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CHAPLIN Reviews#25
Posted: 9/10/12 at 11:06pmmixed review from the NY Times??
Broadway Star Joined: 5/26/07
CHAPLIN Reviews#26
Posted: 9/10/12 at 11:07pm
Egghumor, I'm not taking your bait,thanks. It's too early for me to have a sense of whether a well(but not rapturously)received lead performance in a likely flop is going to get a Tony nomination approx eight months from now. If it's a weak season with few well-regarded lead male performances, then sure he's got a shot.
And ACL2006, I doubt the show will even make it to New Year's. Though I'm not wishing for it, I wouldn't be surprised if the show closed very quickly.
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/9/11
CHAPLIN Reviews#27
Posted: 9/10/12 at 11:07pm
I didn't see a byline for Brantley there (he could have written but who knows?), and as for being "par," I say it was much more dismissive than the others so far, if nothing else for the fact that the review is only three paragraphs!
OK... Now the entire review is there, byline and all.
Updated On: 9/10/12 at 11:07 PM
CHAPLIN Reviews#28
Posted: 9/10/12 at 11:12pmThat's what I thought too, but you read the review wrong since the link actually took you to page 2.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/20/06
CHAPLIN Reviews#30
Posted: 9/10/12 at 11:39pmWhy does Warren Carlyle continue to get work ? Especially as a Director. It's baffling !
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
CHAPLIN Reviews#31
Posted: 9/10/12 at 11:42pmSame reason that lady who directed Little Mermaid still gets work. Or Andy B. from Bring It On. ugh.
CHAPLIN Reviews#32
Posted: 9/10/12 at 11:52pmBrantley's review was firmly negative. The only person he had a kind word for (grudgingly) was Jenn Coella. He didn't like the book, score, concept, direction or choreography, and although he didn't pan McClure per se, he didn't have many kind words for him. It certainly wasn't a "star is born" reception. If anything he said McClure is capable, but can't rise above the material and often blends into the background.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
CHAPLIN Reviews#34
Posted: 9/11/12 at 12:51am
"immensely appealing" - The New York Times
pulled from:
Flashback! It’s the East End of London at the turn of the 20th century, and little Charlie (the immensely appealing Zachary Unger) is being encouraged by Hanna (Christiane Noll), his loving but mentally unstable mother, to observe the passers-by on the streets.
CHAPLIN Reviews#35
Posted: 9/11/12 at 1:26amPlease notice the side bar on the NY Times review has it listed to close on February 3rd, 2013.
CHAPLIN Reviews#36
Posted: 9/11/12 at 2:04amI wasn't expecting raves, but I was kind of hoping the reviewers would be a little kinder to this one.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
CHAPLIN Reviews#37
Posted: 9/11/12 at 7:26amBrantley is off his meds again. When was his last musical rave? Old grouch.
CHAPLIN Reviews#38
Posted: 9/11/12 at 7:58amI'm not one to often side with Ben Brantley, but in this case, I agree with him.
CHAPLIN Reviews#39
Posted: 9/11/12 at 8:02amAfter all the reviews, watching that Chaplin thanks the fans video is downright depressing.
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/10
CHAPLIN Reviews#40
Posted: 9/11/12 at 8:35am
Brantley is off his meds again. When was his last musical rave? Old grouch.
Lysistrata Jones
CHAPLIN Reviews#41
Posted: 9/11/12 at 8:50am
Brantley off his meds? It's a dreadful show. If anything, he was relatively kind.
Let's hope better things are ahead this season.
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
CHAPLIN Reviews#42
Posted: 9/11/12 at 8:51amIncreasingly, imposed concepts -- here the circus motif -- which once marked shows as stylistic and cutting edge -- seem to produce charges of pretentiousness and over-thinking at best and cliche-ridden at worst. Everything in musicals now must be framed as metaphor, the sustaining of which requires arch adherence to an overly familiar set of devices, indeed gimmicks (either a master of ceremonies or a chorus on hand to tell us what we're seeing and why). It's almost as if the genre must go full circle, to find new-slash-old-fashioned ways to tell a story that don't hammer theme and take-aways for us. It's become daring these days to start a show with a scene, the 4th wall not broken, and the characters singing to one another. The new high concept might be no concept.
CHAPLIN Reviews#43
Posted: 9/11/12 at 8:58amBrantley also raved about Once (after the transfer), the Follies revival and Matilda during his annual London trip. He's capable of raves. In this case, one wasn't deserved.
CHAPLIN Reviews#44
Posted: 9/11/12 at 9:08amI, too, often find fault with Brantley's bad writing and weird opinions, but this time I have to admit that we're exactly on the same page. This show was mediocrity across the board.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
CHAPLIN Reviews#45
Posted: 9/11/12 at 10:27amDoes anyone know/remember the Newley/Bricuse musical CHAPLIN that tried out in the 80's but died after a few dates? I bet that one looks like gold now.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
CHAPLIN Reviews#47
Posted: 9/11/12 at 12:29pm
http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/theater/unsound_Ur2mtJM0WDs3Wdj9LgjvDL
Post gave it two and a half stars, but doesn't have many positive things to say about it.
CHAPLIN Reviews#48
Posted: 9/11/12 at 12:33pmThe reviews, although pretty much down the line negative, don't really tear the thing to shreds. It's not even that level of bad- it's just shrug-worthy. And all of the reviewers mention the same issues that members here have said.
CHAPLIN Reviews#49
Posted: 9/11/12 at 1:10pm
The new high concept might be no concept.
A return to Jerome Kern's Princess musicals!
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