BANDSTAND Previews- Page 4

[Wayman_Wong]

Posted: 4/13/17 at 9:36pm

What's the running time for ''Bandstand''? Thanks!

[DramaTeach]

Posted: 4/13/17 at 9:37pm

Last night it was about 2hrs. and 40 min.  Got out at about 10:40 give or take a few minutes.

[Robbie2]

Posted: 4/13/17 at 10:10pm

Wayman_Wong said: "What's the running time for ''Bandstand''? Thanks!

 

"Wong, 2 hours 25 min.

 

[Broadwaygirl2]

Posted: 4/14/17 at 12:20am

Tonight I believe it was 2 hr 30 min (ended about 10:35) 

[OlBlueEyes]

Posted: 4/14/17 at 10:54am

That's interesting about the reception to Laura Osnes' acting. I didn't, unfortunately, see her in South Pacific, but I remember having doubts that someone so upbeat and relentlessly cheerful could believably take on all the emotions that Nellie displays in the second act. 

Since Laura filled in for the six or seven months of Kelli's maternity leave and then after Kelli left the show for good Laura again was picked as replacement for the last seven months of run, I assume that Bartlett Sher thought the she had played the part well.

When Laura was cast to play Julie Jordan with Steven Pasquale, I had even greater doubts concerning that role. Up on Youtube is I guess a fairly recent clip of the original stars of Carousel, John Raitt and Jan Clayton, reenacting the bench scene in costume and makeup for a 1954 TV tribute to Rodgers and Hammerstein. Clayton's Julie is just so shy and withdrawn. So unlike Osnes.

Well I didn't see that Chicago production either but the Chicago Tribune said of her performance:

Osnes, who mostly has been stuck with one-dimensional ingenues and princesses thus far in her career, affords Julie a pervasive sense of melancholy — if there is one show where an actress can get away with playing the end from the beginning, this is that show.

So, if you have an attraction to this very dramatic decade of the 40s and its music, through your parents or grandparents or however, then see Bandstand and don't wait too long. You'll enjoy it and you'll be glad that you grew up under the influence of the great swing and jazz bands of Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington, and not under the influence of rap and hip hop and other bands whose members learned to play the guitar in someone's garage.

(That last sentence sounds very snooty, doesn't it. I admit that I've been a big Grateful Dead fan who first saw the band at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, NY in 1970. I don't think that any of them went to Juilliard.)

 

 

[goldenboy]

Posted: 4/14/17 at 11:24am

After reading all the swipes on this show on this board, I went to Bandstand not expecting much.
 Boy was I presently surprized. Out of all of the crop of new Musicals, I enjoyed this one  the most.

It has a story that is involving.  A plot I can follow. (Please take note indecipherable Natasha and the Comet) It was not cliched or eye rolling as I found Groundhog Day and Amelie. And the music was memorable. 

This is a fine new musical!

It has hummable music. Intellligent staging.  Nice Dancing. And artfully. directed.  So much more entertaining than Waitress, School of Rock, Natasha and the Comet

It is old fashioned in a good way with a new fashioned message.

I found the ghost images of the dead soldiers involving and not at all stolen from Follies as Whizzer had mentoned. (I usually agree with all of his reviews) The dancing of the 40's propels you through the show.  While there isn't a real show stopping dance number; dance is used as a driving force for this musical encapsulating the era.

Corey Cott is the best I have ever seen him after the embarrassing and miscast Gigi. Laura sings well and is a tad bland in the role but she's fine. The audience loves her. But it is Corey's show.

Please don't miss this.

[uncageg]

Posted: 4/16/17 at 5:52pm

I am seeing it this week.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 4/16/17 at 6:11pm

"A major theme of the show is the PTSD soldiers suffer when they return from war. Of course, the term PTSD wasn't really used by the psych community until the 1980's after Vietnam, and luckily no one utters the acronym during Bandstand, but the authors clearly expect a 2017 audience to understand what's going on. That's fine, and obviously PTSD existed before it was "discovered" and labeled, but one must be careful about how much understanding you can allow lay characters to have of an issue that wasn't formally identified in their lifetime."

PTSD has been known of at least as far back as WW!. They just called it "shellshock". PSTD may be better understood and "accepted" now, but it isn't even close to a recent discovery.

[uncageg]

Posted: 4/19/17 at 12:47am

ghostlight, read the dntird comment. It was only referring to the term.

 

Saw it tonight. Loved the music. Cott pretty much nailed it as did most of the supporting cast. I saw what the Vietnam war did to some of my family members. Lived through it. I am very glad they opened up the stage in act 2. My first time seeing Osnes and her voice is wonderful.

Updated On: 4/19/17 at 12:47 AM

[HenryTDobson]

Posted: 4/24/17 at 9:46pm

Has anyone else seen this? There's been so many new musicals and this one has unfortunately received little hype. I'm interested to see reviews this week.

[Butter Broadway]

Posted: 4/24/17 at 10:40pm

The show looks great!

Bandstand Pics

[Marianne2]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 11:21pm

I was there tonight.  I did enjoy it a lot. The dance numbers and songs were great. Unfortunately,  many of the jokes weren't very funny to me. But, it was a fun evening for the good parts.

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 11:28pm

Robbie2 said: "Wayman_Wong said: "What's the running time for ''Bandstand''? Thanks!

 

"Wong, 2 hours 25 min.

 

 

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No. It's closer to 2:40. 

[Marianne2]

Posted: 4/26/17 at 2:00am

Well, it is 2 hours 25 minutes if you take out intermission.  It needs it though.