BS: Shatner on Broadway: a disappointment?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner on Broadway: a disappointment?
From: gnu
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 02:11 PM

He's on Fallon tonight. Set yer VCRs.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner on Broadway: a disappointment?
From: gnu
Date: 22 Feb 12 - 01:11 PM

Tinnitus can be brought on by rapid or severe weight loss and can re taken away by gaining weight. Sounds crazy to me but I know two guys that had that happen. Both of them went on some diet where you drink a powder mixed with water or whatever. Oh... yeah... Herbal Magic.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner on Broadway: a disappointment?
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 22 Feb 12 - 12:11 AM

It's Shatner's World And He Wants You To See It (interview on NPR)

excerpt:

NPR: Mr. Shatner, can you say something for us in your fluent Esperanto?

Shatner: Yes. [Foreign language spoken]. It translates: Is this interview at an end?

NPR: You saw that coming, didn't you? Is that truly Esperanto? Forgive me for not knowing.

Shatner: It's nonsense syllables. But I maintain it is Esperanto.

NPR: Well, we should explain. You did ...

Shatner: I did a movie in Esperanto. ... It was designed to be the language, the universal language of Greek, Latin and German words so that it had the roots of many, many of the existing languages. Everybody could learn to speak it. And so you wouldn't need translators, and you could speak Esperanto to each other, there'd be less misunderstanding. It didn't quite work.

NPR: Didn't quite work out. We should explain so people can find it, it's a 1966 film called Incubus.

Shatner: Yes.

NPR: Kind of a horror film. I've seen clips.

Shatner: Yeah. It was kind of a horror film. Or else it was a horrible film, I'm not ...

NPR: You know, it occurs to me just while I'm sitting here and were conversing in Esperanto, can you speak Klingon?

Shatner: Yes.

NPR: Oh, OK. Just thought I'd ask.

Shatner: Oh, yes, I'm fluent. And when I say fluent it means I spit a lot.

NPR: It's a great spitter's language, isn't it?

Shatner: Right, a spitter language.

More seriously, he also spoke of his trouble with tinnitus in recent years, which apparently he was able to get under control.

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner on Broadway: a disappointment?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 17 Feb 12 - 05:11 PM

True, it is not of Shatner's quaslity. He displays emotion.
A more important question--How can Grendel be both a troll and an ogre?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner on Broadway: a disappointment?
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 17 Feb 12 - 04:21 PM

I gotta say I admire this guy's chutzpah...and his talent for shameless self promotion. I am gonna hire him as a consultant for the APP's 2012 campaign if I can possibly get him. Hell, I'd even take him as my running mate if he only hadn't been born on foreign ground (Canada). Unlike me, he was not lucky enough to be born on the compound of a USA trade mission, right under the proudly wavin' Stars and Stripes.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner on Broadway: a disappointment?
From: gnu
Date: 17 Feb 12 - 04:13 PM

"this" is not Shat quality.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner on Broadway: a disappointment?
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 17 Feb 12 - 02:37 PM

I think this review is short enough and amusing enough to merit a full cut and paste:

Theater Review: We Boldly Go to Shatner's World, Scott Brown at Vulture (links are the author's)

After a half-century of absence — he's been busy doing other things, he'd like you to know — William Shatner is back on Broadway. He has acquired life experience, sweet and bitter. Much of it sweet, judging by his waistline. (At a near-spherical 80 years young, he still bounces around the stage like a Pilates ball.) He's accumulated a hundred wisdom tales, a thousand sage apothegms, and an Aeron chair: "My co-chair for the night," cracks the once and future Captain Kirk, in the first of many Borscht Belt asides. His one-man show is Shatner's World: We Just Live in It, and it's more or less everything you'd expect it to be, only more so.

Barely scripted, often free-associative, and held together with video clips so queasy-fuzzy Shat might well have bought them on Canal Street en route to the theater, Shatner's World is a unique end-user Broadway experience. For non-Trekkers, I'd put it somewhere between attending the Charlie Sheen Comedy Tour and getting trapped in a basement with an eccentric grandparent who has recently discovered YouTube. For the faithful — those who thrill visibly at every out-of-focus glimpse of the Gorn — Shatner's World is much more. It is nothing less than Beowulf's final battle, the mortal bellow of a supernovan ego in the face of Death. (A face that, in all likelihood, resembles Ricardo Montalban's, but alas, The Wrath of Khan vid-rights apparently could not be had, and we settle for some stand-issue glowering from Shat-pal Christopher Plummer in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.).

There is also a brief rhapsody on horse semen.

But Scott, is the show any good? whines the Tribble gallery. Good? GOOD?! Let me repeat: This is Shatner and an (often uncooperative) Aeron chair, dueling with each other for 90 minutes. Showing pictures of horses. (He raises horses. He likes horses. A lot.) Cracking jokes that were entombed with Henny Youngman. Making fun of George Takei. Meditating on the great beyond. ("Death ... is the undiscovered country.") Showing more pictures of horses. Taking partial credit for the American space program. Talking about losing wives (for eight seconds) and losing horses (for 25 minutes). "Singing." Waking up in lots of weird places. Assuring us he was "never a hanger-on." More horses. For some, it will seem like a pilgrimage. For others, a con.
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As far as Beowulf goes, I offer this.

~ Becky in Long Beach

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner on Broadway: a disappointment?
From: JJ
Date: 17 Feb 12 - 08:14 AM

The show runs on Broadway through March 4, prior to a national tour. Here are the tour dates:

Los Angeles, CA (March 10 at the Pantages Theatre)
San Francisco, CA (March 11 at the Orpheum Theatre)
Philadelphia, PA (March 13 at the Merriam Theater)
Minneapolis, MN (March 15 at the Orpheum Theatre)
Chicago, IL (March 16 at the Auditorium Theatre)
Milwaukee, WI (March 18 at the Riverside Theatre)
Denver, CO (March 20 at the Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre)
Dallas, TX (March 22 at the Majestic Theatre)
Houston, TX (March 23 at Jones Hall)
St. Louis, MO (April 12 at the Peabody Opera House)
Cincinnati, OH (April 13 at the Proctor and Gamble Hall)
Cleveland, OH (April 14 at the State Theatre)
Columbus, OH (April 15 at the Ohio Theatre)
Charlotte, NC (April 17 at the Blumenthal Center)
Detroit, MI (April 19 at the Opera House)

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner on Broadway: a disappointment?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 17 Feb 12 - 06:38 AM

Good luck to him and hope he continues to do what he does for a long long time. Whether or not I would like to see it is another thing. It would be nice to see him on UK TV a bit more often as long as the powers that be do not suggest reality television. Unless of course he is up for doing the 'tucker trial' on Celeb Jungle.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner on Broadway: a disappointment?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Feb 12 - 11:11 PM

I've known men who did that in regards to women! (They were idiots...but they were never disappointed.)

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner on Broadway: a disappointment?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 16 Feb 12 - 02:54 PM

Set your sights low enough, and you'll never be disappointed!

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner on Broadway: a disappointment?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Feb 12 - 02:27 PM

Shatner a disappointment?????

Surely you jest!

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner on Broadway: a disappointment?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Feb 12 - 02:09 PM

1966 to 69.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner on Broadway: a disappointment?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 16 Feb 12 - 02:02 PM

81 - that's a shock. How old was he when he Captain Kirk?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner on Broadway: a disappointment?
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 16 Feb 12 - 11:33 AM

What you said, Celtadict.

~ Becky in Long Beach

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner on Broadway: a disappointment?
From: Celtaddict
Date: 16 Feb 12 - 10:39 AM

I have a great admiration for William Shatner because he seems to live his life doing just what he wants to do, and enjoys doing it all!

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner on Broadway: a disappointment?
From: JJ
Date: 16 Feb 12 - 08:31 AM

William Shatner on Broadway is just what you might expect if you're a fan of William Shatner, and you will not leave disappointed. If you're not a fan of William Shatner, don't go...

Irrespective of the show's merits, It is impressive to see a man a month away from his 81st birthday perform for an uninterrupted hundred minutes. There are three teleprompters spaced across the front of the stage, he spends some time sitting and there are clips. But he spends a lot of time on his feet.

I'd take ten minutes out of the show, but I laughed a lot. Money well spent...

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner on Broadway: a disappointment?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 15 Feb 12 - 01:53 PM

Thanks for the link, Becky. I wish him every success.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner on Broadway: a disappointment?
From: gnu
Date: 14 Feb 12 - 08:11 PM

Queer thing to say.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner on Broadway: a disappointment?
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Feb 12 - 07:25 PM

I'm certain Little Hawk will be in tears for days and days. He might throw himself from the bridge or something in Disappointment (a small town in NNW Ontario).

Subject: BS: Shatner on Broadway: a disappointment?
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 14 Feb 12 - 05:52 PM

Would you be disappointed?

What are people who come to your new Broadway show going to see and, just as important, what are they not going to see?

"They're not going to see me naked," Mr. Shatner said.

"Now that," he added, "will disappoint about three people."

A Marathoner With Plenty Of Steam Left - Mr. Shatner's one-man show, "Shatner's World: We Just Live in It," began previews on Tuesday and opens on Thursday.

~ Becky in Tucson