Help Me Decide!
Help Me Decide!
#1Help Me Decide!
Posted: 5/13/16 at 7:51am
Pick 4 of the following shows!
Waitress, American Psycho, Shuffle Along, Color Purple, Tuck Everlasting, Bright Star, She Loves Me
#2Help Me Decide!
Posted: 5/13/16 at 7:59am
Color Purple, She Loves Me, American Psycho, Bright Star
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
bwayandstuff
Stand-by Joined: 5/5/16
TheGingerBreadMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/7/12
#4Help Me Decide!
Posted: 5/13/16 at 8:13am
Color Purple, Shuffle Along, Bright Star, American Psycho.
#5Help Me Decide!
Posted: 5/13/16 at 8:13am
Waitress, Shuffle Along, Color Purple, She Loves Me
I like a good rhyme more than a good time
Updated On: 5/13/16 at 08:13 AM
#6Help Me Decide!
Posted: 5/13/16 at 8:16am
Waitress
American Psycho
Color Purple
She Loves Me
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
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Broadway Legend Joined: 8/31/15
#8Help Me Decide!
Posted: 5/13/16 at 8:31am
NJ_BroadwayGirl said: "
Waitress, Shuffle Along, Color Purple, She Loves Me"
Agree with this.
#9Help Me Decide!
Posted: 5/13/16 at 9:49am
The Color Purple, Bright Star, She Loves Me, Shuffle Along
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#10Help Me Decide!
Posted: 5/13/16 at 9:51am
Color Purple and She Loves Me should ABSOLUTELY NOT be missed.
As for the other two, you'd be good with Shuffle Along and Waitress.
#11Help Me Decide!
Posted: 5/13/16 at 1:12pm
Waitress, - boring
American Psycho, - interesting, exciting
Shuffle Along, - ACT1 is fab
Color Purple, - FABULOUS - saw it 3 times - Heather Headley is great and Cynthia unbelivable
Tuck Everlasting - was OK
Bright Star - boring and bluegrass music got on my nerves
She Loves Me - dated but fun and great cast
#12Help Me Decide!
Posted: 5/13/16 at 1:17pm
American Psycho (not to be missed) , She Loves Me (ditto) , Color Purple, Bright Star
Skip Waitress, despite a great performance from Mueller, I feel like I've seen that show 100 times.
#13Help Me Decide!
Posted: 5/13/16 at 1:28pm
Waitress, Bright Star, She Loves Me, and The Color Purple.
"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#14Help Me Decide!
Posted: 5/13/16 at 11:45pm
^This.
I think American Psycho will be a stretch for many people.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
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#15Help Me Decide!
Posted: 5/14/16 at 12:45am
Waitress, Shuffle Along, Bright Star and She Loves Me
I have not seen, nor have I any chance of seeing these, so these suggestions are ME living vicariously through YOU. First and foremost, THANK YOU for limiting the options. It made the selection process sooooo much easier! ...and a huge hug for not including Hamilton (it would probably just be a 'given' in anybody's list...).
I chose Waitress and Shuffle Along because they are brand, spankin' new, and have pretty great publicity. Better to be in on the ground floor and form your own opinions (especially if those opinions are sprinkled with positive pre-opening word of mouth) I always say.
Bright Star and She Loves Me because I've heard the cast albums for both, and both scores are knockouts for completely different reasons. Additionally, Bright Star because it may not be around long and I fear that you'll (we'll) miss a Tony-award winning performance.
She Loves Me, also because:
a) Laura Benanti - besides her obviously gorgeous singing voice, I dare you to listen to her two, recent Theater People podcast episodes and not fall in love with her, or insist that she be your absolute BFF (along with her mother).
b) Zachary Levi. He was absolutely adorkable in Chuck. In a fairly short time, he's really made a serious name for himself in musical theater (who knew??). Please see this show so you can tell him how much I love him.
c) Jane Krakowski. I've heard a bootleg of the entire Roundabout Benefit Concert and Jane is marvelous. See this production, then you and I will toast with glasses of Trop 50.
Heymjo
Swing Joined: 4/9/06
#16Help Me Decide!
Posted: 5/14/16 at 1:55am
I can only speak to three of the shows. She Loves Me is by far the best of the bunch. It's a wonderful show, and I loved it. Having seen the original, I can tell you that this is almost as good. I say that because nothing beats Barbara Cook! Although Laura Benanti is a sensation all her own. I could easily see it again.
Waitress was terrible and should be 86ed from anyone's list. While Jesse Meuller is by far the best and only thing about the show. Otherwise the characters are cartoonish clicjes, the music is dull O(sorry Sarah Barellis fans. I just didn't like it) and the emotion was lacking
American Psycho drove me crazy. I wanted to like it, but the music was fair, there were no stand-out performances, and I was bored. The only thing the show has going for it are the beautiful bodies.
