IN MY LIFE REVIEWS- FIRST PREVIEW- Page 6
IN MY LIFE REVIEWS- FIRST PREVIEW
Leading Actor Joined: 8/21/04
In My Life First Preview#125
Posted: 10/1/05 at 12:37pm
As a writer of musicals, I have to admit that a part of me winces when I read reviews that totally ridicule someone else's work because I know how hard it is to write a musical. However, all these comments are reminding me of the worst, most hilarious musical I ever sat through. It was in London and it was "Bernadette! the musical" about the life of Bernadette, the Cathlic saint.
Set in France in the 1700s (?), it began with a big choir in hooded black robes singing a Gregorian chant. Suddenly the set parted to reveal a little village not unlike the opening scene in the movie of "Beauty and Beast" to the accompaniment of go-go bells (think "Copacabana"). And from there it went positively downhill. What made it hard for us was that we were at the very last performance and everyone around us was watching it like they were in church. We were laughing so hard at the attempts to be serious and religious -- like when they rolled out her cave-niche onto the stage and it looked like a squashed donut -- that we were upsetting everyone around us.
Ah, life. I'm just sorry I'm not there to see In My Life.
Now, has Margo put a review yet?
In My Life First Preview#126
Posted: 10/1/05 at 12:46pm
so did anyone rush this show? what time did you get there? where were the seats?
i'm sorry if these questions have already been answered!
In My Life First Preview#127
Posted: 10/1/05 at 12:50pmCathywellerstein, may I suggest that you get an early start and create your "In My Life: A PLEA" thread right now. I'm imagining something along the lines of, "If you like lemons, pirates or skeletons, PLEASE give 'In My Life' a chance! The actors work REALLY hard!"
In My Life First Preview#128
Posted: 10/1/05 at 12:52pmThe rush, is day of at the box office for $25 or so. liotte did it for last night, she said she got there a little after noon, I think. Her seats were front row center.
In My Life First Preview#130
Posted: 10/1/05 at 1:02pmOh I think IN MY LIFE is going to be way more popular then LENNON. Nobody wanted to see that show. Nobody talked about it. Nobody cared. IN MY LIFE is a must see event.
In My Life First Preview#131
Posted: 10/1/05 at 2:23pm
As for Brooks, he has complete confidence in the power of the project: "When we did a workshop last year, people walked out crying. Men, women, sobbing. This show has a huge power."
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
In My Life First Preview#132
Posted: 10/1/05 at 2:24pmOh I cried. I cried and cried and cried! It was SOMETHING!
In My Life First Preview#133
Posted: 10/1/05 at 2:35pmAgree, I couldn't stop crying from laughing THAT HARD.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
In My Life First Preview#134
Posted: 10/1/05 at 2:59pmSo could someone tell us how that great ditty, MY MOTHER'S SON works in the concept of the show? Is it supposed to be tongue in cheek? Is he at a really bad audition? What?
In My Life First Preview#135
Posted: 10/1/05 at 3:00pmBring tissues. I don't ever recall crying with laughter to that extent before.
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/26/04
In My Life First Preview#136
Posted: 10/1/05 at 3:02pmthey are making a cast recording?!!! WHAT??! why?
In My Life First Preview#137
Posted: 10/1/05 at 3:04pmtotally agree Margo. bring tissues and i wish i had brought a pad and paper...to jot down those dreadful lyrics.
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/26/04
In My Life First Preview#138
Posted: 10/1/05 at 3:05pm
oh please post your reviews on the IN MY LIFE messageboard!!
www.inmylife.tk
In My Life First Preview#139
Posted: 10/1/05 at 3:09pm
I reached in my pocket, grabbed a pen and scribbled the following in my Playbill -- I won't give the context so as not to spoil it for others:
"If I could come back just one more time
I would watch out for that "One Way" sign ....."
In My Life First Preview#140
Posted: 10/1/05 at 3:10pmAnd Brooks may have the distinction of being the only composer in history to rhyme "rumor" with "tumor."
In My Life First Preview#141
Posted: 10/1/05 at 3:14pmThat's OK, I am pretty sure Dean Pitchford is the only lyricist in history to rhyme "attitude" with "screwed."
In My Life First Preview#142
Posted: 10/1/05 at 3:22pmTiny Toon making fun of any musical while plugging the BKLN The Musical site just really lacks credibility.
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
In My Life First Preview#143
Posted: 10/1/05 at 3:28pm
hahaha FindingNamo hahahaha, that's so true.
Keep the reviews coming, I think this show is like a car crash. Ithink curiousity will keep this show alive for a while. The fact that nobody knows how to describe it or explain it. I mean hell, i'm willing to fly to NYC to see it right now hahah.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
In My Life First Preview#145
Posted: 10/1/05 at 3:42pm
"So could someone tell us how that great ditty, MY MOTHER'S SON works in the concept of the show?"
It doesn't. JT is explaining to Jenny that it was his mother who taught him about music. Then he sings the song while his mother appears behind a scrim on the wall ala Pillowman. She is standing in a kitchen and, as stated before, is for some reason dressed like it is the 50s. She keeps waving to an invisible person playing in the backyard, probably JT. It was one of those moments when the show stopped dead so someone could sing and not move the plot forward at all.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
In My Life First Preview#146
Posted: 10/1/05 at 3:43pm
MY MOTHER'S SON was completely sincere. As was much of the piece. Although it lapsed into absurdity...none of it was really 'ironic'. None of that hip, wink-wink kinda thing that's so de rigeur these days in Broadway musicals.
It was meant to be anthemic, I believe.
Wow...just...
Holy SH*T.
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
In My Life First Preview#147
Posted: 10/1/05 at 3:43pmSo there's no intermission? Is there not going to be an intermission ever? how long does the show run?
In My Life First Preview#148
Posted: 10/1/05 at 3:45pmit started about 8:10 and we got out around 9:55.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
In My Life First Preview#149
Posted: 10/1/05 at 3:45pm
And no one here yet seems to want to ask the question:
Why is JT's family Puerto Rican??? I mean...Christopher J. Hanke is as Nazi youth as you get. But mom and sis seemed from a different ethnic background.
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