13 Set For Broadway Run- Page 2

[beyondblessed]

Posted: 5/25/07 at 5:17pm

THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!!!!

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 5/25/07 at 5:27pm

I look forward to all the interviews with JRB where he talks about how wonderful and underappreciated he is.
Ugh, I know.

I still don't "get" Jason Robert Brown, I find him to be the most overrated theater composer of his generation.

[popular_elphie]

Posted: 5/25/07 at 7:23pm

So happy for JRB. His music is wonderful, and I'm so excited to actually see this.

SPRING AWAKENING is the next WICKED, by the way.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 5/25/07 at 7:45pm

I really don't get the SPRING AWAKENING/WICKED comparison nor do I get the need to compare any show that seems successful to WICKED.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/25/07 at 8:05pm

"SPRING AWAKENING is the next WICKED, by the way."

You mean, by having a weak book, forgettable songs, overblown production values and a screaming, teeny-boppers fan base?


Oooh, I can't wait.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 5/25/07 at 8:09pm

If Spring Awakening was the next Wicked, it'd be sellling out.

[burntplains]

Posted: 5/25/07 at 9:22pm

I need to look at Backstage.com to see when casting calls will be...

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 5/25/07 at 9:27pm

^Ok

[caitiesus1522]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 12:04am

I am excited about this one too. What I have heard, I love. And yeah, this is about 1000 times better than high shcool musical. I would much rather have middle schoolers loving this than that one.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 12:16am

Do the kids masterbate at any point?
SPRING AWAKENING the new WICKED?
yeah, only subtract the Million decimal each week.

[Bobby Maler]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 12:16am

Here's a link to some of the songs. There is a video with the title song, and a medley of songs when you scroll down.

I have to say the music is not that bad, but it just feels like something you'd watch on the Disney channel...I'm not so sure I'd want to go see it...the description of the story on wikipedia sounds horrendous.
http://www.centertheatregroup.org/tickets/productiondetail.aspx?id=498

[thenewmoon]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 12:21am

I thought for sure this was some kind of joke. Speaking as one who has actually seen it, this show was awful. The only good aspect was the lead girl, the one with the awesome alto. I think she'd make a great Ilse in "Spring Awakening".
Now having seen SA as well as 13, I can state that they're virtually the same show, just that SA is realistic and sensitive while "13" gives the teen years the bubblegum treatment. Ex., in SA, we have teen boys singing about masturbation. In 13, the jock has a number, I believe it was called "Here Comes the Tongue," about his desire (sans technique) to French a bimbette. I could not make this up. Or even the fact that in SA, the onstage band can always been seen, whereas in 13, they're hidden behind a garage door (why?!)
Yet, I love L5Y. It is one of my all-time favs. But then, Schwartz followed Godspell with Wicked, so...

[D2]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 12:27am

The night I saw it in LA, I overheard someone saying "You know something is wrong when you want to go onstage and kick the crutches out from under the handicapped kid" on the way out of the theatre.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 12:36am

D2, that made me laugh out loud.
I also laughed very much after hearing the "it's so bad it's funny" title song on that clip. I don't get how Jason Robert Brown can get away with putting that song on stage.

[D2]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 12:38am

It made me laugh out loud too. Biggest laugh of the night, actually, and I was still laughing when we got back to our hotel.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 12:39am

Wow. I'm in the target group for this show and I did not like that song.

[lite2shine]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 1:37pm

Oh boy I completed shut out the memory of "Here Comes the tongue" number. And when you think about it, I just can't believe that JRB wrote the number or even allowed to use it on the stage. I want to ask him about it, maybe I should and he may answer it on his blog.

[The Boy From Ohio]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 5:58pm

I love JRB, but not so sure I want to see something about middle school. I have enough bad memories from then.