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A FLAT EVITA......
showchoirguy
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/10
#25A FLAT EVITA......
Posted: 3/13/12 at 3:40pmGuys, we all know lupone76 is only mad because of all the damn camera's at curtain call. They all heard the announcement...who do they think they are???
#26A FLAT EVITA......
Posted: 3/13/12 at 4:40pm
Lupone76 must have been so mad that they flooded the Marquis.
Harsh.
#27A FLAT EVITA......
Posted: 3/13/12 at 5:56pmA FLAT EVITA....... I for some reason thought immediately of flat chested..... Strange
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#28A FLAT EVITA......
Posted: 3/13/12 at 6:02pm
$ 147 a pop does not buy what it used to.
Glad I passed on this for Best Man & Ghost
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#29A FLAT EVITA......
Posted: 3/13/12 at 7:12pm
How do you know they will be any better? With all the GOOD things the other thread has to say -- why do you assume THIS poster feels the way YOU would?
Please dont judge what you haven't seen.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#30A FLAT EVITA......
Posted: 3/13/12 at 8:09pmJust because Elena is a B cup and Patti is a D is no reason to call the other flat.
amoni2
Featured Actor Joined: 3/4/06
#31A FLAT EVITA......
Posted: 3/13/12 at 8:26pm
IM ALMOST SORRY I HAVE TO SIT THRU THIS HORRIBLE PRODUCTION AGAIN
You're almost sorry you have to sit thru this horrible production again? Oh who you ****tin'? First, no you don't HAVE to. You WANT to go back so you can run back here and trash it against the ghost of a thirty year old production. You will take great pleasure.
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#32A FLAT EVITA......
Posted: 3/13/12 at 8:30pmThe show has had one preview performance and these bitches are already out for blood.
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#33The show was called FLAT by original critics.
Posted: 3/13/12 at 8:36pm
Everyone is invited to revisit the original production's reviews. Except for the NY Post I the press was tepid to horrible. EVITA got not one but two pans in the Times, from the daily and then again on the weekend from Walter Kerr, who hated both the material and what Prince did with it. Lupone was given backdoor compliments. ("Ms. Lupone sings the role well and moves with rattlesnake vitality..." That's it.) The show opened to some of the worst reviews for a "big" imported show in my lifetime. And yet was an instant hit.
"thought the score sounds as if Max Steiner had arranged it for Carmen Miranda...(but) there are waltzes and polkas to keep us alert..."
Keep us alert?
"...undramatized hearsay... We never see any of these things happen on stage...we hear about them second hand, mostly from the omnipresent Che...it is rather like reading footnotes from a text that has disappeared...We are condemned to hearing what we want to know ... need to know, if we are to offer any kind of response by a narrator...We're not participants, we're recipients of postal cards...."
May I just say, SIDE SHOW got far more interesting reviews, even when they were mixed. This show was critic proof in 1979, and certainly from the advance may prove so again. But it's never been touted, or especially admired by the press.
#34The show was called FLAT by original critics.
Posted: 3/13/12 at 8:46pmFor the record, Clive Barnes said: "All the performances are far better than in the London version, but never more so than in the casting of Miss LuPone as the whore with a heart that has a Swiss bank account number. This Evita of urchin grandeur spits aspiration, she dissolves in her own glory, she keeps her head, her style, her pocketbook and a voice that can belt like Merman and melt like Piaf."
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#35The show was called FLAT by original critics.
Posted: 3/13/12 at 8:52pmAh, Barnes. Interesting that he saw the Lupone talent (and career trajectory) that others did not? He was pretty irrelevant back then, having moved from the NY Times to the Post, which is like moving from Columbia to a GED program, no matter what your personal politics. But he was right about Lupone, wasn't he? After being infamously wrong about so much when he covered the first Sondheim shows for the Paper of Record. We should give credit where credit is due, to Clive and Patti.
whatever2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/06
#36The show was called FLAT by original critics.
Posted: 3/13/12 at 9:25pm
Dame: i think you've confused your singular and your plural ... so far in this thread, i only count one bitch out for blood.
(well, out for elena's blood, anyway!)
#37The show was called FLAT by original critics.
Posted: 3/13/12 at 10:17pmAnd also out for Ricky's mustache
#38The show was called FLAT by original critics.
Posted: 3/14/12 at 7:49am
I don't think Martin is used to the 'stache himself. In that entire interview posted on BWW, he looks like he's about to sneeze every time he speaks.
I blame the 'stache.
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#39The show was called FLAT by original critics.
Posted: 3/14/12 at 5:27pm
I HAVE ONE QUESTION. WHO THE FVCK IS BERNATE PETERS?!!!
**CAP LOCKS LEFT ON INTENTIONALLY.
whatever2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/06
#40The show was called FLAT by original critics.
Posted: 3/14/12 at 5:34pm
I don't know, but judging from her name i bet she makes a lot of noise in the theater.
=:o
HopeChanged
Stand-by Joined: 10/2/10
#41The show was called FLAT by original critics.
Posted: 3/15/12 at 4:46pm
Yeah, but here is a question that must be asked:
If you were on a desert island with nothing to watch but Evita, would you rather have cheese fries or onion rings to go with the performance? Or, maybe nachos with an endless stream of margaritas?
Updated On: 3/15/12 at 04:46 PM
#42The show was called FLAT by original critics.
Posted: 3/15/12 at 4:58pm
#43The show was called FLAT by original critics.
Posted: 3/16/12 at 12:37amF*ck, it is 12:30 Am and now I want cheese fries, Suck my d**k!
#45The show was called FLAT by original critics.
Posted: 3/16/12 at 6:24amPork rinds.
#46The show was called FLAT by original critics.
Posted: 3/16/12 at 6:41amMy Oh My, you're on a diet! You can have apple slices.
#47The show was called FLAT by original critics.
Posted: 3/16/12 at 7:22amI misplaced my Deal-a-Meal, so starting next month.
#48The show was called FLAT by original critics.
Posted: 3/16/12 at 12:02pmCan someone explain the cheese fries reference?
#49The show was called FLAT by original critics.
Posted: 3/16/12 at 12:50pm
I think it's something from CANDIDE? Does anyone know?
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