CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Reviews- Page 6

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 4/24/17 at 6:48am

Ok first of all it's not my 'rule' it's something that has been done on Broadway World for years and years. Jeffery isn't using to his time to post links he's copying them from the review round up.

Secondly who said my time was more important? Let me give you an example. Some of us are not in the US so we scan through these threads very late at night (it could be 3am here by the time the reviews come out) so don't have time to read them all but want to see how the show did. A simple positive, mixed, negative gives that overall idea of how the show is done. As a playwright and director I like to know what's going on, but at 3am I also like to sleep.

 

I don't get the problem here, i am so confused, it's quite simply the most obvious thing to do since that's how it's always done. 

[5377brian]

Posted: 4/24/17 at 6:59am

That is not a pan from Brantley, did you read the review?   That was mixed.  

[tmbyru]

Posted: 4/24/17 at 7:07am

The official website is only posting one pull quote right now... "A marvelous show" from NPR.. 

[Lot666]

Posted: 4/24/17 at 8:46am

BroadwayNYC2 said: "Jeffrey

No, but you are posting just to be the first one to post the link. Don't deny that. Provide context. It makes the board better, which we know you want too. You clearly are passionate about this, so make it a beneficial experience. Read the review. Say if its negative or positive. The link doesn't help, we all have google. Actually fish out pull quotes, interesting lines so board members can discuss. You care about this. Thats great! But making it a valuable discussion would be even better, and you probably have much more great commentary to add besides a link :)"

Bravo, BroadwayNYC2 ! 

This is how you explain a concern and motivate the target to heed your suggestion. It's not necessary (or productive) to be a nasty old sod.

And for the record, I agree that including something more than just a link makes for a much better community experience, but "This is how we've always done it" is the least compelling case a person could present to me for anything. Our world is rife with stupid behavior that people cling to simply because "that's the way it's always been done".

Updated On: 4/24/17 at 08:46 AM

[MaddieBB12]

Posted: 4/24/17 at 9:19am

A few other pull quotes they've been using this morning:

"A delectable concoction!"

-Entertainment Weekly

"Satisfies any sweet tooth!"

-Time Magazine

[Lot666]

Posted: 4/24/17 at 9:39am

I think they should go with this pull quote from Brantley:

"gives its Willy more stage time"

[chanel]

Posted: 4/24/17 at 11:07am

"This show really wants to be loved."

Scroll down to "Sprinkle It With Dew".

http://www.out.com/michael-musto/2017/4/24/bianca-del-rio-id-let-trump-touch-my-psy

[showbizkid2]

Posted: 4/24/17 at 11:14am

The sets in London apart from the Chocolate room were great - the show was horrible... Bad book, bad music, bad direction, mostly baaaaaaaaaaaad!!! This new Broadway version got rid of the best thing (the set) and still hasn't solved ANY of the issues London had.  They need to do this. 

Use the London set

Put all the songs from the film back in

Have the chocolate room end of Act 1

Put Slugsworth sub text back in

remove 80 percent of the new music and get Alan Menken to write it!! 

 

Add the most dramatic set for the chocolate room with working waterfall or something staggering. 

 

Hey presto a HIT!!! 

[dramamama611]

Posted: 4/24/17 at 11:18am

Slugworth isn't in the book other than in name, if memory serves me correctly.  Constructed for the film.

[showbizkid2]

Posted: 4/24/17 at 11:41am

well it's some sub text the awful book and show is DESPERATE for!!! jeopardy!? 

[carnzee]

Posted: 4/24/17 at 12:19pm

songanddanceman2 said: "Ok first of all it's not my 'rule' it's something that has been done on Broadway World for years and years. Jeffery isn't using to his time to post links he's copying them from the review round up.

Secondly who said my time was more important? Let me give you an example. Some of us are not in the US so we scan through these threads very late at night (it could be 3am here by the time the reviews come out) so don't have time to read them all but want to see how the show did. A simple positive, mixed, negative gives that overall idea of how the show is done. As a playwright and director I like to know what's going on, but at 3am I also like to sleep.

 

I don't get the problem here, i am so confused, it's quite simply the most obvious thing to do since that's how it's always done. 

 

I love that Jeffrey has driven you absolutely bonkers. You could have ignored him. 

 

[Patty3]

Posted: 4/24/17 at 12:45pm

Cfried said: "It was a 5pm curtain. "

 

I was in Sardi's right around 5:00 last night after seeing Amelie with a friend. The bar was roped off but they allowed us in and said the Charlie group had just left after their pre-opening celebration. A little later two men came in and sat at the end of the bar. I think they stayed around 20 minutes. I was pretty certain that one of them was Jack O'Brien. I had just seen a lengthy interview with him last week. He was wearing a polka dot bow tie and when I looked at photos this morning from opening night he had on a polka dot tie. Is it typical for the creatives to leave in the middle of an opening night performance? 

[Lot666]

Posted: 4/24/17 at 12:57pm

Patty3 said: "Is it typical for the creatives to leave in the middle of an opening night performance?"

Andrew Lloyd Webber has said that he and Cameron Mackintosh retired to a nearby bar during the opening night performance of Phantom of the Opera.

 

Updated On: 4/24/17 at 12:57 PM

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 4/24/17 at 1:15pm

This is extremely cute, https://instagram.com/p/BTPqUYsFpDr/

[Sertzo19]

Posted: 4/24/17 at 3:00pm

showbizkid2 said: "The sets in London apart from the Chocolate room were great - the show was horrible... Bad book, bad music, bad direction, mostly baaaaaaaaaaaad!!! This new Broadway version got rid of the best thing (the set) and still hasn't solved ANY of the issues London had.  They need to do this."

I couldn't agree with you more. Saw this in London about a year ago and the sheer magnitude and detail of the sets was overwhelming. I felt like I was transported (thanks EW) and feeling like I was IN THE STORY was enough to make for a magical evening, even with the lackluster (sometimes downright atrocious) songs and clunky direction. I think the West-End team was smart enough to realize that what they put together paled in comparison to the films, so they evoked as much of the film's spirit in the sets which was enough to hypnotize the kids in the audience and to evoke nostalgia for the adults that grew up with the two films. 

I honestly don't understand how the Broadway team for this production could have thought that getting rid of the best part of the London production was a good idea. I'm in no means saying they should have built the musical around the sets but they definitely should have kept what worked so brilliantly in the West End version and gone from there. This transfer had so much potential. That being said, I am thoroughly enjoying these reviews and silently laughing at my desk. 

[Margo319]

Posted: 4/24/17 at 3:07pm

Not as cute as this one:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BTQvP9bDvk0/?taken-by=andrewrannells

[Ado Annie D'Ysquith]

Posted: 4/24/17 at 3:50pm

You guys got me to dig out the Brantley Mermaid review because I'd never read it before.

Yeowch...talk about blood in the water!

[BroadwayJunkie]

Posted: 4/24/17 at 10:55pm

Anyone want my ticket for the July 11th performance? Decent seat-- Front center mezzanine, second row.  Less than face value! Let me know...

[Alexander Lamar]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 1:36am

How long has Christian been bald?

[blaxx]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 1:53am

Alexander Lamar said: "How long has Christian been bald?

 

"

Since he shaved his head for this show.

[phantom39]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 5:47pm

So they're using "Broadway's Big Treat!" (EW) in ads, but that sentence is nowhere to be found in the EW's C+ review.. am I missing something?

http://ew.com/theater/2017/04/23/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-broadway-review/

http://www.charlieonbroadway.com/

[bk]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 5:53pm

What they're doing is shameful and probably illegal.  As you say, that quote appears nowhere in their review. It does appear in an old article announcing the show was coming to Broadway - last year that article appeared.  And even then, they have rewritten what was actually said in the article, which was Broadway was in for a treat, not Broadway's Big Treat.  You cannot take words that didn't appear together and use them that way just because you feel like it.  You can certainly construct a pull quote by selectively using words as long as they ellipses between them.  If EW felt like it, they could slap this down.

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 5:55pm

It looks like they pulled that quote from an EW article that ran in August of last year about the teaser trailer.

As someone pointed out, they completely re-wrote the sentence to make it appear more active. The actual wording in the article is, "Broadway is in for a big treat."

http://ew.com/article/2016/08/08/willy-wonka-charlie-and-chocolate-factory-broadway-show-teasers/

Updated On: 4/25/17 at 05:55 PM

[peacelovemagic1]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 6:06pm

It seems as though they are doing this for all all of their pull quotes. Another one they use on their website says "The Oompa-Loompas are real showstopping attractions!"-Entertainment Weekly, when the real quote from EW was "the only other real showstopping attraction is the Oompa Loompas"

They also are using an NPR quote that I have been unable to find. The quote is "A marvelous show for everyone! YOU'RE GUARANTEED TO HAVE A BALL!" - NPR

[phantom39]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 6:18pm

What a joke. I bet that EW article they took that quote from is also a sponsored story.