JSquared2 said: "Hopefully BWW will now be losing a big bunch of crybabies."
i do hope so!!...i think the ones here thinking of leaving really left sometime ago with their negative posts...i find this site very informative about seeing shows...yes there is a lot crap here too but i quickly scan over that stuff and read only the relevant posts...so this works for me...
amaklo said: "Having suffered through the Doyle version at Classic Stage, I'd love to see what Bartlett Sher and his big budget at Lincoln Center could do with Pacific Overture
i am praying to the Theatre Gods to make this happen!!
BWAY Baby2 said: "To me, that is the essential question I ask myself when I ponder returning to NYC just to see this production- as Nealb seemed to feel- will it be a depressing roll in self deprecating mud- witty and catty and entertaining as but I LOVE theater and one night away won't be the end of the world. Still trying to make up my mind."
well i am flying in from Palm Springs just to see this theatre event...it is potentially one of the major theatric
nealb1 said: "Saw the show last night. Incredibly talented cast. I had never seen the play or the film before. It was very depressing and just so.........off putting. Self-loathing characters who have to bring everybody down with them. Who would be friends with someone like that and continue to tolerate that abuse?
Is there nudity in the original play? I just felt it wasn't necessary - what was the point?"
Skip23...NO ONE is denying you the right to post here or anywhere, but...it does seem that this thread should have been posted to the Preview thread for BOYS since you are talking about a preview performance...being a purist at heart here myself that is where i would have posted this thread if i had seen what you saw and felt what you felt...that is all
sorry but this thread belongs on the PREVIEW thread for BOYS...this doesn't deserve its' own thread...since the author of this thread is a relative newbie maybe he/she will learn...
Impossible2 said: "I am so f***ed off I am going to miss this.
Any chance it might extend do we think?"
I think the closing date refers to the date that Jim Parsons has to report back to TBBT tv show for taping the new season...so he wouldn't be able to extend...just a thought
with THE BOYS IN THE BAND now in previews i wanted to bump this up one more time...Matthew Rettenmund has written a detailed scene by scene dissertation of this play and of the movie that followed...a long but
so far all these earlier "preview" reviews here are making me even more excited to see this in June...thank you all for posting...keep 'em coming...Jesus Mary it takes all us fairies to make this pretty...to coin the phrase!!
in regards to all this talk about the movie...i remember my friends and i went to see this movie when it first opened up and we all laughed cried and loved it warts and all...because we were all included character-wise in the movie...and on a personal note little did i realize that i too would become a "cowboy" in just a few years...and would also go on to date The Cowboy!...so this play has me very excited and i want to see how the ALL GAY MALE cast portrays all of us gay men...yes
I am bumping this up because i see NO discussion about this upcoming revival here on the Board...i will be seeing this play the week of June 15th...is anyone else going?...previews start on April 30th...
this was written by MATTHEW RETTENMUND for his blog BOYCULTURE...
What Is It? What Was It? What Does It Hope To Be?: Untucking THE BOYS IN THE BAND - boy culture http://www.boyculture.com/boy_culture/2018/04/boys-in-band-gay-movies-mart-crowley-lgbtq-broadway.html#disqus_thread
LizzieCurry said: "Lestat and Wicked are examples of two shows that underwent a decent amount of changes between SF and Broadway and during previews on Broadway."
and do not forget the 10 week run for EVITA in 1979,at the ORPHEUM THEATRE, SF...before Hal Prince took the show to Broadway...i saw the first week of performances and it was UGH!!...then decided to see if the show was worked on and by the 10th week, at the end of the run in SF, &nbs
bwayphreak234 said: "BUMP! My favorites from the 2014-2015 season were An American In Paris and The King and I."
I too saw these musicals in 2015 and thought they were both so perfect...the sets for AN AMERICAN IN PARIS really did make me want to visit Paris, which i actually did in 2017...finally...
having never seen the Broadway or actually any live production version, but loving the movie version, i have to say this was the best stage musical performed live on TV that i have ever seen...the sets, the staging, the singing, that ending!!!...wow
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