GLORY DAYS reviews- Page 2

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:08pm

The producers of the show are idiots not the creative team.If you are given the money and the opportunity to realize your dream you cant say that you would not take it?

Plus its not like they new is was going to flop, didn't this show get good notices during its run at the Signature

[bertandrew2]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:09pm

I get it...but whats the deal with being 'polite to the artists' of Glory Days and rude to those of Cry Baby?

[TooDarnHot]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:09pm

the D.C. critics loved it...

just goes to show that NEW YORK is an entirely different monster.

Bert -- I'm not sure! at least with CRY-BABY, Thomas O'Donnell is a proven writer and is rather brilliant (not at his best with C-B). and even though the composers are new, they've been in the "business"

why should we let these young kids slide? it's everyone's fault. not just the Producers. they should have made some changes during Previews and they really didn't. that's their fault.
Updated On: 5/6/08 at 08:09 PM

[blaxx]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:09pm

If you are given the money and the opportunity to realize your dream you cant say that you would not take it?

As I said, with good judgment - yes, you can say NO. Not ready yet.

[blaxx]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:10pm

Plus its not like they new is was going to flop, didn't this show get good notices during its run at the Signature

Honey, imagine if every show that does well regionally ended on Broadway. Please, there are standards.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:11pm

But Blaxx your missing the point

the show got good notices out of town, its not like it was a flop at the signature and someone went "yeah, great idea lets take this flop to Broadway"

They will have thought that the show was working and with the reviews and people telling them they had a hit on their hands of course they would go

[TooDarnHot]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:12pm

CRY-BABY got great reviews in California...

hell, HIGH FIDELITY was a hit in Boston!

what's your point? New York is different.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:13pm

*shudder* dont call me Honey lol

And yes lots of shows get great reviews out of town and not great ones in NY, thats why we have flops, it doesn't mean that the creative team thought the show was unready to deliver to NY

[blaxx]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:13pm

No, love. There are TONS of regional shows that do well with critics. Why are they not all on Broadway? The hit in Nowhere, Virginia will never instantly translate into Broadway smash.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:14pm

Im sure many very small shows which had a modest Out Of Town run have found success in NY

[morosco]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:16pm

AP
NEW YORK - "Glory Days" is an eager pop-rock musical examining past, present and future — as seen through the eyes of four best friends, a quartet of guys who have returned home after their first year of college.


In `Glory Days,' 4 best friends deal with trying to grow up

[BustopherPhantom]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:17pm

The Associated Press is Mixed-to-Positive:

Good. At least there's one.

[TooDarnHot]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:19pm

meh.

[Hiram]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:21pm

WithoutATrace - I plotzed when you mentioned HOME SWEET HOMER! I saw that turkey! It was so dreadful but I'm thrilled I saw it. One of the great legendary bombs!

[backstageonbroadway]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:24pm

I saw this show and actually ENJOYED it. some parts were a little boring, but IMO, it was an alright show. i feel bad for everyone right now! i mean sure that's not what the buisness is all about, you gain some and you lose some. I guess this show just wasn't ready for Broadway. some reviews are funny, but i think they are HARSH. It's their FIRST show and well, I just hope them getting bad reviews won't affect their future in writing. Hopefully the rest they get won't be..bad.

[TooDarnHot]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:25pm

the HARSH reviews are a good dose of reality.

it's their first show. they're young... they'll be back. hopefully with something BETTER!

[backstageonbroadway]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:27pm

yeah, i know. i just hope the reviews won't discourage them in the future! =)

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:28pm

Hiram: Joan Diener singing "Did He Really Think" is absolutely brilliant...she should have won a Tony that year for HOME SWEET HOMER.

[blaxx]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:32pm

Can't wait for the soothing words of my beloved Matthew Murray, who fills my world with his love and theatrical compassion.

[WaltSummersPI]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:33pm

OK, that was funny.

[perfectliar]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:35pm

Kalimba - It's really hard to take your comment seriously when your avatar is of one of the worst pieces of trash to grace the Broadway stage in the past decade or so.

[whatever2]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:37pm

blaxx: im not sure youre microsoft analogy is apt (unless youre like a middle manager in the technology industry or something).

these producers didnt ask bus drivers to be rocket scientists, they asked fledgling writers to come to broadway (cue jerry orbach bellowing, "Allentown?!?!?"). the proximity makes the temptation a bit more irresistible, imho.

and, fwiw, after the hash microsoft made of their bid(s) for yahoo, they could probably use you at the top!

[BustopherPhantom]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:39pm

Can't wait for the soothing words of my beloved Matthew Murray, who fills my world with his love and theatrical compassion.

The man liked IN MY LIFE...

Updated On: 5/6/08 at 08:39 PM

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:40pm

I think the NEXT TO NORMAL comment is interesting, opening a new untried show in a smaller venue makes more sense, because it's cheaper and you get a sense of what the New York audience is gonna think of it.

I am glad that (title of show) is taking it's time, but I do believe it could have taken this theatre this season and blown the other new shows away.

What a downer for the final musical of the season.

Should be an interesting evening of revue reading.

[blaxx]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:44pm

whatever2, I was just trying to say that the fact the opportunity came up does not mean they HAD to take it. Some posters make it sound that anyone who had the opportunity to be on Broadway would take it, and that sounds terribly off.