Anyone else find Caroline, Or Change is overrated?
Anyone else find Caroline, Or Change is overrated?
Anyone else find Caroline, Or Change is overrated?#1
Posted: 6/12/11 at 12:43am
I thought it was one of the best shows of the decade because I saw it recently. Then I went to the same local production with an understudy and it sucked. I just think it isn't as good as it is now made out to be.
Updated On: 6/12/11 at 12:43 AM
Anyone else find Caroline, Or Change is overrated?#2
Posted: 6/12/11 at 12:44amNo. It's still the best original musical written in the past 10 years despite you're wanting to sound cool about it.
Anyone else find Caroline, Or Change is overrated?#2
Posted: 6/12/11 at 12:45amDefensive. It's just a show. How am I trying to be cool?
Anyone else find Caroline, Or Change is overrated?#3
Posted: 6/12/11 at 12:49am
Them fightin' words.
How can you judge a show on a local production? What if the production just sucked?
Anyone else find Caroline, Or Change is overrated?#4
Posted: 6/12/11 at 12:51amWhere was this production?
Anyone else find Caroline, Or Change is overrated?#5
Posted: 6/12/11 at 12:52amI saw the local production twice. The first time was good but had a good actress. The second had a bad actress (understudy) and I saw more flaws with it. I didn't like it at all. I just think a show shouldn't rely so much on one performance. Though it has a lovely score.
Anyone else find Caroline, Or Change is overrated?#6
Posted: 6/12/11 at 12:52am
Sorry - it's amazing. If anything it's offensively underrated. Besides for a few people on this board (and I know Jordan and I are among them, there are others too...) few people consider it incredible, or even know about, even people who love theatre. So....no I don't see how that could be anywhere near overrated.
Also - did you see the original broadway production? You also say you saw the show at a regional theatre with an u/s as Caroline (I presume that's what you meant), so I would expect it to be pretty miserable. If I judged musicals by the actual merit of the production of it I saw, The Sound of Music would be the worst musical ever written. (I've only seen a few crappy regional productions, fortunately I have the movie to prove its brilliance)
Anyone else find Caroline, Or Change is overrated?#7
Posted: 6/12/11 at 12:52amOkay, you first said you loved it, but now don't because you saw a bad understudy. That is not overrated. That is just not enjoying a performer.
Anyone else find Caroline, Or Change is overrated?#8
Posted: 6/12/11 at 12:55amTrue. Maybe because of that beautiful performance, I had such high expectations.
Anyone else find Caroline, Or Change is overrated?#9
Posted: 6/12/11 at 12:56amWhere was this production?
Anyone else find Caroline, Or Change is overrated?#10
Posted: 6/12/11 at 12:57amWhy does it matter?
Anyone else find Caroline, Or Change is overrated?#11
Posted: 6/12/11 at 12:57amBecause I'm curious who the cast was.
Anyone else find Caroline, Or Change is overrated?#12
Posted: 6/12/11 at 12:59amJordan - good question. I also want to know where this production was. The only regional production I've seen anywhere on the internet is in Dayton, Ohio later this fall. So - either it was very small scale, or well, the production never existed.
Anyone else find Caroline, Or Change is overrated?#13
Posted: 6/12/11 at 12:59amKind of what I'm thinking as well. Would love to be proved wrong.
Anyone else find Caroline, Or Change is overrated?#14
Posted: 6/12/11 at 1:03am
When I came down to New York after the tourists left in February 2010 I saw the production in Brooklyn at The Gallery Players.
Updated On: 6/12/11 at 01:03 AM
Anyone else find Caroline, Or Change is overrated?#15
Posted: 6/12/11 at 1:04am
You saw it twice on the same trip?
Also- that's not recently, that is over a year ago.
Anyone else find Caroline, Or Change is overrated?#16
Posted: 6/12/11 at 1:05am
From your original post: "because I saw it recently."
Now...you want us to think it was almost a year and a half ago? And you saw it twice? Ok, I'm calling bull****.
Anyone else find Caroline, Or Change is overrated?#17
Posted: 6/12/11 at 1:05amThat was a year and a half ago. I thought you said you saw it recently. You also said you saw a local production and in another thread you said you lived out of the country.
Anyone else find Caroline, Or Change is overrated?#18
Posted: 6/12/11 at 1:07amTrue it isn't recent but Teisha Duncan was so good I saw it twice. Nothing else in New York was new or good.
Anyone else find Caroline, Or Change is overrated?#19
Posted: 6/12/11 at 1:08am
I live in Toronto. Not a far trip. Local meaning community production. This isn't small scale but it was small enough.
Updated On: 6/12/11 at 01:08 AM
Anyone else find Caroline, Or Change is overrated?#20
Posted: 6/12/11 at 1:08am
What dates did you see her understudy? Just curious so I can double check with my friend over there.
An about your claim you saw a local production...?
Anyone else find Caroline, Or Change is overrated?#21
Posted: 6/12/11 at 1:08am
Anyone else find Caroline, Or Change is overrated?#22
Posted: 6/12/11 at 1:08amI thought you saw an understudy for Caroline the second time? Please get your story straight.
Anyone else find Caroline, Or Change is overrated?#23
Posted: 6/12/11 at 1:10am
I'm guessing SPF is doing some frantic googling right now.
Updated On: 6/12/11 at 01:10 AM
Anyone else find Caroline, Or Change is overrated?#24
Posted: 6/12/11 at 1:13am
LOL. I also find it unlikely (though I won't make a bold declaration because I don't know) that Teisha had an understudy go on during a three week limited engagement. It's not unheard of, just seems unlikely. Plus, there are no understudies listed on the cast list.
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