[NEohioPAL] To Scott Spence and....

Mon May 5 19:18:37 PDT 2008

As actors, we all know that one critic's opinion means absolutely nothing.  I have gone to many productions where my friends and I thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and yet the critic who was there the same night hates it.  And the fact that you only link to one review, while here:

http://www.scottmartinmusicals.com/kudos2.html

it shows that there were MANY more critics who LOVED this little gem just again shows that one person's critique means nothing.  It's about getting people into the seats.  It's about getting YOUNGER people into the seats and the way you're going to do that is with lesser known, inventive shows like this one.  The night I was there to see it in L.A., the audience was hysterical laughing and had an amazing night of entertainment.  And the Beck is taking a great step to attract a newer audience by doing Evil Dead: The Musical.  Now let's hope they start taking even more steps by taking a chance on a campy musical like this one, one sure to attract a large Lakewood/Cleveland audience, one written by a native Clevelander, and a show that would be not only an Ohio premiere for the Beck, but an East Coast premiere.

--- On Mon, 5/5/08, Tony Glassman <tglassman at chronohio.com> wrote:

> From: Tony Glassman <tglassman at chronohio.com>
> Subject: RE: [NEohioPAL] To Scott Spence and....
> To: eoswaldbigred at yahoo.com, neohiopal at listserve.com
> Date: Monday, May 5, 2008, 9:56 AM
> From Variety:
> 
> It is not easy to satirize an entertainment genre that by
> its very nature is
> a spoof. Scott Martin, who also co-directed with Adrea
> Gibbs, has fashioned
> a "Let's put on a show" musical revue
> featuring lower echelon tinseltown
> femmes who specialize in low-budget, direct-to-video horror
> flicks. If the
> inventively produced video clips (shown periodically
> throughout the evening)
> are any indication, the movies they supposedly starred in
> were a lot funnier
> than this tiresome parade of heaving bosoms, lame jokes and
> tuneless tunes.
> 
> The entire review of the Magicopolis production is at 
> http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117907469.html?categoryid=33&cs=1
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> neohiopal-bounces+tglassman=chronohio.com at listserve.com
> [mailto:neohiopal-bounces+tglassman=chronohio.com at listserve.com]
> On Behalf
> Of Eric Oswald
> Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 6:37 PM
> To: mikethelimeyandikethehick at yahoo.com;
> neohiopal at listserve.com
> Cc: isomata at juno.com
> Subject: Re: [NEohioPAL] To Scott Spence and....
> 
> Well then you'd think they would have done "Scream
> Queens: The Musical" when
> they had a chance a few years back, too, don't you??
> 
> http://www.scottmartinmusicals.com/
> 
> Maybe now they WILL take that chance and finally do it!
> 
> 
> 
> Message: 17
> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:43:36 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Jeff Holland
> <mikethelimeyandikethehick at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [NEohioPAL] To Scott Spence and the good people at
> Beck
>     Center,    From Mike & Ike
> To: neohiopal at listserve.com
> Message-ID:
> <529076.3053.qm at web38902.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> WARNING:  THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE CONTAINS ONE NAUGHTY WORD
>    
>   Mike: (English accent) Greetings and salutations. 
> He's not Mike.
>    
>   Ike: (Southern accent) He ain't Ike, and both of us
> could cut glass with
> our dicks right now cause you're doin' Evil
> Dead-The Musical which, as we
> have said several times on this list and on our website
> (www.myspace.com/mikethelimeyandikethehick)--
>    
>   M:  Yes, we're still whores.
>    
>   I:  --is THE GREATEST PIECE OF ENTERTAINMENT IN THE
> HISTORY OF HISTORY
> PERIOD!  I still love doin' that.
>    
>   M:  The Beck Center has always been our favorite theatre
> in this area,
> because at least once a season, you put on a show we
> actually want to see.
> We never do because we're poor, but we want to, and for
> us that's really
> saying something.
>    
>   I:  But this . . . THIS!  Thank you.  Thank you so much. 
> Not just because
> Evil Dead-The Musical is THE GREATEST PIECE OF
> ENTERTAINMENT IN THE HISTORY
> OF HISTORY PERIOD, but mostly because next year you're
> going to give the
> the-ater scene around here the kick in the ass it needs.
>    
>   M:  It's an ugly truth, but we all know that at least
> once a year the "How
> do we get people into the seats" debate raises
> it's ugly redundant head on
> this list, and everyone says the same thing and then they
> go off and do the
> same thing they did the last time, pretty much a repeat of
> one of their
> seasons from a decade ago.
>    
>   I:  Awhile back, we said we'd really like ta see
> newer stuff.
> Unfortunately, almost everyone except you thinks that new
> means artsy
> existential crap that, while interesting in it's own
> right, is in no way,
> shape or form . . . oh, what's the word?
>    
>   M:  Fun?
>    
>   I:  That's it.  But you, you, dear Beck Center, have
> struck blood soaked
> gold with this one. 
>    
>   M:  Not only is it newish, but it's a musical.
>    
>   I:  A frakkin' awesome musical.  First one I ever
> walked out of humming
> all the songs.
>    
>   M:  You've got a built in pretty damn big market you
> may have never had
> before.
>    
>   I:  Evil Dead fans are many, and they are mighty.
>    
>   M:  And most importantly, it's fun.  It's the
> most fun we've ever had in
> the theatre.
>    
>   I:  Tell us you're gonna have a splatter zone. 
> Please have a splatter
> zone.
>    
>   M:  So you've got great, multiple award winning
> material and Scott, we
> know you're a great director.  You find the right Ash
> and you are pretty
> much guaranteed a phenominal show.  And after the fans and
> critics see it,
> word of mouth will spread.  Both times we saw it had full
> houses, people we
> laughing, cheering. 
>    
>   I:  We were singin' along.
>    
>   M:   In case you don't remember, we saw it in New
> York and Toronto--for
> free--and we interviewed the cast of both shows, as well as
> the writer and
> director, and we shot a documentary on the Toronto show
> which you can see at
> http://youtube.com/user/MikeandIke01.
>    
>   I:  Still whores.
>    
>   M:  Which brings us to the point.
>    
>   I:  We wanna be the official spokeswhores for your
> production.  We'll do
> interviews, we'll shoot a video.  We actually got
> people ta buy tickets to
> the New York show before we even saw it.
>    
>   M:  Same thing with Toronto, actually.
>    
>   I:  We both have a special connection ta this show and we
> wanna do
> everything we can ta, as they say on this list repeatedly,
> put people in the
> seats.  We want this show ta be a huge success.
>    
>   M:  Because it deserves it.
>    
>   I:  Specially if you're keepin' the splatter
> zone.
>    
>   M:  So think about it, won't you?  Thank you. 
> You're going to be seeing a
> lot of us anyway, because we will be seeing it at least
> once a week.
>    
>   I:  Namaste.
> 
> 
>  
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