Slog - Comments on Will the Hunchback Curse Strike Again? http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/will_the_hunchback_curse_strike_again As local theatrical masochists will remember forever, in 1998, Seattle was blessed with a locally produced world-premiere rock musical based on Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Not since HAIR has a stage musical come along with the power to capture the imagination of an audience and leave them cheering like HUNCHBACK, an entirely new, blazingly original work by C.Rainey Lewis. That's a quote from the still-active Hunchback website, and it is factual. Hunchback captured the imagination of everyone who's ever wondered, "What's the worst thing that could happen if a New-Agey blues rocker with a lot of... Copyright 2008 Wed, 07 May 2008 10:21:45 -0800 Thu, 08 May 2008 05:15:36 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by scary tyler moore SANCTUARY!!!! SANCTUARY!!! SANCTUARY!!!

]]> scary tyler moore http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/will_the_hunchback_curse_strike_again#c1017755 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/will_the_hunchback_curse_strike_again#c1017755 Theater Wed, 07 May 2008 11:08:25 -0800 Comment by COMTE Oh man, I still have a little square pin from "Hunchback" that I occasionally pull out just to remind myself of how trully execreble live theatre CAN be - with the resulting rededication to NEVER making anything as shitty as "Hunchback" ever, ever, EVER!

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/will_the_hunchback_curse_strike_again#c1017864 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/will_the_hunchback_curse_strike_again#c1017864 Theater Wed, 07 May 2008 11:28:56 -0800 Comment by thelyamhound Oh, I dunno, COMTE . . . It seems to me that risking such shittiness is how we redeem theatre of the bourgeois "respectability" that keeps so much contemporary theatre so resolutely lukewarm.

Of course, I didn't see Hunchback myself, so perhaps I'm underestimating exactly how shitty it was.

]]> thelyamhound http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/will_the_hunchback_curse_strike_again#c1018227 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/will_the_hunchback_curse_strike_again#c1018227 Theater Wed, 07 May 2008 12:47:58 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways it failed because they didn't title it:

HUNCHBACK!

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/will_the_hunchback_curse_strike_again#c1018335 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/will_the_hunchback_curse_strike_again#c1018335 Theater Wed, 07 May 2008 13:13:39 -0800 Comment by Tina Lyam, a person can *only* underestimate the shittiness of Hunchback.

I will never forget the first time I saw it: the "BONG BONG BONG" of the church bells in the opening moment, with the villagers walking in grim, slow motion and then POW! the horrible music kicking in ("Gotta Give The People What They Want") and the villagers going apeshit and cartwheeling and backspringing all over the stage. What have we here??! The rest of the show lived up to the promise of that first scene. It was so bad that I bought the t-shirt at intermission and wore it during the second half.

I will also never forget how various cast members invited me and my boyfriend to sneak on and join the cast for the closing performance. We were assured costumes and total sanction from all crew. We passed, and went to watch the closing performance instead and it was total mutiny. The actors were fucking off extravagantly all over the place. Simulated blow jobs, clothes coming off. It was a joy.

Hunchback: Never Forget.

]]> Tina http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/will_the_hunchback_curse_strike_again#c1018570 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/will_the_hunchback_curse_strike_again#c1018570 Theater Wed, 07 May 2008 13:53:23 -0800 Comment by COMTE @3:

Risk is one thing; obliviousness to the point of foolhardy arrogance is quite another my friend.

As Tina attests, it really WAS that bad.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/will_the_hunchback_curse_strike_again#c1018718 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/will_the_hunchback_curse_strike_again#c1018718 Theater Wed, 07 May 2008 14:32:23 -0800 Comment by DJ Eternal Darkness And I so wish I would have seen this when it was going on. Sigh you always miss the great bad theatre....

]]> DJ Eternal Darkness http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/will_the_hunchback_curse_strike_again#c1019525 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/will_the_hunchback_curse_strike_again#c1019525 Theater Thu, 08 May 2008 05:15:36 -0800