Posted: 4/24/17 at 8:30pm
Yeah, I have no idea what he's trying to do with the Trump references, and the whole thing reads pretty negative. The scenic design gets, like, one line of praise at the end.
Posted: 4/24/17 at 8:32pm
The Wrap is the dumbest theatre review I've ever read. What a disgrace of a piece.
Posted: 4/24/17 at 8:35pm
The review from The Wrap is tacky, tasteless, and uncalled for. I don't remember the last time a review made me this angry (and I wasn't a huge fan of the show either).
Posted: 4/24/17 at 8:35pm
The Wrap is a flat out pan, mixed? Where are you seeing mixed?
Posted: 4/24/17 at 8:44pm
Perhaps the show has changed since I saw the Hartford version, but wasn't it Vlad and Lily who had a previous love affair? According to EW, Dmitry and Lily? If there were any changes, a PM explaining them so as not to spoil for those who haven't seen it would be appreciated.
Posted: 4/24/17 at 8:44pm
Time Out NY
Positive
https://www.timeout.com/newyork/theater/anastasia
per Adam Feldman of Time Out:
"In a season crowded with new musicals, this one has maintained a modest profile. But now the secret can be told: Anastasia is the richest and fullest family show to hit Broadway in years. Who knew? "
I don't know Adam, but trying so hard to get your pull quotes is pretty evident.
Posted: 4/24/17 at 8:48pm
The Daily Beast seems positive...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/24/review-anastasia-lives-again-on-broadway.html?via=twitter_page
Posted: 4/24/17 at 8:50pm
What/who the heck is Broadway News? Did i miss something here?
Posted: 4/24/17 at 8:50pm
That TheWrap review is ridiculous. Not liking the show is one thing, but it's based on well established source material and he really goes after the material claiming it's a Trump-era musical? What? Where?
Posted: 4/24/17 at 8:51pm
disneybroadwayfan22 said: "Literally only at the beginning and the end. The little actress then plays Alexi for two scenes and a child in the train scenes. And when I saw it, there were plenty old adults too.
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There are two girls that rotate in the role, I think I read. Is that correct? Who did you see?
Posted: 4/24/17 at 8:53pm
The WORST thing about the EW review is it gets its historical facts wrong. Way wrong.
The Romanovs were not "tragically" "killed by the Bolsheviks in an invasion." They were rounded up at Lenin's orders, and after being moved from place to place for a while, they were literally lined up against the wall in one of the rooms in the dacha and murdered by gunfire.
As to whether their deaths were "tragic", that depends on how you feel about dynastic rulers who enslave their peoples en masse. (The Russians did not end the serf system until late in the 19th century.)
OK, back to Broadway now....
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Posted: 4/24/17 at 8:53pm
^No, it's just Nicole and McKenzie is her understudy
Posted: 4/24/17 at 8:57pm
Trish2 said: "What/who the heck is Broadway News? Did i miss something here?
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I think it's Isherwood, if I'm not mistaken.
Posted: 4/24/17 at 8:59pm
disneybroadwayfan22 said: "Chicago Tribune
Mixed-Positive
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/broadway/sc-anastasia-broadway-review-ent-0424-20170424-column.html
I beg to differ on that Mixed-Postive review. The only thing he raves about is our star. MIXED.
Updated On: 4/24/17 at 08:59 PM
Posted: 4/24/17 at 9:02pm
Adam Feldman is such a softy. He's worse than Isherwood.
As Anastasia piles discovery upon discovery, the happiest surprise is how consistently good the musical turns out to be. Smartly adapted by Terrence McNally from the 1997 animated film and the 1956 Ingrid Bergman movie-with Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens impressively expanding their score from the former-Anastasia is a sweeping adventure, romance and historical epic whose fine craftsmanship will satisfy musical-theater fans beyond the show's ideal audience of teenage girls. (When I saw it, a second-act kiss was greeted with deafening shrieks of approval.)
Posted: 4/24/17 at 9:12pm
The New York Daily News is mixed...
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/theater-arts/anastasia-broadway-review-article-1.3095510
Posted: 4/24/17 at 9:13pm
Feldman is hardly a softy.
Updated On: 4/24/17 at 09:13 PM
Posted: 4/24/17 at 9:19pm
Well he sounds like it in that review. Plus he loves Les Mis.
Posted: 4/24/17 at 9:22pm
Posted: 4/24/17 at 9:23pm
And you're Phillypinto, back from the forbidden zone.
Posted: 4/24/17 at 9:26pm
Butter Broadway said: "Well he sounds like it in that review. Plus he loves Les Mis.
Yes, he and thousands of other softies
Posted: 4/24/17 at 9:26pm
Kad said: "Feldman is hardly a softy."
Seriously. Of course he can't go too in-depth due to space limitations, but I always enjoy Feldman's reviews (and David Cote's, for that matter). And he's hardly the first to say that Anastasia is a good family musical or better than expected.
Posted: 4/24/17 at 9:29pm
Kad said: "And you're Phillypinto, back from the forbidden zone. "
I knew IT seemed familiar. What was his last username again?
Posted: 4/24/17 at 9:50pm
Deadline seems mixed...
http://deadline.com/2017/04/broadway-review-anastasia-1202076421/
