Broadway Gods! Please Bring Aspects To Broadway!!!- Page 2

[newintown]

Posted: 7/21/10 at 10:07am

D2, I read closely. You suggested that reviews of the original production are no longer pertinent. I said that they are, given that Rich was critiquing the writing (at least where I quoted) rather than performances or physical production.

Your statement "the two productions are entirely different animals" doesn't hold water, unless (as I pointed out) they have totally re-written the book, lyrics, and music, all of which are of terribly poor quality.

There are some who will praise their favorite performers in a reading of the phone book. And there are those who prefer a marriage of good material and good performance.

[jennafan]

Posted: 7/21/10 at 10:39am

Isn't Ben Brantley of the New York Times in London reviewing shows there? Is he going to see Aspects of Love?

[Roscoe]

Posted: 7/21/10 at 11:00am

Die Menier Factory, DIE!! No more cheap but "intimate" scaledowns.

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 7/21/10 at 11:04am

The show has moments, since the Australian production in Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney hated it, but in Melbourne smaller 800 seat theatre and the show was a whole new beast. Webber's problem was back in the 80's and the 90's was everything was overblown.

Sunset Blvd suffered the same fate.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 7/21/10 at 11:05am

Everything at the Menier is a "scaledown" because it is a small space. Whether or not their productions transfer to larger spaces is up to producers.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 7/21/10 at 11:39am

This will come to Broadway sometime around the time of that CARRIE revival.

Still, I'm loving how posters are using the terms "animal" and "beast" to describe this dried-out butt nugget.