CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews- Page 4
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/05
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews#75
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.
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews#76
Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:08pm
Vulture - Negative http://www.vulture.com/2017/04/theater-review-a-wonka-thats-anything-but-sweet.html
Broadway Star Joined: 4/14/12
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews#77
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"
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews#78
Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:09pm
Wow, was a expecting a brutal review from the times, but it was definitely mixed to negative.
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews#79
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/
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews#80
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
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews#81
Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:11pm
The times review wasnt as nasty as I thought it would be
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews#82
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
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews#83
Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:12pm
Times pull quote possibility:
"[Christian Borle] is gloriously demented"
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/11/14
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews#84
Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:12pm
Brantley calls the sets and costumes "appropriately fanciful."
WHAT?
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews#85
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.
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews#86
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.
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews#87
Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:13pm
Kind of sad that Brantley was nicer to this than something like Women on the Verge.
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews#88
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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CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews#89
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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CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews#90
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.
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews#91
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
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews#92
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/11/14
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews#93
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.
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews#94
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.
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews#95
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.
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews#96
Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:30pm
http://www.didhelikeit.com/shows/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-review.html
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews#97
Posted: 4/23/17 at 10:33pm
Jeffrey Karasarides said: "What are you, the posting police?"
Oh, the irony...
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews#98
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.
Broadway Star Joined: 9/15/16
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews#99
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.
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