Lysistrata Jones (Give it Up!)
Lysistrata Jones (Give it Up!)
addicted
Understudy Joined: 2/23/10
#1Lysistrata Jones (Give it Up!)
Posted: 5/15/11 at 6:57pm
Anyone go (or going) to this? Would love to hear thoughts...
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/150838-What-Rhymes-With-Dribble-Lysistrata-Jones-Musical-Plays-NYC-Basketball-Court-Starting-May-15
#2Lysistrata Jones (Give it Up!)
Posted: 5/15/11 at 11:12pmI want to go see it. A bunch of friends of mine saw it in Dallas and loved it....
#2Lysistrata Jones (Give it Up!)
Posted: 5/21/11 at 6:39pmI saw it this afternoon. I thought it was very good. There were some sound issues, but nothing major. The cast was great and the music is catchy and the choreography is so much fun to watch. I really enjoyed it!
walkedthroughmany
Leading Actor Joined: 3/25/07
#3Lysistrata Jones (Give it Up!)
Posted: 5/21/11 at 7:21pmSaw it this afternoon and agree. I thought it was great. The score, the direction, the choreography, all wonderful.
#4Lysistrata Jones (Give it Up!)
Posted: 5/21/11 at 11:00pmI saw it last night and loved it! Jason Tam and Patti Murin are great!
Luv2goToShows
Broadway Star Joined: 9/13/09
#5Lysistrata Jones (Give it Up!)
Posted: 5/22/11 at 9:18amLooks like a fun show, what is the run time? Thanks
Luv2goToShows
Broadway Star Joined: 9/13/09
#5Lysistrata Jones (Give it Up!)
Posted: 5/22/11 at 9:18amLooks like a fun show, what is the run time? Thanks
#7Lysistrata Jones (Give it Up!)
Posted: 5/22/11 at 9:48amJust over 2 hours including intermission. I think I was out by 4:10, because I made a 4:50 train back to school from Penn.
JakeJake
Swing Joined: 5/7/11
#8Lysistrata Jones (Give it Up!)
Posted: 5/22/11 at 10:09am
Was a bit underwhelming. Jokes seemed dated. Nothing you didn't see in a late 90s teen comedy or high school musical.
Patti Murin KILLS IT as Lysistrata. Her comic timing is amazing and her act 1 finale brings down the house. However, Lindsay Nicole Chambers steals the show as the sassy library assistant Robin.
Much of the dancing is quite impressive, but some of the youngsters strike me as miscast...
Check it out! Would love to hear more opinions. Show needs to cut about 45 minutes. Thoughts?
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
addicted
Understudy Joined: 2/23/10
#10Lysistrata Jones (Give it Up!)
Posted: 5/22/11 at 11:32pm
finally saw this and absolutely loved it. no, not an amazing spectacle. but it was loads of fun and the cast was extremely talented.
i highly recommend it.
and PS - no nudity.
#11Lysistrata Jones (Give it Up!)
Posted: 5/22/11 at 11:34pmWas there tonight and 100% agree, addicted. It was super adorable and so campy. Douglas Carter Beane is a comic genius. The score is decent, but not outstanding (though it serves the show very well). Also Lindsay Nicole Chambers deserves to be famous. She's so funny.
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#12Lysistrata Jones (Give it Up!)
Posted: 5/23/11 at 11:10am
I saw it's closing night in Dallas last year and absolutely loved it.
Anyone have an extra playbill/doesn't want their's? I'd love one from the off-Broadway run.
http://www.youtube.com/huskcharmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#13Lysistrata Jones (Give it Up!)
Posted: 5/23/11 at 1:03pm
transport group does a virtual playbill on their website. transportgroup.org
at the actual show, they hand out a smaller program with basic information, but all the good stuff - actor bios, etc, is on their website.
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#14Lysistrata Jones (Give it Up!)
Posted: 5/23/11 at 1:59pm^ Which is totally fine with me. One can't really print out a virtual playbill and put it in their collection.
http://www.youtube.com/huskcharmer
BaciodiTosca2
Swing Joined: 5/23/11
#15Lysistrata Jones (Give it Up!)--GREAT!
Posted: 5/23/11 at 5:45pmSaw it last night and it was FABulous! More fun than anything I've seen in a long while, and the talent can't be beat. The cast seems to be mostly new compared with the Dallas (Give It Up) production, which I didn't get to see, but the always magnificent Liz Mikel reprises her central role, and is just fantastic. The band is also excellent. Such a small venue, so no bad seats, and they have a generous student rush price, which made it possible for me. No sound issues or any problems at all, and the audience was pumped! Great stuff. Go if you have the chance.
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#16Lysistrata Jones (Give it Up!)--GREAT!
Posted: 5/29/11 at 12:59pm
The band plays up a storm, the talented cast rollicks and rolls, the dancing is energetic and inventive, and yet, for all that, the show falls short of the mark. After a promising opening number, it wears out its welcome quickly once the plot gets into gear.
And what a plot, the brainchild of the inimitable Douglas Carter Beane. In this take on Lysistrata, Beane has a ditzy cheerleader decide to withhold her favors from her boyfriend until his school basketball team wins a game. Somehow she gets her girlfriends to go along with this harebrained caprice. Imagine, here we are in 2011, and we have a woman whose sense of fulfillment is predicated on her boyfriend's athletic achievement. It's beyond ridiculous.
Then there are the guys, equally ill served by Beane, who seems to know little about a college athlete's psyche. An athlete doesn't join a team if he is not going to play all out every game, or if he does not want to win every game.
As for the show's " humor," such as it is, (about a dozen laughs), it's of the arch, self-knowing, forced variety that has come to typify Beane's latest works, and which ran rampant in last years lollapaloser, Mr. & Mrs. Fitch.
Beane doesn't care a bit about consistency of character. One minute, the jock seems so dense he couldn't tie his own shoelaces, the next, he's reciting verses of Walt Whitman by heart.
The music is loud and assertive, but aside from the first song, is unmemorable.
jbm2
Broadway Star Joined: 3/26/11
#17Lysistrata Jones (Give it Up!)--GREAT!
Posted: 5/29/11 at 5:25pm
How "sexual" is the show? I will be in town with my 13 year old daughter... and I am wondering if its a good show to take her too.
#18Lysistrata Jones (Give it Up!)--GREAT!
Posted: 5/29/11 at 5:41pm
I would say as dirty as Rock of Ages. Sexually suggestive, but no more.
I really enjoyed the show a lot. There are areas to improve particularly with the lyrics and parts of the book, but overall I really had a ball. I couldn't wipe the smile away from my face for the fist 1/2 hour or so which is more than I can say for any musical I've seen on Broadway this year.
On a side note, Penny Marshall was sitting a couple rows ahead of me and a friend the other night. We were waiting around after for a friend who was in the show when Penny came back through the hall for a photo op with the cast and congratulated us on a wonderful show. Yes, Penny Marshall told me how great I was, and she didn't even see me do a damn thing.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
#19Lysistrata Jones (Give it Up!)--GREAT!
Posted: 6/3/11 at 10:45pmIt's tons of fun. Loved the book, music, band, direction, choreography...and the cast is outstanding. Patti Murin rocks!
