Amazing Grace reviews

[tazber]

Posted: 7/16/15 at 2:51pm

Mike,

I'll happily delete this if you start yours.

 

In the meantime:

post 'em here!

 

[Scoobs2]

Posted: 7/16/15 at 2:57pm

I just hope it doesn't get chewed out. 

[LimelightMike]

Posted: 7/16/15 at 2:59pm

taz, I'll allow it. :)

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 7/16/15 at 2:59pm

Don't worry Scoobs, it will.

[Phillypinto]

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

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 7/16/15 at 3:36pm

Not planning on it. I don't like self important/racist musicals.

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 7/16/15 at 3:39pm

lol til you get a free ticket 

[Scoobs2]

Posted: 7/16/15 at 3:40pm

Neon, I don't know much about the show, what is racist about it?

[neonlightsxo]

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

[Phillypinto]

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

Updated On: 7/16/15 at 03:44 PM

[neonlightsxo]

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.

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 7/16/15 at 3:50pm

lol til the times gives it a rave

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 7/16/15 at 3:50pm

That's not gonna happen.

[Phillypinto]

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

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 7/16/15 at 3:54pm

I'm expecting similar, if not worse, than the Zhivago bloodbath. 

[neonlightsxo]

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

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 7/16/15 at 3:56pm

I was expecting it to make money, i wasn't expecting it to be critically acclaimed lol

[Mr Roxy]

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.

[tazber]

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.

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 7/16/15 at 4:10pm

lots of people said bad things about it, go look on the previews thread

[Mr Roxy]

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.

Updated On: 7/16/15 at 04:12 PM

[Kad]

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.

Updated On: 7/16/15 at 04:12 PM

[Mr Roxy]

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.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 7/16/15 at 4:46pm

so, this closes on Sunday??

[AKarp2013]

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