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9 to 5 Reviews
#75re: 9 to 5 Reviews
Posted: 4/30/09 at 9:59pmI was correcting you. You were wrong.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#76re: 9 to 5 Reviews
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
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#77re: 9 to 5 Reviews
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#78re: 9 to 5 Reviews
Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:02pmNEW RULE: songy doesn't get to talk until Dirty Dancing happens on Broadway as he claimed so many times.
Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08
WishingOnlyWounds2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/25/08
#79re: 9 to 5 Reviews
Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:04pmIt'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.
2008: Feb. 18- Rent, Feb. 19- Curtains, April 18- Xanadu, April 22- Wicked, April 26- Legally Blonde, May 31- Wicked, June 13- The Little Mermaid, June 28- Wicked and Young Frankenstein, July 2- The Little Mermaid, July 6- A Chorus Line and Legally Blonde, August 16- Xanadu, September 13- Legally Blonde and 13, September 28- Xanadu and Spring Awakening, Oct. 12-GYPSY and [title of show], Oct. 19- Hairspray & Legally Blonde, Nov. 9- Wicked and 13, Dec. 14-13, Dec. 26- Billy Elliot, 2009: Jan 1- Shrek, Jan 2- 13 and Wicked, Jan 4- 13, Feb 17- In The Heights, Feb 19- Billy Elliot, Feb 22- Sweeney Todd (tour), March 28- Mary Poppins, April 4- Mamma Mia!, April 15- Jersey Boys (on tour), April 25- next to normal & 9 to 5
May 1- Billy Elliot, May 3- Spelling Bee (tour), May 8- Chicago, May 21- Wicked, June 6- Everyday Rapture, June 23- The Wiz, June 25- Hair July 15- Shrek, August 9- Wicked, September 7- Rock of Ages, October 11- Next To Normal, October 23- The Marvelous Wonderettes, November 7- Ragtime November 29- Dreamgirls, December 25- Billy Elliot, December 30- Finian's Rainbow, 2010: January 9- Bye Bye Birdie, January 16- Memphis February 17- The Phantom of The Opera, February 18- God of Carnage, March 7- Billy Elliot, March 31- American Idiot
#80re: 9 to 5 Reviews
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
Featured Actor Joined: 4/28/09
WishingOnlyWounds2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/25/08
#82re: 9 to 5 Reviews
Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:05pmYou would.
2008: Feb. 18- Rent, Feb. 19- Curtains, April 18- Xanadu, April 22- Wicked, April 26- Legally Blonde, May 31- Wicked, June 13- The Little Mermaid, June 28- Wicked and Young Frankenstein, July 2- The Little Mermaid, July 6- A Chorus Line and Legally Blonde, August 16- Xanadu, September 13- Legally Blonde and 13, September 28- Xanadu and Spring Awakening, Oct. 12-GYPSY and [title of show], Oct. 19- Hairspray & Legally Blonde, Nov. 9- Wicked and 13, Dec. 14-13, Dec. 26- Billy Elliot, 2009: Jan 1- Shrek, Jan 2- 13 and Wicked, Jan 4- 13, Feb 17- In The Heights, Feb 19- Billy Elliot, Feb 22- Sweeney Todd (tour), March 28- Mary Poppins, April 4- Mamma Mia!, April 15- Jersey Boys (on tour), April 25- next to normal & 9 to 5
May 1- Billy Elliot, May 3- Spelling Bee (tour), May 8- Chicago, May 21- Wicked, June 6- Everyday Rapture, June 23- The Wiz, June 25- Hair July 15- Shrek, August 9- Wicked, September 7- Rock of Ages, October 11- Next To Normal, October 23- The Marvelous Wonderettes, November 7- Ragtime November 29- Dreamgirls, December 25- Billy Elliot, December 30- Finian's Rainbow, 2010: January 9- Bye Bye Birdie, January 16- Memphis February 17- The Phantom of The Opera, February 18- God of Carnage, March 7- Billy Elliot, March 31- American Idiot
#83re: 9 to 5 Reviews
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
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
Updated On: 4/30/09 at 10:06 PM
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#84re: 9 to 5 Reviews
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
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
Updated On: 4/30/09 at 10:06 PM
#85re: 9 to 5 Reviews
Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:08pmShine Like The Sun and Get Out And Stay Out are such good songs.
I'm a professional. Whenever something goes wrong on stage, I know how to handle it so no one ever remembers. I flash my %#$&.
"Jayne just sat there while Gina flailed around the stage like an idiot."
#86re: 9 to 5 Reviews
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
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#87re: 9 to 5 Reviews
Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:19pmhttp://theater2.nytimes.com/gst/theater/tdetails.html?id=1194805218904
#88re: 9 to 5 Reviews
Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:19pm
Brantley kills it ..TKTS anyone?
Updated On: 4/30/09 at 10:19 PM
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#89re: 9 to 5 Reviews
Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:22pmOuch, Times pan!
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#91re: 9 to 5 Reviews
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
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"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
Updated On: 4/30/09 at 10:24 PM
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#92re: 9 to 5 Reviews
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
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
WishingOnlyWounds2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/25/08
#93re: 9 to 5 Reviews
Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:31pm
"this spring?s fashion trends."
Well, I found a quote for them :]
2008: Feb. 18- Rent, Feb. 19- Curtains, April 18- Xanadu, April 22- Wicked, April 26- Legally Blonde, May 31- Wicked, June 13- The Little Mermaid, June 28- Wicked and Young Frankenstein, July 2- The Little Mermaid, July 6- A Chorus Line and Legally Blonde, August 16- Xanadu, September 13- Legally Blonde and 13, September 28- Xanadu and Spring Awakening, Oct. 12-GYPSY and [title of show], Oct. 19- Hairspray & Legally Blonde, Nov. 9- Wicked and 13, Dec. 14-13, Dec. 26- Billy Elliot, 2009: Jan 1- Shrek, Jan 2- 13 and Wicked, Jan 4- 13, Feb 17- In The Heights, Feb 19- Billy Elliot, Feb 22- Sweeney Todd (tour), March 28- Mary Poppins, April 4- Mamma Mia!, April 15- Jersey Boys (on tour), April 25- next to normal & 9 to 5
May 1- Billy Elliot, May 3- Spelling Bee (tour), May 8- Chicago, May 21- Wicked, June 6- Everyday Rapture, June 23- The Wiz, June 25- Hair July 15- Shrek, August 9- Wicked, September 7- Rock of Ages, October 11- Next To Normal, October 23- The Marvelous Wonderettes, November 7- Ragtime November 29- Dreamgirls, December 25- Billy Elliot, December 30- Finian's Rainbow, 2010: January 9- Bye Bye Birdie, January 16- Memphis February 17- The Phantom of The Opera, February 18- God of Carnage, March 7- Billy Elliot, March 31- American Idiot
JazzSquare55
Featured Actor Joined: 4/28/09
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#95re: 9 to 5 Reviews
Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:33pmOutstanding reviews. Really, just, this is the stuff a Best Musical contender is made of.
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#95re: 9 to 5 Reviews
Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:33pmWith these reviews, what they need to find is a way to not flop.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#97re: 9 to 5 Reviews
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#98re: 9 to 5 Reviews
Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:37pmLooks like Turkey Lurkey Time from Promises, Promises.
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
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