There's a reason why we should keep theatre aLIVE....
Is it just me, or do you love the oddly bizarre, "good" feeling of discomfort you get from a LIVE performance? Something that just keeps you on the edge the entire time you watch it, but it's pumping adrenaline through your body, so you can't help but love it?! It's like watching people on TV getting into uncomfortable conversations, whether it be an interview, or a time where you get a sense of embarassment for the person, so it makes you just uncomfortable enough, that it feels good?!
This bizarre feeling came upon me the other night during the season premiere of "Will & Grace" - some feel this show has lost it's appeal, but the larger-than-life characters can often present such an askewed view of things, you can't help but laugh...it still finds its wit quick! To the point...the other night, in honor of their final season, they did a LIVE episode for the very first time. If by chance this blog ever comes across the screen of an exec at NBC...DO THIS EVERY WEEK!!!!! The show was great! It really made the "TV Actors" work for their art...sure there were a few bumps along the way, but there was something so fresh about it! And like a "good" episode of Saturday Night Live (few and far between, as they are), the best moments of the show were when they made each other break character....I don't know if it's just me, but I thinkk that stuff is WAY funnier sometimes than the canned responses they get take after take!
Does anyone remember the show "Roc"?! Charles S. Dutton was the star of the FOX show, who now stars in a new CBS series, "Threshold" (another new must-see this season). At one point in their second(?) season, they decided to do a special LIVE episode. It was such a success, that they continued to do them live, week after week, until the show's ending (sadly, I don't think it lasted much longer). I don't even remember if the content was that great, but the fact that it held that tension of LIVE TV for an entire 30-minutes made it worth the watch.
I guess you can take the boy out of "theatre" (sorry...theme parks don't always count), but you can't take the theatre out of the boy....
Is it just me, or do you love the oddly bizarre, "good" feeling of discomfort you get from a LIVE performance? Something that just keeps you on the edge the entire time you watch it, but it's pumping adrenaline through your body, so you can't help but love it?! It's like watching people on TV getting into uncomfortable conversations, whether it be an interview, or a time where you get a sense of embarassment for the person, so it makes you just uncomfortable enough, that it feels good?!
This bizarre feeling came upon me the other night during the season premiere of "Will & Grace" - some feel this show has lost it's appeal, but the larger-than-life characters can often present such an askewed view of things, you can't help but laugh...it still finds its wit quick! To the point...the other night, in honor of their final season, they did a LIVE episode for the very first time. If by chance this blog ever comes across the screen of an exec at NBC...DO THIS EVERY WEEK!!!!! The show was great! It really made the "TV Actors" work for their art...sure there were a few bumps along the way, but there was something so fresh about it! And like a "good" episode of Saturday Night Live (few and far between, as they are), the best moments of the show were when they made each other break character....I don't know if it's just me, but I thinkk that stuff is WAY funnier sometimes than the canned responses they get take after take!
Does anyone remember the show "Roc"?! Charles S. Dutton was the star of the FOX show, who now stars in a new CBS series, "Threshold" (another new must-see this season). At one point in their second(?) season, they decided to do a special LIVE episode. It was such a success, that they continued to do them live, week after week, until the show's ending (sadly, I don't think it lasted much longer). I don't even remember if the content was that great, but the fact that it held that tension of LIVE TV for an entire 30-minutes made it worth the watch.
I guess you can take the boy out of "theatre" (sorry...theme parks don't always count), but you can't take the theatre out of the boy....
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