Are they trying to kill Broadway?

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 4:29pm

I mean come on. This has got to be a joke.

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/94572.html

[justme2]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 4:40pm

My assumption is that they are reaching out for the younger theater audience....aka..."the future of Broadway".


EDIT!!! I meant..the future AUDIENCES of Broadway.

Updated On: 8/17/05 at 04:40 PM

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 4:40pm

Did I miss something? Where and when is the killing?

[Magdalene]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 4:44pm

Probably not---one way to get the kiddies in, and buying the souvenirs!

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 4:51pm

I'm missing this story's lethal intent too.

[Kringas]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 4:57pm

One, two, Zippel's coming for you
Three, four, better learn that score ...

[uncageg]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 5:05pm

Let's be thankful that it is a New Musical. Not a jukebox musical. I think it sounds fun.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 5:14pm

"Is there a little princess waiting to emerge from every girl?"

If this doesn't sound like a Disney line, I don't know what does. Who wants to pay $100 a ticket for this?

[greatdct]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 5:16pm

I can't really decide what their target audience is. I have a feeling it will be small and selective kind of like Little Women.

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 5:22pm

Please, you're talking Broadway.
In the last 10 years there has been very little that is creative, groundbreaking, or thought-provoking. Broadway has become home mostly to happy, mega spectacles, musical comedies where everyone already knows the plot ahead of time, revivals, and occasionally a play or two that attracts 50% full houses.
Whats to kill?

[Kringas]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 5:53pm

"Is there a little princess waiting to emerge from every girl?"

I don't know about every little girl, but there's one waiting to emerge from me.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 6:21pm

It's for the pre-WICKEDites.

[justme2]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 6:24pm

exactly my point Raithnait!! The "younger theater audience that will become obsessed with the actress in the role" type.

[popular_elphie]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 6:25pm

This really doesn't sound good.

[ljay889]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 6:31pm

You can watch video clips of the show, and listen to samples of the score.. The links are around here.

It looks like - the school girls get the pop/dance songs. Brent Barrett and the other adults get the traditional musical theatre songs, and Storm Newton playing the hunk - will get the R&B flavored songs.

It feels like they are trying to cram too many different styles of music into one show.

People are calling it the next HAIRSPRAY.

And it looks like Brent Barrett and Donna English might be the only reasons to see this show.

Anyway - I think this will be more promising than BROOKLYN, and GOOD VIBRATIONS. Updated On: 8/17/05 at 06:31 PM

[broadway betty]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 6:45pm

I want to see it b/c it's an original musical and I want to see Brent Barrett but I don't like that it sounds so pop. I feel bad jokes and over-acting coming just from that 17 minute video, I hope it's less corny on Broadway.

[Demitri2]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 7:48pm

Geesh!...give it a chance before condemning it. However to me right now it does sound like a cross between "Henry, Sweet Henry"(adolescent vying for the affection of her father) and the British musical "Moby Dick (school children put on a musical within a musical). I'm seeing the final performance on the 28th and will probably write a review here. Until then I'm hoping for the best. It officially opens tonight in Seattle so you should be able to read a review tomorrow or Friday in the Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligence.

[GYPSY1527]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 7:59pm

Here's the link to the offical site:

http://www.fifthavenuetheatre.org/princesses.shtml

Interesting and very odd songs. umm I don't know what to exactly say.

[neocomposer]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 8:01pm

i think broadway will be ok

[BroadwayFreak]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 8:41pm

Definately not something I'd like to see. Maybe, little girls would like it. I would not say that would "kill" broadway. Broadway, in my opinion, should target different audiences. Everyone has different interests in musicals. But it definatley is NOT something I'd spend my money on.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 9:13pm

"Please, you're talking Broadway....What's to kill?" - South Fl Marc.
Broadway's having a good season. Nothing original? Pillowman, Doubt, Spelling Bee, LITP. I'm sure I wouldn't see this show either, but why would it spell the demise of "The Fabulous Invalid"?

Why do some people think only the shows they like should be on Broadway?

"Broadway, in my opinion, should target different audiences" - Broadway Freak

Exactly. Something for everyone - all tastes catered to. Why not?

[Magdalene]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 9:20pm

It COULD be Doctor Dolittle...

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 11:18pm

Argh. I must admit that the show sounds like a concept some po-dunk children's theater would produce.

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 11:42pm

it looks promising and lots of people said they enjoyed it on that clip...ya never know what could happen!

[PrincessKate]

Posted: 8/18/05 at 12:51am

The music in those clips is terrible. It's not even good enough to be played on radio Disney.