DANCIN' Previews- Page 2

[Ravenclaw]

Posted: 3/4/23 at 4:22pm

Dollypop said: "Does this version include "Mr Monotony"?"

I should hope not, as that was a Jerome Robbins number.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/4/23 at 4:24pm

Ravenclaw said: "Dollypop said: "Does this version include "Mr Monotony"?"

I should hope not, as that was a Jerome Robbins number."

And never a part of Dancin' (I'm so confused...)

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 3/4/23 at 5:02pm

Dollypop said: "Does this version include "Mr Monotony"?"

It closes the show and leads into the curtain call. The dancer lip-syncs to Judy Garland’s track and stands in place in silhouette with zero movement and a spot on her lips. One of the many WTF?! moments in this “revival.”

[pethian]

Posted: 3/4/23 at 5:37pm

EricMontreal22 said: "Ravenclaw said: "Dollypop said: "Does this version include "Mr Monotony"?"

I should hope not, as that was a Jerome Robbins number."

And never a part of Dancin' (I'm so confused...)"

 

Yikes. Me too. Can someone explain what's going on?

 

[darquegk]

Posted: 3/4/23 at 5:42pm

What about the Cat Stevens song from the original?

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 3/4/23 at 5:53pm

darquegk said: "What about the Cat Stevens song from the original?"

Sadly, Cat Stevens’ “Was Dog a Doughnut” is not in this sloppy “revival.” 

[amiyagi]

Posted: 3/4/23 at 7:15pm

BrodyFosse123 said: "Dollypop said: "Does this version include "Mr Monotony"?"

It closes the show and leads into the curtain call. The dancer lip-syncs to Judy Garland’s track and stands in place in silhouette with zero movement and a spot on her lips. One of the many WTF?! moments in this “revival.”"

Is this a joke? Or this actually happens in the show? 

Had a final spot for May and was considering this but I think I'll just go with Grey House. I'm not usually into plays but it looks like it'll have some ASL so there's that. 

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 3/4/23 at 7:19pm

There is no lip-syncing to Judy.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 3/4/23 at 7:43pm

HeyMrMusic said: "There is no lip-syncing to Judy."

Or… is there? 

 

[RippedMan]

Posted: 3/4/23 at 9:08pm

bruzson said: "The 'dancing' in San Diego was excellent in the solo or small ensemble numbers. It was the large cast numbers where I don't think the dancing would have lived up to Fosse's expectations. The biggest problem in San Diego was the dreadful dialogue stretches. Can anyone comment on whether the dialogue has now been pared to a minimum or isn't embarrassing?"

I don't like dance heavy shows and thus will be skipping this, but for a show called "Dancin'" long stretches of dialogue seems...misguided? 

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 3/4/23 at 11:52pm

There are a few monologues, which are direct Fosse quotes about his love of dance and dancers. Sort of like Prince of Broadway.

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 3/6/23 at 9:43am

I was on the fence about buying a ticket. Then I saw the Dancin' Man sneak peek video...

Now I'm waiting for the reviews.

As much as I want to see it, something just feels off about this whole thing. 

[BroadwayBaby6]

Posted: 3/6/23 at 2:32pm

Cilento can fix everything by opening night. Will he, however?

[Anshel2]

Posted: 3/6/23 at 2:35pm

I was there last night.  There was apparently a member of the creative team who was on his iPad the entire show.  Bright light.  It was awful and terribly distracting.  Should be ashamed.  

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 3/6/23 at 3:43pm

BroadwayBaby6 said: "Cilento can fix everything by opening night. Will he, however?"

Nope. The sloppy mess I saw in San Diego is exactly what is on Broadway right now so he (and the compliant Nicole Fosse) believe they have a perfect show. 

[cryan71]

Posted: 3/6/23 at 3:52pm

I saw it in San Diego and thought it was great.  What specifically was sloppy?

[bholtzinger544]

Posted: 3/6/23 at 4:01pm

The clip they posted just doesn't feel polished. Fosse liked his choreography to look neat and uniform, everything I've seen so far has just looked like some of the cast members are off by a count or 2 or not really getting the emphasis on all of the movements. Every movement should have a purpose and currently, it doesn't look that way. Hopefully they clean this up during previews but based on what I heard from San Diego, I'm not holding my breath. 

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 3/6/23 at 4:42pm

cryan71 said: "I saw it in San Diego and thought it was great. What specifically was sloppy?"

Bob Fosse was about interpretation before choreography. He cast dancers more for their personalities than technique so there was always an organic feeling to his work.  These dancers in this revival are from this generation of robotic technical dancing so yes, they’re doing the choreography but there is zero interpretation, which is what Bob Fosse was about.  He wanted the dancer to stand out and not the choreography. 

[bk]

Posted: 3/6/23 at 4:54pm

Broadwaybaby6 said: "Cilento can fix everything by opening night."

Really? What in Wayne Cilento's directorial resume would lead you to believe he could fix anything? They had the entire San Diego run to fix things and they had the entire rehearsal period to fix things. They clearly don't want to fix things. This should have been a straight up revival of Dancin' - if that's what you're gonna call the show. No added numbers, no commentary, just the show Mr. Fosse created.

Updated On: 3/6/23 at 04:54 PM

[Dan6]

Posted: 3/6/23 at 7:45pm

cryan71 said: "I saw it in San Diego and thought it was great. What specifically was sloppy?"

I saw it in San Diego (one of the last performances) and thought it was a complete mess.  Sloppy, out-of-sync group dancing, inane dialogue (including extended and wholly out-of-context scenes from Big Deal, for no apparent reason other than that Cilento appeared in it), and a misguided effort to pander to audiences by "updating" the original (which I saw) with a pastiche of "Fosse's Greatest Hits" for which they apparently weren't able to obtain (or afford) the rights to the original music.  Whatever it was, it wasn't "Bob Fosse's Dancin'."  I was surprised when I saw it was transferring but assumed they must have done some major revisions.  Alas, it appears not.   

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 3/6/23 at 8:11pm

Reinvented?  Um, no thank you.

[leefowler]

Posted: 3/6/23 at 9:33pm

They could always do what Cinderella did, and add the word “bad” in front of their title.

[dented146]

Posted: 3/7/23 at 12:49am

Does it still have the political commentary video in Act 2?

 

[cryan71]

Posted: 3/7/23 at 2:08am

We must have seen completely different shows.  I enjoyed it for what it was.  I'm not holding the dancers to some fictional, romanticized, unattainable standard.

[JasonC3]

Posted: 3/7/23 at 3:24am

Isn't there really only one standard in a namesake show, and that is Fosse's?  It may be romanticized, but it was (and is) is neither fictionalized nor unattainable.