https://www.broadwayworld.com/national-tours/article/BWW-Reviews-FLASHDANCE-Makes-Cincinnati-a-Maniac-20131105 Updated On: 1/4/14 at 09:22 AM
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Is it really likely that a good musical can be based on such a lousy movie?
https://www.broadwayworld.com/national-tours/article/BWW-Reviews-FLASHDANCE-THE-MUSICAL-Splashes-into-San-Antonio-20130619
Updated On: 1/4/14 at 03:27 PM
From the reviews I've read it seems like the general consensus is that the show does have many flaws, but still creates a great night of theatre. Whether it's great cause you actually enjoyed it or it's great because it's so bad that it was funny.
The London production closed ahead of its scheduled closing date in the West End but the biggest problem was not the show, London was packed with young shows at the time (especially Legally Blonde) and Flashdance just got lost in the mix.
Its UK Tour prior to London did huge business and was actually well received, why they made so many changes inc the score for the US is beyond me, The Long Way Home and High Art were brilliant songs
Why are you posting all the Broadway World reviews?
Just adding some balance and different perspectives to the conversation.
I don't think adding all positive is showing a balanced perspective, especially just reviews from this site.
"Just adding some balance and different perspectives to the conversation."
How is there a balance? You have found a handful of positive reviews (all from the same source I might add), but have failed to link one of the countless pans the tour has received.
Do you work for Flashdance?
We all know the tour has recieved mixed reviews at best.
I do not get why you keep posting reviews...
What is wrong with you?
And a little something from current four week run in DC...
http://www.dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2013/12/27/flashdance-the-musical-at-the-kennedy-center-by-john-harding/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=flashdance-the-musical-at-the-kennedy-center-by-john-harding
and finally, maybe this is why the show is filling the house in DC every night...
http://www.mdtheatreguide.com/2013/12/theatre-review-flashdance-the-musical-at-kennedy-center/
One final thought...like the show or not...
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
? Theodore Roosevelt
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