GETTIN' THE BAND BACK TOGETHER Reviews — Page 3

For what it’s worth, the Talkin’ Broadway review is pretty good. He had trouble with the first act but pretty much loved the rest. And unlike the other reviews, he praises that it is an original musical comedy. Don’t know if this will do any good at the box office- probably not but it does show that there is an audience for this show, they just have to find them now.

https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/BandBackTogether2018.html

Updated On: 8/13/18 at 11:37 PM

dramamama611 said: "SomethingPeculiar said: "After that stupid press release stunt about Sayreville, NJ being a "co-producer" on the show and getting the mayor of the town involved with the stunt, KD couldn't even be bothered to follow through with the stunt and list it with the other 30 producer names on the title page?

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It' s not like they print those things on a copy machine in the back room! IF they get another delivery of Playbills, it will like appear there."

Worth mentioning that they do actually print full-sized title page inserts to add/change producers or other billing between actual printings. Not in the theater of course (duh), but they definitely do this.

think about calming down and then getting worked up about some (any) world problem that is more worthy of your stroke.

For what it’s worth, the Talkin’ Broadway review is pretty good. He had trouble with the first act but pretty much loved the rest. And unlike the other reviews, he praises that it is an original musical comedy. Don’t know if this will do any good at the box office- probably not but it does show that there is an audience for this show, they just have to find them now.

It's not really worth anything. People typically read reviews from major publications. We may love Talkin' Broadway on here but tourists/majority of ticket buyers won't ever read anything from there. They will however read some of the other ones, and Jesus are they f*cking brutal.

itsjustmejonhotmailcom said: "@haterobicsI'd argue that weekly runningcost matters just as much as gross."

Not if the two shows being discussed have grosses below their weekly running cost.

haterobics said: "YvanEhtNioj said: "Sidebar: I don’t wish bad on any show but judging by the reviews and grosses, what do you think will close first? This or HOH?"

First, only grosses matter. Wicked got bad reviews, it didn't matter.

Wicked got mixed to positive reviews, love. Including a love letter review to Chenoweth from NYT, which is nowhere near what is happening here.

EthelMae said: "For what it’s worth, the Talkin’ Broadway review is pretty good. He had trouble with the first act but pretty much loved the rest. And unlike the other reviews, he praises that it is an original musical comedy. Don’t know if this will do any good at the box office- probably not but it does show that there is an audience for this show, they just have to find them now.

https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/BandBackTogether2018.html"

No, it shows that Talkin' Broadway has a reviewer who makes you miss Matthew Murray. And you think a review on Talkin' Broadway is going to HELP. It may well be the only review they can quote, but it's pointless.

WayTooBroadway said: "How is this capitalized at $12.5 million?!"

I feel like it’s not cheap to get Marilu Henner to sing, dance, AND hand out Rice Krispies. Lol

The fact that the composite score from posters on show-score.com is a ridiculous 76 merely goes to show how silly that website is (except for completely indiscriminate audience members).

Of course there has always been ridiculous dreck on Broadway, but it seems that we have a crop of producers today (Davenport, the Rosens, Chase Mishkin, and a host of one-off types) with much more enthusiasm than taste or know-how. There are those like Scott Rudin and Jordan Roth who take a the safe and successful strategy of putting big names into revivals of famous works, but one wonders if we'll ever see another Hal Prince, Kermit Bloomgarden, Cy Feuer, Saint-Subber, Rodgers & Hammerstein, or David Merrick - all of whom have had flops, but who at least gave the public something better than a live version of a bad TV show.

Updated On: 8/14/18 at 09:09 AM

I'm one of the people that didn't love, but didn't hate it. It was just empty silly fun.

But the one thing I did wonder was how much Ken & Co. paid to license all that Beatles music to play during pre-show?

Just saw a new TV commercial featuring Marilu Henner, and the pull quote is from the NY Times review of the 2013 George Street Playhouse production. "A genuinely funny musical." Lame.'



What happened to that production? How did it change so much? Is it just a completely different show?