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Go-Gos musical HEAD OVER HEELS will open at Broadway’s Hudson this summer

Go-Gos musical HEAD OVER HEELS will open at Broadway’s Hudson this summer

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#2Go-Gos musical HEAD OVER HEELS will open at Broadway’s Hudson this summer
Posted: 1/29/18 at 9:13pm

I love it already!


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#3Go-Gos musical HEAD OVER HEELS will open at Broadway’s Hudson this summer
Posted: 1/29/18 at 9:52pm

Call_me_jorge said: "I love it already!"

They had held a big launch party at Bowery Ballroom tonight.  The Go-Go's were announced by original MTV VJ Mark Goodman and played 6-7 songs.  Just judging from the cast alone, this sounds like it could be pretty great so far...especially in an intimate house like the Hudson.

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#4HEAD OVER HEELS
Posted: 1/29/18 at 10:13pm

The lead is buried here, but Peppermint from RuPaul's Drag Race will be making her Broadway debut, making her the FIRST TRANSGENDER WOMAN TO CREATE A STARRING ROLE ON BROADWAY!!!!!!!!!


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#5HEAD OVER HEELS
Posted: 1/29/18 at 10:18pm

I had no idea what The Arcadia was - so I looked it up on that reputable source, Wikipedia - and I put the link in a spoiler tag, even though the work itself is from the late 1500s, just in case....  

 

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#6HEAD OVER HEELS
Posted: 1/30/18 at 2:33am

Everytime I see head over heels I think it’s a musical of one of my fav - yet bad - movies from 2001.

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little_sally
#7HEAD OVER HEELS
Posted: 1/30/18 at 12:23pm

Love the cast but I don't see this doing well at all.


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#8HEAD OVER HEELS
Posted: 1/30/18 at 12:44pm

"an Elizabethan love story turned on its head...set to the beat of 1980s pop icons the Go-Go's" sounds, at least on the surface, to be an odd concept at best.


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#9HEAD OVER HEELS
Posted: 1/30/18 at 2:17pm

Sounds intriguing.  I'm in.


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#10HEAD OVER HEELS
Posted: 1/30/18 at 2:47pm

Is there much of an audience for this? Unless it surprises us, I don't see it lasting long.


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VintageSnarker
#11HEAD OVER HEELS
Posted: 1/30/18 at 2:54pm

Yay, Rachel York and Bonnie Milligan! Otherwise? Meh. Did anyone else catch These Paper Bullets? I think this would be a tough sell even off-Broadway. Then again, it's a smaller theater, isn't it?

JBradshaw: Everytime I see head over heels I think it’s a musical of one of my fav - yet bad - movies from 2001.

I would be so much more excited about an adaptation of that movie. It's bad in the best way.

broadwaysfguy
#12HEAD OVER HEELS
Posted: 1/30/18 at 3:55pm

shocked this is going to bway without a tryout
feedback period
love the gogos and got tix for the sf preview
but skeptical this is ready for bway

JSquared2
#13HEAD OVER HEELS
Posted: 1/30/18 at 4:02pm

broadwaysfguy said: "shocked this is going to bway without a tryout
feedback period
love the gogos and got tix for the sf preview
but skeptical this is ready for bway

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It says in the first paragraph of the story:  "The production will first play an out-of-town engagement at San Francisco's Curran theater from April 10 through May 6."  You even say that you have tickets for it in SF --- do you not realize that San Francisco IS the Broadway "tryout feedback period"? 

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#14HEAD OVER HEELS
Posted: 1/30/18 at 4:03pm

shocked this is going to bway without a tryout feedback period

Most shows that tryout out of town do little-to-nothing in the interim, anyway.  I guess they're dropping the pretense.


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#15HEAD OVER HEELS
Posted: 1/30/18 at 4:04pm

ACL2006 said: "Is there much of an audience for this? Unless it surprises us, I don't see it lasting long."

Wondering the same thing. Where the money coming from on this? This seems like a serious misstep on Producers. The Go-Gos? Unless Belinda Carlisle is actually in it... who is gonna go see this?

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#16HEAD OVER HEELS
Posted: 1/30/18 at 4:05pm

But will it be eligible for Tonys?  


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#17HEAD OVER HEELS
Posted: 1/30/18 at 4:11pm

QueenAlice said: "But will it be eligible for Tonys?"

Why wouldn't it be?


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#18HEAD OVER HEELS
Posted: 1/30/18 at 4:34pm

Nothing at the Hudson so far has been.


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#19HEAD OVER HEELS
Posted: 1/30/18 at 4:38pm

QueenAlice said: "Nothing at the Hudson so far has been."

SUNDAY chose to withdraw from awards consideration, and it appears 1984 was due to errors on the producers part. I would fully expect this show to be eligible. 


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10086sunset
#20HEAD OVER HEELS
Posted: 1/30/18 at 4:38pm

This just feels like a really bad idea.

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#21HEAD OVER HEELS
Posted: 1/30/18 at 4:51pm

The smaller theatre will definitely help. I was hesitant, but I do love me some Go-Go's. Count me in! 

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MusicAndPassion
#22HEAD OVER HEELS
Posted: 1/30/18 at 6:42pm

This cast is wonderful! I'm hoping that Peppermint's casting brings some positive press and the performances get great reviews. Plus, the Go-Gos have some infectious music!

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oncemorewithfeeling2
#23HEAD OVER HEELS
Posted: 1/30/18 at 8:46pm

I think The Go-Gos have some fun music, but I have to echo what others have said: who is the audience for this? Is there an audience for this? The production team can spend what they have, but unless this has transformed completely since it debuted at OSF, it’s not looking good.

I didn’t see the Oregon Shakes performance, but from those I know who saw it, the word “embarrassing” came up a lot.

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ooblogway
#24HEAD OVER HEELS
Posted: 1/30/18 at 9:01pm

Didn't this get a pretty bad review in the Times when it was out west? Did they decide to bring it to NY because Isherwood is gone?


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#25HEAD OVER HEELS
Posted: 1/30/18 at 10:56pm

I have to say it....this sounds just plain awful.