BULLETS OVER BROADWAY Reviews- Page 2

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 3:21pm

You are a regular comedian Taz

[haterobics]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 3:23pm

Well, I'm not sure what the expectation would be for a reviews thread 3 hours before the the opening night performance is meant to begin, really... if one is looking for reviews (seeing as EW leaking is an anomaly and typically no reviews come out in advance).

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 3:24pm

"How, when and why did this board become more about its posters than it is about the shows?"

Nature of the beast, I'm afraid. And I don't understand why Roxy affects some people to such an extent. really.

Anyway, I can't wait to read the reviews either, tonight, as soon as the curtain goes up!

[macnyc]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 3:26pm

Curtain is at 6 p.m. today, I just discovered. Is that usual?

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 3:27pm

wow, that IS a bit early. usually it's an hour before regular curtain. Anyway, yay!

[RaisedOnMusicals]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 3:29pm

It's normal to have early opening night curtains. Got to have time to party after the show ends, right?

And Old Ben is definitely doing the NYT review. He was there this past Saturday, for the matinee.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 3:30pm

Watch out Jane 2. Defend me and you will wind up as collateral damage

Anyway thanks for the kind words.l

[jkstheatrescene]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 3:34pm

You mean I shared an audience with Old Ben and didn't know it? I feel so privileged. Not.

I wonder if we are eye to eye on BULLETS?

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 3:36pm

Listen, I couldn't care less what anyone thinks of me. I understand backlash towards many other posters here who are downright rude and offensive. Maybe I missed the posts where you were rude and/or obnoxious to people. anyway, take care.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 3:37pm

Thanks

[haterobics]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 4:07pm

Wow, I didn't realize they go that early to review it. Thought it was just one or two shows before opening...

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 4:22pm

Yeah, theoretically, they aren't supposed to review until the last 3 shows before opening, and that's fair, because the show is already if not almost frozen. If they review it much earlier, they may be missing some positive changes.

[RaisedOnMusicals]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 4:42pm

Nope. It's up to the show to designate certain previews as press previews. Apparently, the show was frozen last week by Saturday, and press were invited. They don't exactly sneak in, they ask for their ticket for the press performance they want to attend. I was actually surprised yesterday when the house manager told me that there were no critics in the house, they all seen the show before yesterday.

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 4:46pm

thanks for the info. I'm a little out of the loop because it's been several years since I was managing a theater, and I'm always commenting on what I learned back then.

wait a minute, I was working at NWS up until a year ago, and that was the rule we understood to be true.

Updated On: 4/10/14 at 04:46 PM

[RaisedOnMusicals]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 5:01pm

"wait a minute, I was working at NWS up until a year ago, and that was the rule we understood to be true."

Well, as I said, the RULE is that critics don't review a show until they've been invited to do so. Once the show designates its press previews, a critic is free to choose which of those performances he or she would like to attend. Makes sense, no?

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 5:13pm

Of course it makes sense. I thought it was a general rule that they were invited to attend the show any of three performances before opening. You informed me that wasn't true. Not knowing you, I'm taking your word for it. thank you again for the info.

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 5:15pm

oping to read some reviews in 45 minutes!

[NewYorkTheater]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 5:18pm

"Don't Speak!"


Bullets Over Broadway: Reviews and Photographs

[RaisedOnMusicals]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 5:20pm

Jane2, you're more than welcome.

[best12bars]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 6:50pm

So we have one "legit" review in this thread and 67 posts complaining about something.

Welcome to BWW!

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 6:51pm

yeah, we have to have something to do while waiting for the reviews.

[bjh2114]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 7:57pm

Financial Times is mixed (3 out of 5 stars) and really took the bait about the all-white cast:

"Sinclair, portrayed by the wonderfully self-assured Marin Mazzie, is one of the reasons to see Bullets Over Broadway, the new musical birthed by Woody Allen from his 1994 movie of the same title. The Broadway show makes a Sinclair-sized effort to persuade us of the value of early-20th-century songs shoehorned into a 1929 setting. The attempt is intermittently enjoyable, extremely well crafted by the director/choreographer Susan Stroman, and progressively unthrilling.

...

Some of the classic and little-known songs chosen by Allen, which have been given expert musical adaptation and additional lyrics by Glen Kelly, signify another kind of larceny: they were popularised by black entertainers but here are delivered by a large ensemble more lily-white than Lapland. Apparently, Allen doesn’t realise that, in a cartoonish Broadway musical these days, African-Americans are allowed to be gangster as well as gangsta."

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/4beb9584-c009-11e3-bfbc-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2yWyAaW8X

Updated On: 4/10/14 at 07:57 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 8:14pm

Love PC reviews. Forget about The show and play the race card

Start hurling the brackets for the above

[blaxx]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 8:16pm

Matthew is mixed

But if considerable care has been given to crafting each of these outings individually, with Santo Loquasto's sets, William Ivey Long's costumes, and Donald Holder's lights all making the proper contributions to the effort, one firm force hasn't bothered to ensure that they all work well together. Whatever else it may be, Bullets Over Broadway certainly isn't cohesive.


https://www.talkinbroadway.com/world/

Updated On: 4/10/14 at 08:16 PM

[RaisedOnMusicals]

Posted: 4/10/14 at 8:20pm

And typically incoherent.