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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
FOLLIES Reviews #25
Posted: 9/12/11 at 8:47pm
I'm also perplexed by the way "omnivorous" is used in the review.
FOLLIES Reviews #28
Posted: 9/12/11 at 8:58pm
Definition of OMNIVOROUS
1
: feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
2
: avidly taking in everything as if devouring or consuming
— om·niv·o·rous·ly adverb
Examples of OMNIVOROUS
She is an omnivorous reader.
a child with omnivorous curiosity
Nope, still can't figure it out, unless he's talking about her all-consuming obsession (?) with Ben. But that's the character, not the song. Not well written a review.
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FOLLIES Reviews #30
Posted: 9/12/11 at 9:05pm
4 stars from Matt Windman
http://www.amny.com/urbanite-1.812039/theater-review-follies-4-stars-1.3165718
FOLLIES Reviews #31
Posted: 9/12/11 at 9:08pm
The Hollywood Reporter
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/follies-theater-review-234184
FOLLIES Reviews #32
Posted: 9/12/11 at 9:11pm
The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/kennedy-centers-follies-steps-onto-broadway-with-fleet-feet/2011/09/12/gIQAIX34NK_story.html
FOLLIES Reviews #33
Posted: 9/12/11 at 9:13pm
"Peters initially seems a little cool and poised to convince as the Phoenix housewife pining away for 30 years"
????? Does this guy have Alexithymia?
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
FOLLIES Reviews #34
Posted: 9/12/11 at 9:22pm
"OMNIVOROUS...unless he's talking about her all-consuming obsession (?) with Ben."
Actually it means she eats people (aka Ben) and all them flowers on the Loveland set. Therefore teh show shall be re-named Folly Todd.
FOLLIES Reviews #35
Posted: 9/12/11 at 9:31pm
I like the Hollywood Reporter review--and this shout-out to us:
Mention that the original 1971 production of Follies was passed over in the Tony Awards race for best musical and theater chat sites tend to explode into fresh howls of outrage, provoking the kind of breast-beating anguish rarely witnessed outside of Sicilian funerals.
"Breast-beating anguish"...I like that.
FOLLIES Reviews #36
Posted: 9/12/11 at 9:35pm
The Associated Press is a Rave!
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=14505099
FOLLIES Reviews #37
Posted: 9/12/11 at 9:38pm
One thing I know right now is that whatever Treachout from the Journal says I will inevitably disagree with completely.
Any clues on what to expect from the Times?
FOLLIES Reviews #38
Posted: 9/12/11 at 9:42pm
I like that the Associate Press wasn't 100% on board with Carlyle's inept handling of the ghosts:
One odd note is struck when these Vegas-looking creatures with huge headdresses sometimes stop, stand and face the back wall, as if they were mimicking those little robot vacuums that get confused and bury themselves in an alcove for hours.
They did look like that. THEY DID!
FOLLIES Reviews #39
Posted: 9/12/11 at 9:46pmWould have been better if they just kept hitting their heads against the wall.
FOLLIES Reviews #40
Posted: 9/12/11 at 10:00pm
That Chicago Tribune review was hard to get through. Wow.
Trying to make sense of a review of a show when all you're interested in is reading a review of a show is one chore too many for this theatre fan. And I tend to be a wordy mutha myself, but that was just laborious.
Still better than his ridiculous review of the new Les Mis, where he trash talks the original production, passing himself off as someone who knows the original well, while knowing absolutely nothing about what he's talking about.
FOLLIES Reviews #41
Posted: 9/12/11 at 10:00pm
"Would have been better if they just kept hitting their heads against the wall."
How very "Aunt Clara."
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FOLLIES Reviews #42
Posted: 9/12/11 at 10:03pmGetting home from the opening and I'm so happy for all involved. Whatever faults this revival has, tonight was absolutely thrilling and the actors received much well-earned love. Congrats and my heart is hoping for a rave in The Times!
FOLLIES Reviews #43
Posted: 9/12/11 at 10:07pmBrantley: http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/theater/reviews/follies-on-broadway-review.html
FOLLIES Reviews #44
Posted: 9/12/11 at 10:08pm
I called it! Brantley changed his mind about the production like with LuPone's Gypsy.
Yay!
Joined: 12/31/69
FOLLIES Reviews #45
Posted: 9/12/11 at 10:10pm
Newsday...
http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/theater/follies-a-sondheim-revival-for-the-ages-1.3164605
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
FOLLIES Reviews #46
Posted: 9/12/11 at 10:11pm
Thrilled to have 5 very strong reviews which some would consider raves (Associated Press, Washington Post, Hollywood Reporter, Matt Windman, TheaterMirror), one case of verbal diarrhea (Chicago Tribune), and plenty more to come...
Surprised there aren't more raves for Terri White, and for Barnes's costumes. But I ain't complaining...thrilled for Houdyshell's raves!
UPDATE: Yeah! Brantly's as much as a rave as anyone could hope for.
IT'S A HIT!
Updated On: 9/12/11 at 10:11 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
FOLLIES Reviews #47
Posted: 9/12/11 at 10:14pmSurprised that Brantley didn't mention the 28 member orchestra. A pretty significant achievement on Broadway these days.
FOLLIES Reviews #48
Posted: 9/12/11 at 10:15pmI wouldn't say he 'changed his mind' - he said the production had improved and said performances had grown stronger, but he didn't throw the glass and deliver an all out rave; he still has some of the same reservations about aspects of the production that he had in Washington.
FOLLIES Reviews #49
Posted: 9/12/11 at 10:17pm
The only reservation I see him still having is..
, the spectral showgirls don’t really seem to know why they’re there. And Mr. Carlyle’s period choreography, though often charming, lacks the grandeur and precision of Bennett’s.
He even likes Paige and Raines now! It's definitely a much more positive review.
Updated On: 9/12/11 at 10:17 PM
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