How the heck did GLORY DAYS make it onto Broadway?!- Page 4

[shh282]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 12:18pm

I still want to see this musical despite the bad reviews on here- does it matter if I go during previews or should I wait til it opens?

[WaltSummersPI]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 12:24pm

I don't think it matters much. They open in a few days, so the show's probably close to frozen.

[magic8ball]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 2:06pm

"8Ball, watch those drug comments...that was just rude."

It was obvious sarcasm.

[autopilot2]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 4:50pm

I don't know - for me it lowered the tone and got personal in an otherwise quite well written review.

Sarcasm or not.

[defyingravity11]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 5:24pm

I can't wait for the Broadway Abridged script :)

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 7:36pm

Every time I see the title of this show I still have that small bit of hope that it'll be a Springsteen jukebox musical. I would totally see that, but this show presently is a definite no.

[DidYouReallyHearMe]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 4:49am

8Ball, it was a well written review and i agreed with everything, but once I read that comment my standards for your review lowered and I certainly think that the personal comment you made wasn't very funny.

But thanks for the review otherwise!

[Roscoe]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 2:18pm

I saw the show last night, and was told that there was a new number added to the show, a new final number that will probably not last, if they have any sense.

I agree with most of the opinions already expressed about the show. It is pretty entirely forgettable, an after-school special with rather bland music and lyrics. Harmless, inoffensive, and all that.

It isn't an atrocity like GOOD VIBRATIONS or RING OF FIRE, by any means.

[bythesword84]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 2:21pm

Just you mentioning Ring of Fire made me twitch.

[shesamarshmallow]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 2:26pm

Oh man, I loved "My Next Story" - what's the new ending called?

[Roscoe]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 2:37pm

I don't know what it was called, but it had the lyrics "My Next Story" in the song. I don't have any further information as to how it was different from what had happened other nights, sorry.

It was kind of an odd song, it made it seem like he was just getting ready to move on and cannibalize other peoples' lives for the next notebook full of jottings he was going to do. Not exactly a great ending.

[magic8ball]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 2:46pm

My favorite line in the entire show:

Main Character's Friend: "Why were you two kissing?"
Main Character: "He kissed me, and I just let it happen."
MCF: "You can't please everybody."

I had to repress my laughter so much that I almost started choking.

[TooDarnHot]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 2:54pm

DidYouReallyHearMe -- does EVERYTHING offend you???

[Dolly_Levi]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 3:24pm

Main Character's Friend: "Why were you two kissing?"
Main Character: "He kissed me, and I just let it happen."
MCF: "You can't please everybody."

That actually got sustained laughter at the perf. I attended. The actors def. held for it, so I am assuming it is an intended laugh. One of the better ones in the show.

[DidYouReallyHearMe]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 3:30pm

oh god...no I don't get offended by everything.
He just made a very dumb comment in an otherwise good review and it was a failed attempt at being humorous...

[magic8ball]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 3:34pm

"That actually got sustained laughter at the perf. I attended. The actors def. held for it, so I am assuming it is an intended laugh."

Ah, see... at the performance I attended, nobody knew whether or not to laugh at that moment because the show takes itself so seriously so much of the time, and that inadvertently made the line even funnier.

Updated On: 4/29/08 at 03:34 PM

[Roscoe]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 3:37pm

At the performance I attended, it got a bit of a chuckle, but not much else. Of course, not much else about the show got much of a reaction anyway, it was one of the most tepid audience responses I've ever seen.

[magic8ball]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 3:43pm

"He just made a very dumb comment in an otherwise good review"

It wasn't a very dumb comment. Call was manic and twitchy and sweating profusely, vaguely reminiscent of the homeless man that stands outside of the Duane Reade on my block; it was uncomfortable to watch, and I said so. Get over it.

Updated On: 4/29/08 at 03:43 PM

[TooDarnHot]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 6:07pm

I concur.

[theatregal2]

Posted: 4/30/08 at 1:12pm

I also concur. I saw the show in DC and had a hard time watching Andrew Call bouncing around the stage. He has a pretty voice and nice to look at, but if he would just stay still for 5 min it wouldn't be so annoying to watch him. It just looked like he was trying WAY too hard

I have yet to see the show in NY and maybe some changes/improvements have happened but I'm going off what I saw. The number 1 problem I had with the show was just the story itself. They reunite after just one year of high school. I just don't think that many life changing events could happen in one year. I thought maybe if it had taken place after graduating from college it would have been better. Also, I just didn't get the whole gay thing. I don' t think in today's world and society that it would be such a big deal. That to me just wasn't enough conflict for me to even want to continue watching. The music was ok. There were maybe one or two that sort of stuck with me. Overall I left the show just thinking it was ok. I was far from loving it, but didn't absolutly hate it. Never thinking it would actually make it to B-Way. Maybe off or off off Broadway. I was glad I didn't pay for a ticket, let's put it that way.
And as much as people on this message boards are saying that it doesn't matter what we, people on this message board, say. The critics could have a different opinion. That is very true. But isn't us the theatre goers opinion who really matter? We are the ones paying and filling the seats. And even if, somehow, it gets rave reviews I still don't think it will sell. Because us the theatre goers don't think it's Broadway material.
Lastly I wanted to say that I don't blame James and Nick. They are 2 young GOOD guys with dreams like the rest of us. And they had a chance to put up a show on Broadway. Which is more than A LOT of people can say. And I don't think anyone would pass that up. But I do blame the people around them. Producers, critics in DC and anyone who told them this was ready to go. Those experienced people should know better.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/30/08 at 2:18pm

Also, I just didn't get the whole gay thing. I don' t think in today's world and society that it would be such a big deal.

It shouldn't be, but for about 90% of the country, it still is. All you have to do is read a newspaper or watch the news. Granted, I think making ahuge deal out of it in a Broadway musical is only perpetuating the rather antique view of homosexuality, but it's not exactly unrealistic.

[Thigh Masterson]

Posted: 5/4/08 at 12:14am

I saw this tonight, and it was pretty bad. Most of it has been covered here already. A few things stood out. (Spoilers!)

At the end of the show, the red hoodie guy realizes that the high school ramblings/juvenilia in his notebook lack truth, and he rips the notebook up. He swears that his writing will now be truthful in a way that it wasn't before! Except, the show appears autobiographical. And we've just watched his high school ramblings. Which he has just dismissed as dishonest and juvenile. Which, sadly, they are. Why couldn't the author have followed his character's lead? Oh, the irony!

Also, the exaggerated cajoling and backslapping, etc., that occurred throughout the show reminded me of a Christian rock band, except instead of singing about Jesus, they were singing about college, and friends, and being gay. And, uh, human beings.

Also, "Andy's Turn" was ridiculous in that, in my mind at least, it recalled "Rose's Turn", but as a mirror opposite. Instead of being a really good song, it was a really, really bad song.

To recap, the show isn't quite ready for Broadway. I hope these guys will learn from this!

[WaltSummersPI]

Posted: 5/4/08 at 12:18am

/sarcasm

Clearly, you missed the point about human beings. It's called OTHER HUMAN BEINGS.

/off sarcasm.

Good review.