#1
Posted: 7/16/15 at 2:51pm
Mike,
I'll happily delete this if you start yours.
In the meantime:
post 'em here!
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#5
Posted: 7/16/15 at 3:27pm
I'm having a 2 show day Saturday so I think I'll see this then. I'm looking forward to it!! Hope the reviews are good!! Neon are you gonna see it lol
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#6
Posted: 7/16/15 at 3:36pm
Not planning on it. I don't like self important/racist musicals.
#7
Posted: 7/16/15 at 3:39pm
lol til you get a free ticket
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#8
Posted: 7/16/15 at 3:40pm
Neon, I don't know much about the show, what is racist about it?
#9
Posted: 7/16/15 at 3:42pm
"One way to understand the main problem facing "Amazing Grace," the very sincere new musical with Broadway aspirations, is to imagine a version of the Academy Award-winning movie "12 Years a Slave" wherein the protagonist is not Solomon Northup, the free-born American sold into slavery, but the Brad Pitt character, the white abolitionist Samuel Bass. Should such a movie have been made?"
http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-81730888/
Updated On: 7/16/15 at 03:42 PM
#10
Posted: 7/16/15 at 3:44pm
its about John Newton who has slaves, and then realizes that slavery is wrong and then writes the famous song Amazing Grace. It sounds interesting to me, and the b roll looked awesome. Its really a redemption story
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Updated On: 7/16/15 at 03:44 PM
#11
Posted: 7/16/15 at 3:48pm
"lol til you get a free ticket"
I've already been offered multiple comps to this show, and turned them down.
I've already been offered multiple comps to this show, and turned them down.
#12
Posted: 7/16/15 at 3:50pm
lol til the times gives it a rave
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#14
Posted: 7/16/15 at 3:52pm
ya never know. Based on the things people were saying about An American in Paris before it opened, I was expecting awful reviews. That sure as hell didn't happen
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#15
Posted: 7/16/15 at 3:54pm
I'm expecting similar, if not worse, than the Zhivago bloodbath.
#16
Posted: 7/16/15 at 3:54pm
I have a better instinct than you. I knew American in Paris would be a hit.
Eta: "I'm expecting similar, if not worse, than the Zhivago bloodbath."
Agreed.
Updated On: 7/16/15 at 03:54 PM
#17
Posted: 7/16/15 at 3:56pm
I was expecting it to make money, i wasn't expecting it to be critically acclaimed lol
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#18
Posted: 7/16/15 at 4:04pm
Epic musicals like this, Dr Z & Rebecca (if & when it ever opens) will always get crap reviews. Les Miz did not get raves & overcame them . I doubt Amazing reviews will be Amazing & it will be Amazing if it has any kind of a run
To soothe the fears of one previous poster - she knows of whom I speak - I hope it succeeds no matter what the reviews & wish it luck.
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#19
Posted: 7/16/15 at 4:07pm
"ya never know. Based on the things people were saying about An American in Paris before it opened, I was expecting awful reviews. That sure as hell didn't happen"
The only one who said anything negative about AAIP was you philly.
And you hadn't even seen it.
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#20
Posted: 7/16/15 at 4:10pm
lots of people said bad things about it, go look on the previews thread
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#21
Posted: 7/16/15 at 4:12pm
Do not include me
I said I enjoyed it but I thought it was overhyped. Liked Rotten more & enjoyed OOT more . This does not constitute a pan. I enjoyed it but not as much as many others.
I would never give a critique of any show without seeing it.
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Updated On: 7/16/15 at 04:12 PM
#22
Posted: 7/16/15 at 4:12pm
The best this can hope for are politely tepid reviews. Even it does get positive reviews, it's already too deep in a hole financially and in terms of excitement and word-of-mouth to turn itself around. No one wants to see it, no one really cares, and those who have seen it can't muster much enthusiasm.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Updated On: 7/16/15 at 04:12 PM
#23
Posted: 7/16/15 at 4:16pm
That about sums up the situation. It would be lucky to get tepid reviews. I shutter to think of any show ever opening to get reviews as putrid as those Dr Z got.
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#24
Posted: 7/16/15 at 4:46pm
so, this closes on Sunday??
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
#25
Posted: 7/16/15 at 6:12pm
Via their YouTube page. Some of the audience response's seem honest while others to me seem insincere.
Updated On: 7/16/15 at 06:12 PM
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