Brooklyn NY Times Review (Link inside)

[RadioTV2]

Posted: 10/21/04 at 11:16pm

Link below.
NY Times Review

Updated On: 10/21/04 at 11:16 PM

[Speed]

Posted: 10/21/04 at 11:19pm

Glance again. It's a pan.

[Amy Archer]

Posted: 10/21/04 at 11:20pm

Yeah, it's a pan...except for Ramona Keller.

[bronxboundexpress]

Posted: 10/21/04 at 11:20pm

the reviews are all bad so it must be good!

[Plum]

Posted: 10/21/04 at 11:22pm

Uh, I'd call it mixed to negative at the very least.

A capelet of dirty teddy bears? I might see the show just for that... Updated On: 10/21/04 at 11:22 PM

[Amy Archer]

Posted: 10/21/04 at 11:23pm

Nothing mixed about it.

[Corine2]

Posted: 10/21/04 at 11:25pm

GOOD? The show is trash but Ramona Keller is a diamond!

[Phantom2]

Posted: 10/21/04 at 11:29pm

Corine2- I bet you'd look hot in a tin foil dress, cardboard box shoes and a pistachio shell necklace.

[Corine2]

Posted: 10/21/04 at 11:31pm

Phanty-
Garbage bags are the new black, please dress me in William Ivey Long.
I need a makeover, but not garbage plastic. I WANT THE REAL DEAL.
William Ivey Long!

[Phantom2]

Posted: 10/21/04 at 11:32pm

Yes Mother.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/21/04 at 11:34pm

It sounded exactly like their review of wicked; praising the actors and designers but scolding the composer and writer. I would say it was a mixed review, not nearly as bad as Dracula, but not exactly a love letter lol.

[Corine2]

Posted: 10/21/04 at 11:36pm

William Ivey Long is my hero.

Did I not say the same thing? The cast was great, especially Ramona Keller, but the story and costumes were beyond train wrecks.
Can we say 13 days? Updated On: 10/21/04 at 11:36 PM

[bythesword84]

Posted: 10/21/04 at 11:40pm

I just got home from it (I went to dinner afterwards) and let me say this, it was awful. I could not wait to get out of there. I'll post more tomorrow, I need to get so sleep- stupid college 8am midterms- but I wanted to say that.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 10/21/04 at 11:44pm

"this aggressively maudlin musical"

"If the idea of such an amalgamation appeals to you, you're welcome to it. If not, you may find yourself feeling like a cranky commuter in a subway car, trapped with a perky team of harmonizers who say they just want to leave you with a smile on your face."

"And regrettably, "Brooklyn" feels less like the next "Rent" than a soot-and-sugar revue bound for Vegas, where it might fit comfortably amid the simulated big-city authenticity of the New York-New York Hotel."

"But if it's madcap improvised fashion you're after, you can see much the same and save a lot of money if you wait for the Halloween parade in Greenwich Village."

That's a pan, children, any way you slice it. And from Brantley, the only reviewer that matters in the American theatre and/or who's reviews have any clout in terms of selling tickets at the box office.

[CurtainUp2]

Posted: 10/22/04 at 1:00am

It was definitely a pan, but you got to admit Margo, for Brantley, it was kind.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 10/22/04 at 1:05am

You've GOT to change that avatar -- it gives me the weepin willies!

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 10/22/04 at 1:06am

Amen to that, Margo

[andyf]

Posted: 10/22/04 at 1:10am

MARGO CHANNING!! DO MY EYES DECEIVE ME???

"American theatre and/or who's reviews have any "


Say it isn't so!

[CurtainUp2]

Posted: 10/22/04 at 1:11am

Done. Anything for you Miss Margo.

Updated On: 10/22/04 at 01:11 AM

[Speed]

Posted: 10/22/04 at 1:19am

Thank you, Margo. It was a pan. And it was HARDLY comparable to his review of WICKED. In the WICKED review, Ben Brantley wrote a LOVE LETTER to Kristin, saying that her performance was a master class in phrasing, etc. Ben Brantley was hardly as glowing about Keller.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 10/22/04 at 1:23am

CurtainUp,

Thank you ......... I think (I'm going to bed and that one's going give me a whole new set of nightmares).

[sndtrklvr]

Posted: 10/22/04 at 8:19am

This is bad. But the most interesting thing is the one small mention of Eden. Wasn't this supposed to make her star? I wonder what the other reviews will say.

[Al Dente]

Posted: 10/22/04 at 8:51am

I have to agree with Curtainup, it was hardly a "love letter" to Keller and it was, most definitely, a pan. I've seen his "love letters". What he said about Keller was stating the obvious. From all the reviews I've read, seems to me the show would have been better off being called "Paradice". Hardly a star making turn for Espinosa.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 10/22/04 at 9:35am

It was a lot more mixed than I expected. And it certainly does not compare to his WICKED review, which was practically a marriage proposal to Chenowith.

[mominator]

Posted: 10/22/04 at 10:17am

one word OUCH!