What did people think of Victor/Victoria (1995)?- Page 2
What did people think of Victor/Victoria (1995)?
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#25What did people think of Victor/Victoria (1995)?
Posted: 6/30/13 at 9:53amI wouldn't say I liked it much, but I don't think it was the fiasco some are calling it here.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#26What did people think of Victor/Victoria (1995)?
Posted: 6/30/13 at 9:54amI wouldn't say I liked it much, but I don't think it was the fiasco some are calling it here.
ErinDillyFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/06
#27What did people think of Victor/Victoria (1995)?
Posted: 6/30/13 at 12:50pm
It did give us one of the best stage flubs ever, when Liza replaced Julie. "When I was a second rate hooker"
I saw it from the 3rd row and just loved seeing Julie Andrews and Rachel York.
Updated On: 6/30/13 at 12:50 PM
#28What did people think of Victor/Victoria (1995)?
Posted: 6/30/13 at 2:33pmWhat about Le Jazz Hot? I haven't seen the entire show, but I thought the number was a full fledged showstopper, and I love the song itself.
Wilmingtom
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/11
#29What did people think of Victor/Victoria (1995)?
Posted: 7/1/13 at 4:01pmThings may have gone better if they'd had a stage director at the helm rather than Andrews' elderly husband. I understand that whenever choreographer Rob Marshall tried to make suggestions to shape the show, Edwards bristled.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#30What did people think of Victor/Victoria (1995)?
Posted: 7/1/13 at 4:27pmLe Jazz Hot was fine but couldn't hold a candle to the movie number. Plus the lip-synched final note left a rotten taste in my mouth- an in-your-face reminder that Andrews wasn't what she was.
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#31What did people think of Victor/Victoria (1995)?
Posted: 7/1/13 at 5:22pm
Of "Louis Says," the late Clive Barnes said the following in his review in The New York Post:
"After some years in this game, I cannot off hand think (and I have racked my offhand brains) of a worse musical number, in every respect possible, than Wildhorn and Bricusse's "Louis Says," which opens the second act. It should be videotaped and kept as an object-lesson for posterity."
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
#32What did people think of Victor/Victoria (1995)?
Posted: 7/1/13 at 7:11pm
But the puns! The puns! Er... the pun...
(For those who don't know French, seize = 16. As in: Louis 16/Louis says.)
In all honesty, I take a perverse pleasure in seeing Julie Andrews play Marie Antoinette. It's such an odd combination, but I love it.
#33What did people think of Victor/Victoria (1995)?
Posted: 7/1/13 at 11:32pm
I really don't care for this whole mess of a show which led to Julie losing her, already at the time, failing voice. Victor/Victoria to me is a very hallow and souless show that should've had a different director and book writer.
Don't get me started on the banal horrific lyrics please, thank you (it makes Glenn Slater's lyrics look like Howard Ashman's in comparison).
I know I may be in the minority but is it me, or did Liza Minnelli (who replaced Andrews) try her best to make the show better? Her version of Living in the Shadows is so beautiful and moving, that I swear that Liza should've played Victoria Grant originally.
Still I love the movie version A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER.
Jay94
Featured Actor Joined: 4/10/11
#34What did people think of Victor/Victoria (1995)?
Posted: 7/2/13 at 12:17am
I schlepped to Stockholm/ And brought a lot of schlock home . . . When I see the Eiffel Tower/ I have to go and take a shower
I'm gonna have dinner with her, with him, tonight.
So, what's the big deal? It's not a big deal, all right? All right!
So why am I shy as a spotty-faced kid in a high-school prom?
Why? I'll tell you why...It's because I don't know
Where this crazy dame, this Victor guy, whoever he is, is coming from,
That's why!
