#26
Posted: 7/26/18 at 9:26pm
its entertaining to watch bww editors try to grab any positive snippets from the mostly terrible reviews to try and prop this trainwreck up....
HEAD OVER HEELS Reviews — Page 2
#27
Posted: 7/26/18 at 9:28pm
I'd actually argue that these reviews are all filled with lots of positives that then boil down to the critic essentially saying "but that's not what I wanted..."
#28
Posted: 7/26/18 at 9:31pm
The Broadway Blog, pretty positive:
https://thebroadwayblog.com/head-over-heels-broadway-review/
#29
Posted: 7/26/18 at 9:48pm
Jordan Catalano said: "I did love that show. I’m a Florida boy who was raised up on Gloria! :)"
The white shorts sold me. :)
"I hope your Fanny is bigger than my Peter."
Mary Martin to Ezio Pinza opening night of Fanny.
#30
Posted: 7/26/18 at 9:51pm
#31
Posted: 7/26/18 at 9:54pm
that NYT review might help the show close by sunday
#32
Posted: 7/26/18 at 9:57pm
Sounds like "Taboo" all over again.
Cake or death?
#33
Posted: 7/26/18 at 10:06pm
#34
Posted: 7/26/18 at 10:16pm
It feels like the reviews are worse than bad: they’re indifferent. Most of these could be summed up with a collective shrug. I can’t say I felt especially differently about it myself. Well-intentioned. A generous try. But...meh.
#35
Posted: 7/26/18 at 10:17pm
Entertainment Weekly gives it an A-
http://ew.com/theater/2018/07/26/head-over-heels-broadway-review/
#38
Posted: 7/26/18 at 10:37pm
More negative than positive reviews, but, as someone who hasn’t seen this, I was expecting even more negative reviews based on the buzz on here. Not that it will matter. I suspect even unanimous raves couldn’t extend its longevity or significantly boost its box office.
#39
Posted: 7/26/18 at 10:38pm
broadwaysfguy said: "its entertaining to watch bww editors try to grab any positive snippets from the mostly terrible reviews to try and prop this trainwreck up...."
BWW has editors?
#40
Posted: 7/26/18 at 10:38pm
I guess this will close b4 "Summer" but won't be around after Labor Day and that the Hudson is looking for a new show.
"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new."
Sunday in the Park with George
#41
Posted: 7/26/18 at 10:41pm
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/theater/head-over-heels-broadway-review-go-gos.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts&action=click&contentCollection=arts®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront
I fully enjoyed the show when I caught it in SF -and routing for its success - which does seem unlikely at this point with this NYT review
It really was smart, funny and love me some Go Go's
#42
Posted: 7/26/18 at 10:46pm
I hope the show is still open when I go into the city for bway flea because I truly do want to see it.
#43
Posted: 7/26/18 at 10:47pm
Ben Brantley disparaging people who use they/them pronouns in his review...
#44
Posted: 7/26/18 at 10:47pm
The Village Voice is a fan:
https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/07/26/in-head-over-heels-go-gos-hits-and-elizabethan-drag-go-hand-in-hand/
#45
Posted: 7/26/18 at 10:48pm
Sauja said: "It feels like the reviews are worse than bad: they’re indifferent. Most of these could be summed up with a collective shrug. I can’t say I felt especially differently about it myself. Well-intentioned. A generous try. But...meh."
Exactly ....I didn't hate it, but I didn't like it very much. (and I really wanted to!)
But that NYT review is worse than I expected
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
#46
Posted: 7/26/18 at 11:00pm
Who the hell would pay to see this? Maybe you could console Belinda’s gay son via Instagram.
Do you know what happens when you let Veal Prince Orloff sit in an oven too long?
#47
Posted: 7/26/18 at 11:04pm
I’d pay to see the show. I’d go see it tomorrow if I lived closer to the city. There are genuine people who really liked this piece and want to support it just as there are for every show.
#48
Posted: 7/26/18 at 11:05pm
MusicAndPassion said: "It’s not too hard to envision a simple but at least workable structure for a Go-Go’s jukebox musical. It could have been about a “Good Girl” who goes on “Vacation” and falls “Head Over Heels” for a “Cool Jerk.”
Escape to Margaritaville took that plot this season...(took it down, perhaps?)
I liked, but didn't love HOH. The music was good, story cute. Not a subte musical, but fun . More jokes landed than in, e.g., Getting the Band Back Together. Not high art, but I wasn't sorry I saw it
#49
Posted: 7/26/18 at 11:05pm
Haven't seen the show, but heard fairly bad things. I thought Brantley's comment about the "he finds himself strangely drawn to her -- I mean them" was a bit off-putting.
#50
Posted: 7/26/18 at 11:14pm
Synecdoche2 said: "Ben Brantley disparaging people who use they/them pronouns in his review..."
Disparaging might be too strong of a word, but he definitely was a little catty toward the idea in his review, which was off-putting. Sometimes he strikes me as being a little too old-fashioned in little ways like that.
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