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Wasn’t the book the basis of the very successful and beautifully done Netflix series? 

Reading these reviews, while there are a few negative ones, many of the positives reviews are raves. Lots of pull quotes. It can only help future licensing. But with business across BWay so sluggish - no show is difficult to buy tickets for - they will struggle unless anyone actually reads reviews other than us. If they do these reviews are pretty good and will draw folks looking for a laugh. 

Anyone noticing a ton spring discounts being offered? Advance sales must be hurting. Spring is usually where the highest sales and attendance numbers are made and discounts are usually in short supply.. 

quizking101 said: "WldKingdomHM said: "Observation said: "Sad to see so many people out of work, but perhaps this means Vosk will be in Death Becomes Her sooner rather than later."

Because she will sell tickets …"

DBH at this point can exist on its own two legs as an entity without the need for big budget casting for the leads, so she would be fine. The Viola track would be the one primed for stunt casting.

Based on the grosses and the shows weekly nut "Death..." is gong to need major names to entice the tourists who are probably its main audience now.  Something like a Kate Hudson and Meghan Mullaney pairing with a Brandy. 

And some real good money was spent on the production too. I yearn for the days of the Rudnick and McNally gay plays, and the Crabtree's revues. I could not wait for this to be over and was very appreciative of it's one act length. Saw Prince Faggot the same weekend, the other end of the spectrum. One may have been too smart while the other couldn't have been dumb.. Back to my first line in this post - who sank a boatload of cash into this?

EDSOSLO858 said: "DTLI Consensus:Rollicking pop-rock score? Check. Three charismatic leads with immense vocal prowess? Check.Slick, sleek direction? Check. An improved revival of a famously flawed tuner? Not quite checkmate.

9 mixed (including the NYT), 3 positive, 3 negative.

https://didtheylikeit.com/shows/chess/"

The mixed reviews on this one need to be qualified. They are listing reviews that essentially are saying this is pretty awful - book, staging - a very stupid and annoying narrator but … the music and the singing are great.  Dunno about you but that’s not mixed. It’s negative with a possible redeeming feature. 

Does anyone remember the national tour of the Broadway version of Chess?

We went down to Delaware, which I think was the first stop of the tour, to see it. We remember it being superior to the Broadway version. Having seen the mishmash of the London version we were rooting for a fix way back then too. It was rewritten again for the tour, but I don't remember who did the book work. It was directed by Des McAnuff with choreography by Peter Anastos and Wayne Cilento. Carolee Carmello was Florence, Stephen Bogardus - Freddie, John Herrera - Anatoly, Barbara Walsh -Svetlana and Ken Ard the Arbiter.

They cut Florence's father and that storyline and came up with another politically motivated ending. Freddie came around to really care for Florence and Anatoly was painted as a womanizer. 

Chess 1990 American Tour

Looks like some major work has been done but is she also suggesting musical productions are sometimes too big to turn around completely? The show needed a lot of focus in Boston. It was trying to do many things and had a protagonist that should have been treated like Tony Soprano but they seem to not want to go that dark - and give the their leading lady the Kristin moment. It was very tuff to cheer on the leading character in her, I Will Survive, down in one, finale number.  But...something very interesting could be done with that number that would have elevated and closed the loop on the productions point of view that is so blatantly laid out by the ghost ensemble members throughout the show, 

Lindsey Ferrentino on Rewriting THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES

Yikes!  We were lucky to win the on-line lottery yesterday. Interestingly while waiting for the house to open a security guard took an informal poll asking everyone how early, they got in line for tickets. Not one of the ten people ahead of us or behind us admitted to having to wait.   Either someone else had given them tickets or they used the online lottery.  He jokingly called us cheaters. 

When you see what encores can do with a concert staging you wonder how much time they had to put this together. Adam’s vocals  have the rock edge the music needs but the acting and movement in the clips were awkward. Everyone else seemed geared towards theater performances. Superstar hits best when it leans into rock with all the 60’ 70’s rockstar affectations.