13 Reviews- Page 3
13 Reviews
#50re: 13 Reviews
Posted: 10/5/08 at 8:03pmMTV and Nickelodeon. No way would Disney run an ad for a competing Broadway show.
MusicalComedyMan
Broadway Star Joined: 12/29/03
#51re: 13 Reviews
Posted: 10/5/08 at 8:04pmDoes anyone else sing FOOTLOOSE to the title track? "I'm just about to turn just about turn" Footloose....
jake6970
Broadway Star Joined: 9/21/07
#53re: 13 Reviews
Posted: 10/5/08 at 8:14pm
True, CATS. Disney would be ideal but they'd never okay it.
~Steven
jake6970
Broadway Star Joined: 9/21/07
#55re: 13 Reviews
Posted: 10/5/08 at 8:16pm
Word of Mouth is Very Positive:
HELEN "IS FOURTEEN, AND KNOWS HER JASON ROBERT BROWN": I kinda' expected it to be more High School Musical-ish, which isn't really my taste, but it was really good. I liked it."
DEANNA: "This is a really energetic show that I would recommend."
MICHAEL: "I think families would really connect with it."
http://www.broadway.com/13/broadway_reviews/5012161
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
commasplice
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/29/04
#56re: 13 Reviews
Posted: 10/5/08 at 8:20pm
Two-and-a-half stars from USA Today, which calls it an "innocuous and sometimes touching diversion":
http://www.usatoday.com/life/theater/reviews/2008-10-05-thirteen_N.htm
"...13 composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown and librettists Dan Elish and Robert Horn serve up pop-culture parody peppered with politically incorrect humor and sweetened with some sentimentality. The plot is utter hooey in this case, centered on a Jewish boy from New York who lands in small-town Indiana when his parents split up just before his bar mitzvah."
"That 13 is seldom either surprising or offensive is a credit to both the limited imagination of its creative team and the winsome freshness of its all-teen cast, directed with obvious affection by Jeremy Sams. With the exception of the strong-voiced Elizabeth Egan Gillies, who is rather too convincing as the precocious mean girl of her class, none of these performers come across as stage kids, and their unaffected energy is undeniably contagious."
(The reviewer also liked Trimm, Phillips, Gross, Calderon, Hammond, and Moro.)
Updated On: 10/5/08 at 08:20 PM
WishingOnlyWounds2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/25/08
#57re: 13 Reviews
Posted: 10/5/08 at 8:29pm
"None of these performers come across as stage kids."
Delaney Moro, Graham Phillips, and Eamon Foley's resume...
All I'm saying.
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#58re: 13 Reviews
Posted: 10/5/08 at 9:21pm
MusicalComedyMan: Haha, I never realized that! I always thought it sounded like the title song from RENT.
Also, "It Can't Be True" sounds like "You're No Good" by Linda Ronstadt (sp?) to me.
COOOOLkid
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/05
#59re: 13 Reviews
Posted: 10/5/08 at 9:22pmWow, the critics are much nicer than I thought they'd be.
#60re: 13 Reviews
Posted: 10/5/08 at 9:28pm
It's really not the crash-and-burn vehicle people thought it would be. I had a good time.
~Steven
#61re: 13 Reviews
Posted: 10/5/08 at 9:33pmYea I enjoyed the show too, but I'm still surprised that the reviews are all mixed-positive.
Here_I_Go_Again
Broadway Star Joined: 9/17/03
#62re: 13 Reviews
Posted: 10/5/08 at 9:40pmim shocked that this show is getting that good of reviews, i was in awwwww the night i saw it and thought it was a mess!!! bless the kids but for 120.00 i'd rather see real theatre!!!!
DrTheatre
Broadway Star Joined: 9/23/05
#63re: 13 Reviews
Posted: 10/5/08 at 9:55pmMaybe it's not getting great reviews because the stuff that was considered insulting and a mess was cut and may have improved a lot. Which in some can make it a really different show!
#64re: 13 Reviews
Posted: 10/5/08 at 10:05pm
Which in some can make it a really different show!
It was interesting to read a review that praised the show for not making a joke of "the crippled kid," knowing that it used to! And THANK GOD it doesn't anymore!
THAT'S THEATER!
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
WishingOnlyWounds2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/25/08
#65re: 13 Reviews
Posted: 10/5/08 at 10:10pm
^^^
Everyone said teenagers wouldn't say that. The producers read these boards, so they cut it. Critics come around and realize teens would say that and are surprised it wasn't in the show!
eatlasagna
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#66re: 13 Reviews
Posted: 10/5/08 at 10:14pmi saw 13 when it played up in Los Angeles and I quite enjoyed it... i'm glad it's getting positive reviews in New York... i still miss that Being a Geek song...
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#67re: 13 Reviews
Posted: 10/5/08 at 10:17pm
An undeniable "can't figure out what the hell he thinks" review by Mr. B. That said, I think it's mixed. Perhaps a perfunctory shrug of the shoulders is more specific.
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/theater/reviews/06bran.html?8dpc
"I can’t imagine that anyone who isn’t in early adolescence would be crazy about “13,” the shiny and brash new musical about growing up geeky that opened Sunday night at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater. Featuring a cast of 13 performers, all under 18, and a band drawn from the same age pool, “13” certainly has on tap that natural radioactive energy that makes young teenagers so appealing and so scary.
Yet as one who remembers being 13 with vividness and enduring horror, I can’t say that these obviously talented kids ever made me shiver, sweat or even smile in honest recollection. Though it features a buoyant score by Jason Robert Brown (“Parade,” “The Last Five Years”) and a book by Dan Elish and Robert Horn that dances friskily on the borders of bad taste, “13” ultimately feels as pre-processed and formulaic as that money-churning Disney franchise “High School Musical.” "
Updated On: 10/5/08 at 10:17 PM
#68re: 13 Reviews
Posted: 10/5/08 at 10:17pmWhat do you mean they don't make fun of the crippled kid? Did they take out the whole number that is about using him to get what the lead character wants? My jaw dropped to the floor when that number came on.
#69re: 13 Reviews
Posted: 10/5/08 at 10:20pm
What do you mean they don't make fun of the crippled kid? Did they take out the whole number that is about using him to get what the lead character wants?
Didn't someone say they got rid of that?
BOARD: Nope.
Oh. Sorry about that 
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WHAT THE ****?!?! My jaw dropped when I heard that song, too! Especially the "Except for you / Because you're Jewish / And you always complain!"
That's right, kids! THE JEWS CANNOT BE TRUSTED!!!
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
jagfkb
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/29/07
#70re: 13 Reviews
Posted: 10/5/08 at 10:24pmSo, what exactly is Brantley's review? I'd call it mixed, but what do I know?
#71re: 13 Reviews
Posted: 10/5/08 at 10:25pm
By the way, Ben Brantley of the New York Times is Mixed-to-Negative.
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#72re: 13 Reviews
Posted: 10/5/08 at 10:26pm
That's not a negative review. It's certainly not a money review, but it's not negative.
It's more like a perfunctory shrug of the shoulders. Nothing special, but not GLORY DAYS.
#73re: 13 Reviews
Posted: 10/5/08 at 10:28pmEatLasagna, I wouldn't exactly call these reviews positive. With a couple of exceptions they are decidedly mixed.
#74re: 13 Reviews
Posted: 10/5/08 at 10:29pmThe show I thought has some fun songs, but for the most part I was not thrilled with the show. I loved the girl who played Patrice, she appeared to have the only character with a spine in the show. I guess I was hoping for something more, but the show was quite shocking at times, and totally unfunny in many places. My favorite songs were the rumor song, and the sort of barber shop quartet number with the jock's side kicks. Those showed flashes of brilliance and what the show could have been. I was left unamused for most of it.
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