Brooklyn NY Times Review (Link inside)
Brooklyn NY Times Review (Link inside)
#0Brooklyn NY Times Review (Link inside)
Posted: 10/21/04 at 11:16pm
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Updated On: 10/21/04 at 11:16 PM
Speed
Broadway Star Joined: 7/12/03
Amy Archer
Leading Actor Joined: 7/2/03
#2re: Brooklyn NY Times Review (Link inside)
Posted: 10/21/04 at 11:20pmYeah, it's a pan...except for Ramona Keller.
bronxboundexpress
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/15/04
#3re: Brooklyn NY Times Review (Link inside)
Posted: 10/21/04 at 11:20pmthe reviews are all bad so it must be good!
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#4re: Brooklyn NY Times Review (Link inside)
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
Leading Actor Joined: 7/2/03
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#6re: Brooklyn NY Times Review (Link inside)
Posted: 10/21/04 at 11:25pmGOOD? The show is trash but Ramona Keller is a diamond!
#7re: Brooklyn NY Times Review (Link inside)
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. 
"I'm learning to dig deep down inside and find the truth within myself and put that out. I think what we identify with in popular music more than anything else is when someone just shares a truth that we can relate to. That's what I'm searching for in my music." - Ron Bohmer
"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher
"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#8re: Brooklyn NY Times Review (Link inside)
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!
#9re: Brooklyn NY Times Review (Link inside)
Posted: 10/21/04 at 11:32pmYes Mother.
"I'm learning to dig deep down inside and find the truth within myself and put that out. I think what we identify with in popular music more than anything else is when someone just shares a truth that we can relate to. That's what I'm searching for in my music." - Ron Bohmer
"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher
"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#10re: Brooklyn NY Times Review (Link inside)
Posted: 10/21/04 at 11:34pmIt 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#11re: Brooklyn NY Times Review (Link inside)
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
#12re: Brooklyn NY Times Review (Link inside)
Posted: 10/21/04 at 11:40pmI 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.
And hang on, when did you win the discus?
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#13re: Brooklyn NY Times Review (Link inside)
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.
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
CurtainUp2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/8/04
#14re: Brooklyn NY Times Review (Link inside)
Posted: 10/22/04 at 1:00amIt was definitely a pan, but you got to admit Margo, for Brantley, it was kind.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#15re: Brooklyn NY Times Review (Link inside)
Posted: 10/22/04 at 1:05amYou've GOT to change that avatar -- it gives me the weepin willies!
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
#16re: Brooklyn NY Times Review (Link inside)
Posted: 10/22/04 at 1:06amAmen to that, Margo
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
andyf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#17re: Brooklyn NY Times Review (Link inside)
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!
Andrew, tonight isn't about you! It isn't even about me!!! - [FD]
CurtainUp2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/8/04
#18re: Brooklyn NY Times Review (Link inside)
Posted: 10/22/04 at 1:11am
Done. Anything for you Miss Margo.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela
Updated On: 10/22/04 at 01:11 AM
Speed
Broadway Star Joined: 7/12/03
#19re: Brooklyn NY Times Review (Link inside)
Posted: 10/22/04 at 1:19amThank 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#20re: Brooklyn NY Times Review (Link inside)
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).
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
[http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/]
"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
sndtrklvr
Stand-by Joined: 5/10/04
#21re: Brooklyn NY Times Review (Link inside)
Posted: 10/22/04 at 8:19amThis 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.
So my dear you think you can get to Broadway. Well, let me tell you something. Broadway has no room for people like you. Not the Broadway I know. My Broadway takes people like you and eats them up and spits them out. My Broadway is the Broadway of Merman, and Martin, and Fontaine, and if you think you can build yourself up by knocking other people down... ...GOOD LUCK... Seinfeld
Al Dente
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#22re: Brooklyn NY Times Review (Link inside)
Posted: 10/22/04 at 8:51amI 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.
#23re: Brooklyn NY Times Review (Link inside)
Posted: 10/22/04 at 9:35amIt 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.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#24re: Brooklyn NY Times Review (Link inside)
Posted: 10/22/04 at 10:17amone word OUCH!
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
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