HONEYMOON IN VEGAS struggling on Broadway- Page 11
HONEYMOON IN VEGAS struggling on Broadway
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Posted: 2/9/15 at 12:49pmYou must have been amazing in debate club.
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Posted: 2/9/15 at 1:19pmRegardless of the fact I didn't love the show, I hope sales pick up. The musicians and the sets are worth the time and the price!
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/11
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Posted: 2/9/15 at 1:40pm^ HA! Ethan, you surprise me.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/11
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Posted: 2/9/15 at 1:49pmHow as nobody talked about the fact that Brynn fell through the trap door during "I Love Betsy" on Saturday night and sprained her ankle. Her understudy went on for her yesterday.
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Posted: 2/9/15 at 1:54pmYou see? You give a woman an inch and she'll fall through a trap door.
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Posted: 2/9/15 at 1:55pmI miss the days when women would fall through trap doors without complaining.
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Posted: 2/9/15 at 1:57pmMore dumb blondes!!
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Posted: 2/9/15 at 2:31pmPhyllis and Kad, your last few posts just totally made my afternoon!
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Posted: 2/9/15 at 10:11pmI'm sure the cheap Elvis impersonator papering person is not helping Honeymoon at all. Makes me want to see the show even less.
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Posted: 2/10/15 at 5:16am
I decided to finally sit down and listen to the cast album. It's not awful. The score is nice and peppy through a lot of it. It's very, you know, wordy. It's lyrically dense but a low percentage of that is actually funny material and useful information about the characters.
I do get that not so savory bent with the mom irrationally making him swear not to marry (and killing a nurse?), the way Betsy sings about marriage, all the go and buy shoes lines and such, the "be a man" message of Do Something, the way Betsy jumps to thinking about how well Tommy treats her (like she's Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman), the Friki Friki song... It's not that I need a perfectly P.C. show. I have a lot of fondness for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. It's just that the music here isn't that funny or engaging. Honestly, Friki Friki just feels like a corrupted and cheap version of Happy Talk.
Nothing in the score really makes me care about the characters. They could have made a stronger argument about why Betsy wanted to get married so badly. The one foot out the door line seemed more valid than the rest of it. For someone supposedly baby crazy she didn't really seem it. She just said it. The skin cancer song didn't offend me but it wasn't amusing either. It's a little hard to sympathize with Jack given the way he runs off to play in the poker game. And it's just kind of sad that Tommy thinks he can make everything like it was just by getting a doppelganger who I assume has a different personality and different interests. There are very simple "lessons" here and it seems like it takes way too long for the characters to learn them.
Also, Brynn O'Malley sounds a little strained at times on the album and no one's vocals were impressive enough to sell me on seeing the show. There were enough pleasant enough numbers and enough variety in the score that I could see it getting nominated but I haven't heard the competition yet. Basically it's not awful enough it should be boycotted but it's not wonderful enough for me to be really upset that it's not doing better.
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Posted: 2/10/15 at 1:04pmTo those who have commented that Danza can't sing, I disagree. He sounds like a lounge singer at a Ramada Inn which I thought was exactly right for the character. I certainly wouldn't want to hear his songs sung by Nathan Gunn. As for the sexist/misogynistic debate, the material was alreay dated when the film premiered. And being dated is not the same as being a period piece. It may have had something to do with why the movie didn't do very well 20-odd years ago.
Chorus Member Joined: 1/7/15
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Posted: 2/11/15 at 11:09amSaw a Breakdown on Monday for a replacement or an additional cover. This may mean nothing, but if they are expecting to close... I would be surprised if they brought on anyone new. I'm thinking they are going to try and hold on until April. I think they call that "Good money after bad."
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Posted: 2/11/15 at 11:13amI would think at this point it would be the producers having a breakdown.
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Posted: 2/11/15 at 11:15amJason Robert Brown must be writing 10 new shows with Tony Danza in the lead (and investing!) and these producers. He's going to have all new commercial and critical hits!
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Posted: 2/11/15 at 11:17amThey may be posting that as a union requirement.
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Posted: 2/11/15 at 11:18amThey only require a 6 month call. This is specifically one role.
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Posted: 2/11/15 at 11:19amA performer could possibly be leaving.
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Posted: 2/11/15 at 11:47amA casting notice means nothing for the prospects of the show's run.
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Posted: 2/11/15 at 4:56pmI only saw now that Ms. O'Malley fell thru the trapdoor and injured herself. I wrote somewhere before that after I saw the show, I knew that trap door was built for injuries. It scared me everytime it opened and closed. If you weren't on your mark- look out! I hope she's better.
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Posted: 2/11/15 at 8:25pm
"A performer could possibly be leaving."
I hope it's not Brynn because of her injury. Any word on how bad it is and whether/when she'll be back?
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