Sweet Charity. So Bad....

Aww. How was Denis? The supporting and chorus roles were all bad?

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Loved Denis in TAKE ME OUT but he did not seem to have much to work with here.

Dancers were good but why was the choreography sort of Fosse at the Pompeii Club? "There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This" which is usually exhilarating was pitiful.

Water and candy were for sale at intermission but I was outta there.

I made it through Victor/Victoria and Little Women but this was unbearable.

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Updated On: 3/4/05 at 11:03 PM

I'm sorry.
If you've never seen a production of Sweet Charity before, you'll probably like it.

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I still can't wait to see this tomorrow.

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I saw Debbie Allen in '86. I thought she was excellent, but that production had a sort of cheesy feel about it as well. However, that production DID use the Fosse choreography.

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I saw Debbie A. and Ann R. in 86. Bebe N. was good in that production too. The 86 production was cheap looking. I recall Debbie wearing a capezio wrap sweater and skirt for "I'm A Brass Band."
Production values were cheap back then but talent was abundant.
This time the production values are lavish and the talent quotient is much lower.

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Wayne Cilento isn't nearly as talented nor creative as the majority of the shows he choreographs demand.

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Updated On: 3/5/05 at 01:09 AM

Wow Glebb, That bad huh?
Sorry to here that this production isn't up to any standards.
I was skeptical about this production from the outset. Not so much because of Christina Applegate more because they chose to re-do the choreography. Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields may have written the score and Neil Simon the book but when it comes down to it "Sweet Charity" is and always will be a Bob Fosse show.

The decision to re-do the choreography is just insane on the Weissler's part. If it ain't broke don't fix it. I mean we're talking FOSSE here.

Would anyone even stand for any of this if it had been A Chorus Line.

Talk about sacreligious.

And no matter what anyone has to say about it I will stick to my DVD of the 1968 movie version. Yes, it may have it's faults but at least it was directed and guided by Fosse and Verdon and it's the next best thing to the original.

magruder i also saw the '86 revival and i loved it as well. the cast i saw featured debbie allen, michael rupert, bebe neuwirth, michelle williams, carol alt and irving allen lee. it didn't look cheesy or cheap to me at all.

i also have the cd to this production and it is very heavily synthesized. the score sounding nothing like it actually did in the theatre.

I love the movie and enjoyed the 86 production enough to see it with both Debbie and Ann. I wouldn't say it was cheesy. But it was not expensive looking like this new production. I did not think the costume for Brass Band was very good. It looked like a capezio sweater and skirt with zodiac boots.

I saw the original NINE and adored the rvival. I like Cilento. How 2 Succeed and Wicked have fine choreography as does this version of SC. I just don't understand why it was not completely revamped. Why did the choreography borrow some of Fosse? I also can't abide by Charity being performed by a mediocre dancer.

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And if I remember correctly with a wrap around sweater like the kind ballet girls bought from Capezio.
But I'm probably wrong. I think my point is that it did not look lavish as this production does.

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Updated On: 3/5/05 at 08:59 AM

Cool.

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