Posted: 9/26/19 at 11:40pm
Posted: 9/27/19 at 12:28am
The creative team will have had a little less than a year to change it up after its San Diego run, so I'm curious to see what they do to it. When I saw it I think my two main gripes were the music (which I found rather bland) and the storytelling (it really could've used a framing device, like keeping her older self around to comment on things happening, since we all know how everything is going to end). I can see it being fairly popular based on the average Broadway audience (women in their 40s), but I don't really see it making it to a year on Broadway, though of course if something happens with the royal family that may help generate more interest.
Posted: 9/27/19 at 12:38am
I haven't seen any footage or heard any of the music so it's hard to speculate how it will fair on Broadway but I'm certainly curious to find out. The show seems like it would be similar to Evita in some respects and I have a hard time imagining how the creative team of Memphis would write a musical like Evita.
Posted: 9/27/19 at 1:43am
This show is going to tour no matter how badly it does on Broadway. I’m just going to wait to see it locally. Americans love this whole British Royalty thing, especially Diana. My mom has a bunch of William and Kate wedding memorabilia in her kitchen on display like they are her kids lol. My impression is that this show will do very, very well touring North America .... I don’t mean places like Chicago, LA, or Toronto ... it will do fine in big cities too, but I mean all of the 100,000-500,000 person cities in the Midwest, Deep South, etc.
Updated On: 9/27/19 at 01:43 AM
Posted: 9/27/19 at 7:04am
CATSNYrevival said: "The show seems like it would be similar to Evita in some respects and I have a hard time imagining how the creative team of Memphis would write a musical like Evita."
It's far sillier than Evita. And Evita had the tension of politics and class warfare that Hal Prince brought to the piece. This is a love triangle with dancing paparazzi.
Posted: 9/27/19 at 7:58am
I know it doesn't matter but how good will the music/score be? Will there be any hits songs that people will be humming years to come? If not, I'll wait for the musical about Diana Rigg.
Posted: 9/27/19 at 11:44am
BJR said: "CATSNYrevival said: "The show seems like it would be similar to Evita in some respects and I have a hard time imagining how the creative team of Memphis would write a musical like Evita."
It's far sillier than Evita. And Evita had the tension of politics and class warfare that Hal Prince brought to the piece. This is a love triangle with dancing paparazzi."
The tension of politics and class warfare was prominent in the material before Hal Prince ever got involved.
Posted: 9/27/19 at 12:14pm
Posted: 9/27/19 at 12:55pm
Optimistically (for you) it runs as long as Pretty Woman. I've only heard one song but I don't have high hopes. As with every ticket buying decision, you have to make the ultimate call. Is it worth it to see it again or would you rather gamble and wait?
My opinion means nothing. I still don't understand what people see in Memphis and Come From Away and Diana feels like it's probably on that level.
cryan71 said: "It hits two core Broadway audiences, women in their mid 40s to 60s, and gay men."
I mean, that's more or less been the strategy for a while aside from targeting younger audiences (Moulin Rouge, Hadestown, Be More Chill, etc.) and families (Frozen). And to middling success. (The Cher Show, Tootsie, Summer, War Paint).
Posted: 9/28/19 at 4:45am
“It hits two core Broadway audiences, women in their mid 40s to 60s, and gay men. You could survive for years with those."
Famous Last Words says Cher!
Posted: 9/28/19 at 9:24am
joevitus said: "The tension of politics and class warfare was prominent inthe material before Hal Prince ever got involved."
Fair point. Well, something that adult ain't in this.
Posted: 9/28/19 at 9:50am
HamilHansen said: "
The Cher Show didn’t."
This hurt me in my very gay soul
Posted: 9/28/19 at 10:46am
Posted: 9/28/19 at 3:07pm
Saw this in La Jolla. Felt similarly to the way I felt when I saw Summer there previously. A lot of talent wasted on a poor book and, in this case, unremarkable score.
Unless there were a lot of upgrades to book and script, I wouldn’t recommend.
Updated On: 9/28/19 at 03:07 PM
Posted: 9/28/19 at 3:42pm
Olivia11 said: "Saw this in La Jolla. Felt similarly to the way I felt when I saw Summer there previously. A lot of talent wasted on a poor book and, in this case, unremarkablescore.
Unless there were a lot of upgrades to book and script, I wouldn’t recommend."
Exactly, that's what my agent friend said...he can't believe it's gonna be on BWAY this season
Posted: 9/28/19 at 3:42pm
Olivia11 said: "Saw this in La Jolla. Felt similarly to the way I felt when I saw Summer there previously. A lot of talent wasted on a poor book and, in this case, unremarkablescore.
Unless there were a lot of upgrades to book and script, I wouldn’t recommend."
Exactly, that's what my agent friend said...he can't believe it's gonna be on BWAY this season
Posted: 12/9/19 at 2:59pm
Posted: 12/9/19 at 4:36pm
Posted: 12/9/19 at 4:58pm
My friends and I saw "Diana" in La Jolla and loved it. I envy those of you who will see it on Broadway. And "If" is a lovely song, beautifully sung.
Posted: 12/9/19 at 7:43pm
Posted: 12/9/19 at 11:16pm
I cringed all the way through those lyrics.
Posted: 12/9/19 at 11:48pm
This show would need to be remarkable to succeed, and that is not what has been described. High concept plus low artistic merit equals disaster.
Posted: 12/10/19 at 12:12am
Posted: 12/10/19 at 12:16am
Boy, that song was not good.
Updated On: 12/10/19 at 12:16 AM
