Bklyn Review- 10/4!!

Thanks for the review! I've been debating on if I should get tickets for November or not! This helps :)

Im goin Nov 26 :)

oh awesome!! where are you sitting??

"I feel people are just beginning to post negative reviews due to the whole "shill" situation..."

Not neccessarily.

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Well, I couldn't disagree more. I found BROOKLYN to be a poisonous piece of sanctimonious self-righteous garbage, proof that the Republicans don't have a monopoly on crap. The story is paper thin, and all the fancy staging and inventive costuming in the world cannot disguise the absolute hokiness of this inane parade of garbage. Only the actress who plays Paradice emerges unscathed, as she is the only person given anything like interesting material to perform. Her opening song is fast and inventive, unlike the appalling saccharine trash that poor Eden Espinoza is stuck with, a bunch of songs that Celine Dion would reject as being just too sugary.

Brooklyn herself comes off as such a total saint, such a vision of purity and honesty that I started to wonder whether the play was going to end with her crucifixion. When she tells Paradice to read her Bible my jaw fell into my lap, easily the lowest point in the show filled to overflowing with preaching claptrap.

Crap. Sheer unadulterated crap, with a couple of pretty good songs that are well performed by one cast member who manages to rise above the appallingly banal lyrics. The cast keeps chanting, "Once upon a time," when they might more accurately chant "Ten cliches per song."

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Sorry Bklyn Fans, I mostly agree with Roscoe's review. I saw this a few days ago and thought the set and costumes were ugly (sometimes very creative, but ugly). The songs were mediocre, adult contemporary, Rent-wannabe, forgettable and annoying, and the vocal gymnastics were straight out of Star Search. As noted, the story was thin and ridiculous. Come on - since when would two singers be competing at Madison Square Garden for $$ and a recording contract? I didn't buy into this show for a second.

However, I thought the performers were very talented, and I look forward to seeing them in other projects.

These negative reviews are from people's personal accounts of seeing the show. The "shill" situation might turn people away from the show, but one's opinion of it cannot be formed unless they see the show themself.

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Never apologize about posting your enthusiasm about a show! It's the singular most healthy thing a person can do on this site, or any other. Isn't a rave is more enjoyable to read than a rant? For my money, yes. That's not to say there's no room for debate, if the argument is thoughtful and charitable. There's nothing healthy about a negative post, especially one that poses as a "critical" one, especially when it's not well-written, as many are. It's hard work to be critical. Easy work to be cruel. Malicious posts on the theatre website forums help no one; not the potential buyers of tickets, certainly not the people on the creative end of things who may be reading them (and many of us do check in.) After all, there's no professional context for a real "review" on this forum, or any other; as well it should be. One of things I love and support about website forums such as at BBW is how they afford regular theatre-lovers the opportunity to express their immediate joy (or disappointment) after seeing a show--particulary young people who are learning to express themselves. So post away and NEVER apologize if you simply must shout about a show you love.(And if you absolutely hate it and have nothing nice to say about it, do what I do: smile, nod, run for the nearest dry martini bar and keep it to yourself.)

but if one is allowed to rave about a show one loves, to the point that some posters here do, then the same opportunity should be allowed to those who need to rant about a show, to the same extreme...

personally, i would prefer more sedate positive reviews and more constructive negative ones... but again, if one can be fanatical about their raving, they should be accepting of the same extreme ranting...