BODYGUARD - The US Tour

[Skip23]

Has anyone seen it? Thoughts?

[Melissa25]

See The Bodyguard at Papermill thread

[dmwnc1959]

Here’s another thread, with comments starting around Post 19 (there’s also a link in that post to another thread, start on page 2 of that thread):

https://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.php?thread=1106646#5008044

[rosscoe(au)]

All you need to know is the show is S H I T : save your money 

[carolinaguy]

Yes, it's quite dreadful, especially the "book" and inert direction. Even worse than Love Never Dies, which at least has some nice scenic design going for it. Listen to a Whitney Houston's Greatest Hits recording instead.

[bwayphreak234]

While the show itself is pretty bad, I thought Deborah Cox was fantastic. Hearing her sing those famous songs was something really special.

[Markecib]

Just go in thinking it’s a Deborah Cox concert with Whitney songs and it’s fine.

[Bwayornoway]

Just go in thinking it’s a Deborah Cox concert with Whitney songs and it’s fine.   @markecib - best description  and tag line for this show.  

it's worth about a $29 ticket  

[JudyDenmark]

My parents saw it in Tampa, and my mom was fuming to me on the phone afterward about how bad it was. (To be fair, she was partly fuming about overhearing a women say how much better it was than The Color Purple, which had just played Tampa two weeks before.)

Save your money, unless you're a die-hard Deborah Cox or Whitney fan.

[KnewItWhenIWasInFron]

Listen to your mother. Even if you were a Cox fan -- and her voice is quite powerful, for sure -- it's still hard to overlook her terrible acting and the awful material she's grappling with.

[bwayrose7]

Honestly one of the worst things I've ever seen. It was stuck in our subscriber season so we were stuck with it but even Deborah Cox couldn't save this glittery pile of doo-doo. Special props to the world's saddest elevated platform at the end and to the most unintentionally hilarious moment I've ever seen at the top of Act 2.

[BenjaminNicholas2]

I'm still holding a grudge against Cox for her performance in Jekyll & Hyde.

The Bodyguard is a dumpster fire.  

[FosseTharp]

[Dave13]

bwayphreak234 said: "While the show itself is pretty bad, I thought Deborah Cox was fantastic. Hearing her sing those famous songs was something really special."

This pretty much sums up my thoughts.  The show has major flaws, but if you live outside of NYC it’s worth a night’s entertainment. If I was in NYC, I would never see it. 

[Mildred Plotka]

I watched the film recently for the first time since the 90’s. I’d forogotten how terrible it is.

[Speed]

It was awesome in UK because Heather Headley was incredible.