Curtains Reviews — Page 5

I also called the mediocre reviews. But I was blasted by a few shills. Remember?

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Curtains is a fine entertaining show. It's not "great" but it's still highly entertaining. I wish some of the major critics would give Karen Ziemba better notices as I thought she was one of the best in the show!

As for the score not being the "Typical" Kander and Ebb, I say great! It shows they can do different styles and still have a good score. Not in the case of Pirate Queen where the Composer's Score sounds exactly the same from the previous two scores.

I say Curtains will have a nice run (at least I hope so) my biggest problem with the show was the length, I felt it went on and on and on. But still I was happy when I left the theatre, and what a wonderful theatre too.

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Rath.. you were not the one that blasted me. When the show played in LA I wrote about how disappointing it was and how much fixing it needed. That is when I was attacked by some shill saying how everyone was raving about it and so forth.. and how it was going to be a huge hit. This weekend when I have time I will search and pull up the thread.

But regardless.. hey.. I hope it is a big hit and that other people love it. Why wouldn't I? It was just.. not for me.

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Updated On: 3/23/07 at 03:38 PM

Oh good! I didn't remember ever blasting you.

And NO show is for everybody.

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She really has incredible energy.

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It probably will be. Thataway! is too big.

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I hope to, many many times!

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If it has changed since LA it sounds like it hasn't changed quite enough. I enjoyed it but thought it was a lesser effort by most of the creative people. The cast was good, but mostly underused. It came off like one of those Comden & Green vehicles that were great in the 50s after a couple of drinks but at today's prices it just seemed middlin'.

Also, I saw both Drowsy and Curtains in LA before they went to Broadway. Even then Drowsy was in much better shape and just a far more satisfying evening.

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They took some pretty interesting liberties with Brantley's review.

*edited to soothe the savagely intense college students*

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Updated On: 3/24/07 at 04:40 PM

*...because it's just too exhausting on a freakin' Saturday afternoon*

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Updated On: 3/24/07 at 05:15 PM

Nor did they keep the review intact. You said they took verbatim quotes, which would indicate that the words were copied exactly as they were. And honestly, if the change is done in favor of a show you really like, therefore making it look like it got more of a rave than it did, saying that the quotes were taking verbatim isn't really really something you can say in its defense. Sure, verbatim would be honesty, but in Brantley's case, verbatim's not a great thing. Changing the words themselves and including ones other than what was written in the first place is (a) not done when pulling quotes -- you work with what you have and (b) not the only way to deviate from being verbatim.

ETA -- oh, how terribly kind, Rath edited her post to "soothe" my fellow college students and I. Sure, sure, best to make it out to be our fault than to ever admit the plain simpliclity that you were just. wrong. You're only doing it as a kindness to our over angsty dispositions and not because oh, heaven forbid someone saw that you said something incorrect. Right! Also, very clever to edit your post when this had already sunken down thinking that nobody would see it. Tsk, tsk...

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Updated On: 3/24/07 at 05:21 PM

Emcee, you can't read my mind. Or anyone else's.

And I refuse to argue with you or take your bait - it's theater - to me, it's not worth the extreme energy you give to arguments over it.

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