Christina Applegate as Sweet Charity- Page 3

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 12/21/08 at 3:16pm

Well the original got almost everything wrong about Charity. If it were a sparkling new interpretation it would have had a better critical reception. It was a lazy, misguided revival that didn't trust its source material.

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 12/21/08 at 3:25pm

Personally i think had they used the Fosse choreography people/reviewers wouldn't have been quite so quick to jump on it. I do agree the choreography for this production was awful.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 12/21/08 at 3:28pm

Sweet Charity really needs a director/choreographer not a director AND a choreographer. The book is too limp for a non-stylistic production to work. I think someone like Susan Stroman or Jerry Mitchell could have easily used their own choreography successfully.

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 12/21/08 at 3:32pm

Nicely put, i agree. But I still think Christina was FIERCE.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 12/21/08 at 3:32pm

Yes, but with Stroman all the numbers would have had to use wacky props.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 12/21/08 at 3:35pm

If you saw Cilento's "choreography" you'd be more than happy with Stroman's prop-ography.

And I loved Applegate, for the record. I thought she was charming. She's a good dancer, I saw her earlier into the injury and though tentative, I could tell the talent was there, who happened to be in a awful production.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 12/21/08 at 3:41pm

Well, Cilento is one of the worst choreographers working on Broadway today.

I could do that Wicked "choreography". CORINE could do that Wicked "choreography".