Detroit planning Broadway transfer in the spring

[PlayItAgain]

Posted: 10/7/12 at 11:29pm

Speaking with one of the actress after the show I mentioned how I hoped i'd go to broadway this time, to which she replied "barring any catastrophe its definitely going in the spring". All I'll say is this, i hope that means a bigger version of the effect at the end of the show

[After Eight]

Posted: 10/8/12 at 7:53am

A sure Tony winner, then---- unless something even more dull, jejeune and pretentious opens before season's end.

Really, how did this dud NOT win the Pulitzer Prize?

[Copperfield2]

Posted: 10/8/12 at 10:07am

Though the cast is very good I don't see this play working on Broadway. I found I didn't care about any of the characters or what was happening to them. A huge disappointment after reading all the advance hype about the play, including its Pulitzer nomination.

[Owen22]

Posted: 10/8/12 at 1:28pm

Wow. After Eight doesn't like Detroit...

Can't WAIT to see it now!!!

[Dollypop]

Posted: 10/8/12 at 3:08pm

(Trying hard not to give anything away here!)

The huge special effect is spectacular, but it also distracted me in the following scene as John Cullum was giving his monologue. I kept looking at the remains of that big effect and the marvelous set change that follows it. I'm sure I missed some key elements of his speech because I was so distracted.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 10/8/12 at 3:47pm

SPOILER, PROBABLY

I felt the "effect" was disproportionate to its dramatic value. It could've been approximated, with fewer details, and made an impact more commensurate with the scale of the story. It felt like far too much thought went into the "effect" reveal, when we knew what was going on before the lights rose on the result. We were then impressed with stagecraft more than a story crescendo, and yes, I think it upstaged the coda, which I like (perhaps a minority opinion.) Projections and lights would've worked for me. All of that theatrical magic late in the evening was out of sync with the modest satirical goals of the play.