Profile for MrsSallyAdams

Dear Evan Hansen's trios could be rearranged for this. Requiem, Sincerely Me and Good for You. 

Newsies: Watch What Happens reprise

And a few more classics:

No Way to Stop It from The Sound of Music

That's Entertainment & Triplets from The Bandwagon

Balcony Club, one of the dancers last night was wearing considerably more clothes than others during the mansion scenes as well. I wondered if he was a swing that they hadn't fitted for a custom leotard yet?

EDIT: I suppose this could also be so that they can quick change into other roles in adjacent scenes.

Bobster, I'd missed that NYT dance review. A very different perspective.

"Peck, the resident choreographer of New York City Ballet, has been creating community dances that smell like teen spirit for ages. But what started out as a choreographic signature, in which he drew on the talents of ballet dancers around his own age, has become tired. His choreography, especially since the pandemic, has lost its way, its beat, its spine...

The movement in “Illinoise” is vague, placing more importance on shapes than on fully dimensional choreography... These are all accomplished dancers, but they can’t elevate choreography that seems reminiscent of 1980s music videos."

‘Illinoise’: A Place of Overflowing Emotion, but Little Dance Spirit - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

 

 

 

" Nick and Jordan are now explicitly heterosexual, have sex, and get engaged." ~ Variety
'The Great Gatsby' Review: Broadway Musical Has Glamour, No Grit (variety.com)

 

Well so much for 99 years of queer theory. Sounds like I'm not part of their target audience.

Ernst considers Cliff gullible and (in modern adaptations) is sexually attracted to him. The casting adds some questions but the basic motivation is still there.

Re Marketing: I'd initially assumed this was a Huey Lewis bio-musical. Skimming the reviews now and I'm not sure what the "hook" is. The plot sounds vaguely like that of The Wedding Singer. (80's blue collar guy gets a corporate job he hates to impress a woman who's engaged to a yuppie.)

It sounds like there's some audience confusion as to how "literally" to take the Emcee and Kit Kat Chorus. Hal Prince saw them as metaphors. Bob Fosse as sex workers and pimps. Sam Mendes as queer artists who were victimized. This production seems to be going back to the "metaphor for Berlin." If a chorus person dresses flamboyantly in act one and then conservatively in act two, it's not saying Fritzi the showgirl suddenly embraced fascism on her day off.

I can remember the 90's when detractors accused Sam Mendes of stomping out all the subtext and making the cabaret unappealing from the start. It sounds like this production tries to dial up the ugly aspects of the show to a greater extreme.

At this point the next revival would surprise everyone if it was sensual and well sung. 

Seussical was scaled down.
Bat Boy and Heathers swapped out new songs for their London productions.
 

I started a new thread for The Motive and the Cue by mistake. The lack of title in the subject line means it didn't pop up in my search. Here were my thoughts in case the extra thread gets deleted.

Both actors capture the voices of the stars. Flynn's having a grand time portraying Burton's hamminess. But there are no stakes. Burton's at the peak of his career and will clearly find more work regardless if the play succeeds. The big revelation that

Thank you. I'm not sure why this wasn't appearing. I appreciate the link.

Mods are welcome to delete this thread if it's in the way.

A name I didn't see often in Gatsby reviews was Frank Wildhorn. He's known for taking classic novels and stuffing them with radio friendly power ballads. Does Gatsby's score compare? 

The cast album is making a poor first impression. All character voices and exposition. It seems like a show that would work better live.

Does the show allow for a GBQ reading of Nick? The films all cut Nick's ambiguous hook up with Mr. McKee but some lean into the idea that he's more infatuated with Gatsby than with Jordan Baker.