We (in the greater Green Bay area) have some douchebag coming to the Fox Valley Performing Arts Center, doing a version of Hamlet, using voices of Simpsons characters. I saw a promo ad for it, and FOX 11 ran a scroll across the bottom of the screen during the new episode tonight (7 p.m. Central)
Anyone heard of this?? Anyone seen it??
What the hell is going on???
Won't someone e'splain dis to me?
Arvy in Green Bay
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He actually does a pretty good job. I'd suggest seeing it. At least you'd be seeing Shakespeare.
-Doc
It's a version of Macbeth, not Hamlet (that one was actually done on the Simpsons fairly recently), with the good people of Springfield somehow landing in the time of Macbeth and taking on the roles of Shakespeare's play. Or maybe it's just the folks of Springfield putting on the show. It was never completely clear to me.
How in the world does Rick, http://www.rickmiller.ca get named a "douchebag"?
I've seen Machomer at least twice, and while I haven't seen Rick in some years, he having moved to Toronto, when he was around I had a nodding aquaintance with him. There was the second year that he performed Machomer at the Montreal Fringe Festival, http://www.montrealfringe.ca and someone else had a play called "Homo Alone". I kept reading that as "Homer Alone".
Rick even tents his fingers like Mr. Burns.
He was briefly an architect or draftsman, and he drew the cartoons that are projected behind him in the show himself. He does all the voices himself. I don't know if he's still throwing in the extra of him doing some musical impressions.
It sold out two years in a row at the Montreal Fringe, in '95 and '96, and he still finding a market for the show.
Michael
In on Sunday 11 May 2003 10:59 pm, SARVESON ([email]) pulled this out of its ever growing ass:
offhand, i'd say trademark infringement
sounds like a retard who can't come up with anything original
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Can't come up with anything original? What, is EVERYBODY doing Macbeth as the Simpsons characters these days or something? This is the first I've heard of it. Maybe I'm out of the loop.
Jealousy really doesn't become you. Just buy a ticket and go enjoy the show, you irascible crank.
ff
The show does know about Rick. I've seen articles about this, maybe even interviews, and it seems like they look the other way.
Keep in mind that when Rick Miller played the Edinburgh Fringe in 2000, I think it was that year and not the next, the actual Simpson voices were touring, and landed in or near Edinburgh at the same time. I would have loved to see duelling voices, but I gather nothing happened.
The story goes that he started doing Macbeth with Simpson voices to entertain the cast and crew at a local outdoor Shakespeare performance, and then solidified it with the home made drawings. He has put a lot of effort into it, though who knows whether it classifies as parody or not. It strikes me that it is an original concept, showing the Simpson characters in another light (remember, he only uses still drawings, and not real animation; he does act out some of the gestures, like Burns' tenting of his fingers).
On the other hand, the last time I saw Rick perform, in '99 maybe, it seemed like he's better at imitating voices than making them do new things. So he can do "We are the World" and imitate all the singers who performed on that song, but he never really takes the voices and personna into new areas. Maybe that's changed in recent years. I gather Rich Little himself started that way, and it was only with time that he become more innovative with the voices he could do.
And every time I think of Rick Miller, I can't forget the time he did a children's show at the Montreal Fringe with Stephanie, who later became his wife, and one of them toss a beret into the crowd. Significant was that it almost hit one of the local reviewers who was in the audience.
Michael
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Arvy in Green Bay
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That's kind of high-brow for Green Bay and the Fox Valley, isn't it? Does he were a Brett Farve jersey while performing too?
(Sorry for the outburst, I live in Madison, WI and find it annoying when people were Packer jerseys to Church, especially in May)
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Ahh.... Madison - 15 Sq. Miles surrounded by Reality
(Greetings from Milwaukee!) :-)
Exactly! Hey, can you do me a favor and help keep me posted on what is happening in the real world? Thanks
It's an okay show but the guy still can't do the modern Homer voice. He does the one from the Ullman shorts.