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#275AMERICAN PSYCHO Previews
Posted: 3/30/16 at 9:36pm
How do I activate the spoiler alert?
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#276AMERICAN PSYCHO Previews
Posted: 3/30/16 at 10:00pm
HERE is a song list from the first preview, thanks to the lovely Charlie. I can't remember his username on here, but he's around here somewhere. Thank you, Charlie!
They/them.
"Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."
#277AMERICAN PSYCHO Previews
Posted: 3/30/16 at 10:04pm
That is still the song list as of last night.
Just give the world Love.
#278AMERICAN PSYCHO Previews
Posted: 3/30/16 at 10:36pm
CindersGolightly said: "HERE is a song list from the first preview, thanks to the lovely Charlie. I can't remember his username on here, but he's around here somewhere. Thank you, Charlie!
"
Haha you are very welcome! :)
#279AMERICAN PSYCHO Previews
Posted: 3/31/16 at 1:46am
I'm kinda bummed that Oh, Sri Lanka got cut. I listened to the OLCR over the weekend and that number might be the most satirical song in the show. I dunno about those quasi-rapped verses, but the chorus is great (the melody is sublime and the lyrics are somehow ridiculous and honest at the same time) and I love the melody to "I hope you DIE, yuppie scum!"
I wish they'd lose Killing Time instead. It's a pretty song but it just kinda sits there. Can someone who's seen the show tell me if the scene it makes up is integral to the plot? Seems like something they could do in dialogue and a snippet of the chorus, then save the full song for a reprise in act two. Honestly, to me it sounds like an outtake from blink-182's un/self-titled album, it really is pretty but it doesn't seem very important.
You're reminding me of people you hear at the movies asking questions every ten seconds, "Who is that? Why is that guy walking down the street? Who's that lady coming up to him? Uh-oh, why did that car go by? Why is it so dark in this theater?" - FindingNamo on strummergirl
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
Updated On: 3/31/16 at 01:46 AM
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
#280AMERICAN PSYCHO Previews
Posted: 3/31/16 at 2:08am
BroadwayConcierge said: "Outsider's perspective here: Is it perhaps an inherent problem with the show that American Psycho as a cultural product itself is so well-known (and in some cases, culturally beloved) that what should objectively be seen as terrifying is met with nostalgia and laughter in the stage production?
Didn't the Rocky audience react the same way?
"
laughingplace
Stand-by Joined: 3/16/16
#281AMERICAN PSYCHO Previews
Posted: 3/31/16 at 3:22am
Jared Leto would actually be good on Broadway ?
#282AMERICAN PSYCHO Previews
Posted: 3/31/16 at 9:03am
Saw this last night. While I can say that I wasn't nearly as bothered by the score or staging in context as I was from the video clips, to me it was a bit of a mess. I ENJOYED it because it was entertaining, but the show isn't cohesive at all. It doesn't know what it's trying to be. There are like 3 different shows all going on at the same time. Every change of scene feels like you're ejecting the VHS and popping a new one in. Like I get having Evelyn be completely vapid for comedy purposes and having Jean be super sincere as contrast, but the way they exist in scenes together just doesn't make sense. Either Jenn has to heighten her character a bit or Heléne has to bring hers down a tad (which won't happen).
I thought the effects were great for the most part, but then we got to that TERRIBLE simulated sex scene with the stupid projections. I didn't get the director's vision in that scene. What's your commentary? What are you trying to convey? Was it hilarious? Absolutely. Was it necessary? Not even a little. Also, while the choreography worked sometimes (in the opening especially and the dance club numbers), I thought at other times it was really terrible ("Cards" and "I Am Back" stand out in my mind).
And then my biggest quibble: the use of pre-existing songs (other than "Hip To Be Square" since that's supposed to be playing on the radio... I get that...) is offensive to me. "In The Air Tonight" and "Everybody Wants To Rule The World"... I get it... those songs PERFECTLY encapsulate the feeling you're trying to convey while maintaining the 80s-ness of it all. But could you really not write one or two more songs of your own that convey the same idea but don't completely take the audience out of the moment? I was like "Oh... I know this song... this isn't original..." rather than paying any attention to what the characters were doing on stage or what their motivations were. For me, that was an extremely bad call.
Overall, the evening was entertaining, but I think I'd rather see this show as is at 10 pm at New World Stages while completely hammered.
#283AMERICAN PSYCHO Previews
Posted: 3/31/16 at 9:09am
SweetLips said: "BroadwayConcierge said: "Outsider's perspective here: Is it perhaps an inherent problem with the show that American Psycho as a cultural product itself is so well-known (and in some cases, culturally beloved) that what should objectively be seen as terrifying is met with nostalgia and laughter in the stage production?
Didn't the Rocky audience react the same way?"
Yes. Also, Rocky was a better show.
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#284AMERICAN PSYCHO Previews
Posted: 3/31/16 at 9:09am
I agree with that sex sequence being painful. The only projections I thought were just silly.
#285AMERICAN PSYCHO Previews
Posted: 3/31/16 at 9:19am
BJH2114
hsve you not read the book or seen the film? Part of the humour is his bad taste in music of the 80s and how he thinks he understands music from these songs, it would be plain wrong not to have them in.
Also Jean and Evelyn should be very different, it should feel like 2 separate worlds when they are together, the yuppies and their GF live in their own vile bubble, play by their own rules and go about their days oblivious to th actual population. Jean is representing the normal, they should feel completely different.
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
jbird5
Broadway Star Joined: 12/20/15
#286AMERICAN PSYCHO Previews
Posted: 3/31/16 at 9:55am
The Jean character is so boring, would the audience really care if she got killed off?
#287AMERICAN PSYCHO Previews
Posted: 3/31/16 at 11:10am
"BJH2114 hsve you not read the book or seen the film? Part of the humour is his bad taste in music of the 80s and how he thinks he understands music from these songs, it would be plain wrong not to have them in."
Yes, I have seen the movie and read the book, but even if I hadn't, that wouldn't excuse laziness. And no, what's "plain wrong" is having those songs in the show without crediting their creators in the playbill at all. And please, it's not as though Patrick sings either of those songs to demonstrate how he views them. It's Jean's first song (really... that's how you want to introduce a character?) and the company just before Patrick murders the homeless man. These are "plot advancing" songs in that they give insight into the performers' psyche. Write something original.
"Also Jean and Evelyn should be very different, it should feel like 2 separate worlds when they are together, the yuppies and their GF live in their own vile bubble, play by their own rules and go about their days oblivious to th actual population. Jean is representing the normal, they should feel completely different."
Oh really? Is that what they're doing? I had no idea... *eyeroll* Look, I get that they are supposed to be representing different worlds, but that does not give you permission to lack cohesion. Musicals have characters who come from different worlds all of the time, but they usually at least make sense existing in the same show. What I watched last night was 3 different shows wrapped up into one, and I found it distracting.
#288AMERICAN PSYCHO Previews
Posted: 3/31/16 at 11:56am
qolbinau said: "
Third, it is not unprecedented for songs to be added to a show simply to give the actor more to do. Of course, it works best when there is a dramatic purpose for adding a song. A good example is a not very well known song (:p) added in rehearsals simply so a star had something to sing in Act II. Of course, the skill of the creative team meant it was done in such a way that it became a pivotal dramatic moment in the show (Send in the Clowns).
"This is a Good Point and would have been smart. Like when Grease went from stage to film they added songs for Olivia Newton John including 2 of the Best. Hopelessly Devoted and Youre the One That I want.
When They Go Low, I Go High
#289AMERICAN PSYCHO Previews
Posted: 3/31/16 at 12:11pm
Songanddanceman2, I appreciate your enthusiasm for the show and I found much of it interesting. But I think that, with myself and others, you have mistaken our problems with the show as not understanding it. And by and large, that is simply not the case.
#290AMERICAN PSYCHO Previews
Posted: 3/31/16 at 12:14pm
bjh2114, I also found it very perplexing that the writers of the repurposed pop songs were not credited. At first I wondered if Sheik had written "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" and I didn't know it, but it became clear that was not the case as more jukebox songs came up.
#291AMERICAN PSYCHO Previews
Posted: 3/31/16 at 12:15pm
The show absolutely needs the 80s songs. An original song would completely miss the point.
#292AMERICAN PSYCHO Previews
Posted: 3/31/16 at 12:32pm
It's nothing to do with 'enthusiasm' for the show its just me simply commenting on something I'm observing (I'm a playwright here in the UK so I'm just looking at things from the writers point of view). To leave the 80s songs out would be silly, sorry but that's what I think, the music is such a part of Patrick's world and the 80s is such a character within the show that it would be almost inexcusable to not feature some. The way the songs are repackaged and the moment they appear is what makes them work so well in my eyes. Not crediting the writers is kinda odd though, that I agree with.
And BJH you can *eye roll* all you want but I'm just saying it how I see it, I respect your opinion hugely.
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
Knowitall
Chorus Member Joined: 11/14/12
#293AMERICAN PSYCHO Previews
Posted: 3/31/16 at 12:39pm
I saw the show last night and was very entertained by it. I thought the design, music and acting were wonderful. Is the show perfect? No; but I assume they are fixing some of the story telling issues as they've only been in previews for a week. Ben Walker is giving a star turn performance. Alice Ripley is a hoot. Will definitely see it again and hope they find an audience.
#294AMERICAN PSYCHO Previews
Posted: 3/31/16 at 1:13pm
I'm not saying that they can't use real 80s music at certain points. My issue was with HOW the music was being used. If the other songs had been used in similar respects to Hip To Be Square, I would have had no problem whatsoever. But to me, the way the songs were used took me out of the show since I focused more on the interesting arrangements of songs I already knew rather than what was happening on stage at what could be considered crucial moments.
#295AMERICAN PSYCHO Previews
Posted: 3/31/16 at 1:22pm
Bjh, I would just say that I think it is wrong to say that the choice to use pre-existing 80s songs is "lazy." It's only lazy if you know for a fact that Duncan looked at a moment and said "I don't want to write a song for this, just throw an 80s tune in there." It sounds like it was a conscious artistic choice so therefor it really is not lazy. Otherwise Andy Warhol is lazy.
#296AMERICAN PSYCHO Previews
Posted: 3/31/16 at 1:55pm
bhj2114, the 80's songs are credited in the Playbill. Under Music Credits.
Just give the world Love.
#297AMERICAN PSYCHO Previews
Posted: 3/31/16 at 2:15pm
Hackasaurus_Rex said: "Bjh, I would just say that I think it is wrong to say that the choice to use pre-existing 80s songs is "lazy." It's only lazy if you know for a fact that Duncan looked at a moment and said "I don't want to write a song for this, just throw an 80s tune in there." It sounds like it was a conscious artistic choice so therefor it really is not lazy. Otherwise Andy Warhol is lazy."
That's not even a remotely valid comparison. You cannot compare an entire career worth of pop art as a signature style to the use of two pre-existing songs in one Broadway musical. And I maintain that whether it was an artistic choice or not, the way he has chosen to use the songs IS lazy. There are surely more creative ways to use pre-existing songs in what is otherwise an original score.
uncageg said: "bhj2114, the 80's songs are credited in the Playbill. Under Music Credits."
Oh good! I'm glad to hear it. I looked through and couldn't find the credits anywhere. I expected them to be under the song list with an asterisk or something. I also looked on the title page. Where are the music credits?
nolanativeny
Stand-by Joined: 3/29/16
#298AMERICAN PSYCHO Previews
Posted: 3/31/16 at 2:33pm
Oh good! I'm glad to hear it. I looked through and couldn't find the credits anywhere. I expected them to be under the song list with an asterisk or something. I also looked on the title page. Where are the music credits?
I would assume near the back where the more nitty-gritty production credits are. That's where they listed the "Edge of Seventeen" credit in School of Rock if I recall correctly.
#299AMERICAN PSYCHO Previews
Posted: 3/31/16 at 2:50pm
They are after the Who's Who on the next page opposite "At This Theater". After the production staff listing.
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