What’s your favorite theater piece? / LJWorld.com

Asked at Theatre Lawrence groundbreaking at Bauer Farms complex in west Lawrence on May 11, 2012

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“‘Phantom of the Opera,’ no question.”

— Maley Wilkins, banker, Lawrence

“‘Cats.’”

— Josef Rantner, works for First Management, Lawrence

“‘The Lion King’ on Broadway.”

— Laura Blanchard, engineer, Lawrence

“‘Annie.’”

— Shannon Abrahamson, works for First Management, Lawrence

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vertigo 1 year ago

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Agnostick 1 year ago

The underside of the seat, where all that great chewing gum is at. Tastes just like candy!

Loki 1 year ago

It's hard to pick just one, I love so many. Guys and Dolls was a recent one I seen that I never had before and totally enjoyed!

RoeDapple 1 year ago

Baby Philadelphia Derringer. Found it on the floor of the balcony box at Ford Theater.

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 1 year ago

I am boycotting this question.

merrill 1 year ago

"As Long As We Both Shall Live", "The Kansas Nutcracker", "Tommy"

There are others of course.

Now why does the LJWorld put First Management as the occupation down when they usually put down the type of work like they have on the other two? I know Ms. Blanchard perfectly and they could have put the Engineering firm from where she is employed too?

he_who_knows_all 1 year ago

Personally not perfectly..that's a Freudian slip.

Alex Parker 1 year ago

Most likely that's the answer the person gave our reporter. We don't ask where a person works; but that's what the man told our reporter.

he_who_knows_all 1 year ago

Harvey.

snap_pop_no_crackle 1 year ago

Wagner's Ring Cycle as performed by lemurs.

tomatogrower 1 year ago

Midsummer's Night Dream. I've seen it performed several times, and always love it.

somedude20 1 year ago

Hamlet 2

Royals 1 year ago

Damn Yankees

vertigo 1 year ago

I'll say it again- Puppetry of the Penis. It's a real thing. Don't flag this post. Penis is not a bad word and Puppetry of the Penis is a real theater piece.

Puppetry of the Penis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaWikipedia

RoeDapple 1 year ago

Yeah, I tried out for that and . . uh . . never mind . . .

ms_canada 1 year ago

Cats was wonderful as was Phantom. But the worst of all was Wicked. Dumbest thing ever. Dialogue was totally not understandable. Why speak if no one can understand what you say.

Daniel Speicher 1 year ago

Must have seen a bad company. The one that came through KC a couple of years ago was AMAZING and any video clips of Kristen Chenoweth and Idina Menzel in the original cast will show you that the show has incredible potential.

Andini 1 year ago

They will never duplicate the charm of the current location or building. The first nail in the coffin was when they renamed it to Theater Lawrence from Lawrence Community Theater. I know they needed more space but couldn't they find somewhere else that would work...like the old Masoic Temple?

wiolfial 1 year ago

Oklahoma!

anticommunist 1 year ago

The Book of Mormon: The Musical

Liberty275 1 year ago

That was a South Park episode. Dum dum dum dum dum.

CWGOKU 1 year ago

My favorite theater piece? You mean like the furniture? I guess it would be the seat I am sitting in at the theater.

Pywacket 1 year ago

Musical theatre = meh... Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals = skin-crawling, bombastic torture.

I'll take some Wm Shakespeare, Wm Inge, Lillian Hellman, Tennessee Williams, Oscar Wilde, etc., hands down.

anticommunist 1 year ago

what hip choices. bind them together, and it's like the bible of hip. so cool, i can't even.

Pywacket 1 year ago

I'm not the slightest bit worried about being considered hip. And not giving a rat's a$$ about what people think is the essence of cool. So let's just throw some O'Neill into the mix, shall we? Love some Trey and Matt, too, but the classics are timeless.

anticommunist 1 year ago

i'm sorry. it's just that i love andrew lloyd weber.

riverdrifter 1 year ago

What Py said. But I'll throw out Sweet Tranvestite from Rocky Horror.

Pywacket 1 year ago

I see you shiver with antici.........................................pation!

Daniel Speicher 1 year ago

Pywacket 1 year ago

He's certainly in the top echelon!

CWGOKU 1 year ago

Oh! Calcutta!

Liberty275 1 year ago

Got Posi?

psycho_theclown 1 year ago

Oh Calcutta

Liberty275 1 year ago

Theater? Apocalypse Now or more recently Avatar.

Theatre? Any Mozart Opera or Tennessee Williams play.

Theater piece... LOL. I'm surrounded by philistines.

Daniel Speicher 1 year ago

I was going to remark on the classical spelling of "theatre" for stage productions as well... But, decided against it. But, since you have hit on it... Yes, "theater" generally refers to a building in which movies are shown and "theatre" refers to the entire stage genre. (Although, generally Operas are not considered "theatre", they are usually in their own class of stage production, as would a symphony or ensemble.)