BARE ?

So BARE was created 10 years ago right?
I watched it on youtube and holy moly. First of all, small SMALL space for a show.
I love the moments of the main character (peter?) singing. It's a combination of his actual character and the actor. Adorbs.

I did not like the music at all. Some of the music the main character sang was good... but omg, when his boyfriends sister randomly pulled out a violin while singing I was like WHAT THE EFF IS THIS. I started laughing so hard, it was just so completely random.

My main point of this thread, I think the musical has potential. But don't you think 10 years is enough time to fix it?

I know Spring Awakening was made after BARE, but Spring Awakening was actually successful. So it's easy to say BARE is just a mixture of GREASE and SA.

Updated On: 10/16/12 at 01:31 AM

Geez. What was he in jail for?

This show NEEDS a better creative team. This show reminds me of a bad essay... the paragraphs just don't flow into each other.

Plus the ending was stupid. His boyfriend got some chick pregnant and he still took him back. Hell no. What ever happened to "There is a black woman soul in every gay man" ??? I bust yo window out ya car!

This is the type of musical where the audience WANTS the main character to stick up for himself and find a new love.

And most importantly, lets stop writing parts for beltresses. After a while they just ALL start sounding the same.

You can't top EVITA and the FYERO Riff.

Updated On: 10/16/12 at 02:01 AM

BARE premiered in LA in 2000. That version was completely different from the 2004 Off-Broadway production with Michael Arden and John Hill-- much like this version at New World Stages is said to be vastly different.

Peter doesn't take Jason back at the end. Peter's rejection is Jason's final push to overdose. ("Two Households") The only reconciliation in the song "Bare" is Jason saying "I love you" for the first time after Peter talks about their relationship in the past tense.

I find the comment about "beltresses" funny given that the one example given was written after BARE was... Plus-- "All Grown Up" is easily a better song than any of the crappy female songs in Spring Awakening.

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Not a huge fan of the show. The score sounds so much like Rent, I found it distracting and I just never found the story engaging.

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Ah, that still has the ending with the drug overdose that I know (and it's one of the more awkward parts in the libretto--hard to do such a melodramatic scene--a drug overdose during a performance of Romeo and Juliet--and make it work).

I have not seen the show, but a thought on shows that have had many incarnations, and have been tossed around for years and years:

Often writers are able to create awesome concepts, and often they can write great songs/scenes, and even great first or second ACTs.

However, sometimes they're unable to write a piece that resonates as a whole. Maybe they can't see the problems, maybe they KNOW the problems and can't fix them, or maybe they don't know how to fix them.

I hope they get it right, but it's been 10 years, tons of drafts, and it sounds like they need to try something drastically different if it's not working.

It was always my understanding that the funds were not there to move it to Broadway. I liked the 2004 Off-Broadway run too.