If finding neverland wins best musical would Bryan Cranston receive a second Tony as a producer?
In our millions, in our billions, we are most powerful when we stand together. TW4C unwaveringly joins the worldwide masses, for we know our liberation is inseparably bound.
Signed,
Theater Workers for a Ceasefire
https://theaterworkersforaceasefire.com/statement
Cranston probably put up a couple of hundred dollars into the show and Harvey thinks that warrants a press release. Seems as if any time anyone associated with FN passes gas, Harvey has his press agent write a release. It reeks of desperation.
As someone who enjoyed the show, I find the over the top press releases to be somewhat off putting. Words like "glorious" and "breathtaking" are best reserved for shows that are, well, glorious and breathtaking, not a show with a pop music score composed to appeal to a family audience. Gershwin can be "glorious and breathtaking". Gary Barlow is not Gershwin. It seems that hey should tone it down just a bit when describing the show.
But they are trying to appeal to the "masses" not folks like us that are pretty much going to see just about everything.
The masses LIKE those words.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
I mean God forbid that a Broadway show try to "gasp* sell tickets!
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Well, who didn't see this flavor of gushing in that lengthy piece posted at this very site, about "Something Rotten"? It was presented as if opening night B-roll footage, with everyone singing the praises of the material, fellow castmates, and especially the director. You'd think all the hard work was behind everyone. But no, in rehearsal. After one run-through that hardly showed the piece off to its best advantage (at least as reported in detail on, uh, another theater board). This raving before the fact with words like brilliant and luminous and glorious and side-splitting and orgasm-inducing or whatever hyperbole replaces "awesome" is the new normal and collective wishful thinking. The fear of a show not catching fire is understandable. But shows ... catch fire. (hip dude in Revolutionary America, maybe) Or do not (something about Las Vegas). In previews, magic happens or it doesn't, and word of mouth is generated by mouths genuinely in the thrall of the shows, not publicity machinery.
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I love this show (well, I loved it in Camb; not loving the key changes I keep hearing in little clips), and I find the number of recent press releases extremely obnoxious.