 complete songs [those that saw it, please correct this if I've got these wrong] -- the opening song (Follow you around), an intermediate song (the Last Time -- I think, if memory serves), Baby Blue (Claude sings about Higgy in the initial stages of the relationship), a song Claude sings with the Quartos as the wedding party comes down the aisle (can't remember the name), Regretfully Yours (Claude sings to Higgy after they break up [the best of all the songs, imo]), Keep you Satisfied (final song for Bea). The remaining songs are snippets that the individual members of the Quartos sing (usually Ben). As far as I could tell, the songs that played on the jukebox or on recording devices were part of the complete 6 -- usually Follow You Around. The songs were unmistakably Beatles inspired -- the chord progressions, the rhyme patterns -- very early Beatles. The actors pulled off mimicking the Beatles performance style fairly well, but the songs really made the difference. Regretfully Yours had an awesome electric guitar solo that rocked the house. I think it was also the most complex lyrically and musically. I was also impressed that Billie worked in some very Shakespearean "Hey Nonney nonneys" in Baby Blue. That was a nice touch. However, I'd be very surprised to hear any of these songs pop up at a Green Day concert, though. And while I'd like to have a soundtrack, the songs were not long enough nor were there enough of them to justify a full CD, I suspect. For those that are Shakespeare fans as well, he's alive and well in this production. Some of the dialogue was inspired and clever and freakin' funny. But sometimes, they would leave the original Shakespearean text in there and it was like the characters bumped their heads and woke up speaking in iambic pentameter. It also meant that you got archaic word forms -- hath and belied were not very 1960s Carnaby Street. Word order occasionally got in the way when they decided to let original text stand. In general, I think either they rewrite or don't rewrite, but don't do half and half -- it was too jarring. That said, my concerns were not enough to detract from my enjoyment of the production. I'd have just done it differently. As for the Broadway move speculation, I'd be surprised to see it make it to B'way -- not because it's not a good production, because it is. But to be considered B'way, it has to charge a certain amount of money for the top ticket ($140 I believe), and I don't think enough folks would pay that amount for this show. And based on the Shakespeare plays I've seen on B'way (and this IS a Shakespeare play, even with the groovy language, mini skirts and BJA songs), they usually have a big name associated with it -- most recently Orlando Bloom, Al Pacino, Patrick Stewart. This production doesn't have that. Billie Joe's involvement might generate initial interest but wouldn't push the play into the black (that takes months of sold out shows, and I don't think all the shows in New Haven sold out). Remember, as a non-musical, Billie wouldn't be up for a Tony in those categories. I think it could do well Off-Broadway. It seems better suited to a smaller venue -- maybe like Second Stage or Playwright's Horizon. Maybe it could win an Obie.
lbw87 Posted April 7, 2014 Posted April 7, 2014 "There are 6 complete songs [those that saw it, please correct this if I've got these wrong] -- the opening song (Follow you around), an intermediate song (the Last Time -- I think, if memory serves), Baby Blue (Claude sings about Higgy in the initial stages of the relationship), a song Claude sings with the Quartos as the wedding party comes down the aisle (can't remember the name), Regretfully Yours (Claude sings to Higgy after they break up [the best of all the songs, imo]), Keep you Satisfied (final song for Bea)." I went to yesterdays final showing too. This the song order Opening: Give it all to you (really good! You can definitely hear Billie all over this one) "Encore song immediately after give it all to you": The last time (first verse only and cuts out into the dialogue) Jukebox and record player: Follow you around Song right before intermission: Love can't wait (my personal favorite!! Think of across the universe meets last night on earth..very airy mellow love song. I have the melody stuck in my head still...So awesome!) Singing in studio: Baby blue Wedding song down the aisle: i dont think there was a "obvious title" to this one Claude sings to Higgy: Regretfully yours (epic hey jude style ending) Final song: It keeps me satisifed Actor/actress bows: The last time (full song w extended ending...the last chorus plays twice with a 60's-like doo op vocal between the two choruses unlike the youtube video that doesn't have that and only has one chorus at the end) Of course there was some 10 second background music songs...i suppose Billie wrote those too. One sounded like 'misery'.. it had that same guitar riff and beat. Another sounded like indian music-sitar style. This is what I remember of last night
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