Bullets Over Broadway tour -- first review
Bullets Over Broadway tour -- first review
Broadway Star Joined: 6/5/03
Bullets Over Broadway tour -- first review#2
Posted: 10/9/15 at 12:07pm
Is this non-Equity tour?
Bullets Over Broadway tour -- first review#3
Posted: 10/9/15 at 12:14pm
^ Yes. It is non-Equity.
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/06
Bullets Over Broadway tour -- first review#5
Posted: 10/9/15 at 2:12pm
This review is quite the opposite: http://www.cleveland.com/onstage/index.ssf/2015/10/bullets_over_broadway_at_playh.html
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
Bullets Over Broadway tour -- first review#6
Posted: 10/20/15 at 5:10pm
I really want to see the design.
Bullets Over Broadway tour -- first review#7
Posted: 10/20/15 at 5:12pm
Predicting that the set won't be half as big as the Broadway version but I still hope it doesn't look cheap.
Bullets Over Broadway tour -- first review#8
Posted: 10/20/15 at 8:51pm
I am also curious to hear what the set design is like for the tour. The Broadway set design was spectacular, but I know that they would not be able to retain even half of the Broadway set for a national tour.
Bullets Over Broadway tour -- first review#9
Posted: 10/20/15 at 9:19pm
The set was virtually the only virtue of the show on Broadway, cast aside.
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/13
Bullets Over Broadway tour -- first review#10
Posted: 10/20/15 at 10:05pm
JoseLee_ said: "Predicting that the set won't be half as big as the Broadway version but I still hope it doesn't look cheap."
I caught the tour about less than two weeks ago, and I wouldn't say it looked cheap. It was just extremely scaled-down in comparison to the original sets, which I also saw at the St. James. I thought the physical production was comparable to the treatment most national tours have been getting as of late.
Bullets Over Broadway tour -- first review#11
Posted: 10/20/15 at 10:24pm
Is it Sister Act tour bad? or Ghost tour bad? Sister Act was equity and it looked so cheap. Ghost WAS non-equity and it looked fantastic to me.. but not to some people.
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/13
Bullets Over Broadway tour -- first review#12
Posted: 10/20/15 at 10:30pm
Unfortunately, I haven't seen either of those tours and wouldn't be able to make a comparison. I honestly didn't find the sets to be bad at all. Other elements of the show, yes. But the physical production was not an issue for me. It just looked scaled-down, not cheap.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
Bullets Over Broadway tour -- first review#13
Posted: 10/21/15 at 12:05am
My friend posted a pic from the show in upstate, and the show seemed dwarfed by the size of the theater. But the picture was just the Pre-show.
Bullets Over Broadway tour -- first review#14
Posted: 10/21/15 at 12:31am
JoseLee_ said: "Is it Sister Act tour bad? or Ghost tour bad? Sister Act was equity and it looked so cheap. Ghost WAS non-equity and it looked fantastic to me.. but not to some people."
I saw both those tours (and have not seen either on Broadway) and maybe its just because they aren't my favorite shows, but I didn't think they were great tours, especially Ghost.
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/13
Bullets Over Broadway tour -- first review#15
Posted: 10/21/15 at 12:38am
RippedMan said: "My friend posted a pic from the show in upstate, and the show seemed dwarfed by the size of the theater. But the picture was just the Pre-show."
They did use their own proscenium, which was much smaller than the theater's actual proscenium. Sitting close to the stage, it didn't bother me, but I can see how it might affect the audience's stage picture from further back.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
Bullets Over Broadway tour -- first review#16
Posted: 10/21/15 at 1:29am
Oh interesting. I have a few friends in the tour, so hoping they'll post some better stage pics.
Bullets Over Broadway tour -- first review#17
Posted: 10/21/15 at 2:32am
With the exception of a random 3 week engagement in LA it looks like this tour is playing a lot of 2 and 3 day engagements with even a few one nighters thrown in. I can't imagine the physical production being that impressive if that's their touring schedule.
Broadway Star Joined: 4/12/07
Bullets Over Broadway tour -- first review#18
Posted: 10/21/15 at 10:39am
I saw it on Sunday in Cleveland.
The staging is scaled down but doesn't feel or look cheap. There are numerous scrims used and many set pieces which are pushed or pulled, but in a way that tricks you into thinking they're automated.
The cast is in fine shape and I really enjoyed the show overall. My only criticism is there were a LOT of missed mic cues. I lost count of how many times the first word or first few words of a line weren't heard because an actor's mic failed to turn on in time. Very distracting.
This the was the last performance day of a two-week run in Cleveland, and the first show of this year's subscription series, (a non-equity tour with top ticket prices of $100? Really?), so I thought technical glitches should have been ironed out by now.
Here's a pic of the proscenium and scrim.
Leading Actor Joined: 6/18/08
Bullets Over Broadway tour -- first review#19
Posted: 10/21/15 at 2:11pm
I think its worth noting that the Bullets Over Broadway tour is playing its only NY Metro Area engagement of the first year of the tour this Friday and Saturday in New Brunswick, NJ. It only an hour on the train if you want to see the changes made for the road in person.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
Bullets Over Broadway tour -- first review#21
Posted: 1/2/16 at 12:13am
Looks like a non-union tour. Hard to compare it's production value - given its playing one night engagements sometimes - to something like Phantom.
How's it going over in LA?
Stand-by Joined: 2/8/05
Bullets Over Broadway tour -- first review#22
Posted: 1/2/16 at 1:36am
It doesn't open in LA under January 5. It mustn't be selling well because they had a sale on orchestra seats for $30.00.
Bullets Over Broadway tour -- first review#23
Posted: 1/2/16 at 1:55am
I'm sorry if I'm getting this wrong, but it looked like a few of the actors had Broadway credits. Like they were on Broadway at some point. Wouldn't they be considered equity actors? Why would they be in a non equity tour?
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
Bullets Over Broadway tour -- first review#24
Posted: 1/2/16 at 12:06pm
No Broadway credits. It's non-Union. Not to say they aren't talented just none have been on Broadway.
Bullets Over Broadway tour -- first review#25
Posted: 1/2/16 at 12:31pm
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/STAGE-TUBE-Watch-Highlights-from-BULLETS-OVER-BROADWAY-on-Tour-20151021 in this links cast list they have Michael Williams listed who apparently was in the most recent Broadway revival of On the town and then they have someone named Jeff brooks who was in the Broadway production of Beauty and the beast. Unless they messed up with names I still see Broadway credits.
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