BOOP, BOOP, FIZZ- Page 2

[QueenAlice]

Posted: 1/20/25 at 3:29pm

This is basically the same thing people were saying in 1977 when Annie premiered and had a less than auspicious debut at the Goodspeed Opera House. “Nobody wants to see a show based on a a comic strip nobody reads anymore” they said.

Well, ANNIE ended up doing quite fine, thank you- I think we need to see how audiences in NYC respond to the revised production of BOOP that will play Broadway before we write it off.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 1/21/25 at 12:14am

I'm sure the producers are playing the long game with licensing this show out to international markets. This will be the biggest hit in the Japanese market, I bet. 

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 1/21/25 at 5:06am

ANNIE went thru a huge overhaul from its original 1976 incarnation at Goodspeed. Not only did the legendary Mike Nichols become one of the main producers (with his name on all the art work) he also quietly doctored the entire musical. They also recast Miss Hannigan and brought in Dorothy Loudon. He had the show play the Kennedy Center prior to Broadway and here is where the buzz started and where ANNIE became the huge hit so by the time the show made its debut on Broadway a few months later, it was a bonafide hit. Same scenario THE PRODUCERS and SPAMALOT experienced in Chicago and HAIRSPRAY in Seattle. The roster of celebrities attending the Broadway previews of HAIRSPRAY was insane as it was for ANNIE. 

[RippedMan]

Posted: 1/21/25 at 8:54am

I think we've already determined as well that people aren't buying tickets month in advance. We have to wait until it starts previews. I haven't seen any advertising for it, etc. 

[BalconyClub]

Posted: 1/21/25 at 9:09am

At the Chicago tryout, my three least favorite moments were

(1) the hard-to-decipher-lyrics of Angelica Hale's solo

(2) the uninspiring Act 2 dance between Stephen DeRosa and Faith Prince.

(3) the too-casual arrival of the Ensemble in the finale in their colorful top hats and tails

All of these bits are fixable.

 

 

[mrshowbiz90210]

Posted: 1/21/25 at 9:27am

I agree with those fixes but as a whole the book and most of the songs are forgettable. There is no anthem to have afterlife. And the comparison to Annie from an earlier comment seems so random. Annie had at least 2 huge numbers and opened in 1977 when there was no netflix or anything else to do