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Breaking: SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL Will Hustle to Broadway This Spring
Bwayfan292
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/17
#50Breaking: SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL Will Hustle to Broadway This Spring
Posted: 3/8/18 at 6:56pm
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ll6AmHOYzU
Press day! Thoughts?
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#51Breaking: SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL Will Hustle to Broadway This Spring
Posted: 3/8/18 at 7:04pm
LaChanze sounds fantastic, but this just looks like an overall mess.
#52Breaking: SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL Will Hustle to Broadway This Spring
Posted: 3/8/18 at 7:20pm
This actually looks fun. LaChanze and Ariana Debose sound incredible.
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stlrod
Featured Actor Joined: 2/4/11
#53Breaking: SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL Will Hustle to Broadway This Spring
Posted: 3/8/18 at 7:30pmThis looks so bad (and unnecessary) but LaChanze sounds amazing!
stlrod
Featured Actor Joined: 2/4/11
#54Breaking: SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL Will Hustle to Broadway This Spring
Posted: 3/8/18 at 7:30pm
Double post sorry
Updated On: 3/8/18 at 07:30 PM
bwaylyric
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/22/03
#55Breaking: SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL Will Hustle to Broadway This Spring
Posted: 3/8/18 at 7:37pm
Are those suitcase chicks from Deal or No Deal?
Bwayfan292
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/17
#56Breaking: SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL Will Hustle to Broadway This Spring
Posted: 3/8/18 at 7:39pmI dont understand if there will be a legit story to it like beautiful or it will be a lousey quick story that makes zero sense cause its so rushed.
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BwayLover5
Swing Joined: 11/26/13
#57Breaking: SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL Will Hustle to Broadway This Spring
Posted: 3/8/18 at 8:05pmIt is like Beautiful as in that it is a bio musical but a little more non-linear with the device of the three Donnas. The musical numbers are very entertaining and engaging and a joy... but, the book, as stated before, is awful.
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#58Breaking: SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL Will Hustle to Broadway This Spring
Posted: 3/8/18 at 11:21pm
Just judging by how rushed it was to get to Broadway, and the fact that the marquee poster looks like a quick google image search and powerpoint font choice....I'm gonna think this is gonna be a mess. But maybe an entertaining mess.
#59Breaking: SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL Will Hustle to Broadway This Spring
Posted: 3/8/18 at 11:57pm
Lord does this look awful. That staging for She Work Hard for the Money. Oof. I love me some Donna, and indeed LaChanze sounds great, but...oof.
Olivia11
Stand-by Joined: 7/30/16
#60Breaking: SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL Will Hustle to Broadway This Spring
Posted: 3/9/18 at 12:03am
This clip was fairly representative of the show I saw in La Jolla: really outstanding lead vocals... poor use and choreography for the ensemble with lackluster scenery and odd direction.
perfectliar
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#61Breaking: SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL Will Hustle to Broadway This Spring
Posted: 3/9/18 at 9:46am
Olivia11 said: "This clip was fairly representative of the show I saw in La Jolla: really outstanding lead vocals... poor use and choreography for the ensemble with lackluster scenery and odd direction."
Dude, its a rehearsal space.
#62Breaking: SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL Will Hustle to Broadway This Spring
Posted: 3/9/18 at 10:02am
The lyrics have always been absurd, but hearing someone sing "Someone left the cake out in the rain..." in a serious theatrical context actually made me laugh out loud.
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#63Breaking: SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL Will Hustle to Broadway This Spring
Posted: 3/9/18 at 10:06am
Dude, its a rehearsal space.
Olivia11 is referring to La Jolla
Olivia11
Stand-by Joined: 7/30/16
#64Breaking: SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL Will Hustle to Broadway This Spring
Posted: 3/9/18 at 10:06am
Dude, its a rehearsal space."
I was speaking of the show itself. Obviously, it's a rehearsal hall. The real sets are not that much better.
#65Breaking: SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL Will Hustle to Broadway This Spring
Posted: 3/9/18 at 10:09amIs it an all female cast? I didn’t see any men in that rehearsal clip.
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Olivia11
Stand-by Joined: 7/30/16
#66Breaking: SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL Will Hustle to Broadway This Spring
Posted: 3/9/18 at 10:14am
Mostly women - ensemble is women playing both genders. There are a few men -- her father, an agent, etc.
The dual gender directorial choice didn't help the show. Sometimes it works. I did not feel it worked in this show.
ScottyDoesn'tKnow2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/22/14
#67Breaking: SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL Will Hustle to Broadway This Spring
Posted: 3/9/18 at 4:28pm
I wonder if LaChanze will get a random Tony award nomination for this like Mary Bridget Davies did for A Night with Janis Joplin. I can see some in the Tony nominating committee responding to Donna Summer even if there is an obtuse, confusing book in-between the songs and some distracting and low-rent choreography enveloping the staging. I'm sure people are just going to come for the songs and some lighting effects anyway. I expect it to be basically Dreamgirls' "One Night Only" but with much worse staging and lasting about 2 hours more-or-less.
Updated On: 3/9/18 at 04:28 PM#68Breaking: SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL Will Hustle to Broadway This Spring
Posted: 3/9/18 at 4:33pm^i can definitely see that. Especially if the tony nominatiors feel the same way about Carousel as this board does.
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VintageSnarker
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/30/15
#69Breaking: SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL Will Hustle to Broadway This Spring
Posted: 3/10/18 at 1:09amOlivia11 said: "This clip was fairly representative of the show I saw in La Jolla: really outstanding lead vocals... poor use and choreography for the ensemble with lackluster scenery and odd direction."
I kind of want to go just to hear LaChanze sing but WHY is that the choreography? Also, neither of them really look like Donna to me or seem to be channeling her.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#70Breaking: SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL Will Hustle to Broadway This Spring
Posted: 3/14/18 at 9:46am
Couldn't agree more!
Alessio2
Broadway Star Joined: 11/15/13
#71Breaking: SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL Will Hustle to Broadway This Spring
Posted: 3/14/18 at 5:44pm
My husband and I are huge Donna Summer fans and we saw this mess of a show in La Jolla, we were so disappointed. We will be in New York next month and he is insisting on seeing this again because he thinks it will have gotten better and he really "wants to love it"...ugh. Personally I think this is a waste of a show slot.
#72Breaking: SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL Will Hustle to Broadway This Spring
Posted: 3/14/18 at 8:23pm
As a huge Summer fan for the past 40 years, I'm so disappointed to hear these negative reviews of the show. With the pedigree of the people behind it, I would expect a top-notch, engaging musical about Summer's legacy. I'm not too excited about seeing this in the future.
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