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Todd Robbins
V.I.P.
New York
2686 Posts
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Posted: Jan 11, 2011 9:24am
Thanks Eddie. I did a benefit last night for Don Imus's ranch for kids with cancer. It was great being on a bill with as dozen musical numbers from Broadway shows and me eating glass.
Todd Robbins
www.toddrobbins.com
www.playdeadnyc.com
http://coneyislandtodd.blogspot.com/
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beardedbil
New user
4 Posts
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Posted: Jan 13, 2011 3:51pm
This is an unbelievable show! I have seen it twice already (with different company) and I must say its just as much fun the second time around. The first time I saw Play Dead it was in previews and I was actually selected to be a victim...err volunteer on stage. The second time I noticed little nuances from Todd and the way he plays with each guest on stage. It just goes to show that while Play Dead is outstanding it wouldn't be anywhere without a morbidly good host such as Todd Robbins. Well done my friend.
Best,
Bill Rod.
Dark Tech Effects
www.darktecheffects.com
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Todd Robbins
V.I.P.
New York
2686 Posts
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Posted: Jan 16, 2011 11:34am
We are please that Play Dead is the highest rated show at Ticketmaster.com.
Todd Robbins
www.toddrobbins.com
www.playdeadnyc.com
http://coneyislandtodd.blogspot.com/
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beardedbil
New user
4 Posts
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Posted: Jan 21, 2011 11:06am
I was flipping through the TV channels and saw a program called Oddities, on the science channel. As their preview for the next show, they showed Todd Robbins joining them and eating a light bulb... everyone should tune in for this!
Science Channel, Wednesday, January 26th at 9pm.
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Harley Newman
Inner circle
4574 Posts
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Posted: Jan 23, 2011 12:21am
Ticketmaster is practicing understatement!
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus” -Mark Twain
www.bladewalker.com
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Eddie Garland
Inner circle
Hells Kitchen, New York City
3313 Posts
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Posted: Feb 5, 2011 2:15am
100th Play Dead this weekend...Congrats Todd!
I saw show a third time last Saturday night. I took a Muggle dad from my kids school.
Todd pulled his dead father's name out of the ether and I had to talk the guy down after the show and assure him it was an act. Yikes!
The show only gets more powerful.
Clandestine Dark Arts Media
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Todd Robbins
V.I.P.
New York
2686 Posts
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Posted: Feb 5, 2011 8:22am
Thank you Eddie. Sorry you had to bring your friend back around. I can't make it any clearer what I'm doing. It just goes to prove the toxic nature of creating the illusion of contacting the dead.
Todd Robbins
www.toddrobbins.com
www.playdeadnyc.com
http://coneyislandtodd.blogspot.com/
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Eddie Garland
Inner circle
Hells Kitchen, New York City
3313 Posts
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Posted: Feb 5, 2011 2:06pm
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On 2011-02-05 08:22, Todd Robbins wrote:
Sorry you had to bring your friend back around. I can't make it any clearer what I'm doing. It just goes to prove the toxic nature of creating the illusion of contacting the dead.
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No worries Todd... It is so fun taking unsuspecting grown men to the show and watching them reduced to screaming little girls.
I'm going to send my wife back with a group of her friends for a ladies fright night.
Clandestine Dark Arts Media
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Tony Iacoviello
Eternal Order
Gone Fishing
11637 Posts
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Posted: Feb 5, 2011 2:13pm
I enjoyed the comments on Fangoria.
This is the one show I want to see this year!
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Todd Robbins
V.I.P.
New York
2686 Posts
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Posted: Feb 5, 2011 2:23pm
Tony,
I do hope you get a chance to see it. I look forward to meeting up.
Todd
Todd Robbins
www.toddrobbins.com
www.playdeadnyc.com
http://coneyislandtodd.blogspot.com/
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MichelAsselin
Veteran user
20th century, 3rd dimension
325 Posts
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Posted: Mar 6, 2011 1:31pm
I was in NYC with the family on school break and took time to experience Play Dead. Todd delivers marvelously. We had a fantastic time and I wholeheartedly recommend the play. It's an interesting balance of smart humor and edgy preachiness... for a while. Then all hell breaks loose. Cinema people talk about practical effects - special effects which do not resort to optical manipulation, à la blue screen. Play Dead has some of the best practical effects that I have seen in a long time, but it only works because Todd can "carry" them. His delivery and manner reaches even those who perceive themselves as unsuggestible. I had the chance to see Todd in Montreal for Hoodwinked (twice!) and I knew the he was good... But not that he was that good.
And, as a bonus... My son got to sit across from Alan Rickman.
So if you are in the area, go to the show. And expect something wicked.
" , ? ; !!! "
- Marcel Marceau, Feb 30, 1945.
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magicianroger
Loyal user
234 Posts
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Posted: Mar 8, 2011 6:47pm
How long will it be playing for
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Todd Robbins
V.I.P.
New York
2686 Posts
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Posted: Mar 8, 2011 10:28pm
The run is open ended.
Todd Robbins
www.toddrobbins.com
www.playdeadnyc.com
http://coneyislandtodd.blogspot.com/
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critter
Inner circle
Spokane, WA
2334 Posts
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Posted: Mar 8, 2011 10:39pm
Niiice. I hope all this stuff is still going on when I get out of school.
I throw stuff.
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Ichi-go ichi-e
"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."
-Theodore Roosevelt
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Roth
Inner circle
something wicked lurks behind these
4531 Posts
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Posted: Mar 9, 2011 12:33am
Come to Hollywood! We have the Goddess's, a 1,000 year old warlock, and lots of tiger blood!
We're like an F-18! Duh! Winner!
Admit it, L.A. has culture!
GYPSY CURSE!
LuNa
Room Service
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critter
Inner circle
Spokane, WA
2334 Posts
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Posted: Mar 9, 2011 2:05am
I throw stuff.
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Ichi-go ichi-e
"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."
-Theodore Roosevelt
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Todd Robbins
V.I.P.
New York
2686 Posts
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Posted: Mar 9, 2011 8:56am
LA would be fine by me since I am originally from that area, but many other things are in the works, so LA will probably have to wait. Just get on a plane and come to NYC. We'll have fun
And there is an old joke:
What is the difference between LA and yorgurt?
Yorgurt has an active culture.
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On 2011-03-09 00:33, Roth wrote:
Admit it, L.A. has culture!
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Todd Robbins
www.toddrobbins.com
www.playdeadnyc.com
http://coneyislandtodd.blogspot.com/
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critter
Inner circle
Spokane, WA
2334 Posts
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Posted: Mar 9, 2011 10:46am
There's always Spokane. We are the second biggest city in Washington now 
I throw stuff.
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Ichi-go ichi-e
"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."
-Theodore Roosevelt
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illusiontech
Regular user
Las Vegas
190 Posts
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Posted: Mar 9, 2011 2:09pm
I'm selfish and want it back in Vegas so I can work on it again!!
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critter
Inner circle
Spokane, WA
2334 Posts
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Posted: Mar 9, 2011 2:23pm
I bet it'd be huge in Seattle.
I throw stuff.
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Ichi-go ichi-e
"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."
-Theodore Roosevelt
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Todd Robbins
V.I.P.
New York
2686 Posts
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Posted: Apr 8, 2011 12:37am
We had a fun time last night. Robert Englund was in to see the show. I wonder how audience members felt sitting in the dark with Freddy Krueger there. And in the future, Robert might be doing more than just seeing the show. I'm just saying...
Todd Robbins
www.toddrobbins.com
www.playdeadnyc.com
http://coneyislandtodd.blogspot.com/
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Eddie Garland
Inner circle
Hells Kitchen, New York City
3313 Posts
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Posted: Apr 8, 2011 1:10am
This extremely well written show certainly deserves becoming a franchise and many talented horror performers may take the stage in the future...but be assured that Todd Robbins originated it and
in 2011 he was the modern GhostMaster of alllllllllll time.
Plan your summer vacations around seeing this show.
Don't miss Todd Robbins in this excellent theatrical experience.
Since living in NYC I have attended in-person Henning, Blackstone Jr., Copperfield and Penn and Teller.
Only Robbins have I attended 5 times...it is just that good.
I cannot recommend the show enough.
Come to New York City and PLAY DEAD!
So far in the media...the internet reviewers Andrew and Andrew
http://blogdotblog.andrewandrewdotcom.com/?p=2470
reviewed it simply and the most accurately as..."water boarding for the soul"
Clandestine Dark Arts Media
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Eddie Garland
Inner circle
Hells Kitchen, New York City
3313 Posts
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Posted: Apr 8, 2011 10:50pm
Jeffery Combs could be good in the role.
Clandestine Dark Arts Media
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Todd Robbins
V.I.P.
New York
2686 Posts
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Posted: Apr 30, 2011 10:02am
Play Dead has been nominated for both a Drama Desk Award and the 1st annual Off Broadway Alliance Award for Unique Theatrical Experience. We are grateful to be nominated, but I think this is as far as it will go.
We will lose to a production called Sleep No More. This is a site specific walk through production of Macbeth set in a 1930s hotel. That is looked upon as "theater" whereas our show is looked upon as the poorer relation "performance". There is a great deal of snobbishness in the NY theater community, and a lot of this comes from the fact that performance pieces like STOMP and Blue Man Group play for decades and lauded esoteric theater productions sometimes run for just a couple of weeks.
Todd Robbins
www.toddrobbins.com
www.playdeadnyc.com
http://coneyislandtodd.blogspot.com/
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Paul Prater
Elite user
White Hall, AR
407 Posts
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Posted: May 2, 2011 11:03am
Congrats on the nominations Todd. I bought my tickets and will be seeing the show in a couple of weeks. I am looking forward to it.
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Silvertongue
Inner circle
One day I will die leaving behind
1977 Posts
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Posted: May 7, 2011 5:06pm
I went with my wife to see Play Dead last night and had a great time. What an amazing show. The best I have seen of this type hands downs. It appealed to me in so many sick and depraved ways. It will definitely go down as a classic. I don't want to say anything about it and spoil it but its right up your spooky, mysterious and bizarre alley waiting to cave in your skull with a crowbar. A must see!
For as long as space exists,
And living beings remain in cyclic existence,
For that long, may I too remain,
To dispel the sufferings of the world.
-Shantideva
Engaging in the Conduct of a Bodhisattva
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Bob Clayton
Loyal user
245 Posts
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Posted: Jun 10, 2011 11:44pm
Just returned from an evening of watching Todd's wickedly evil performance in Play Dead. A great show from beginning to end. My complements Todd to you and the rest of the cast.
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Todd Robbins
V.I.P.
New York
2686 Posts
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Posted: Jun 11, 2011 11:32am
Thank you Bob. It was nice meeting you. I'm glad you liked the show. It looks like there will be a production of Play Dead opening in Mexico City in October. And who knows where it will also show up...maybe on a movie screen near you!
Todd Robbins
www.toddrobbins.com
www.playdeadnyc.com
http://coneyislandtodd.blogspot.com/
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Mr Timothy Gray
Regular user
Glasgow, Scotland
170 Posts
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Posted: Jun 18, 2011 12:12pm
Very unhappy to see PLAY DEAD closing. Good to know there are future ideas and plans already taking fruition! Go out and catch the show if you get the chance. It's a spooky, bloody, terrifying, sexy and ultimately BEAUTIFUL evening of theatre. Todd is amazing -- and not to mention one of our greatest twisted performers living!
http://offbroadway.broadwayworld.com/article_/index.php?article=PLAY-DEAD-Kicks-the-Bucket-July-24-20110615
Mr Timothy Gray
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David Thiel
Inner circle
Western Canada...where all that oil is
2584 Posts
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Posted: Jun 18, 2011 12:37pm
Where do you go next?
When you gaze up at the sky in breathless wonder, you are probably one second away from walking into a tree.
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www.theseriouslyfunnymagicguy.com
www.MidnightMagicAndMentalism.com
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