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Posted: 11/14/03 at 1:25pm

I'm considering buying a few Bounce coffee mugs and/or t-shirts at the Kennedy Center as collector items (if you've seen it, you know it isn't going to B'way). Anyone think this would be a smart idea?

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Posted: 11/14/03 at 2:00pm

Do they have magnets?

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Posted: 11/14/03 at 2:10pm

Nope, didn't see any of those.

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Posted: 11/14/03 at 2:52pm

I wouldn't be so quick to say it isn't going to Broadway. I've heard it still has some rough spots and that the story development could still use a bit of work, but problems such as that sure haven't stopped some of the trash that is on Broadway right now.

"Best to take the moment present as a present for the moment."-ITW, Sondheim

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Posted: 11/14/03 at 2:57pm

I hope you are right, Starlight - I don't think I'll be able to get to DC for this.

"Christ, Bette Davis?!?!"

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Posted: 11/14/03 at 3:44pm

yeah I want to see "Bounce" so lets hope it comes to Broadway!!

"Life will be frozen peaches and cream. Baby, dream Your Dream" ~ SC

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Posted: 11/14/03 at 3:51pm

I think we can venture that it probably isn't going to B'way since Nonesuch recorded the cast this week (75 min. of music) and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive will film the show this weekend.

Plus, it isn't a great show and it's been 10 years in development. I imagine Sondheim and Weidman will now be concentrating on the B'way mounting of Assassins instead.

Updated On: 11/14/03 at 03:51 PM

Bounce

Posted: 11/14/03 at 4:03pm

I wouldn't count on Bounce coming in. It is one thing when the out of town critics pan a show and quite another when the first string NY critics come down and damn a show with the faintest of praise if any praise at all.

Buy the mugs. Give the disc for a holiday pressie.

"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable." --Carrie Fisher

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Posted: 11/14/03 at 4:39pm

(Making Grumpy face) It seemed very interestingly flawed. And how awful could it really be with Michelle Pawk and Richard Kind? And Creel never made ANY impression on me in MILLIE (is 'male ingenue' a proper category? Because that was him) but I would be interested to see how he came off in this.

I'm especially sorry to miss Kind, as everyone I spoke to said he was truly wonderful in the part - the best thing in it. And had BOUNCE come to New York, he might have given Hugh Jackman serious competition.

"Christ, Bette Davis?!?!"

Updated On: 11/14/03 at 04:39 PM

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Posted: 11/14/03 at 11:31pm

SFJPS, unless a show has a producer attached to it from inception, just about every musical takes 7-10 years or even longer to get to opening these days. With the development process dependent on theatre schedules, budget, etc., it can take years for even worthy shows to get up to bat. Witness Grand Hotel or Jelly's Last Jam which took something like a decade before it made it to opening night. Actually, Bounce was originally conceived by Sondheim as a musical in the late 50's or early 60's. It's a wonder it ever got made at all. And if the show had turned out to be fantastic (and there was money to be made), no one would care how long it took, true?

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Posted: 11/15/03 at 1:51am

Master, BOUNCE is interestingly flawed. It's entirely salvagable. I think Prince pointed them in the right direction but ultimately he confused the tone of the piece. Weidman needs to do more work on the book too. But I wouldn't be surprised to see some regional theater take the same show that is now at the KennedyCenter and give it the right production and the reviews will much better. I think Prince's wrong headed and sometimes sloppy direction (sadly for I love his work usually), the weak choreography and the performances of Herndon Lackey and Howard McGillin are the biggest problems with the current production. I don't think Kind's excellent performance could challenge Jackman for the Tony. If Kind were playing against an exciting actor to deepen the brother scenes and if the scenes with Creel (who is charming) were better developed, he might though.

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Posted: 11/15/03 at 7:06pm

"I think Prince's wrong headed and sometimes sloppy direction (sadly for I love his work usually), the weak choreography and the performances of Herndon Lackey and Howard McGillin are the biggest problems with the current production."

I thought Howard McGillin was doing great? All my friends that have seen the show say that hes excellent and that they really liked the show.

You guys really don't think it's coming to B'Way? =-(

"Life will be frozen peaches and cream. Baby, dream Your Dream" ~ SC

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