I first saw Beautiful back in February of 2014. When I found out it was closing, I decided to take a second look. I went tonight: Tuesday Sept 3.
There were two understudies on. One for Carol King and one for Gerry Goff. I thought oh geez this is gonna be an odd night. Often understudies are lackluster and bad carbon copies to the leads.
Not this time.
What an amazing surprise. I have never heard of Sara Shepherd before but sh
So I've had a night to digest this thing and I have further thoughts.
Encores have given us Broadway ready confections such as Brigadoon and Gentleman Prefer Blondes. I went home on a high after those.
Conversely I have had to suffer through Irma La Douce, Promendade, High Button Shoes and now Road Show.
So back to Road Show. The fault is not Sondheim's although the score does seem like derivative Sondheim with the exception of "The Best Thing that ever happe
After seeing spectacular producions of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Brigadoon at Encores, I must say the last three outings at Encore were substandard. And why the heck are they doing Thoroughly Modern Millie when there are so many unseen shows worthy of being seen?
High Button Shoes, except the Keystone Ballet was a major disappointment with a miscast Harrison Floy. Promenade, a cast album I have adored for years was directed so oddly that I couldn't wait for the
This is the third Encores show in a row that I found an absolute snooze fest. I think I'm going to pick and choose more carefully in the future.
First High Button Shoes with a miscast Michael Urie, than the painful production of Promenade and this very dull boring production of Road Show.
The biggest problem with Road Show is that you don't care a lick about the main characters. One is a thief/ crook/ gambler ne'er do well and the other is a mommas boy. They go
Hmm/ Some mmillenials don't even know who Judy is. They never experiencesd the magic of her singing.
Couldn't the movie have the decency to educate the younger generation using the original vocals? Who wants to hear Zellweger sing when t there are Judy recordings.
Sorry. You don't make a movie about Sammy Davis Jr. with Sammy Singing.And you definitely DO NOT make a movie about Judy Garland-- a incomparabl
I discovered the original cast recording in 1970 ish. I've love the score and the lyrics are a hoot. I was so excited to finally see a production of it. The cast album is so odd and unusual and I always imagined it was going to be a fascinating hoot.
Unfortunately, the show in my head was way better than what I experienced at Encores tonight. It was a mess. I always thought Only One Naked Lady If staged right would blow us away. Unfortunately, that song lie there like an unfun
Just learned that Jelani Remy is taking over the Eddie Kendrix role from Jeremy Pope. Jelani really stood out in a supporting role in Ain't Too Proud and nearly stopped the show.
The part is in great hands. And yesterday was the first time I experienced both Jelani Remy and Jeremy Pope!!!
Caught the 7:30 show last night not knowing it was Jeremy's last performance and honestly not knowing who Jeremy was.
The cast across the board is stellar. And Jeremy Pope was certainly a highlight in a stellar cast.
At the curtain call, he received hugs from several of the lead Temptations Cast and I think they handed him a shirt of something. It was a happy farewell to him.
Ironically, one of the theme's of Ain't too Proud is tha
Let me first say that although I went with trepidation being a traditionalist, I loved this production of Oklahoma.. It was clever. It was the Anti Oklahoma. And I mean that as a complement.
As for Laurie/ Rebecca Naomi Jones. Lauri is usually a likable ingenue --so when Rebeca played her as snarky, snarly, kinda mannish using one guy against another and not so nice it was hard to see why men were fighting over her. I did as a traditionalist think wha
I heard such bad things about Pretty Woman that I put off going to it. I ran out of things to see and went with some trepidation. I had very low expectations.
I was pleasantly surprised. The cast was great. The songs are no worse and perhaps better than those in Beetlejuice and Tootsie (loathed Beetejuice/ liked Tootsie cause it was the book and lyrics and performances were fun)
Andy Karl and Samantha Barks and Orfeh are all charming in their rol
Constitution lectures politics ad nauseam and becomes tedious
Oklahoma gives the same message without lecturing and its entertaining.
No contest.
I resented paying Broadway money to be lectured at. Oklahoma does it better, more cleverly without lecturing or hitting you over the head. I am a liberal but I did not appreciate " What the Constitution Means to me"
