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Genuinely laughed out loud at the GFY, I love how intense it is
I thought it meant Good For You lmao
SO DID I UNTIL I READ THIS COMMENT
We're too pure <3
It’s very Jersey
pretty sure it's the state motto
Back to the Future is worth seeing only for Roger Bart and the car. He managed to excel in a play where everybody else was committed to just recreating the original movie, and he earned his nomination.
He did, but poor guy has to sing that asinine For the Dreamers song every night. He’s too talented for the material but a gig’s a gig I suppose. He at least seems to be having fun with it.
Wait, you remember the name of one of the original songs in BTTF:TM? What kind of wizardry is this?
No, I had to look it up lol
Um, that song made me cry 🥲 it’s beautiful
I’m glad you liked it.
Same! It's the only song that stuck with me after seeing the show in London. We are so lucky Roger came with the show to Broadway!
I also liked the guy playing Marty’s dad, Hugh Coles.
He was great!
I cracked up walking home after seeing it because these girls behind me were complaining that they liked the guy in that role in the West End production better...
I think Casey Likes makes it worth seeing as well, love his Marty
But people want the original movie. They gave the people what they want.
The idea of Back to the Future on Broadway just feels ripped from an episode of 30 Rock or an SNL sketch
Have you seen Cabaret? It looks like a SNL parody of Cabaret.
I was lucky enough to see him play doc brown on the west end in 2022. He was a highlight of the show and even though I didn’t know anything about him at the time I’ve since become a fan.
Because of the way he performed it, it works has become part of a regular playlist for me
Same. We lucked out into being there his last night. Crowd was packed with hardcore fans of his and the movie dressed up in costumes hooting and hollering. For a show that has no memorable music that was the most fun night I’ve ever had in a theater.
Throwback to when this guy dated Trisha Paytas lol
Wait, seriously ?
Yes! She talks about it in her Rolling Stone article lol and IIRC made a few kitchen floor crying videos about him cheating as well back in the day.
I mean she’s also a liar so?
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He's the Warren Beatty of Broadway
I didn't love Back to the Future, but I thought Roger Bart was very entertaining as Doc. Im happy he got a nom today
Same. I saw him in the West End version, and while I'm not a fan of the show itself, I did get the impression that he and the other performers were very talented and doing the absolutely best job they could with the material they were given.
Why did immensely talented Roger Bart get a nomination?
Immensely talented and widely loved within the community. For every mixed review of the show that I’ve seen, he’s always been highlighted as a positive aspect, so it’s not super surprising that he was nominated.
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Did i miss something?
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I missed that, and I couldn’t find any evidence for that online with a perfunctory search. Maybe it was too perfunctory. Do you have any evidence or examples you could help the unenlightened with?
when you say young ladies, do you mean adults (>18), or do you mean children (<18). Because I care way more about one of those than the other
makes tiger sounds in bed
I will never understand the impulse of saying “no offense but” as if that has any impact on whether what you’re about to say is offensive.
That’s why I prefer “with all due respect” which does not specify exactly how much respect the person deserves
“Full offense, but…” however is a great sentence starter.
That would be awesome. Makes me think of Bill Burr’s bit about the date starting a statement off “this is going to sound oddly racist.”
It's similar to "I'm not a racist but" and then proceeding to say something racist.
My dad does this. "I'm not trying to be sanctimonious" before launching into a sanctimonious tirade.
I only use it when I'm giving a compliment
Well no offense, but that’s really funny.
My personal favorite is "not to be pedantic...". If the silence stretches on I laugh and wait patiently while the person I'm arguing with tries to figure out what pedantic means.
oh, but he famously does fuck around.
So does every other actor and actress on Broadway. They need the validation.
why is he namesearching lol
It's extra funny b/c this is the first thing he's tweeted in like a year.
He's likely not. The Twitter algorithm inserts tweets you might find interesting. Any combination of the show plus Tonys probably ended up in his feed.
Yea he probably saw a tweet recommended on his timeline and got confused.
he replied 11 hours after she posted the original tweet so I bet someone sent it to him. also, because it has the word Tony in it, it will come up when people search Tony or Tony nominations. i highly doubt he was name searching
why would someone send him a rando's critical tweet with no additional commentary? if that's happening he needs better friends lol
friends of celebrities do that all the time, especially when the celebrity doesn’t actively use twitter. also i’m willing to bet that wasn’t the only hate tweet he saw
right...she didn't tag him
Idk how old he is but treating a public tweet like a personal text to his phone is hilarious. It’s up there with Barbara Streisand publicly commenting asking people if they’re on ozempic
Honestly I could never be any level of famous because this is how I would take any mention of me.
I just googled for exactly this reason because I was like damn this is some boomer energy right here. Lol. He’s 61 so I guess even junior boomers gonna boom
You understand that the word "texts" exists outside of a text message, right?
He was getting tagged in the replies
Yeah it kind of lost him any mic-droppy coolness. I don't know if I would have been able to help myself either, though, tbf.
I might have just liked it and moved on though.
Yeah, I think the funnier/more powerful reply would’ve been something like “Glad you enjoyed my performance!” or something like that—shows that he saw it, causes perhaps a bit of embarrassment for the rude original tweet, and shows him as being above the haters.
We always think of cooler ways to phrase things in retrospect but unfortunately in the heat of the moment emotions often get the better of us
Oh, for sure, one thousand percent. I don’t blame him at all.
Someone he knows could have retweeted it.
There’s a bunch of other ways he could’ve found this tweet.
and why would he have to respond in any of the cases… she ostensibly didn’t tag him or send it to him, he just got nominated for a tony, there’s a thousand better things he could be doing than picking fights with random people who inevitably don’t like his performance. if she was in his replies talking shit he would be justified but she’s literally just tweeting on her own account
lol, I love this defense of “doesn’t he have anything better to do,” like it takes huge amounts of time to respond to a catty tweet.
In any event, it feels good to respond directly to people shitting on you. Even if you’re talented and the shitty comments don’t merit a response - it still feels good.
okay, and it would be insanely embarrassing and petty and i would expect public figures to have a thicker skin. i don’t think i have anything else to elaborate
Tbh I saw Back to the Future and agree with her. This season was too stacked for him to get that nom 🤷♀️
I feel like people who are in the public eye - yes, even on Broadway - need thicker skin. Who cares what this random woman thinks? Also... she's not the only one who was scratching her head about that yesterday judging by the response online. I just think when these famous, successful people stoop to this level it makes them look dumb and too sensitive.
Yeah lowkey this is kind of embarassing for him IMO
it would be one thing if she tagged him but she didn't. and i'm pretty sure i saw comments like hers on this subreddit too re: his nomination. not sure what exactly people are praising him for lol. it's not a funny "clapback" when the person being responded to is just some random woman voicing her opinion on her own account.
Yeah, not a good look for Roger Bart...the original poster probably paid money to see his show and has a valid opinion about it, and may even have elaborated elsewhere. They followed basic internet etiquette by not tagging him in the tweet. Roger needs to learn how social media works or get off it.
Counterpoint: His reply is extremely funny. Like there’s just something about that ending “GFY” from DOC BROWN 😂
It doesn't seem like he was trying to be funny though, in which case I guess it is funny lol. Very "you kids get off my lawn" of him.
If the original poster had some valid opinion she didn’t include it. Her tweet screams attention seeking and she just got the proper attention she deserved imo. Love it!
It’s not attention seeking if they didn’t tag anyone or anything though…
I respectively disagree
Because he’s a damn icon.
Put some fucking respect on Herc’s name😤
That is Mister Carmen Ghia to you!
While I understand the shock value of Roger Bart's response, it does seem a bit over the top for someone of his stature.
He's a Tony Award-winning actor, and though it must be tough to hear criticism, especially in such a public forum, his reaction could have been more measured. Saying "no offense" but then telling someone to "go f--- yourself" for expressing an opinion about an awards show comes off as unnecessarily harsh.
It's important for public figures to handle criticism with a bit of grace, even when it's pointed or personally challenging.
And if this is one of the rudest things he's read he's had an easy go of it. Myself, as a non famous user of reddit gets worse here weekly.
Maybe he meant "good for you" 😂
😆😆😆😆
He was literally just structuring his “No offense but” as a mirror to hers….
This is one of the reasons I hate twitter - it just encourages this snippy, negative going back and forth. Michelle's entitled to her opinion and on a sub like this could provide some context around it. For example, I never saw Bart but feel Chip Zein should have been nominated instead of Dorian Harewood in this category - Harewood gave an excellent performance, but I felt Zein's role was more difficult and that he really deserves a nomination given his long stage career.
Michelle may have similar nuances to her opinion but in this format it just comes across as "Bart sucks" which is of course hurtful. And his (understandably aggrieved) response just continues the negativity and seems petty.
it’s not like she tagged him or harassed him about it, she just tweeted an opinion on her own account and he was the one who specifically sought it out just to… clap back? namesearching is embarrassing lol
If you talk shit on a public platform, remember it’s still public and people can comment on things when it’s public lol