"Well, I loved it and so did all my friends. The audience was laughing throughout.
I don't understand the vitriol from many, but to each their own.
They have a basic marketing issue in that they're trying to market a play on the back of an opera singer who isn't performing opera in it but who does perform opera throughout NY many times each year (providing ample opportunities to see her).
Crossing my fingers for them tonight. "
The issue with the show is that it's the same three or four jokes that get reshuffled throughout the show, up to the point where they get old and stale not even through the halfway point of act one. Now, I can't speak for act two because it was the first show I have ever attended where I walked out during intermission (and was more than happy to do so.)
And yes, there's also an issue with marketing as well. Of course, if a play has a big star they are going to use that to their advantage when it comes to marketing a show. In this case, they have Fleming. However, the issue with Fleming is that even in her world of opera, she isn't the big name draw that she once was. That sort of thing naturally happens. But, for the producers to not realize that and think that tickets would be sold because of her being in the play? Well, that's a big error on their part.
Truthfully, the show wouldn't be on Broadway if it was't for Fleming being cast in it. However, she wasn't going to be and isn't a big ticket draw and it's also just not a well written play period. A double edge sword for the producers.
