NY POST-By January, you'll find Big Fish on ice at the Fulton Fish Market- Page 2
NY POST-By January, you'll find Big Fish on ice at the Fulton Fish Market
Matt Rogers
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/04
#25NY POST-By January, you?ll find Big Fish on ice at the Fulton Fish Market
Posted: 10/9/13 at 9:07pmI haven't even seen this show and I probably won't but he just sounds like a shrill bitch in his column today. Well. I mean, a shriller bitch than usual.
Matt Rogers
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/04
#26NY POST-By January, you?ll find Big Fish on ice at the Fulton Fish Market
Posted: 10/9/13 at 9:07pmI haven't even seen this show and I probably won't but he just sounds like a shrill bitch in his column today. Well. I mean, a shriller bitch than usual.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#27NY POST-By January, you?ll find Big Fish on ice at the Fulton Fish Market
Posted: 10/9/13 at 9:23pmReidel has an ego the size of the Grand Canyon
Poster Emeritus
#28NY POST-By January, you?ll find Big Fish on ice at the Fulton Fish Market
Posted: 10/9/13 at 9:38pmHow convenient is it that he claims to have known about Stage Entertainment's possible departure now instead of reporting it when it was actually happening? Since when has uncertainty ever stopped him from reporting something as fact in the past?
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#29NY POST-By January, you?ll find Big Fish on ice at the Fulton Fish Market
Posted: 10/10/13 at 7:53amMethinks Reidel is the love child of Ben Brantley.
Poster Emeritus
#30NY POST-By January, you?ll find Big Fish on ice at the Fulton Fish Market
Posted: 10/10/13 at 10:27amOh my god, that article is so loaded with fish puns that it makes my brain hurt.
#31NY POST-By January, you?ll find Big Fish on ice at the Fulton Fish Market
Posted: 10/10/13 at 9:46pmI don't love Brantley, but I wouldn't put him in the same category as Michael Riedel. At least Brantley sees the shows.
#32NY POST-By January, you?ll find Big Fish on ice at the Fulton Fish Market
Posted: 10/12/13 at 6:39am
Looking at the advance on Ticketmaster they might be in trouble but it's too early to call yet. It's looking worse than better though IMO. This is not going to be a big hit.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Updated On: 10/12/13 at 06:39 AM
#33NY POST-By January, you?ll find Big Fish on ice at the Fulton Fish Market
Posted: 10/12/13 at 1:01pm
Motown didn't get good reviews. It's not even good. But it's not only running but bringing in over a million a week. If the producers are skillful and astute; run pull quotes and commercials, they can keep it running.
Granted I didn't love Big Fish ( think the book as well as the score is problematic) but it's sometimes not about the reviews but the audience interest and the skill of the producers. Hell Wicked didn't get good reviews and it's been here 10 years. And for some reason Phantom of the Opera, a show I abhor keeps running and interesting people to.
That being said Michael Reidel is the worst kind of critic. A bitchy queen in a straight man's body.
charliebrown5
Understudy Joined: 8/1/13
#34NY POST-By January, you?ll find Big Fish on ice at the Fulton Fish Market
Posted: 10/12/13 at 1:46pm
This is one of the pull quotes they are currently using. Effective, but amusing given Brantley's review.
Source
#35NY POST-By January, you?ll find Big Fish on ice at the Fulton Fish Market
Posted: 11/2/13 at 5:10pm
Ouch
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#36NY POST-By January, you?ll find Big Fish on ice at the Fulton Fish Market
Posted: 11/2/13 at 6:59pmI saw the show a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it. Sad it can't find an audience...
#37NY POST-By January, you?ll find Big Fish on ice at the Fulton Fish Market
Posted: 11/2/13 at 7:03pmTo be fair that's a Tuesday night performance so it might not always be that empty, but it isn't good either way. January slaughter or are they not even making it that far?
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KathyNYC2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/10
#38NY POST-By January, you?ll find Big Fish on ice at the Fulton Fish Market
Posted: 11/2/13 at 7:15pm
I saw it last Saturday Matinee. I didn't see the orchestra and the center of the mezz/balc was filled but there were bunch of seats unsold on both sides of the theater. I moved mid show back a row to get more leg room - it was totally empty (and I wasn't far back)...for at least 8 rows on each side.
So not as bad as the Tuesday chart but not great for a weekend either.
Rainbowhigh23
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/12
#39NY POST-By January, you?ll find Big Fish on ice at the Fulton Fish Market
Posted: 11/2/13 at 7:53pmqolbinau - re your graphic, wow! That looks like the advance of Scandalous.
sweetTb'way
Stand-by Joined: 7/27/09
#40NY POST-By January, you?ll find Big Fish on ice at the Fulton Fish Market
Posted: 11/2/13 at 8:34pmAll signs indicate Big Fish will come to a close in January. Disappointing ticket sales aside, apparently the director of Honeymoon in Vegas is turning down other projects this spring and rumor is that someone was at the Neil Simon taking stage measurements. Honeymoon in Vegas maybe? The Last Ship? Time will tell…..
#41NY POST-By January, you?ll find Big Fish on ice at the Fulton Fish Market
Posted: 11/2/13 at 9:22pmRiedel said The Last Ship might take the Simon once Big Fish closes, but then just yesterday he posted an article talking about how The Last Ship will play a (previously announced) engagement in Chicago next spring and THEN transfer to Broadway next fall...So which is it?
DaveyG
Leading Actor Joined: 8/11/05
#42NY POST-By January, you?ll find Big Fish on ice at the Fulton Fish Market
Posted: 11/2/13 at 9:42pmI hear "The Last Ship" is still going to Chicago this spring, leaving the Simon open for "Honeymoon In Vegas".
wewdie
Understudy Joined: 9/9/05
#43NY POST-By January, you?ll find Big Fish on ice at the Fulton Fish Market
Posted: 11/2/13 at 11:24pmI'm going to be in the city for a few days this January. I have not read many positive things about Big Fish but I like giving new works a chance. I'm also considering seeing Lindsay Mendez in Wicked. I've seen Wicked before, but I'm a big fan of Lindsay and would love to see her in the show. What choice would you make if it's between these two?
oasisjeff
Broadway Star Joined: 11/15/07
#44NY POST-By January, you?ll find Big Fish on ice at the Fulton Fish Market
Posted: 11/3/13 at 12:04am
Usually shows that end in January end a few days in, so unless you're going to be here VERY early in the month, you likely won't have a choice to make.
Assuming the show makes it to January. It did just go down $90K in revenues week to week... and this is right after opening.
And, for context, I saw the show this week and enjoyed it immensely. I'm not rooting against it...
Now t/d/b/a haterobics on here.
