Slog - Comments on Gatz at On the Boards: If You Think You Want To See It, You Do, and Today's Your Last Chance http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/gatz_at_on_the_boards_if_you_think_you_w Yesterday I went to see the NYC performance collective Elevator Repair Service perform the show Gatz at On the Boards. As some of you may have read, Gatz features every single word of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, and thus runs somewhere around six and a half hours, plus an hour-long dinner break. In advance of the show, the running time was all I could think about. Same goes for my friends who attended. We placed bets on whether we'd really be up for the whole fucking thing. We made jokes about artistic masochism. We brought fidget-inhibiting booze. Some... Copyright 2008 Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:39:47 -0800 Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:45:17 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by neo-realist I wanted to see it, but my girlfriend couldn't bring herself to see through a six hour play:(

]]> neo-realist http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/gatz_at_on_the_boards_if_you_think_you_w#c809672 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/gatz_at_on_the_boards_if_you_think_you_w#c809672 Arts Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:55:33 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe I don't have the patience for six and a half hours. But I'll take your word for it.

Oh, and Scott Shepherd looks super hot in that picture.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/gatz_at_on_the_boards_if_you_think_you_w#c809684 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/gatz_at_on_the_boards_if_you_think_you_w#c809684 Arts Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:43:08 -0800 Comment by Cato the Younger Younger "Gee, Six hours, I just don't know.." the Florida Gov. from the West Wing.

"In case you are wondering, it was at "Gee Six hours, I just don't know." Is when I decided to kick your ass" Fictional President J. Bartlett.

Nightmare flash; Hillary is STILL ahead of Obama in the polls!!! Obama girl needs to strip naked to shore up his support.

]]> Cato the Younger Younger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/gatz_at_on_the_boards_if_you_think_you_w#c809687 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/gatz_at_on_the_boards_if_you_think_you_w#c809687 Arts Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:28:46 -0800 Comment by Ariel I saw this in Minneapolis at the Walker Art Center last year. It far outshone the Guthrie's production.

]]> Ariel http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/gatz_at_on_the_boards_if_you_think_you_w#c809721 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/gatz_at_on_the_boards_if_you_think_you_w#c809721 Arts Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:45:17 -0800