March, 2007 in USA

**Sat Jan 27, 2007 4:47 am**

Can we expect any surprises on this next tour? Song selection? Fake snow falling from the rafters?

**Sat Jan 27, 2007 6:01 am**

Anyone else getting a cannot find server warning from ticketmaster.com? Got my tickets but still having a ticketmaster.com problem..

**Sat Jan 27, 2007 6:41 am**

derelict81 wrote:Come on....ONE show in NYC? Finding this hard to believe. Still thinking of trying the 17th, and maybe the 18th? Can't, and won't travel atound the frigid Northeast. Too damn cold. I was sick for a week after last year's venture to NY. But, well worth it.

Hey derelict,come on up for the 14th!!

**Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:59 am**

CaptBradBeard wrote:Can we expect any surprises on this next tour? Song selection? Fake snow falling from the rafters?

Fake snow?? The very idea! :shock:

**Sat Jan 27, 2007 1:12 pm**

philipchevron wrote:
carmens827 wrote:speaking of theatre Philip--what are your recommendations this time around?

I have none yet. I will be in New York from next weekend partly to see the main Broadway shows that have opened since I was last there and will report in due course. Translations looks good. Unfortunately, I will not be able to judge the Grace O'Malley [Grániauaile] musical The Pirate Queen until I see it on March 21st, but I have to say it does not look promising.

I heard a commercial on the radio about The Pirate Queen but I'm afraid it may turn out to be another Lord Of The Dance or something. I'm not a fan of Michael Flatley -- I don't know if he's in it or not. I'm getting ready to read a book called GRANIA SHE-KING OF THE IRISH SEAS By Morgan Llywelyn which I believe the show will be based on. Give us your reviews here when you go see it. If it's good, I may check it out.

**Sat Jan 27, 2007 1:39 pm**

Behan wrote:
philipchevron wrote:
carmens827 wrote:speaking of theatre Philip--what are your recommendations this time around?

I have none yet. I will be in New York from next weekend partly to see the main Broadway shows that have opened since I was last there and will report in due course. Translations looks good. Unfortunately, I will not be able to judge the Grace O'Malley [Grániauaile] musical The Pirate Queen until I see it on March 21st, but I have to say it does not look promising.

I heard a commercial on the radio about The Pirate Queen but I'm afraid it may turn out to be another Lord Of The Dance or something. I'm not a fan of Michael Flatley -- I don't know if he's in it or not. I'm getting ready to read a book called GRANIA SHE-KING OF THE IRISH SEAS By Morgan Llywelyn which I believe the show will be based on. Give us your reviews here when you go see it.

Flatley is not involved but the producers of Liverpants are, as are the people who wrote Les Miserables. But Broadway is strewn with the corpses of flops involving big names. My hunch is this stage version of Morgan Llywelyn's epic has come 10 years too late, but I would be delighted to be proved wrong. The Abbey Theatre's ghastly co-production of The Shaughraun, another Colgan/Doherty effort aimed at Broadway [it stalled in the West End] and dripping with knowing irony rather than the sincerity which might have saved it, suggests that these people know very little about the art of showmaking and a great deal about marketing.

I was once told an interesting story about Liverpants by an insider with money in the show. On its first performance at the Point in Dublin, most people involved watched in despair as the show fell flat and then flatter. By intermission, all had agreed the show needed major surgery before it left Dublin. However, at the end of the show that first night, it received the first of its many thousand standing ovations. All plans to "fix" the show were abandoned forthwith.

The Pirate Queen has already been in out-of-town hell before coming in to New York, but the personnel changes made after its badly-received early performances suggest showmaking by numbers (or reputation) rather than a genuine attempt to fundamentally improve the show.

**Sat Jan 27, 2007 5:59 pm**

From where I'm sitting, it sounds like a total disaster. Syrupy, overblown. Full of Broadway posing. I base this both on the radio ads, which are hilarious and what I've read in the theater gossip page of the NY Post -- which is a pretty reliable source of trash talk on this front. I wouldn't waste my money.

**Sat Jan 27, 2007 6:54 pm**

ohAonghusa wrote:From where I'm sitting, it sounds like a total disaster. Syrupy, overblown. Full of Broadway posing. I base this both on the radio ads, which are hilarious and what I've read in the theater gossip page of the NY Post -- which is a pretty reliable source of trash talk on this front. I wouldn't waste my money.

It's rarely a waste of money to go see a cast-iron turkey. I am a veteran of Lestat The Vampire, Jekyll and Hyde, Dance Of The Vampires, Titanic and even Shogun - The Musical, all on Broadway and all cherishable disasters.

**Sat Jan 27, 2007 8:09 pm**

My tolerance is low.

**Sat Jan 27, 2007 8:30 pm**

ohAonghusa wrote:My tolerance is low.

Mine too, but every now and then a character will say something like "Well, dash it all, I for one am not going to sit on my pampered royal arse while France burns!" as happens in The Scarlet Pimpernel musical, and suddenly life seems cheerier.

**Sat Jan 27, 2007 11:25 pm**

Got my tickets for Boston, 3rd night.

Aside from the crappy seats (the seat cushions themselves) I really didn't mind too much, the seated concert.

Gives us a chance to spend a couple days in the city and then top it off with a concert, rather than the other way around (and rather than topping it off with an accident in a Boston Taxi, and trip to the Hospital in an ambulance like last March.)

Anyonme else going from Halifax, or Nova Scotia, or nearby?

**Sun Jan 28, 2007 2:59 am**

Got my tickets for the Philadelphia show today. Rock! If it's anything like last year in Atlantic City my pants will feel funny!

**Sun Jan 28, 2007 8:03 am**

pretty fucking psyched. other than opening for U2 at Madison Square Garden, The Roseland is the first place I saw the Pogues. Luka Bloom opened and the night was a very mystical one, induced by various imbibes and hallucinigens it was quite fantastic. i'm looking forward to the wednesday show. i'll be the fat guy up front trying to slip into my shirt from the 'if i should fall from grace' t-shirt from the '87 show at the same venue. it gives me a lot of joy to read everything you all write. looking forward to buying you all a drink. the pogues music is special as you all know. the imagery transcends the usual high i'm sporting from too much beverage in the live incarnation. it speaks to me more in the vinyl twirling days of regatta de blanc and this years model...much more than any of us let on at the live show. i've seen about 75 dead shows and there is nothing like the camraderie of a pogues show. loving all of you....boolavogue

**Sun Jan 28, 2007 8:13 am**

Anonymous wrote:If it's anything like last year in Atlantic City my pants will feel funny!

huh?

**Sun Jan 28, 2007 8:18 am**

philipchevron wrote:
CaptBradBeard wrote:Can we expect any surprises on this next tour? Song selection? Fake snow falling from the rafters?

Fake snow?? The very idea!

I got a chuckle out of it at the Orpheum in Boston last year, but then missed it when there wasn't any in Vegas a few months later. At least it wasn't there on the 2nd night, the show I went to.

Come on though, any idea what the set list might include? Not that I need anything more to be excited about. I will be present at all 3 Boston dates, then the Phillie show on the 16th, followed by NYC on the 17th. What a week this will be!

March, 2007 in USA

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