The new My Fair Lady TV spot shows some new footage of "Get Me to the Church on Time" and a good look at Lauren Ambrose in her Embassy Ball gown and it's gorgeous!
I'm delighted with all the Mean Girls, SpongeBob, Angels in America, and My Fair Lady love and having six nominees in Leading Actress in a Musical is a pretty interesting choice. But I will say that I hope next season is better when it comes to new musicals.
NY1's review was nice. Also I'm seeing through these recent reviews, that they are more raves coming in so I would say that this revival is better recieved than Bartlett Sher's Fiddler on the Roof revival (which I really liked) which did great pretty good reviews, but no where close to the postive-rave reviews South Pacific, The King and I and My Fair Lady got. Correct me if I'm wrong on that.
The footage not only shows Justin Peck's choreography (which is okay at best) but it also shows the "carousel" in the opening and boy is that a huge disappointment in comparison to the 1994 production, in fact, it fits in well with the cheap sets and costumes this production partially suffers from. I sure am glad I'm seeing My Fair Lady instead of this.
SomethingPeculiar said: "Musical Master said: "The BroadwayWorld review score is in and it's an 8.7 out of 10;the same rating as Once on this Island and in a sense of irony,it's the same rating The King and I2015 was."
Pardon my ignorance -- what's the BroadwayWorld review score?"
If you go to "sections" and find "reviews" click on that and it will tell you all you need to know. Basically
The BroadwayWorld review score is in and it's an 8.7 out of 10; the same rating as Once on this Island and in a sense of irony, it's the same rating The King and I 2015 was.
TheaterMania's quote gives me a big bucket of joy:
"This My Fair Lady is a revival for the ages, the perfect synthesis of director's vision and performers and designers working completely in sync. I could have watched it all night and still have begged for more."
Hurrah for that wonderful RAVE from Jesse Green of NYT. Overall I'd say that this revival is better received than the polarizing Carousel; in fact there's only one mixed to negative review to find so that's a really good sign that this revival and Once on this Island will be the two major musical revivals to fight for the Tony.
GeorgeandDot has a good point, just because they personally found Ambrose miscast as Eliza doesn't make it invalid. In fact I remember when The King and I was in previews back in 2015 and some found Kelli O'Hara's performance "bland" and "boring" as Anna; where I personally thought she was freaking great when I saw the show in person.
BTW I did hear some audio (long since gone) of Lauren Ambrose as Eliza, and so far I am freaking blow
^There may be some less than enthusiastic responses on here, but so far it's seems that it's only in the minority. Whereas those who have seen it have been either extremely positive or flat out RAVES. I'm also excited for tomorrow night's reviews, and I'll bet that they are going to be both positive and raves that's comparable to the reviews that Once on this Island had.
