FINDING NEVERLAND Reviews- Page 2

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

Posted: 4/15/15 at 8:31pm

Don't be surprised if ya see that first line as a pull-quote.

The twitter page just tweeted it!

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 4/15/15 at 8:34pm

^ Bahahaha!!!!! Love it!!!

[Kad]

Posted: 4/15/15 at 8:38pm

Hollywood Reporter is negative.

...there's nonetheless no convincing argument here that a Finding Neverland musical was ever an artistically valid idea.

Hollywood Reporter

[mikey2573]

Posted: 4/15/15 at 8:47pm

"Hollywood Reporter is negative.
...there's nonetheless no convincing argument here that a Finding Neverland musical was ever an artistically valid idea.
Hollywood Reporter"

 

 I may have to see this now, if only to find out what "grim Edwardian twerking" looks like. 

[JaglinSays]

Posted: 4/15/15 at 8:49pm

A turd is a turd is a turd.

[Bilbo3]

Posted: 4/15/15 at 8:51pm

The Hollywood reporter review just screams bitter Harvey hate.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 4/15/15 at 8:58pm

Positive from The Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alexandra-villarreal/finding-neverland-its-tim_b_7074724.html

[rocker05]

Posted: 4/15/15 at 8:59pm

I completely agree with The Hollywood Reporter review. In my opinion, the show is a chore to sit through. This show is most likely critic-proof though.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 4/15/15 at 8:59pm

"AP review "not good"?  Are you kidding me?  That review is positively BRIMMING with great pull quotes: 
 
"A celebration of imagination!" 
"Pleasing spectacle!" 
The cast is "first rate"! 
"Absolutely thrilling!" 
"Pure understated brilliance!" 
"The music and lyrics....lean on soaring pop melodies and lilting Irish folk."
Kelsey Grammer is a "glorious scene-stealer!" 
"Choreographer Mia Michaels' work here is exciting."
You can't BUY a review like that."

 You seem to be confusing the actual review with the pull quotes. A review can be mixed or negative and still have a few pull quotes, that doesn't make it a good review. And while the team behind this show can certainly get some leverage something, I'm sure they would have preferred an actual positive review.

[getatme]

Posted: 4/15/15 at 9:03pm

Hollywood a Reporter review seems like Harvey hate? They didn't really mention I'm until the end. Seems more like the reviewer genuinely had problems with the actual text of the show. 

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

Posted: 4/15/15 at 9:03pm

I remember hearing how a lot of the critics who really trashed the 2007 revival of Grease felt angered by the producers for finding pull-quotes in their reviews out-of-context in order to make them read like raves.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 4/15/15 at 9:05pm

That's because they put up a whole poster of pull quotes saying "The one that I want!"

[Auggie27]

Posted: 4/15/15 at 9:06pm

So far, worse than "Gigi" and "It Shoulda Been You."  What a strange season.  My guess is: "Neverland" will still be here after Labor Day.  With the others?

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 4/15/15 at 9:11pm

Worse than Gigi? As I recall, people were saying how Gigi could barely get any pull quotes out of the reviews it got.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 4/15/15 at 9:16pm

I spoke too soon, no doubt. And "Gigi" pulled an acceptable bundle (considering) during Rolling Spring Break.  But the negatives for "Neverland" have been surprisingly harsh, not merely meh.  Is it critic-proof?  Maybe.  Probably. I see pull-quotes in some of these second-string reviews, if they matter.  It won't be hard to find some version of "magic" in every line that can be put on a poster.  

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 4/15/15 at 9:23pm

I'll give you this, I was not expecting love letters. But my personal opinion of the show aside, looking at the grosses and capacity it was playing throughout previews, I'm going to wager that this show will be stickin' around for a while.

[Up In One]

Posted: 4/15/15 at 9:33pm

Who is the reviewer for Huff Post?  Is that just a random reader's post? Or is she the named reviewer?  We need a "top critics" list like Rottten Tomatoes features to put some perspective around these reviews.

[ceisen]

Posted: 4/15/15 at 9:41pm

New York Magazine is very negative. Praise for Matthew, but not much else.

 

Here's a quote from New York Magazine:

"I'm not sure which problem - historical or musical - is worse; the two are intertwined. Part of what makes the show so frustrating as entertainment is its utter falseness, only some of it grandfathered in."

 

USA Today is also negative.

[ceisen]

Posted: 4/15/15 at 9:43pm

A quote from USA Today:

 

"For a show about releasing the imagination, the musical is surprisingly conventional -- a down-the-middle family entertainment with excellent actors, including Matthew Morrison as Barrie and Kelsey Grammer as his crusty producer, as well as sturdy storytelling that recreates the movie with dogged fidelity. Directed by Diane Paulus, who exploded "Pippin" with astonishing circus spectacle, the production has a low-wattage wow factor that, though admirably true to the Edwardian period, mostly misses the chance to transform the fantasies in Barrie's mind with 21st century magic."

[Tigger]

Posted: 4/15/15 at 9:47pm

I completely agree. Of all the shows I sat through last weekend this one was the worst. Just a big  load of sentimental musically absent charmless tripe.

A major disappointment with one very good special effect, a mugging hambone performance by Kelsey Grammer and an earnest one by a defeated Matthew Morrison.

[ggersten]

Posted: 4/15/15 at 9:54pm

The criticisms don't read like they would have been fixed if the play had Jeremy Jordan instead of Matthew Morrison.  

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 4/15/15 at 10:02pm

Not sure if the review from "The Wrap" got posted...

http://www.thewrap.com/finding-neverland-theater-review-matthew-morrison-turns-his-broadway-return-into-pure-childs-play/

[Up In One]

Posted: 4/15/15 at 10:08pm

http://nypost.com/2015/04/15/glee-star-matthew-morrison-works-tirelessly-to-drive-overbearing-finding-neverland/

 

NY Post is bad

 

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 4/15/15 at 10:13pm

I've seen Vincentelli in interviews, I'm not at all surprised by that review.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 4/15/15 at 10:13pm

I've seen Vincentelli in interviews, I'm not at all surprised by that review.