Posted: 3/8/18 at 6:56pm
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ll6AmHOYzU
Press day! Thoughts?
Posted: 3/8/18 at 7:04pm
LaChanze sounds fantastic, but this just looks like an overall mess.
Posted: 3/8/18 at 7:20pm
This actually looks fun. LaChanze and Ariana Debose sound incredible.
Posted: 3/8/18 at 7:30pm
Posted: 3/8/18 at 7:30pm
Double post sorry
Updated On: 3/8/18 at 07:30 PM
Posted: 3/8/18 at 7:37pm
Are those suitcase chicks from Deal or No Deal?
Posted: 3/8/18 at 7:39pm
Posted: 3/8/18 at 8:05pm
Posted: 3/8/18 at 11:21pm
Just judging by how rushed it was to get to Broadway, and the fact that the marquee poster looks like a quick google image search and powerpoint font choice....I'm gonna think this is gonna be a mess. But maybe an entertaining mess.
Posted: 3/8/18 at 11:57pm
Lord does this look awful. That staging for She Work Hard for the Money. Oof. I love me some Donna, and indeed LaChanze sounds great, but...oof.
Posted: 3/9/18 at 12:03am
This clip was fairly representative of the show I saw in La Jolla: really outstanding lead vocals... poor use and choreography for the ensemble with lackluster scenery and odd direction.
Posted: 3/9/18 at 9:46am
Olivia11 said: "This clip was fairly representative of the show I saw in La Jolla: really outstanding lead vocals... poor use and choreography for the ensemble with lackluster scenery and odd direction."
Dude, its a rehearsal space.
Posted: 3/9/18 at 10:02am
The lyrics have always been absurd, but hearing someone sing "Someone left the cake out in the rain..." in a serious theatrical context actually made me laugh out loud.
Posted: 3/9/18 at 10:06am
Dude, its a rehearsal space.
Olivia11 is referring to La Jolla
Posted: 3/9/18 at 10:06am
Dude, its a rehearsal space."
I was speaking of the show itself. Obviously, it's a rehearsal hall. The real sets are not that much better.
Updated On: 3/9/18 at 10:06 AM
Posted: 3/9/18 at 10:09am
Posted: 3/9/18 at 10:14am
Mostly women - ensemble is women playing both genders. There are a few men -- her father, an agent, etc.
The dual gender directorial choice didn't help the show. Sometimes it works. I did not feel it worked in this show.
Updated On: 3/9/18 at 10:14 AM
Posted: 3/9/18 at 4:28pm
I wonder if LaChanze will get a random Tony award nomination for this like Mary Bridget Davies did for A Night with Janis Joplin. I can see some in the Tony nominating committee responding to Donna Summer even if there is an obtuse, confusing book in-between the songs and some distracting and low-rent choreography enveloping the staging. I'm sure people are just going to come for the songs and some lighting effects anyway. I expect it to be basically Dreamgirls' "One Night Only" but with much worse staging and lasting about 2 hours more-or-less.
Updated On: 3/9/18 at 04:28 PM
Posted: 3/9/18 at 4:33pm
Posted: 3/10/18 at 1:09am
I kind of want to go just to hear LaChanze sing but WHY is that the choreography? Also, neither of them really look like Donna to me or seem to be channeling her.
Posted: 3/14/18 at 9:46am
Couldn't agree more!
Posted: 3/14/18 at 5:44pm
My husband and I are huge Donna Summer fans and we saw this mess of a show in La Jolla, we were so disappointed. We will be in New York next month and he is insisting on seeing this again because he thinks it will have gotten better and he really "wants to love it"...ugh. Personally I think this is a waste of a show slot.
Posted: 3/14/18 at 8:23pm
As a huge Summer fan for the past 40 years, I'm so disappointed to hear these negative reviews of the show. With the pedigree of the people behind it, I would expect a top-notch, engaging musical about Summer's legacy. I'm not too excited about seeing this in the future.
