Kiss of the Spiderwoman - Madonna? May 4
2019, 07:25:17 PM
I'm aware at her failed Broadway attempt years back...
Could she pull of playing Aurora in Kiss? She can dance, she can sing (a little), she does very well in live performances- that tend to be very theatrical.... BTW Chita is and will be Aurora for ever..... Thoughts?
|
What will be remembered from this season? Jun 12
2015, 11:19:50 PM
The Visit
|
Rank this past season's musical productions Jun 7
2015, 03:52:39 AM
The Visit Fun Home On The Twentieth Century
|
* Jun 4
2015, 03:09:30 AM
|
Can someone explain the ending of May 28
2015, 05:53:43 PM
Anton doesn't walk with her at the end...
|
Best Score - 2015 May 27
2015, 08:03:41 PM
I agree The Visit. The score is absolutely beautiful.
|
So, who's winning the Tony? Tony Awards Predictions May 24
2015, 09:27:38 PM
""best musical : the visit actress in a musical : chita rivera score : the visit book of a musical : the visit " I don't think the Visit'll win any awards. This seasons too good!"
So is the visit!!
|
So, who's winning the Tony? Tony Awards Predictions May 24
2015, 09:00:52 PM
best musical : the visit
actress in a musical : chita rivera
score : the visit
book of a musical : the visit
|
Fun home or an American in Paris? May 24
2015, 08:57:23 PM
The Visit.
|
The Kristin/Kelli/Chita competition... May 24
2015, 05:36:18 PM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carole-mallory/the-visits-chita-rivera-h_b_7343554.html
|
Fun home or an American in Paris? May 18
2015, 01:44:48 AM
The Visit.
|
The Visit should move off-broadway after the tony's May 15
2015, 02:15:56 AM
I'm not familiar with all the off-broadway houses- regardless- adjustments could be done. they have doyle at the helm, he is the master of the scalpel.
|
The Visit should move off-broadway after the tony's May 15
2015, 02:02:22 AM
unless the audience attendance picks up...
i'm sure it will find an audience off-broadway & the running costs would be less...this piece deserves a healthy run in nyc - broadway or off-broadway..
|
How long will The Visit last? May 15
2015, 01:21:03 AM
it's no about having done something wrong. it's about the effectiveness of what they have done...they have a product and their job is to sell it. - to all audiences, ny and out of town. the fact that attendance has been so low from the beginning says a lot. i can assure you that of town visitors don't know anything about the show - i wouldn't generalize that audiences don't want to see the show- i would say audiences don't know about the show (except ny avid theater folk). it's really surpris
|
How long will The Visit last? May 14
2015, 11:56:20 PM
if the marketing team had done a fantastic job, the show would be sold-out...
|
THE VISIT Reviews Apr 28
2015, 11:57:03 PM
happy to report that i just got home from an amazing night at "The Visit"-
my first "visit" to the broadway piece- but i've seen all the previous regional iterations.
1. packed house
2. chita had everyone on the palm of her hands
3. funny & dark at the same time- as life
4. engaging from beginning to end- the pace of the show was perfect
5. all changes have been for the best
6. brilliant show..
7. goin
|
THE VISIT Reviews Apr 27
2015, 10:28:40 PM
Time Magazine review:
Clearly, we are not in Oklahoma! territory here. Durrenmatt’s play is a product of the postwar experimental European theater tradition — an allegorical, anti-realistic style, a touch of absurdism and a bleak, unsentimental view of the human predicament. The play is a parable of greed and revenge and conformity — and perhaps Nazi Germany too. (Durrenmatt was a Swiss who wrote in German.) Though embellished by Kander and Ebb’s sweet, deceptively simple, oom-pah-pah songs, it is the darkest musical I think I have ever seen on Broadway.
But it is a stunner. Terrence McNally’s clear, spare adaptation is almost as good as his musical masterpiece, Ragtime. Director John Doyle has pared down the version I saw in 2008 at Virginia’s Signature Theater, perhaps skimping a bit too much on the town’s evolving reaction to Clare’s shocking proposal. But he gives the show an intensity you rarely see in a Broadway musical. Set in a decrepit railway station, relentlessly gray except for the dabs of yellow as the townspeople begin to eye their possible riches, the show hits a peak in the unsettling anti-production number “Yellow Shoes,” as bright and chilling as a blast of winter ice.
Rivera is commanding as Clare, looking regal (“That’s not beauty,” says one of the townspeople; “that’s money&rdquo, her throaty voice still strong, betraying no fragility despite using a cane (the character has an artificial leg, along with other replacement body parts). She deserves the raves she is winning, but that shouldn’t obscure the achievement of this brave, uncompromising slice of Broadway misanthropy.
|
THE VISIT Reviews - Newsday Apr 23
2015, 09:33:22 PM
Newsday - The Visit - Review + RAVE
"The Visit" is a haunting, haunted knot of Expressionist storytelling, a masterly 100-minute powerhouse with liltingly gruesome songs that create their own macabre world unlike anything onstage in recent memory."
"Then there is Rivera, with her steely, gravelly voice and the resolve of a character who says, "I am unkillable." We dare you to take your eyes off her."
|
THE VISIT Reviews Apr 23
2015, 04:32:32 AM
http://britishtheatre.com/review-the-visit-lyceum-theatre-5stars/
"And for 90 minutes of ecstatic storytelling, you are transported to a place where love, death and consequence are dancing together and where a victory for true love might just not be what you first think it will."
"This is John Doyle’s exceptional staging of the final musical from the illustrious team of John Kander and Fred Ebb, The Visit, now in previews at the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway, and starring the indefatigable and quite inspirational Chita Rivera. With a book by Terrence McNally, this is one of the best of Kander & Ebb’s musicals. Certainly, it is the best, most important, musical currently playing on Broadway – and that is saying something, given the current competition."
"Chita Rivera is unforgettable as Claire; an incandescent star of the Broadway stage in undiminished glory, Rivera is faultless. She looks astonishing, every inch the unfathomably rich widow. Her poise and stature is hypnotic; when she is on stage or arriving on stage, you are compelled to watch her. As she slowly but surely reveals the truths and pains that have forged her nature and compelled her visit, Rivera is a study in exacting revenge and balancing scores that puts her Claire shoulder to shoulder with Medea or Elektra."
|
The Visit or King and I Apr 20
2015, 05:47:06 PM
The Visit
|