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Love me some Louis Armstrong. So off I shlepped to New Orleans to catch this pre Broadway "celeberatiion" of Louis Armstrong's life. Unfortuantelh, this show was a total yawn. I'm surprized they are even trying for Broadway.

Instead of celebrating Loius Armtroing we find out he cheated on his wife. That in a nutshell is the whole show. Mr Armsrtoing should be turning in his grave at was is defintely not a celebration of the life of Louis Armstroing.

This should

Listened to the album.

I find it hard to listen to. The songs are monotonic. And to quote the other writer.."There is not a tune you can hum." Muscials used to have such wonderful music. Why we all went to the theatre. This show does not have  a tune you would want to hum.

I'm sure Kelli and Brian Darcy are great in this.  Otherwise this depressing musical subject matter and atonal musicl would not work at all.   However I will not buy a ticket

I was never a fan of the Broadway Color Purple or the revival. I never got what the fuss was about.  I never liked the musical and it cut so much of the story. I found myself yearning for the realism of the movie. 

 So unlike the musiclas of the 60's, where i may have been a purist and got pissed when Sweet Charity cut Baby Dream Your Dream and took Charity's Soliloquy and swapped it with My Personal Property. No such attachment has I to the musical the Color Pur

JBC3 said: "These criticisms sound like people reacting to Buckley all over again and things turned out fine with her. Dolly offers a lot of room for women with different personalities and styles to embody the character."

 

Betty Buckley is great in rolls with an edge: Norma Desmond, Rose in Gypsy ....that kind of stuff she hits out of the park but...

I  saw Betty Buckley in Dolly . And she was charmless and unfunny as Dolly. This will be the

I love me some Sutton Forster. i really do. The Drowsy Chaperone. (Wow) Millie (Wow) Young ]Frankenstein (Wow)but I don't think she's right for Winnifred the Wobegone like she wasn't right for Sweet Charity. I wish they were more careful casting Sutton because she shines brilliantly when the part is right. And she seems a tad off (Sweet Charity) and Possibly OUAM when the part isn't right,. 

I think for Winnifred you need a Carol Burnett, a Jane Connell (who played

 

 

I caught the matinee.  The Saenger Theatre  in New Orleans is gorgeous and worth the price of admission.

As for It's a Wonderful World..I have to say the cast is very talented and works so hard. There's oodles of choreography  and being a former dancer, I tend not to kvetch about to much dancing but I found found myself saying enough already as  some of the choregraphy seemed repetiviely happy and at odds with the drea

I caught the matinee.  The Saenger Theatre is gorgeous and worth the price of admission.

As for It's a Wonderful World..I have to say the cast is very talented and works so hard. There's oodles of choreography  and being a former dancer, I tend not to kvetch about to much dancing but I found found myself saying enough already as  some of the choregraphy seemed repetivie even though the chorus sold it and gave it their all. They sell it llke they are in a hit goin

production never been a fan of Camelot. This 0roduction. Is gorgeous.Getting rid of Ninue, the thing in a tree was brilliiant as in  prior productions it always knocked me out of the viewing thinking why and  who is thus person singing in a tree?    .Kudos to Sorkin and Sher for losing that awful character.tree and song

the leads accross the board are stellar and the chemisyry brtween them thrilling 

 

Sorkin/Sher have improved this musical w

I saw the movie back in 19 seventy something and in spite of fantastic Kander and Ebb score and Minelli at her finest,  the movie was too long, unfocused and kind of dull.    In short-- a colossal dud.

So now it's a musical.

I thought  great. They  have a chance to refocus it , retool it and make it shorter. There is probably a good musical in there... right? If they focus and shorten it?

I was kind of surprised  to hear that

I caught this a few weeks ago. 

 

As a Jew and a theatre goer it made me angry at this badly written manipulative play. 

 I heard the word "jew' about 3000 times in the course of the play from on onslaught of  well to do characters I never got to known nor care about or who were well developed.

 Did Stoppard or the director think for one second that if they didn't mention the word jew incessantly  we w

I caught this two weeks ago at the suggestion of a casting director friend. I was hesitant as I found the movie a bore in spite of those gorgeous songs.

Not only did I find the movie a bore but I saw Camelot with Michael York on Tour and Richard Harris on Broadway. Both colossal bores in spite of gorgeous music. 

This production blew me away. The direction, the staging, the singing, the casting, the scenery and the actors: sheer perfection And the rewrite while not perfect