BARE to Play Final Performance Off Broadway on February 3
BARE to Play Final Performance Off Broadway on February 3
BARE to Play Final Performance Off Broadway on February 3#2
Posted: 1/23/13 at 7:29pmWoah! I feel like this should not be!
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
BARE to Play Final Performance Off Broadway on February 3#2
Posted: 1/23/13 at 7:36pm
Sad for those involved, but not too many of us here thought it was a homerun.
May the talented find new work soon, and may the theater find a worthy tenant.
BARE to Play Final Performance Off Broadway on February 3#3
Posted: 1/23/13 at 7:36pm
Does this really surprise ANYONE?
That's two failures in a row for this Director. Please stop using him.
BARE to Play Final Performance Off Broadway on February 3#4
Posted: 1/23/13 at 7:39pmMeh. I know people, mostly ex Spring Awakening fans, who were bonkers for it and even they thought this incarnation was weak. As for me, I'm over teen-centric shows.
BARE to Play Final Performance Off Broadway on February 3#5
Posted: 1/23/13 at 7:41pm
Really? I don't know anyone- ANYONE- who really flipped for this production.
Stafford Arima is certainly good at delivering "meh".
BARE to Play Final Performance Off Broadway on February 3#6
Posted: 1/23/13 at 7:48pmI mean they love the show in general - and they thought the production was meh.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
BARE to Play Final Performance Off Broadway on February 3#7
Posted: 1/23/13 at 7:50pm
Well, the first responder to the post seems suprised.
BARE to Play Final Performance Off Broadway on February 3#8
Posted: 1/23/13 at 7:54pmit was a great show. wasnt the BEST thing ive seen but great. cant wait for e cast recording!
BARE to Play Final Performance Off Broadway on February 3#9
Posted: 1/23/13 at 8:27pmSee ya later, BARE. Don't let the door hit your horribly rewritten ass on the way out.
BARE to Play Final Performance Off Broadway on February 3#10
Posted: 1/23/13 at 8:27pm
Shocking. Can it please go back to the way it was before
Stafford Arima got his hands on it?
BARE to Play Final Performance Off Broadway on February 3#11
Posted: 1/23/13 at 9:06pm
I enjoyed it. There were things I missed from the original but I went in with an open mind.
Kad, I assume you were just being sarcastic/funny. The show did have a small following of people who saw it mulriple times.
I do plan to see it again before it closes.
BARE to Play Final Performance Off Broadway on February 3#12
Posted: 1/23/13 at 9:23pmIt was a mediocre show in it's first incarnation. Never understood the hype.
BARE to Play Final Performance Off Broadway on February 3#13
Posted: 1/23/13 at 9:38pm
"Kad, I assume you were just being sarcastic/funny. The show did have a small following of people who saw it mulriple times."
No. I wasn't. I don't know anyone personally who really care about this show either way.
BARE to Play Final Performance Off Broadway on February 3#14
Posted: 1/23/13 at 10:03pmWhen will producers stop hiring that assclown director?
BARE to Play Final Performance Off Broadway on February 3#15
Posted: 1/23/13 at 10:09pm
I care a great deal about this show. I've cared about Bare probably more than any other show I've ever been exposed to.
I wish I could say the same about this production...
BARE to Play Final Performance Off Broadway on February 3#16
Posted: 1/23/13 at 10:53pmArima needs to start working on good shows, it's become quite clear that he isn't the best at flipping flawed shows.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
BARE to Play Final Performance Off Broadway on February 3#17
Posted: 1/23/13 at 11:33pmI don't get why they let him mess with CARRIE. Wouldn't that be the perfect time to use a great established director? Maybe they all turned it down. Same with BARE. Why not get some cool up and coming director?
BARE to Play Final Performance Off Broadway on February 3#18
Posted: 1/23/13 at 11:39pm
My suspicion is that the Carrie creators wanted someone who would do exactly what Arima did with the material, and even though reviews were lukewarm, there was enough buzz about him at least on the basis of being "the guy who revived Carrie" that he got Bare.
Arima didn't ruin Carrie. Carrie isn't even ruined- it's just different, and I suspect Arima was the pawn, not the queen, in that game.
BARE to Play Final Performance Off Broadway on February 3#19
Posted: 1/24/13 at 12:08am
I think the book and score for Carrie are far better now than they were before. The problem with that production was the awkward staging choices he made. It could have been great with just a few minor tweaks.
Bare was fine the way it was.
Understudy Joined: 1/28/12
BARE to Play Final Performance Off Broadway on February 3#20
Posted: 1/24/13 at 2:59am
Great now can we have a run of the original version?
Thanks!
Broadway Star Joined: 11/9/10
BARE to Play Final Performance Off Broadway on February 3#21
Posted: 1/24/13 at 7:36amDoes that mean it's not transferring to Broadway?
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
BARE to Play Final Performance Off Broadway on February 3#22
Posted: 1/24/13 at 8:05am
"My suspicion is that the Carrie creators wanted someone who would do exactly what Arima did with the material"
My suspicion is they wanted to remove the laughing-stock notoriety of Carrie.
And they did-- mostly.
Before it was bad and a laughing stock.
Now it was just bad, though it did still prompt some guffaws.
Unquestionably, It was more entertaining the first way.
Bare wasn't very good -- or entertaining -- either.
BARE to Play Final Performance Off Broadway on February 3#23
Posted: 1/24/13 at 8:37am
Arima needs to start working on good shows, it's become quite clear that he isn't the best at flipping flawed shows.
Arima is a crappy director, and crappy directors don't suddenly get better when handed good material. I don't think the man has a creative bone in his body.
Like others have said, the production was a waste of some really excellent young talent. And while the previous NYC incarnation wasn't perfect, it was certainly better than what made it on stage at NWS.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
BARE to Play Final Performance Off Broadway on February 3#24
Posted: 1/24/13 at 9:16am
Arima is an awful director. I never understand how and why he gets works, let alone on shows that need actual work.
I adore Lea Salonga, but considering her as Mother in Ragtime is a joke. Even in a concert version. The Asian-American wife of a racist white man? NO.
I actually felt myself growing angry at what he did to Bare. I loved the workshop production and have always said that the material has potential and needs the right hand to guide and shape it. The ONLY positive thing about this production was the fleshing out of the majority of the retained characters. 90% of the new material was an absolute disaster. Several actors turned in great work, despite Arima's best efforts to ruin them, while some were serviceable and one or two were just glaringly bad.
The production was almost a joke. Whoever thought 16 actors, 5 musicians, 2 stage managers plus crew in a space that size was viable for anything other than a mega-hit is an idiot. Arima applied the same, bland, heavy, disaster of a "concept" as he shoehorned onto Carrie - particularly with plot structure and scenic design - and sinks it from the moment the lights come up. I also can't for the life of me understand how Donyale Werle gets works as a designer. I fail to see ANYTHING salvageable in her body of work.
I CAN say, however, that the bright spots of the event are Barrett Wilbert Weed, Anthony Festa, Casey Garvin, Alex Wyse, Howell Binkley, Keith Caggiano and William Cusick. I also love Tristan Raines' work, but Arima really hampered him as a designer here and didn't clearly didn't allow him to give the show what it needs. Jason Hite was pleasant and I found Taylor Trensch (who was sidelined mid-show) to be a strong enough actor but I've never ever found his voice to be remotely pleasant.
All in all, a sad endeavor of missed opportunity spearheaded by hiring a medicine show conman as a director... and Travis Wall ever choreographs another theatre piece, I am fleeing in the opposite direction.
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