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Post number 9469

rev- — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 09:53:13 -0800

The Simpsons Get Respectable in this play where all the characters from the show act out Hamlet? It's a one-man show in New Jersey, but I'd pay to see this. It proves Hamlet's weird universality, but seeing Apu as "the first murderer" has got to be a rush. (via TV Tattle)

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 09:55:52 -0800

ummmm. the article says "Macbeth", not Hamlet

By: rev-

rev- — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 09:56:20 -0800

Do'oh!

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 09:58:28 -0800

Okay, call me a geek, but I'd like to see this show. It sounds really, really funny.

By: transient

transient — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 10:02:11 -0800

ummmm. the article says "Toronto", not New Jersey

By: EatenByAGrue

EatenByAGrue — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 10:03:50 -0800

This is actually a touring production, as I believe it was in Orange County, California recently. And I think this points more to The Simpsons' weird universality. I mean, given the quantity and variety of the characters on the show, I would imagine you could recast almost any play, movie, or novel with Simpsons characters. By the way, does anyone else think Hamlet is a really weird name?

By: Skot

Skot — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 10:03:54 -0800

This is obviously the greatest piece of Art ever created in the history of man. (Ralph! Ralph! Ralph!)

By: transient

transient — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 10:06:55 -0800

Here's the show's site.

By: rev-

rev- — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 10:06:55 -0800

I think Eaten is right about the Universality of the Simpsons. The review doesn't say that you need a thorough understanding of Simpsonsalia, but I would imagine you would need it to get most of the jokes. Also, in a perfect world, someone rewrites MacBeth as the Kurt and Courtney story and it becomes a cult classic.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 10:10:00 -0800

It's playing down at UC Irvine later this month. That's almost worth a trip down.

By: EatenByAGrue

EatenByAGrue — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 10:32:19 -0800

Thanks mathowie! I missed it the last time it was here. I live five minutes from UCI. Woohoo!

By: dhartung

dhartung — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 11:15:35 -0800

Grue: Hamlet a weird name? Ask the Danes. Originally Amled or Amlethus (he was a real person, the Prince of Jylland/Jutland), it means, pretty much, simpleton. Note that MacHomer has its own site, on which you can see every conceivable Simpsons-Shakespeare cliché played out in headline form by its various reviews.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 11:35:42 -0800

I like Apu as Jules myself.

By: rschram

rschram — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 11:39:33 -0800

From the reviews section. "IS THIS A DOUGHNUT I SEE BEFORE ME?" - Uptown "IS THIS A PIZZA I SEE BEFORE ME?" - The London Herald "IS THIS A D'OH-GER I SEE BEFORE ME?" - The Scottish Sun "D'OH, IS THAT A HIT SHOW I SEE BEFORE ME?" - Edinburgh Metro Hahahahahaha!!!!

By: sylloge

sylloge — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 12:01:49 -0800

Wow, he's been doing this show for a long, long time — I saw it at least five years ago at a fringe festival. Fantastic. The funniest live comedy I have ever seen.

By: kindall

kindall — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 12:13:15 -0800

Shakespeare named his own son Hamnet, which is an even weirder name than Hamlet.

By: DiplomaticImmunity

DiplomaticImmunity — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 13:29:42 -0800

MacHomer has been going around fringe festivals in Canada for years. It's a good show, well worth seeing.

By: ParisParamus

ParisParamus — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 13:34:10 -0800

This sounds ripe for a future engagement at the NYC Fringe Festival, which opens in NYC in a few days.

By: Optamystic

Optamystic — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 14:01:41 -0800

Sweeeet.....I am SO going to the Irvine show...

By: EatenByAGrue

EatenByAGrue — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 14:02:21 -0800

dhartung, thanks for the info. I still think Hamlet (or Amled) is a weird name coming from my parochial background, but at least it was a real name and not made up by the Bard.

By: elle

elle — Sat, 04 Aug 2001 02:35:38 -0800

jeremy- wouldn't willy be a more natural choice? why with the anger and ability to kill a bear with his bare hands and the facial structure. rev-- courtney love isn't that evil, really. i really loved hating her, and she might not have been 'a rock' like james brolin to barbara streisand, but she's really no lady macbeth.