#1
Posted: 4/28/08 at 4:15pm
JRB's 13 Coming to Broadway!
#3
Posted: 4/28/08 at 4:27pm
I like Jason Robert Brown so if Glory Days can be on Broadway, why not this.
#5
Posted: 4/28/08 at 4:32pm
God, with Billy Elliot, Disney shows and this next season will make Broadway look like a theme park!
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#6
Posted: 4/28/08 at 5:12pm
Seriously? The tracks from the website sound so incredibly awful. I can't believe someone is willing to put money in this or that a Broadway theatre is going to be occupied by...THIS.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#7
Posted: 4/28/08 at 5:22pm
Yep, Broadway has gone the way of the tween!
#8
Posted: 4/28/08 at 5:22pm
Will adults go to a show starring teens? Not even sure teens will be interested. Most have not heard of JRB.
#9
Posted: 4/28/08 at 6:20pm
Yay! Looking forward to this!
"Everytime you step on that stage it is somebody's first Broadway show and somebody's last Broadway show. Make it count."
#10
Posted: 4/28/08 at 6:29pm
tobiasragg, according to JRB, they've replaced half the songs and overhauled the book, among other things. It'll be interesting to see what the show is like at Goodspeed.
#11
Posted: 4/28/08 at 6:39pm
I totally bombed my audition to do this show with Goodspeed. I wonder how it'll be!
#12
Posted: 4/28/08 at 7:15pm
I feel like this is going to be the year of me disagreeing with everybody, since I really kind of like Cry-Baby and Glory Days, and loved 13 in LA. Please be easy on me, guys.
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#13
Posted: 4/28/08 at 7:17pm
its Marshmallow it just means you have terrible taste. Not something illegal in this country.
#14
Posted: 4/28/08 at 7:17pm
According to playbill, Evan was a popular guy in NYC and moved to midwest. In L.A. production, there was no such background, Evan was a just regular kid trying to fit in the crowd. So the premise of the show has changed, and I hope the actor who plays Evan is really charismatic so that the audience will believe that he was popular.
Still I don't think 13 is good for Broadway. When regular folks with kids (read non theatre geeks) come to NYC and have a choice between "Billy Elliot" "Mary Poppins" and "13," I don't think they will choose 13 over BE.
Still I don't think 13 is good for Broadway. When regular folks with kids (read non theatre geeks) come to NYC and have a choice between "Billy Elliot" "Mary Poppins" and "13," I don't think they will choose 13 over BE.
#15
Posted: 4/28/08 at 7:29pm
I saw the LA production 5 times. Evan was always a popular kid in NY who moved to the midwest. "Just another cool kid from NYC, 'tween the park and the Met."
And taste is subjective, dude. I have DIFFERENT taste. If it's any consolation, I've given up on recommending things.
And taste is subjective, dude. I have DIFFERENT taste. If it's any consolation, I've given up on recommending things.
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#16
Posted: 4/28/08 at 7:32pm
This will be LEAGUES better than "Glory Days".
The show will be wonderful. A band of 13 year olds, a cast of 13 year olds, a show about an age we all (devastatingly) remember with a score by the incredible JRB.
So excited!!!
The show will be wonderful. A band of 13 year olds, a cast of 13 year olds, a show about an age we all (devastatingly) remember with a score by the incredible JRB.
So excited!!!
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#17
Posted: 4/28/08 at 7:34pm
nothing can be worse than GLORY DAYS or CRY-BABY.
13 will bring new life to Broadway... at least for a few weeks.
I love Jason Robert Brown's work but I feel like he needs to start simplifying. it just gets to be too much sometimes. sounds like he does accomplish a more simple pop sound, with this score.
will see it this summer at Goodspeed. I'm excited.
13 will bring new life to Broadway... at least for a few weeks.
I love Jason Robert Brown's work but I feel like he needs to start simplifying. it just gets to be too much sometimes. sounds like he does accomplish a more simple pop sound, with this score.
will see it this summer at Goodspeed. I'm excited.
#18
Posted: 4/28/08 at 7:47pm
Wow.... Aside from the Mamet revivals the fall season doesn't interest me one bit.
#19
Posted: 4/28/08 at 7:50pm
It's about time!
"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
#20
Posted: 4/28/08 at 7:53pm
This one's on the top of my list!
For shows not to see.
For shows not to see.
#21
Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:24pm
Regardless of how it does on Broadway, the show is going to have a long life in Middle School/High School and Youth Theatre productions. There just aren't that many shows to highlight teens.
#22
Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:38pm
I'm not saying 13 is a bad show. I'm saying it doesn't belong to Broadway. I'm glad you enjoyed the show, shesamarshmallow, but are you going to pay $120 for this show? For this show to be successful and recoup its investment, they need that kind of audience, not the people who see the show via student rush or TKTS.
I saw the show in L.A. via goldstar event (50% off) and for less than $30 I thought the price was right for this show. But I wouldn't pay for $60 (TKTS price).
I saw the show in L.A. via goldstar event (50% off) and for less than $30 I thought the price was right for this show. But I wouldn't pay for $60 (TKTS price).
#23
Posted: 4/28/08 at 9:44pm
Not interested. I almost always hate hearing kids sing one song in regular shows, there is no way I'd pay money to see a show entirely comprised of singing kids.
"It's Phantom meets Hamlet... Phamlet!"
#24
Posted: 4/28/08 at 11:15pm
cape - it would be like seeing SPRING AWAKENING before their journey into puberty/on crack
#25
Posted: 4/29/08 at 1:15am
Yeah for a musical at the Jacobs! Yeah for JRB! Yeah for 13!
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