Vagina Chronicles worth $71?
Dec 20th, 2001, 08:48 AM
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Vagina Chronicles worth $71?
We're travelling to see some shows, and already bought tickets for the Kirov Ballet and the musical Contact, both about $75/pp for great seats. They tell me VC is only 0ne hour ten long, and a single person on stage. Isn't $71 a ticket a bit steep for this - is there anything in it to make the investment worthwhile? I need your advice - my partner is already complaining.
Dec 20th, 2001, 08:57 AM
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good chance you can get day of discount for that at the tkts booths. could probablty done the same for contact. check this web site to see what plays usually have discounted tickets:
newyork.citysearch.com/feature/34843/
I have heard good things about VM.
newyork.citysearch.com/feature/34843/
I have heard good things about VM.
Dec 20th, 2001, 09:19 AM
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KL, are you sure it's "chronicles" not "monologue"? Did not get to see it, but I'm 100% sure that the tickets to "Vagina Monologues" were sold in 1/2 price booth in San Francisco this summer. I know as I check the 1/2 price tickets on the Internet each weekend and sometimes use their service.
Dec 20th, 2001, 09:20 AM
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Right, V Monologues. And xxx, I grant you it's one person, but why a woman necessarily, medical sceince being what it is these days. I'm sorry, but I haven't heard anything about the topic, style, etc. - $71 is still $71 where we come from. And my partner is not convinced. What types of humor should we enjoy, by the way? What is the audience finding humorous - and what is it that offends or mystifies some? We won't get any insight from our media - unless it's somehow tied in with hog belly futures. Now, that would be a funny show!
Dec 20th, 2001, 09:44 AM
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In Chicago it is 3 persons which are always changing. I found it thought provoking,funny,sad,truthful,enlightening. I would see it again because I think there is food for thought,and you could savor it a differnt way. It is worth seeing and will stay with you, I also went to hottix and got 1/2 off.
Dec 20th, 2001, 11:26 AM
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For one thing--it's not very long, you could read it to make up your mind.
I have seen it and also read it, before I saw it. I liked it a lot when I read it, and did not like it when I saw it, with Eve Ensler, the author, performing it. I think she betrayed herself and the people she interviewed (it is all based on interviews with women, asking them things no one usually asks), as she played most of it for very cheap laughs.
When she got to the part about women being raped in Bosnia, the laughs stopped, but that actually was not the only material not to laugh at.
Someone else could do a good job with it--the material is wonderful and rich, as another poster has indicated.
It is honestly something much more likely to be appreciated by women than by men, too, in my opinion, for what it's worth.
I have seen it and also read it, before I saw it. I liked it a lot when I read it, and did not like it when I saw it, with Eve Ensler, the author, performing it. I think she betrayed herself and the people she interviewed (it is all based on interviews with women, asking them things no one usually asks), as she played most of it for very cheap laughs.
When she got to the part about women being raped in Bosnia, the laughs stopped, but that actually was not the only material not to laugh at.
Someone else could do a good job with it--the material is wonderful and rich, as another poster has indicated.
It is honestly something much more likely to be appreciated by women than by men, too, in my opinion, for what it's worth.
Dec 20th, 2001, 12:36 PM
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If the word vagina showed up anywhere else on this forum the censor would be all over it. As it is he's probably twitching. I don't care what this show is about or what pseudo-feminist propaganda is being disseminated. I just know if there were a show called Testicle Talk those pseudo-feminists would be foaming at the mouth with anger.
Dec 20th, 2001, 04:29 PM
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If it is Vagina Mono. your talking about Don't Waste Your Money. I saw it and I laughed only ONCE, its a waste of money and NOT funny. Like one poster said "you may walk out shaking you head" thats exactly what I did, thinking why did I waste my money on such a stupid non-funny show.
Dec 20th, 2001, 04:36 PM
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For our trip to NYC next week, we have tickets to Blue Man Group and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). I think we need laughs more than than thought-provocation. Not to mention that we're traveling with 12-year-old and 16-year-old sons.
Somehow, I doubt that any non-feminist man could appreciate The Vagina Monologues. I suspect I'd be grumbling to myself through most of it.
Somehow, I doubt that any non-feminist man could appreciate The Vagina Monologues. I suspect I'd be grumbling to myself through most of it.
Dec 21st, 2001, 07:18 AM
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Hi Nancy. Well here goes: yuppies are now aging professional members of the baby-boom generation. Bo-bo's are I think members of the next generation who have lots of money, make it a point to dress down, buy from LL Bean, and not show how really rich they are. There is an interesting book about this social class, only I can't remember the author. Wish my memory was better, but I am from the Great Depression generation.
After having my babies, followed by divorce and no dates, my personal interest in vaginas isn't worth $71...
After having my babies, followed by divorce and no dates, my personal interest in vaginas isn't worth $71...
Dec 21st, 2001, 07:59 AM
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BoBos are bourgeois bohemians. They do not belong to one generation or another it is more of mindset/group. Although, I am aware that many of them were teens in either the 1960s or 1990s. There are many funny tidbits on BoBo descriptions in the book referenced by the above poster. The name of the book is BoBos in Paradise.
By the way, I saw the VM a few years ago and thought that it was great. Well worth the money. But I was around some older people who felt uncomfortable, which is the whole point of the show...to break down that uncomfortable feeling and embrace your sexuality.
By the way, I saw the VM a few years ago and thought that it was great. Well worth the money. But I was around some older people who felt uncomfortable, which is the whole point of the show...to break down that uncomfortable feeling and embrace your sexuality.
