GLORY DAYS First Preview - REVIEWS — Page 2

I should confess that I really enjoyed "MY NEXT STORY" and "GENERATION APATHY" musically.

Not going to lie, these two guys have talent. They just aren't ready for Broadway.

And thanks, ChildOfDestiny - I realized I should've said that and decided I better edit it in.

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Adam, thanks for your review. I think it would have been a more compelling show (from the sound of it) if they "reveal" was handeled better. It seems a little "cliche" to have the jock be the suprised one. Why not lead the audience to believe that one of the characters is very open-minded, and free, and then have him be the one who is caught off guard. I think that would be more telling, and more interesting than the typical "homophobic jock" storyline.

By the by, does anyone know the last note hit at the end of "My Next Story" ? I know it's rather high...

Destiny...

I enjoy modern musical theatre songs too.

I graduated from a suburban high school as well (but NOT recently)

I appreciate a clever book. But that's nowhere to be found in "Glory Days" (although it is so much better than the score, as a whole)

I'm a sucker for young good-looking men who can belt, as well. Except for Andrew Call's stereotypical one dimension performance, I was extremely impressed by the guys. Especially Steven Booth! But these young men can't save a show with this type of material.

I have a brother too! He just doesn't understand theatre though...

I go into theatre with an open mind too. That's what I did for the Signature run and I came out with a mind filled full of disconnected bland music, lack of storyline depth, a $10 set, and one dimensional stereotype characters (the book is mostly responsible for this).

everything was SO predictable and failed to move me. and the lyrics??? don't even get me started, dear.

How charming.

shesa, that is just a bit extreme, no? I don't want anyone to lose their jobs - but I didn't like the show. Period.

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well if the show closed- doesn't ATP do understudies of recently closed shows as well? because Jason Dula was there when I went and his thing was closed he said

I doubt it. It's a unit set with four actors (and two understudies) - the running costs must be TINY.

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OY DAYS! This dreck should have stayed in Virginia- another tuneless, charm free, obnoxious flop. How do these actors learn these "songs"? 2 scrawny boys are supposed to be football players? Are the lights on the back wall supposed to be headlights?, LP'S? They haven't seen each other in a year and when they meet, it was like they just saw each other 5 minutes ago. Horrible direction. They should have passed out the beer to the audience to numb the pain of watching this. One performance- if it lasts that long.-Garbage. Though the guys did have nice voices.

Let's face it kids, do you really think someone who doesn't know you reads this board to find out what you liked or disliked, or is the point really to try and piece together what they might think to see if it's up their alley?

Actually, many people here look forward to other poster's reviews. I just have to learn who to trust and who not to. There is one poster here (who shall remain nameless) who hates most everything I liked and likes most everything I hated, go figure.

When that "secret" is revealed, the tension is kicked up a notch, and it sort of becomes an interesting character study of these peoples' reactions to the big reveal. This is when the show is interesting and actually engaging.

What, that one of the characters is (gasp) a HOMO? What a shocker! How new and adventurous...IF THIS WAS 1972!

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I didn't mean to imply I was quoting you, it just seems that those who are defending this show seem to have that attitude.

When the big secret in a MUSICAL about SCHOOLBOYS is that one of them is GAY, well, it is just SHOCKING!!

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Steve2, I understand how you feel. The board sometimes does make me jaded to certain shows. It took me FOREVER to see "The Seafarer" cause so many people here were divided on it. When I saw it, I LOVED it.

I don't usually do big reviews like this, but WAT encouraged me and he was right to do so. I had strong opinions on the show - strong opinions I should share, you know?

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Shesamarshmallow - Who's understudying, anyway?