#1
Posted: 2/2/05 at 6:16pm
Broadway.com is first as usual -- VERY BAD:
" Incorporating 32 Beach Boys tunes, Good Vibrations is the latest Broadway musical based on the songs of a pop group or solo act. It aspires to be Mamma Mia meets Movin' Out. Unfortunately, it's more like Footloose meets Dance of the Vampires."
"For this ill-conceived show, Carrafa is the director as well as the choreographer. It's not an auspicious Broadway directing debut, and the choreography is even worse. In fact, Good Vibrations features some of the cheesiest dancing in recent Broadway history.
It also has perhaps the ugliest set (designed by Heidi Ettinger) of any current Broadway show; the Act I set--with its exposed brick walls and radiators mixed with beach umbrellas and rafts--is even more hideous than the set in Brooklyn, which I believe was intentionally ugly."
"As it stands, the first half is embarrassingly bad. The dialogue is so lame that it's a wonder Richard Dresser (whose plays include Rounding Third) left his name on the credits as the book-writer. Setting the scene at the beginning, one character says: "The girls were beautiful. The guys were cool. Everybody surfed." And the clichés just keep on coming for over two hours. Combined with Carrafa's tacky choreography and the terrible set (in which four chairs are used to simulate a car), the show seems more like a high school production than a big-budget Broadway musical."
"As for the show's commercial prospects, the producers aren't likely to rake in Mamma Mia-like millions. The audience for this waterlogged musical should be limited to Beach Boys diehards, unsuspecting tourists and the actors' family and friends. Casting agents might want to go too, because there are talented singers here who in all likelihood will need another, better gig very soon."
http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=506546&pn=1
" Incorporating 32 Beach Boys tunes, Good Vibrations is the latest Broadway musical based on the songs of a pop group or solo act. It aspires to be Mamma Mia meets Movin' Out. Unfortunately, it's more like Footloose meets Dance of the Vampires."
"For this ill-conceived show, Carrafa is the director as well as the choreographer. It's not an auspicious Broadway directing debut, and the choreography is even worse. In fact, Good Vibrations features some of the cheesiest dancing in recent Broadway history.
It also has perhaps the ugliest set (designed by Heidi Ettinger) of any current Broadway show; the Act I set--with its exposed brick walls and radiators mixed with beach umbrellas and rafts--is even more hideous than the set in Brooklyn, which I believe was intentionally ugly."
"As it stands, the first half is embarrassingly bad. The dialogue is so lame that it's a wonder Richard Dresser (whose plays include Rounding Third) left his name on the credits as the book-writer. Setting the scene at the beginning, one character says: "The girls were beautiful. The guys were cool. Everybody surfed." And the clichés just keep on coming for over two hours. Combined with Carrafa's tacky choreography and the terrible set (in which four chairs are used to simulate a car), the show seems more like a high school production than a big-budget Broadway musical."
"As for the show's commercial prospects, the producers aren't likely to rake in Mamma Mia-like millions. The audience for this waterlogged musical should be limited to Beach Boys diehards, unsuspecting tourists and the actors' family and friends. Casting agents might want to go too, because there are talented singers here who in all likelihood will need another, better gig very soon."
http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=506546&pn=1
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