Can a show opt out of reviews?- Page 2
Can a show opt out of reviews?
#25re: Can a show opt out of reviews?
Posted: 2/15/07 at 11:59pm
Another show that kept extending previews was MERLIN which starred Doug Henning, Chita Rivera and 10 yr old Christian Slater.
Again after a while the NY Times got fed up with waiting for it to open and decided to review it. Their "logic" was that the show was no longer charging the cheaper "preview" ticket price. (Remmebr when previews were about 1/3 cheaper?? I bet Margo does! )
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG also postoponed its opening by about 3 weeks. Tickets until Oct 31 were $28 top but from Nov 1 (the original opening date) they were full price, and I believe this is what prompted Liz Smith's bitchy column "Not so merrily they roll out of the theatre."
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
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myManCape
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/26/05
#26re: Can a show opt out of reviews?
Posted: 2/16/07 at 12:06amA more recent example of this is Good Vibrations, which after a troubled preview period extended its opening night about a week. The ironic part is that the delayed opening did not affect the reviews at all since they were already written. The press has been invited and the party held. The only the thing they delayed was the reviews being published.
"Have they come yet?"
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#27re: Can a show opt out of reviews?
Posted: 2/16/07 at 12:35am
"After previews had gone on for (I believe) nearly two months, Frank Rich and the other critics simply bought tickets to the show themselves"
I also think it was Nick & Nora. I went to see that show twice and both times it was a mess.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
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