So......you get to the theatre......they hand you a Playbill and you quickly find your seat. Then as you've just sat down this white slip falls onto your lap......whenever that happens my heart always skips a beat........it always makes me nervous specially if I came to a show wanting to see a particular actor/actress. It's definitely the first thing I check when I get to my seat. It's called the "Slip of Doom" - a term conjured by someone from the So Beautiful (Idina) Forum. As far as I can recall my slip of doom was for Jersey Boys......it was a sunday matinee.....John Lloyd Young wasn't our Frankie Valli :(
It's hard to discribe that feeling when you see that slip BUT from the Wedding Singer thread of So Beautiful, here's a perfect discription:
It’s like opening a birthday card from a flaky relative, wondering if something green will slide from between its fold or all you’ll see within its overly-sappy depths are a few signatures and a half-assed note. Only in this moment, if you see that paper come fluttering out you won’t rejoice. No. Your heart will sink in your chest and you will shake your fist at the sky, cursing Dionysus for the unkindness he has done to your soul, as the Slip of Doom settles gently at your feet, the slam of a prison door.
^^ ha ha i love that!
Anybody else have a slip of doom experience? Please comment.....
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let's see...Matthew Broderick in "The Producers", BD Wong in "Pacific Overtures", Ben Vereen in "Wicked"...
I've been pretty lucky. It hasn't happened to me yet...just minor characters. ::knocks on wood::
P.S. I was sitting to next to Ally (I think thats her name) from the Grease TV show on the 5 train today. I didn't say anything to her but she was studying lines. hehe
^^^ hmmm i wonder WHAT lines she's studying??!!
Oh I forgot....I missed seeing Stephanie J Block when she was the green witch when the WICKED tour was here in Chicago. I was fine though....no big deal though. I also missed Jason Daniely in Curtains when I saw it last month. BUt the John Lloyd Young was the most devastating LOL!
Pinky, please send a note to John Lloyd Young's assistant Susan at the theatre: c/o John Lloyd Young, August Wilson Theatre, 245 W. 52nd Street, NY, NY 10019. Tell her you got the slip of doom!!
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