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Home For The Holidays on Broadway
#25Home For The Holidays on Broadway
Posted: 11/3/17 at 10:36am
BWW posters in the audience of this thing be like...
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#26Home For The Holidays on Broadway
Posted: 11/7/17 at 2:11pm
And the amusing GIF inspired me to do a full report on this...
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dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#27Home For The Holidays on Broadway
Posted: 11/7/17 at 2:40pm
^Fabulous!
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#28Home For The Holidays on Broadway
Posted: 11/7/17 at 2:56pm
Wow, thanks dramamama! That means a lot coming from a seasoned thespian such as yourself.
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#29Home For The Holidays on Broadway
Posted: 11/7/17 at 3:00pm
It's a limited engagement holiday concert to play an otherwise dark theatre...over the holidays. I don't know why people are so weirded out by this. I mean, that article really comes off as a rather snobby and conservative view of Broadway, especially given its history. The "prestigious Broadway house" has been the home of some of Broadway's worst flops including Carrie, Play Me a Country Song, Oh Brother, Heartaches of a Pussycat, Different Times, The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks and countless others. Being a play or a musical isn't indicative of the level, quantity or quality of art in anything produced in any Broadway house (and concerts have played Broadway houses forever). Broadway houses have been used for everything from plays, musicals, concerts, circuses, vaudeville, burlesque, movies, television, radio and porn. Let's not pretend any Broadway house is above a holiday concert featuring television personalities filling in some dead space between other productions.
GAWD.
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#30Home For The Holidays on Broadway
Posted: 11/7/17 at 3:10pm
Hi Matt, thank you for taking the time to read my blog. To be clear, my intent was not to come off as snobby or theatrically conservative. I like fluff pieces (Mamma Mia, for example) and pop scores as much as the next person! I even think Bruce Springsteen's show has a place on Broadway, simply because it brings something new to his catalogue.
Of course original shows can flop, but to me, they at least have more "soul" than something like Home for the Holidays. And (again, just in my opinion) that's what makes the theatre so great...its humanity and the breaking of creative boundaries. Maybe I'm just a little emboldened because I am one of those writer-people desperate to get her work out there.
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#31Home For The Holidays on Broadway
Posted: 11/7/17 at 3:19pm
Did everyone fall down and bump their heads while Matt and I were sharing a cigarette out back? Have all y'all forgotten that as long as there has been Broadway, there have been these special event type concerts? No? I mean...if this is the hill you want to die on, you need to find a better war.
#32Home For The Holidays on Broadway
Posted: 11/7/17 at 3:29pm
Who said anything about dying on a hill? I said the special event type concerts have a place on Broadway...but a Bachelorette contestant hosting is where I draw the line. I do get slightly annoyed at people who become famous for doing nothing of note, or perhaps my annoyance is directed at those who make it happen. (I'm looking at you, CarDashin devotees.)
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#33Home For The Holidays on Broadway
Posted: 11/7/17 at 3:38pm
I have tickets (via TDF) for this and honestly I can't wait. Donny and Marie's Christmas at the Marquis a few season's back was a campfest rarely rivaled. I've never seen the Bachorelette (or the The Voice or America's Got Talent) before, but the way the original press release described her role as reading Christmas-themed narration (which is what exactly? Recitation of The Night Before Christmas?)- well I was hooked.
I love special events on Broadway. They've exposed me to artists/people I normally wouldn't have checked out on my own, and things like this often promise to be some of the campiest offerings of the year.
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
#34Home For The Holidays on Broadway
Posted: 11/7/17 at 4:08pm
I mean...NeNe Leakes was in a Rodgers and Hammerstein show. In the grand scheme of Broadway weirdness, a Bachelorette reading some holiday narration is low on the totem of terrible. And plus...she'll at least get to prove she knows how to read!
I love Christmas Camp, so was considering getting super cheap tickets. I'll wait to hear what you have to say, Whizzer! If it's too earnest, I'd rather just listen to Chanticleer.
#35Home For The Holidays on Broadway
Posted: 11/7/17 at 4:23pm
Christmas/Holiday camp really is a nice sub-genre of camp. Usually the more earnest it attempts to be, the campier it is!
Did you see Donny and Marie's Christmas? Dead serious, Marie looks out at the audience and says. Now I'm going to attempt to sing a genre I've never sung in public before: opera!! I'm still quoting lines from that extravaganza with my friends years later.
The reality show Home For the Holidays really is missing is Drag Race. The girls would most likely show up the other talent too much, but can you imagine the bachelorette co-hosting this shindig with Bianca or Katya?
Why hasn't Ru ever done a holiday-themed runway?
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
Updated On: 11/7/17 at 04:23 PM
#36Home For The Holidays on Broadway
Posted: 11/7/17 at 4:27pm
Didn't he do a holiday-themed runway? In which Shangela on her first or thirtieth season on the show get reamed for her outfit? Or was it just her stuff that was holiday-themed? This post made not a lick of sense did it?
ETA: WAIT! YES! Season 3 Episode 2, The Queen Who Mopped Xmas!
HBBrock
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/11/07
#37Home For The Holidays on Broadway
Posted: 11/7/17 at 4:39pm
Not sure what people's issue is with this.
My wife and I have cheap tickets to this, and I love holiday music.
(Before you all pull out the pitchforks, I am a New Yorker who goes to tons and tons of Broadway and Off Broadway shows).
#38Home For The Holidays on Broadway
Posted: 11/7/17 at 4:46pm
Oh right, Robbie! I forgot about that!
Well, Ru needs to bring it back again. Peppermint would have killed in her peppermint candy cane outfit!
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
#39Home For The Holidays on Broadway
Posted: 11/7/17 at 4:52pm
I absolutely wish they would bring a Drag Race queen for this, but most of those girls make a week's Equity salary in two appearances!
#40Home For The Holidays on Broadway
Posted: 11/7/17 at 10:43pm
Robbie and Whizzer...the voices of motherf***ing reason!
Did you see Donny and Marie's Christmas?
Um...when they toured in Chicago...I was the one Marie called up on stage! The crazy thing was, I didn't know a single lyric to Blue Christmas (WHO DOES?!?!), so I followed her lead (after teasing her about fainting on Dancing With the Stars) and hammed it up like a diva, ending on my knees, arms up to the sky. The way I was born to do.
but a Bachelorette contestant hosting is where I draw the line.
I was there for Marla Maples in Will Rogers Follies. If the Bachelorette can either sing, dance, act or even say a sentence in a somewhat convincing manner, line-drawing is not necessary. It's a 6-week holiday concert special. Let it go.
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#41Home For The Holidays on Broadway
Posted: 11/8/17 at 7:52am
My only gripe is that they don’t have 11am and 5pm shows on multi-performance days.
#42Home For The Holidays on Broadway
Posted: 11/8/17 at 8:17am
*shrug* I'm really not that upset about it- I was just making some observations- but I aim to please...
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JennH
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/14/13
#43Home For The Holidays on Broadway
Posted: 11/8/17 at 10:10am
I mean, I'm hoping to go but there's only two reasons why, and their names are Peter and Evynne Hollens. I'm massive fans of those two, I legit have heard of almost no one else in this.
And yeah the marquee deal is WEIRD. Put up the Mean Girl marquee only to take it down a couple weeks later for this.
moira8
Stand-by Joined: 8/9/17
#44Home For The Holidays on Broadway
Posted: 11/9/17 at 7:09pm
Well, they're now giving comp tickets to this. So I'm going. 
#45Home For The Holidays on Broadway
Posted: 11/9/17 at 8:20pm
moira8 said: "Well, they're now giving comp tickets to this. So I'm going. "
Lol, please tell me how I can snag one myself.
JennH
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/14/13
#46Home For The Holidays on Broadway
Posted: 11/11/17 at 1:10pm
TheSassySam said: "moira8 said: "Well, they're now giving comp tickets to this. So I'm going. "
Lol, please tell me how I can snag one myself."
SAAAAAMMMEEEEE... or any ticket much cheaper than what's listed..
#47Home For The Holidays on Broadway
Posted: 11/17/17 at 10:15pm
Home for the Holidays is one of the most inept shows I have EVER seen on a Broadway stage. It was an embarrassment not only for the performers, but also for the audiences members stuck watching this cringe-fest. To their credit, many fled throughout the last half hour of this 90 minute debacle.
The three reality show winners had ZERO charisma, ZERO chemistry with each other, and two out of the three of them also couldn't sing, which is pretty rough for a concert.
Bianca Ryan committed a hate crime against the English language by refusing to only sing vowels; she made up for this by also refusing to resist any run until the melody was completely obscured. She thought she was Mariah. She so, so badly wanted to be Mariah. But we can't always get what we want.
Josh Kaufman was stiff as a board and showed as much personality range as Lurch.
Candice Glover can definitely sing, but it was like she was in the recording booth rather than in front of a live audience with whom she could interact.
No one is credited with direction nor do I think anyone directed this mess. Songs ended and the singers walked off stage. No transitions.
Song choice was also not a strong suit. No we do not need to hear all 14 verses of The First Noel riffed to high heaven. (Have you ever noticed that each verse of Christmas carol seems to get Jesus-ier and Jesus-ier? It wouldn't surprise me if there was some fundie/mega church money behind this thing.)
I did have several uncontrollable fits of laughter, especially when Danny Aiello claimed- with a straight face- that these were some of the greatest voices of a generation! I mean, I was at Brigadoon last night, buddy. Don't make this worse by lying to us.
There's a sign out side that says start a new holiday tradition- well let me tell you, if the comatose audience tonight was any indication, this will be one very short lived tradition.
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
#48Home For The Holidays on Broadway
Posted: 11/17/17 at 10:29pm
YIKES! Wasn't expecting anything great from this, but that is terrible. I'm not expecting this to do well, but if this is the type of word-of-mouth that gets out quickly, this will bomb way before Christmas
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#49Home For The Holidays on Broadway
Posted: 11/17/17 at 10:30pm
6 weeks...Will it even last that long!
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