EllieRose2 said: "Holler If Ya Hear Me did about $150k a week for the month it was open."
And Soul Doctor once had a $110K week for 8 shows. $97K the following week but only 7 shows. Also, I don't know if you'd count it as a musical or, well, even really a show. But Home for the Holidays never broke $100K in the Lunt-Fontanne, and its best week, it made 6.19% of the potential gross. ht
Out of curiosity, did anyone actually get a Straight White Men Playbill with Skerritt on the cover, or had they cut down to just the three brothers before performances started?
Carmen Jones Thread Aug 4
2018, 06:56:34 PM
Thought I was going to have to sell my ticket to this last night but am thanking my lucky stars that I didn’t have to after all. The ten person cast is flawless, and Rose is incandescent as Carmen Jones. Such extraordinary voices all around and so blissfully intimate. I’ve had problems with almost all of Doyle’s musical stagings since Sweeney, but his minimalism and paring down didn’t distract here. Do I still wish it could have had a larger cast, larger orchestra, better design, and better dire
YvanEhtNioj said: "For anyone who has seen the others, how does this rank among HOH and GTBBT?"
Out of three pretty dreadful options, I'd rank it second behind the inane Head Over Heels but sliiiiiiightly ahead of the noxious Gettin the Band Back Together. This season is off to a ROUGH start. I hope it gets better, but there's not a ton I'm particularly enthusiastic about. I find myself keeping fingers tightly crossed that The Prom ends up being a charmer
Carousel, Kinky Boots, and Summer are all pulling in less (in terms of percentage of gross and in some cases less actual gross) than shows that already announced closing like SpongeBob, Bronx Tale, and School of Rock. All three seem in danger, if not as much as Head Over Heels or Gettin the Band Back Together. I'm curious to see how this Spring shapes up because a month or two back, I didn't think there would be many available theaters, and now...I suspect I might have been wrong.
I understand the argument that Pretty Woman might be critic proof and therefore this season's Mean Girls, but while MG is flawed, Pretty Woman makes it look like high art. We're off to a ROUGH start with musical this season when I can say Head Over Heels is my favorite so far, and my review of that is, "Meh."
GETTIN' THE BAND BACK TOGETHER Previews Jul 29
2018, 10:24:51 PM
Still out tonight and Scott Richard Foster was on for him despite. It being the listed understudy in the Playbill.
Hated the show, but that wasn’t Foster’s fault. Or really anyone in the cast’s. It’s just a long, dull slog peppered with frustratingly easy and repetitive jokes and terribly uninteresting songs. Ah well. At least I didn’t pay.
HEAD OVER HEELS Reviews Jul 26
2018, 10:16:43 PM
It feels like the reviews are worse than bad: they’re indifferent. Most of these could be summed up with a collective shrug. I can’t say I felt especially differently about it myself. Well-intentioned. A generous try. But...meh.
Danielle, I think it might be more buggy than that because I'm also only seeing the higher point options right now, including when I click on Straight White Men.
Of course, I'm really holding out hope that The Ferryman releases more low point tickets, but those have been sold out for a while.
Straight White Men Reviews Jul 23
2018, 09:01:20 PM
That nj.com review is enraging to me. A willful misunderstanding of the show. Sadly, I suspect we will see more where that came from. I loved it. I’ll cross fingers these don’t go the way I fear they may.
NY Times Journalist's Jul 23
2018, 08:58:54 PM
I looked at the photos on the show’s website and only see one of Umphress. In it, her three female costars are in short, fitted, sleeveless dresses and (I think) stockings. Umphress’ dress has sleeves, it appears quite baggy, and she’s wearing opaque tights. It looks a bit, to me, like a bad designer choosing to hide as much of her body as possible. Which I don’t think is necessary because she IS a beautiful, shapely woman as has been mentioned here. There seem to be designers who can’t seem to
Not to take sides, but Hogan, I agree with both you and HBBrock. Gettin the Band Back Together is DOA...but it still posted better numbers than I expected. I thought we were going to be looking at some Home for the Holidays/Soul Doctor kind of madness. The numbers are very bad! Just not as bad as I was expecting!
PRETTY WOMAN Broadway Previews Jul 22
2018, 11:32:26 AM
There also is another writer credited on both the screenplay and the musical. So someone is on hand who could work on it. And I agree—if they wanted to do a stronger adaptation, they’d have brought in someone with theater experience, particularly since Marshall passed away before the first production.
PRETTY WOMAN Broadway Previews Jul 22
2018, 10:22:14 AM
I have to confess to being less positive on this show than Whizzer (whose thoughtful reviews I always appreciate). I agree that Barks has charm and a great big voice, but I didn’t believe she (or any of the rest of the hugely talented, blameless cast) was used to the Herculean challenge of elevating this material.
The score is deadly—these songs are neither appealing nor productive. They each stop the show dead in its place because none of them move the action forward. They either re-e
Briansb, Not sure if my message to you went through--I'd be interested in the ticket if it's still available since I sadly had to sell my tickets to last night's show earlier in this thread. :)
