Attention, D.C.-area Musers! A couple of Muselike events are coming to town soon:
– “Spamalot” at the National Theater, December 11 through January 6
– The Washington Revels at the Lisner Auditorium (George Washington University), December 8-9 and 14-16.
If you’d like to organize a MuseBlog expedition to either event, please have your parents get in touch with the Administrators at gapa @ musefanpage.com.
P.S. “The Golden Compass” opens in movie theaters on December 7. I hope it’s good; the trailer looks great.
You can find out more about the Revels at www. revelsdc.org/ events.html
Ooh, Spamalot was just in Pittsburgh! I didn’t get to see it, though.
I’ll try to talk my parents into taking us down over winter break, but I’m not optimistic.
Spamalot was in toronto last year. mi padre wouldn’t let me see it…
in anycase i hope you all have fun.
I’d like to see Spamalot, and I probably could go, too! Anyone else available then?
0- According to reviews, they took out most of Pullman’s theological stuff because it was too controversial.
Oh, well. At least they didn’t make an obvious hash of it like SOME.
I saw Spamalot in NYC on Broadway with my family when I went with my advanced choral group to sing in CARNEGIE HALL (!!! Yes, we did). I liked it, but I think my childish dad liked it more.
I hope The Golden Compass is good! I hate it when they butcher books in movies. And TGC is such a fantastic book…
4-Yeah, I heard about that, but I was hoping they wouldn’t do it too much…it’s such a huge part of the later books, you know?
6-Agreed
Oh yeah, and they’re moving the last 3 chapters of TGC to the start of TSK. So basically, everything that happens after the bear conflict. (That’s not too much of a spoiler, right?)
his dark materials is brilliant. but apperantly pullman is satisfied, and so yeah. and its the same people who did lotr, and they seem to be pouring a ton of resources into it. so i can deal with the no specific god references.
8- I suppose I can, as well. Idk if I’ll see it, tho. Seems a little overdramatic, from the trailer.
which GAPA wrote post 0? Robert?
Yes. I’m the one who lives in the Washington area.
Spamalot came here recently and I went to go see it. It was good.
I’m not worried about His Dark Materials. The Dark is Rising on the other hand…
Yeah, the dark is rising definitely= rip off
GOLDEN COMPASS LOOKS SOOOOOO GOOD OMG CAN’T WAIT
You all might want to know that the producers have ripped almost all religion out of the movie, with just a few tiny tiny tiny things that you won’t catch anyway. It’s no longer a book about God, but a generic good vs. evil story. :'( >.&/lt;
I mean >.<
There wasn’t much religion in the first book, anyway, was there?
16- Well, the villains were the Church.
Spamalot! Omigosh! Must badger parents into emailing.
17-Yeah, and taking that out kills the plot lines for TSK and TAS.
Wow, this quickly turned into a Golden Compass talk thread.
GAH, they’re thinking of delaying the release date. u know how they filmed the college in the beginning at a roman catholic church? well, now the roman catholic people are being offended, because apparently someone read the books and are thinking CONSPIRACY THEROY. I am sooo mad. If they delay it, i will die.
the golden compass looks good and i read all the books but my mom mite not let me go see it. my cousin goes to a catholic school and the principal “advised” them not to see it.
i will be in DC in february so if you see someone who looks like they belong on the geek squad then say hi, its me.
The Golden Compass! *swoon* I must go tell S****!
I’m hesitant about going to see The Golden Compass. I loved and revered His Dark Materials so much that it would break my heart to see it any way other than the way it is in my head. I wouldn’t let my brother read The Golden Compass until he was twelve (I told him he was too young for the content) because the books were so special to me. I hated it when he read them, because he tried to talk to me about them and he said Don’t I look like Will and I wanted to hit him so he would go away and not make it so painful.
I don’t know why.
Oh, I loved Spamalot (saw it in Denver)
LoL, “It’s not something one usually says to a heavily armed christian, sir.”
Goodness Gracious! I love Spamalot!
Unfortunetly, I do not live at a comfortable driving distance from D.C, so I guess that counts me out.
I’m scared and happy for the Golden Compass to come out. I’m going to get some of my friends to go with me to see it… I have to reread the books before I go see it though. I really hope they don’t kill it. Wouldn’t that be cool if a group of Musers could get together and see it together?
Anyways, I’m not going to be able to make it to see Spamalot, I can tell that much right now. Gah. Oh well.
Heck, I live in Wyoming, there’s no way I’m getting to DC anytime soon. Sigh.
27- Wow, wyoming! cool i went to wyoming once. I went to Yellowstone and then i had breakfast in this relly small town called Dubois.
23- I know what you mean. It’s weird. For the longest time I felt that way about Opal reading Chrestomanci.
I’m over it all now. Now I just babble eagerly about all my favorite books to anyone who will listen.
I’m a bit worried about watching the movie, too. I just really don’t want them to butcher it, which happens way too often, so I kind of stopped watching movies of books I like. Maybe I’ll watch this one, though. I don’t know…
30- from what I can tell, give up all thoughts of seeing the book.the story line, but the book.
GAPAs, can you please make a new movies thread, or link me to the current one if there is one? I saw The Golden Compass last night and I want to talk about it, and there’s a bunch of other movies coming out/that are out, so people will probably want to talk about those too.
Ooh, TGC is amazing- the book at least 0.0
The movie looks pretty good so far, other than minor inconsistencies (which are just bothersome) and the whole religion-thing… but I’ve been waiting far to long for it to come out to care too much
Chances of anyone from my family coming are now very very very very slim. Maybe I’ll walk!!
…Unless someone wants to come to Pittsburgh, which did I mention has the Bodies and Chihuly and brand-new Dinosaur exhibit? (Which, by the way, they’ve spent about 3 years on and is apparently fantastic). And, it’s really close to Muse, PA.
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(32) Let’s make the old movies thread last out the year:
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=788
How have you managed to see “The Golden Compass” already? Was it a sneak preview? It doesn’t open in Washington until Friday.
Hmmm…I don’t think we will be able to do anything too soon. December looks busy, and money would be in short supply by this time, so soon before christmas…but we will kokonvene some time!
Red-tailed HAWK
Ooh, if Spamalot goes until January sixth, we might be able to make it some time then.
Anybody else free in January in WDC?
35-Yup, I went to a sneak preview. I’m special. B)
You’ll be special for two more days.
39-I thought it didn’t come out until the 7th. Wouldn’t that make it 3 days? Or am I just confused?
You’ll be special on the fifth and the sixth. Then on the seventh you won’t be special anymore.
41-Dang.
-enjoys specialness while it lasts-
Yeah, well I’m special every day. Just because. XD
If anyone goes to one of these performances they have to wear something that defines them as muserly. Agreed?
The Revels are over now, but the Folger is performing a medieval miracle play, the anonymous “Second Shepherd’s Play.” That sounds good. I’m also going to try to rope some friends into seeing “Spamalot.”