Where is the SUMMER Previews Thread?

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 4/11/18 at 12:47pm

Did it get deleted?!

Updated On: 4/11/18 at 12:47 PM

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 4/11/18 at 12:52pm

Did someone say the forbidden phrase of BWW: Javier Munoz? 

[newintown]

Posted: 4/11/18 at 12:58pm

It appears to have been deleted. Too bad, because Whizzer's analysis was very good. This show is a very grim slog through bad writing and general ineptitude.

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 4/11/18 at 12:59pm

Mods, can we get an explanation, please?

[Sondheimite]

Posted: 4/11/18 at 1:14pm

This board sucks now. 

[Bwayfan292]

Posted: 4/11/18 at 1:49pm

They probally deleted it “On accident”

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 4/11/18 at 4:26pm

Mods? Hello?

[Kad]

Posted: 4/11/18 at 4:28pm

Did someone post something negative about Tyce Green there, too?

[greensgreens]

Posted: 4/11/18 at 4:59pm

It's disappointing for many reasons, but especially the fact that Summer had been working on a musical of her life since the mid-90s. There was a story, original music, and her catalog.But no producers at the time. Why not put that on the stage?"

This is exactly what I've been saying ever since this project was first announced. Donna's original musical, "Ordinary Girl" needed a really strong bookwriter and a good director to get it to the right place, but it would've been incredible. The music I have heard that was written for that show is just as good as her biggest hits. My favorite song from the show, My Life, is absolutely phenomenal and beats out many of Donna's standards on my list of faves (and I am a big Summer fan)! She performed an abbreviated version in her Live and More... Encore! concert in the late 90s (it's also on the DVD of this performance) and the Junior Vasquez remix can easily be found on the interwebs, if anyone is interested in checking it out.

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 4/12/18 at 9:58am

All I need to know is how long the show is, I’m seeing it tonight. 

[newintown]

Posted: 4/12/18 at 10:04am

It ran about 100 minutes last week with no intermission. But felt much longer.

[MarilynMonroeSmash]

Posted: 4/12/18 at 11:49am

Are they selling a window card yet?

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 4/12/18 at 12:48pm

newintown said: "It ran about 100 minutes last week with no intermission. But felt much longer."

Thanks and yikes! Considering I'm under the weather, I have a feeling tonight is going last as long as Donna Summer's actual career.

[David10086]

Posted: 4/14/18 at 7:55pm

So has this show gotten any better as we get closer to the official opening date? I've been wanting to see this since it was first announced two years ago, for the LaJolla Playhouse in 2017. Now....I'm not sure.

[CoolDogeGuy]

Posted: 4/15/18 at 2:19am

No one really seems to be talking about it. Especially with the upcoming Tony nominations. I feel it may be shut out and will not really get any recognition. I don't know anything about it and there are many people I know saying that this musical was NOT a good idea.

[Boston Friend]

Posted: 4/15/18 at 7:37am

LaChanze was still getting a mid show standing ovation at last night’s performance. The audience loved her.

[raddersons]

Posted: 4/15/18 at 9:11am

David10086 said: "So has this show gotten any better as we get closer to the official opening date?"

I’m not sure there’s much saving this one. Disco was a counter-culture movement. This show has eliminated all of that and replaced it with church. To me, that elimination of it prevents it from a story about a pioneer of the disco era.

But of course, bridge-and-tunnel moms in the audience went wild because they loved the music. So who knows where it’ll end up.

[Huss417]

Posted: 4/15/18 at 9:56am

raddersons said: 

But of course, bridge-and-tunnelmoms in the audience went wild because they loved the music. So who knows where it’ll end up."

So if one had lived in NYC for 20 years and moved to the burbs. Say Greenwich CT. Does that now make them wild for a show like this. For years the whole Bridge and Tunnel crowds disparaging remarks has irked me.

Updated On: 4/15/18 at 09:56 AM

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 4/15/18 at 3:28pm

David10086 said: "So has this show gotten any better as we get closer to the official opening date? I've been wanting to see this since it was first announced two years ago, for the LaJolla Playhouse in 2017. Now....I'm not sure."

If what I saw Thursday night is proof of progress, then no. Because it was a colossal disappointment.

When I wasn't busy having to endure all the middle-aged housewives coming in half in the bag with their 3rd sippy cup of wine given explicit permission by LaChanze at the top of the show to sing along, I was busy trying to figure out how they constructed this show out of such a terrible book. By some miracle, I actually starting getting into it towards the end, but even though it sounded and looked cool throughout, and there were a couple of standout numbers, I was just getting progressively frustrated through most of it. But LaChanze and especially Ariana DeBose were fantastic. But I have to go back to the the book. It was awful. I had to go home and Wikipedia to figure out what actually happened with everything they brought up, they dropped storylines left and right!

But listen, people around me were digging it, and since it's mostly sung through, there's always a good song, so it's distracting for people that just want to have a concert with some dialogue in between. But good luck having any sort of emotion or clarity through any of it. All I know it was so smart to open before The Cher Show, because it can't possibly be any worse than this.

[newintown]

Posted: 4/16/18 at 8:36am

I agree that this show has probably the worst book I've seen in years, and that includes competition from Margaritaville, Scandalous, and It Shoulda Been You.

[dramagoer]

Posted: 4/16/18 at 8:38am

Does the musical use This Time I Know It’s For Real???

[sciencegirl]

Posted: 4/16/18 at 8:54am

Oh my lord...they are performing on the Today Show right now as I type.....

[Lot666]

Posted: 4/16/18 at 10:15am

dramagoer said: "Does the musical use This Time I Know It’s For Real???"

I believe someone posted a full song list somewhere around here, but I'm pretty sure this song is not in it.

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 4/16/18 at 11:33am

dramagoer said: "Does the musical use This Time I Know It’s For Real???"

They don't and funnily enough, at the end of the show both me and my friend were like, "You were waiting the whole show for that song too?"

[broadwayboy223]

Posted: 4/16/18 at 12:23pm

I saw Bands Visit and Spongebob yesterday and I can't remember which one it was in, but they had a section about "Summer!" and apparently the director for Summer was in talks to direct Ordinary Girl when Donna was still pursuing it. My question is why did we end up with this hot mess when he could have still done Ordinary Girl with some of Donna's original music. It just seems like a waste and cop out to make a cheap messy concert bio musical.