CRYBABY the Invited Dress.
CRYBABY the Invited Dress.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#1CRYBABY the Invited Dress.
Posted: 3/14/08 at 11:49pm
Mother Mother, Make It STOP!!
I can't remember seeing anything this bad on Broadway in a long time. I support the actors and crew but boy does this stink.
The score is actually worse then YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, each song sounded like some other song and the lyrics are abysmall.
Most of the actors are very talented but the material is so putrid they are unfortunately swimming in mush.
The one exception is the lead, CRYBABY himself!
I can't believe they couldn't find an attractive guy who had a little charisma, what were the casting people thinking?
We got no programs so I will omit names of the guilty.
Poor Harriet Harris.
I liked the pregnant girl and the insane girl.
This whole thing depressed me and made me a little sick to my stomach.
Thank goodness I was with a cute date, but now I have to make it up to him.
Oh, well.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#2re: CRYBABY the Invited Dress.
Posted: 3/14/08 at 11:51pmOh, I started a welcome thread...well, no one had huge expectations, I don't think.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#2re: CRYBABY the Invited Dress.
Posted: 3/15/08 at 12:14amYikes. I'm seeing the first preview... Uhoh.
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popular_elphie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/05
#3re: CRYBABY the Invited Dress.
Posted: 3/15/08 at 12:23am
I thought it was great. I feel like this show is going to get a lot of slack because it's a lot of fun and isn't deeply meaningful.
Form your own opinions! Does CurtainPullDowner ever like anything?
#4re: CRYBABY the Invited Dress.
Posted: 3/15/08 at 12:23am
Errr. Ignore my old username. I've been MIA for a while and thought I'd start anew.
Anyway, hi. And yes, I'll be at the first preview.
noodles2
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stevenycguy
Broadway Star Joined: 12/7/05
#6re: CRYBABY the Invited Dress.
Posted: 3/15/08 at 1:12amWhat is the running time? The movie was 90 minutes?
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#8re: CRYBABY the Invited Dress.
Posted: 3/15/08 at 1:32am
"I feel like this show is going to get a lot of slack because it's a lot of fun and isn't deeply meaningful. "
Why do shills of fluffy shows always make this excuse for its faults?
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#9re: CRYBABY the Invited Dress.
Posted: 3/15/08 at 1:37am
""I feel like this show is going to get a lot of slack because it's a lot of fun and isn't deeply meaningful. "
Why do shills of fluffy shows always make this excuse for its faults?"
Why do shills of serious shows always make the excuse: "I feel like this show isn't going to be a mainstream success because it isn't a lot of fun--- it's deep and meaningful."?
It goes both ways, always.
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
#10re: CRYBABY the Invited Dress.
Posted: 3/15/08 at 1:49am
I had a great time, i was thoroughly entertained, the show was very clever, the cast was fantastic, the choreography was amazing.
it may not have been about minorities or pregnant teenagers but that doesn't make it bad! sure its a splashy musical, but it was a well done splashy musical. i dont know what theater curtainpulldowner was in... but i, along with the most of the audience, had a great time.
popular_elphie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/05
#11re: CRYBABY the Invited Dress.
Posted: 3/15/08 at 1:51am
"I feel like this show is going to get a lot of slack because it's a lot of fun and isn't deeply meaningful. "
Why do shills of fluffy shows always make this excuse for its faults?
How am I a shill? I saw the invited dress, I liked the show, I don't think it will be taken seriously when it comes to Tony Awards because it isn't a GYPSY or a JOURNEY'S END or a PASSING STRANGE. It's just fun.
#12re: CRYBABY the Invited Dress.
Posted: 3/15/08 at 1:51am
"Why do shills of serious shows always make the excuse: "I feel like this show isn't going to be a mainstream success because it isn't a lot of fun--- it's deep and meaningful."? "
Okay usually I appreciate what you say, but honestly I have never seen someone say something like that.
-Benjamin
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Updated On: 3/15/08 at 01:51 AM
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popular_elphie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/05
#13re: CRYBABY the Invited Dress.
Posted: 3/15/08 at 1:52amAnd, by the way, it got an immediate standing ovation when the lights went down, so obviously, others feel the same way I do.
#14re: CRYBABY the Invited Dress.
Posted: 3/15/08 at 2:51am
popular elphie, I don't think you are a shill, I was just responding to the idea of people defending serious shows or fun shows by using a similar tactic.
I'm glad you loved Cry- Baby, and I hope I do too 
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
shesamarshmallow
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/06
#15re: CRYBABY the Invited Dress.
Posted: 3/15/08 at 3:04amElphie, I love your new avatar.
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#16re: CRYBABY the Invited Dress.
Posted: 3/15/08 at 3:07am
I had no plans whatsoever to go, but a friend randomly invited me, so... yeah. I did enjoy myself very much. It had plenty of flaws. It was a good 20 minutes too long, a decent number of the leads weren't suited to their parts, and the score was highly derivative. That said, there were several great people in it, the book was funny enough, and a lot of the songs were very fun. It won't win awards or get good reviews, and I doubt it'll be a huge critical success. That said, I'd be happy if it had a reasonable amount of success and stayed open for a good couple months.
Speaking of open... or good... the guy in the denim vest? I'm not sure of his name, but placement and technique-wise, he seemed like he was probably the dance captain... DAMN. I'm glad I didn't see him in public, because if he were close enough to touch I literally don't know what I'd be capable of doing to him.
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#17re: CRYBABY the Invited Dress.
Posted: 3/15/08 at 3:33am
That said, I'd be happy if it had a reasonable amount of success and stayed open for a good couple months.
LOL
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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#18re: CRYBABY the Invited Dress.
Posted: 3/15/08 at 3:51am
This is exactly why message boards are barring reviews of previews & rehearsals. It's why shows like Merrily We Roll Along bombed so horribly. It's a dress rehearsal. Previews haven't even started yet. If you saw Sunday in the Park With George at this point in it's Broadway career the show would have been mising Finishing he Hat and Children and art. All creative types would say about their show at this point would be "Work needs to be done."
I haven't seen Cry Baby and have no idea what it's going to be like but I do think it deserves to open before it gts slaughtered.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#19re: CRYBABY the Invited Dress.
Posted: 3/15/08 at 3:53am
???
Why would anyone pay good money (even at $54, it's not exactly free) and not be able to give his/her opinion?
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#20re: CRYBABY the Invited Dress.
Posted: 3/15/08 at 3:58amHey, you can trash whatever you want. Previews and rehearsals are for finishing a show. Changes are made every single night in most cases. But people "review" a show at this point and poison the atmosphere so badly that it never gets a chance. That's why real media embargo reviews until opening night- that's when the show is "Done."
#21re: CRYBABY the Invited Dress.
Posted: 3/15/08 at 4:07am
I agree with Joe.
Having said that, I think this will be the big hit of the season judging from out-of-town reviews. I still wish they had cast someone more exciting and interesting than Elizabeth Stanley for the female lead (I know she is supposed to be a "square" but Stanley makes me yawn), and that Jan Maxwell had decided to do the show--Harriet Harris is okay but Maxwell is a glorious actress.
I'm looking forward to the Rob Ashford choreography as well as the acclaimed performances from Christopher J. Hanke and Alli Mauzey.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#22re: CRYBABY the Invited Dress.
Posted: 3/15/08 at 4:09am
A review from a critic, I understand. But we're just reading the opinion of regular theater goers. We know nothing about each other. If they are teenagers or professional critics passing incognito, we don't know - But you know they will share it with family and friends, and come here just to express their opinion.
I'm familiar with a few posters here, and after reading what they think of shows, I know a few who have similat taste than me.
A lot of people bashed Passing Strange during previews, but I know I will enjoy it, it is something I'd like to see.
I think the answer is not to stop others from expressing what they thought, but taking every single post here at face value - a theatergoer's thoughts on the evening and learn how to take that in an educated way.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#24re: CRYBABY the Invited Dress.
Posted: 3/15/08 at 8:08am
"I haven't seen Cry Baby and have no idea what it's going to be like but I do think it deserves to open before it gts slaughtered."
I'd hope everyone here is smart enough to go into the show with an open mind since it is in previews. I don't think there is anything wrong with CurtainPullDowner posting his thoughts - aren't you guys the least bit curious? Just take his comments lightly since the show is a work in progress.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#25re: CRYBABY the Invited Dress.
Posted: 3/15/08 at 8:23am
I am obviously not a professional critic, just someone who works in the theatre and sees a lor of theatre.
By all means you should all form your own opinion, I was just stating mine.
