9 to 5 Reviews- Page 4

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 9:59pm

I was correcting you. You were wrong.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:01pm

"What is this foster? You go from being a jerk and snob, to being pleasant, to being a jerk again... "

Pleasant....really??? lol

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:02pm

It is not part of the "gig" to read reviews.
The "gig" is to see the shows and form their own opinions.
Sometimes they agree with the reviews, many times they are diametrically opposed.

I still think Kudisch should be in the Leading Man Category.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:02pm

NEW RULE: songy doesn't get to talk until Dirty Dancing happens on Broadway as he claimed so many times.

[WishingOnlyWounds2]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:04pm

It's the tone (well, style) you corrected me. I have no problem being corrected, I rather be so I know for future events. But, your approach was rude.

[CukorLover]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:04pm

"gig" is used very loosely. but i guarantee they are reading the reviews as much as this board is.

[JazzSquare55]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:05pm

This is a really good thread.

I like it.

[WishingOnlyWounds2]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:05pm

You would.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:06pm

PiraguaGuy2 you have (again) got your facts wrong

Ive NEVER said Dirty Dancing would happen on Broadway, that was someone else. All i have said about Dirty Dancing is it would not suprise me if it ended up on Broadway as its a cash cow....i also said the show is a horrid mess and i hope for your guys sake it does not go to Broadway.

Not really suprised you got it wrong though, you are rarely right

Updated On: 4/30/09 at 10:06 PM

[blaxx]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:06pm

Theatermania is Mixed

Unfortunately, Parton's score is not particularly memorable, with the exception of the already well-known title song, Doralee's big number "Backwoods Barbie," and "Let Love Grow," a sweet ballad for Violet and Joe (Andy Karl), a younger co-worker who's romantically interested in her. Moreover, the orchestrations from the generally reliable Bruce Coughlin do little to enhance Parton's work. Choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler provides some spirited dances, but a quartet of dream sequences in the first act are overlong and repetitive, and dance transitions between scenes feel like they're only eye-candy filler in an already seamless staging.

http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/reviews/05-2009/9-to-5_18872.html

Updated On: 4/30/09 at 10:06 PM

[CSonBroadway]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:08pm

Shine Like The Sun and Get Out And Stay Out are such good songs.

[James2]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:13pm

Entertainment Weekly is a B+

"It's almost a surprise that Dolly Parton has never written music and lyrics for a Broadway musical before 9 to 5, adapted from the 1980 film in which she co-starred. There's always been a theatrical quality to her lengthy catalog of hits, each one a showstopper meant to be belted out to the last row of whatever venue she's playing. That said, 9 to 5 itself isn't as immediately obvious a fit for Broadway. The original film is a hilarious but dark satire of sexism in the workplace, laced with edgy jokes and outright subversion ? a comedy classic, but how will it work as a mainstream musical?

Surprisingly well, it turns out. The Consolidated Industries office of Patricia Resnick's book is every bit as nasty a place as it was on film, its sexual harassment, pay inequality, and general employee misery preserved intact amidst a leaping ensemble of typists and suits. Resnick has also kept the film's slapstick violence and drug humor ? yes, even the extended pot-fueled hallucination sequence. By refusing to sand down these edges for a Broadway audience, Resnick's book nails the same balancing act as its source material: 9 to 5 remains a laugh-out-loud treatment of very serious issues."

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20275807,00.html

[obsessedjb]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:19pm

http://theater2.nytimes.com/gst/theater/tdetails.html?id=1194805218904

[CukorLover]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:19pm

Brantley kills it ..TKTS anyone?


Updated On: 4/30/09 at 10:19 PM

[blaxx]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:22pm

Ouch, Times pan!

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:23pm

Ouch. That's gotta hurt.

[singtopher]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:24pm

Can this gaudy, empty musical really be part of the same Broadway season that gave us the minimally decorated, maximally effective ?Exit the King,? ?God of Carnage? and ?Norman Conquests?? Those shows strip down to modest sets and, in many cases, small casts, the better to show off their considerable natural assets. But if ingenious austerity has replaced mindless opulence on main-stem stages, no one bothered to alert ?9 to 5.? Dolly Parton and Patricia Resnick?s musical adaptation of the 1980 movie about three women?s revenge on their sexist boss piles on the flashy accessories like a prerecession hedge funder run amok at Barney?s. Staged by Joe Mantello, this show feels assembled by an emulous shopaholic who looked around at the tourist-drawing hits of the last decade and said: ?I want some of that. And that. Ooh, and can I have that, too?? ? Ben Brantley


times

Updated On: 4/30/09 at 10:24 PM

[blaxx]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:25pm

He's been harsh before, but he hated 9 to 5 so much it's funny!

Staged by Joe Mantello, this show feels assembled by an emulous shopaholic who looked around at the tourist-drawing hits of the last decade and said: ?I want some of that. And that. Ooh, and can I have that, too?? ? Ben Brantley

[WishingOnlyWounds2]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:31pm

"this spring?s fashion trends."

Well, I found a quote for them :]

[JazzSquare55]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:33pm

Ouch.

You hurt a brotha, Benny.

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:33pm

Outstanding reviews. Really, just, this is the stuff a Best Musical contender is made of.

[blaxx]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:33pm

With these reviews, what they need to find is a way to not flop.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:34pm

That's an awful review. The show is nowhere near perfect but does not deserve to get trashed like Brantley did...I mean he hardly even liked the women; he kinda just brushed them all off.

Well, if nothing good came out of the review, at least I got one of the funniest pictures ever from it:

SJB = WTF

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:37pm

Looks like Turkey Lurkey Time from Promises, Promises.

[CukorLover]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:37pm

horrifying yet delcious photo !