Glad to see that Jesse Green appreciated the score as opposed to the early naysayers on here. Today's musicals require more than just songs you can hum on the way out the door.
Can we please please please just drop it with the weak score comments? If a show has a good book as this one does it is immediately criticized for having a weak score. And please spare me the "I don't remember any of the songs." The reason audiences remembered Some Enchanted Evening and other great Rodgers and Hammerstein songs when they left the theater is because the audience had played the melody twenty times! New musicals aren't built that way. Composers give their audie
Saw this on Sat. I left the theater feeling nothing. Didn't love it, didn't hate it which is pretty damning actually.
I hope we can lay to rest the biographical jukebox musicals with three stars to portray a star at different points in their career. It worked occasionally when the three Chers discussed events among themselves but just think how much fun it would have been to have Cher discuss her life with LaVerne who only appeared for a few seconds....
Great cast led by Santino! John Behlman and Andy Grotelueschen were standouts as well along with Julie Halson.
I liked the second half of the show much better than the film which always got bogged down to me in the second half.
The fact there was no closing number didn't bother me at all. I loved the ending. I would like a bigger 11 o'clock number for Dorothy in Act 2 though...
R & J....Couldn't take all those sweaty actors running around screaming at one another in a small confined space....
and LoveMusic despite the very talented Michael Cerveris and Donna Murphy...left at intermission....the woman sitting next to me wanted to leave as well but she was with her daughter who wanted to stay.
Anyone else as pleased as I am that SNL has featured Broadway themed skits several times in the last few weeks? Loved the Lin Manuel cameo in Mean Girls last night along with 'What I did for Love.'
A very deserved nomination. Her Regina is the driving force behind everything that happens in Mean Girls. Louderman's strong Regina motivates everything that happens in the show. She's the catalyst. She has great vocal chops but what sets her apart is her Lucille Ball type willingness to do what it takes for the comedy. That was evident very early in her Broadway career; the mascot scene in Bring it On for example. She is an absolute dynamo, bringing great energy to the stage.
They've made Mean Girls, the musical an ensemble show but the heart of this production is Regina. Regina has to be strong and the actress playing Regina has to have star power just like Regina at North Shore would have to have had to compel the other plastics and the school to submit to her will.
I'm sure changes have been made since D. C. but when I saw the show there I lost interest when she was offstage "recuperating" from her bus accident (which was brillian
Not sure why a lot of posters on here are taking the title of this musical way too seriously....some very "mean guys and girls" on the board tonight.
I think the score is being a little unjustly criticized. It would have been easy to take any of the many taglines of the movie and turned them into musical moments. I think the reason the score is taking the brunt of the criticism is actually because it serves the story too well, melding seamlessly into the story.
Bought the soundtrack to the LaCage revival. Couldn't stand listening to it because of his vocals. But Karma is a bitch. I saw the revival during Jeffrey Tambor's brief run. What a nightmare. Felt so bad for him.
Am I the only one that finds the framing device complaints exceedingly nit-picky? I saw the show. and it didn't bother me a bit. It's not like the word "bookend" appeared in the Playbill. Maybe, just maybe the creative team didn't feel the device was needed at the end of the show. So many 'experts' on this board. Thoroughly enjoyed this high energy show.
I saw this in DC. I had not seen the movie and enjoyed it more than I thought I would. I sat next to a fan of the movie who loved every minute of it. I thought Louderman carried the show. Her Regina drives the whole production. When she was not on stage during Act 2 I felt it lost impetus. She shows great comic chops here.
