BOUNCE not coming to broadway!!!:(

Wait.

I have it on good authority that there will be a concert version of BOUNCE in NYC with the original cast sometime in the future. Exactly WHEN, I do not know!!

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Updated On: 11/18/03 at 11:12 AM

NOOOOOOOO..they must bring it..how awful..i was so looking forward to it...what a dissappointment..they will have to do fifty concerts to make everyone even remotely happy.

although i believe in many of the "philosophies" in equity...sometimes it gets in the way of the art.

"Ah, sir, times is hard, times is hard...."

Having seen the show last Saturday, the biggest problem is not the cast. They make do with what they have and what they have is disappointing and flat. The show felt as if it were in its first tryout week instead of its last.

There could be all sorts of finger pointing by everybody at everybody else, but there is a basic question: what do these people have to sing about? Why should we, the audience, want to spend 2:40 with these people?

The material would make a good Jim Carrey-Nathan Lane 100 minute comedy. As it is, what we have is an episodic tale that builds not at all toward an ending.

The book is solidly unfunny as is the direction,and the score is undistinguished at first hearing. Perhaps the disc will reveal some massive subtleties, but in the theatre, it lacks flair. Were the book to be rewritten, which it would need a complete overhaul, then songs would not fit and many of them would require rewriting.

The show isn't bad, per se, but it sure as hell isn't any good either. There is no THERE there. Its time to leave it alone and move on to something else.

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Oh, JohnPopa, it would be opening on Broadway if Hugh Jackman were starring in it. No it is not the best, by far, of SS's works,but I have a feeling it will have a long life on campus/community stages if not in NYC.

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Well, it doesn't have Hugh Jackman so that's pretty moot.

It would also probably open if producers thought it was worth the risk.

All I can say is thank the good lord in heaven... what a flawed show

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BOUNCE not coming to Broadway...there is a GOD!

Although, now we will have to hear forever how the score was "misunderstood" and too "sophisticated" for the mere "no nothing" theatergoer who might just want to be entertained for his 100 bucks instead of listening to an endless parade of diatonic scales....

Or people will pretend that its’ their favorite score of all time and constantly complain that it should be mounted (like they did for "Follies" for 25 years only to see it fail...AGAIN!)!

Just too “intelligent” to appeal to a regular audience….

The Sondheim lovers love to makes excuses when he bombs, don’t they!

I dont get all this talk about "there must be a concert version of this!" The music was the worst part! I completely respect Sondheim, but his name alone couldnt get this piece of irrepairable trash to Bway.

I see two rasons to be disappointed --

Gavin Creel
Michelle Pawk

Guess we have to find another show to bring them back to NYC,, someone find something good.. quick!

At least we'll have a cast album to remember the show by.