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#1

First Date Reviews

Posted: 8/8/13 at 7:54pm

Reviews are coming out and I realized Limelightmike didn't make the thread yet, so I figured I'd jump on it.

Break legs and post them here!
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#2

First Date Reviews

Posted: 8/8/13 at 7:59pm

Entertainment Weekly is mixed to negative giving it a C+.

If the supporting characters are little more than one-dimensional shtick figures, Aaron and Casey aren't much deeper on the page. (Though Casey might be trying to break her dead-end pattern of dating irresponsible bad boys, you suspect she'd be better off with a steady, job-holding guy with at least a bit edginess about him — even a tattoo might do. And that's clearly not Aaron.) But there's a certain crackle to the performances by Levi and Rodriguez, a kinetic in-the-momentness, that elevates the material. Though your head may tell you to cut short this First Date, you find yourself rooting for this unlikely couple (and the show) to succeed.

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20724341,00.html

Scratch and claw for every day you're worth! Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming You'll live forever here on earth.
#4

First Date Reviews

Posted: 8/8/13 at 8:02pm

The Hollywood Report is positive!

It’s not surprising to read in the Playbill for Broadway’s First Date that book writer Austin Winsberg has extensive television credits, including Gossip Girl and Jake in Progress. This romantic musical comedy -- first seen in a co-production by Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre and A Contemporary Theater -- has a definite sitcom-like quality. But it also displays a genuine wit and musical flair that marks a refreshing change from the onslaught of overblown musicals permeating Broadway these days. Starring Zachary Levi of TV’s Chuck in his Broadway debut and Krysta Rodriguez (The Addams Family, Smash), this modest, unassuming tuner is a definite crowd-pleaser, although it may find itself struggling for tourist dollars when the bigger shows arrive in the fall.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/first-date-theater-review-599320
Scratch and claw for every day you're worth! Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming You'll live forever here on earth.
#5

First Date Reviews

Posted: 8/8/13 at 8:04pm

The AP is positive!

As the clumsy encounter unfolded, maybe the couple's inner baggage would even surround them with song and dance. That's the entertaining idea behind the sassy new musical comedy, "First Date." The overall tone is satiric, but there's a sneakily persistent undercurrent of optimism in the fun, fast-paced production that opened Thursday night at the Longacre Theatre.

http://online.wsj.com/article/AP7b39bd69402c49de970964912189ec25.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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#6

First Date Reviews

Posted: 8/8/13 at 8:05pm

AP - Positive

'That's the entertaining idea behind the sassy new musical comedy, "First Date." The overall tone is satiric, but there's a sneakily persistent undercurrent of optimism in the fun, fast-paced production that opened Thursday night at the Longacre Theatre.'

http://online.wsj.com/article/AP7b39bd69402c49de970964912189ec25.html



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Updated On: 8/8/13 at 08:05 PM

#7

First Date Reviews

Posted: 8/8/13 at 8:06pm

^That's the AP review, not the WSJ's review.
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#8

First Date Reviews

Posted: 8/8/13 at 8:26pm

AMNY is a pan. (2 stars)

“First Date” — a new Broadway musical about, you guessed it, a first date — is just as generic, pedestrian, bare and altogether uninteresting as the title implies that it will be.

http://www.amny.com/urbanite-1.812039/theater-review-first-date-2-stars-1.5859300
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#9

First Date Reviews

Posted: 8/8/13 at 9:01pm

I Iike to read the Curtain Up reviews and he gave it a positive review. Not a rave. Unfortunately I can't link it on my tablet.
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#12

First Date Reviews

Posted: 8/8/13 at 10:13pm

So, can me start saying that First Date got mixed but mostly positive reviews? Would that be a fair assessment?
#13

First Date Reviews

Posted: 8/8/13 at 10:13pm

Well, that's a Negative review from Isherwood, for sure.
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#14

First Date Reviews

Posted: 8/8/13 at 10:16pm

@RW3 All the reviews haven't be released yet. For one, New York Times gave it a bad review.
#15

First Date Reviews

Posted: 8/8/13 at 10:27pm

It would kill the Times to give a good review unless a show was terminally boring.
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#18

First Date Reviews

Posted: 8/8/13 at 10:38pm

Just from reading the Positive reviews I don't think I will be seeing this.
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#19

First Date Reviews

Posted: 8/8/13 at 11:22pm

I actually enjoy bad reviews from the Times. That's how I know I'll like a show. First Date Reviews
#20

First Date Reviews

Posted: 8/9/13 at 12:18am

woof. i think thats a worse review than scandalous got from the times.
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#21

First Date Reviews

Posted: 8/9/13 at 12:56am

>I Iike to read the Curtain Up reviews and he gave it a positive review. Not a rave. Unfortunately I can't link it on my tablet.

"The composers peak with "I'd Order Love," a show-stopper written for the waiter who has dreams of being a Broadway star. As played by pudgy, dimpled and disarming Hammond, this song is a wonderful pastiche of old time musical comedy and reminiscent of the once obligatory eleven o'clock number"

Wow, I honestly am shocked that anyone even mildly enjoyed this number. One of the most boring and hard to sit through numbers I've ever seen- and I've seen Wonderland.
#22

First Date Reviews

Posted: 8/9/13 at 1:09am

First Date Reviews

“First Date” is much more about the rituals and rigors of dating than it is about these particular two characters....while we do discover some specifics about their backgrounds and their motivations, the characters serve largely as generic vehicles; we learn far less about them as people than we do about the “Friend Zone” (when a date says she wants to be your “friend”) and “The Awkward Pause” and the dilemma of who picks up “The Check” — all lively songs.
First Date Review: ‘Chuck’ Nerd Woos ‘Smash’ Sizzler on Broadway

#23

First Date Reviews

Posted: 8/9/13 at 4:24am

But then the Gay Best Friend comes back a second time, and a third, singing reprises of the same damn song, and your nerves start to fray.

It sounds like this is the next IN THE LIFE and we should all go immediately so that we can say we were there.


Updated On: 8/9/13 at 04:24 AM

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