CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews- Page 4

[jimmycurry01]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:08pm

Call_me_jorge said: "Butter Broadway said: "This show is basically getting trashed tonight. I say it lasts a year and a half.

 

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A year and a half in my book would be considered a hit. Unless you meant to say half a year.

 

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Running a year and a half wouldn't make it a hit unless it turned a profit in that time. 

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:08pm

Vulture - Negative http://www.vulture.com/2017/04/theater-review-a-wonka-thats-anything-but-sweet.html

Updated On: 4/23/17 at 10:08 PM

[Back Row]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:09pm

Are these the closest things they have to pull quotes so far?

 

 

"The roles are mostly well played"

 

"David Grieg’s book is fine"

 

"the songs are serviceable"

 

"the sets are fairly clever"

[LesWickedly]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:09pm

Wow, was a expecting a brutal review from the times, but it was definitely mixed to negative.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:09pm

New York Times -mixed to  Negative https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/theater/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-review-broadway.html?referer=https://www.google.co.uk/

Updated On: 4/23/17 at 10:09 PM

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:10pm

TheaterMania is mixed...
http://www.theatermania.com/broadway/reviews/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory_80814.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=23apr2017

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:11pm

The times review wasnt as nasty as I thought it would be

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:12pm

Tbh, I was expecting worse from Brantley (not that he gave them a positive review in any regard!).

Updated On: 4/23/17 at 10:12 PM

[thealtoslament]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:12pm

Times pull quote possibility:

"[Christian Borle] is gloriously demented" 

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:12pm

Brantley calls the sets and costumes "appropriately fanciful." 

WHAT?

[little_sally]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:13pm

rosscoe(au) said: "The times review wasnt as nasty as I thought it would be

 

It just seemed very dismissive. 

[little_sally]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:13pm

rosscoe(au) said: "The times review wasnt as nasty as I thought it would be

 

It just seemed very dismissive. 

[ljay889]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:13pm

Kind of sad that Brantley was nicer to this than something like Women on the Verge.

[brian1973]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:14pm

d said: "Pan from Brantley

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/theater/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-review-broadway.html



 Did you actually READ it? it's hardly a pan


 

 

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[thealtoslament]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:15pm

brian1973 said: "d said: "Pan from Brantley

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/theater/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-review-broadway.html



 Did you actually READ it? it's hardly a pan


 

 

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It definitely leans more towards negative than mixed, but it's definitely not an outright pan. 

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[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:15pm

ljay889 said: "Kind of sad that Brantley was nicer to this than something like Women on the Verge."

Agreed. There is NOTHING fanciful and appropriate about the sets. I have sided with Brantley on most things this season, but I think he was WAY too nice here.

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:16pm

"So why did the thing turn into a hideous, cheap-looking, melted Whitman’s sampler?"

 

now that's a pull quote 

[HenryTDobson]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:19pm

As bad as these reviews are, it definitely could have been (and maybe should have been) much worse.

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:19pm

Honestly, I'd call the Times a solid mixed. He praises some of the cast (calls Jackie Hoffman a hoot) the sets, the costumes and the leading man, calling him more of a Wilder than a Depp in his performance which I take as a compliment. This is nowhere near his usual trashing. 

I had to cackle at his comment about Depp being a mix of Jackson and Wintour in his Wonka interpretation. 

ETA: He also sings his praise for the puppetry and Bergasse's choreography of the Oompa Loompas. 

Updated On: 4/23/17 at 10:19 PM

[Butter Broadway]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:21pm

He actually liked the scaled down set. Completely at odds with what everybody else on this board is saying. The whole production just looks tacky to me. His description of Johnny Depp's Wonka is 100% accurate. Mix of Michael Jackson and Anna Wintour. 

[perfectlymarvelous]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:25pm

Brantley was ruder about Johnny Depp's performance in a 12-year-old movie than he is about the show itself. However, I feel like his peak rudeness came sometime around 2005-2007, with his oft-cited review of The Little Mermaid and his less cited but equally hilarious review of In My Life. 

[Robbie2]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:30pm

http://www.didhelikeit.com/shows/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-review.html

 

[bdboston]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:33pm

Jeffrey Karasarides said: "What are you, the posting police?"

Oh, the irony...

 

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:35pm

Whilst the NYT might have had some praise the thing reads dismissive to me.

The rest of the reviews are brutal, done of the worst I've read.

[Cfried]

Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:41pm

Brantley's review was much kinder than I ever expected. I'd definitely consider it a more mixed review than negative.