LEMPICKA Reviews- Page 15

[Huss417]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 1:13pm

I had to laugh it is on the TKTS board for today for $206.00. Most expensive show up today.

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 1:46pm

Saw a tweet that said “Broadway dropped the ball by closing Lempicka early” as if Broadway is a sentient entity that controls the length of runs and not, idk, interest and quality?

 

this show brought out absolute brain worms from the worlds most delusional Broadway fans. Good riddance! 

Updated On: 5/19/24 at 01:46 PM

[BorisTomashevsky]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 3:27pm

Bye Limp Pecker! 

[inception]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 3:59pm

BroadwayNYC2 said: "
this show brought out absolute brain worms from the worlds most delusional Broadway fans. Good riddance!"

LOL!

Last month I looked at what flights to NYC were for this weekend (it's a long weekend in Canada) but Jetblue's direct flights that are usually around $850CAN return were up over $1000CAN, so I decided I'll just have be one ,of those people who listen to the cast album & say "I never saw it, but I'm sure it was soo much better than people claim."

 

[gibsons2]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 4:14pm

Huss417 said: "I had to laugh it is on the TKTS board for today for $206.00. Most expensive show up today."

I pray this will bring their last week ticket average from $57 to at least $61 🙏

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 6:38pm

At curtain call, did they print out our comments here and ceremonially burn them while chanting and mutilating voodoo dolls with our screen names on them, citing us as the sole reason people didn’t want to come see their show? Or did they just say “F Broadway for closing our show/ you haven’t heard the last of us/we’ll be back/you’ll be sorry etc etc.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 6:49pm

It’s hard to remember.  They went on and on and on and on and on and on. . .  And on and on and on. . .

[BorisTomashevsky]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 6:49pm

While Eden’s vocal folds cried tears of joy. 

[BoringBoredBoard40]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 7:12pm

The fans of  both this and Diana are a perfect circle of a delusional Venn diagram 

[hearthemsing22]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 7:42pm

"I saw myself represented on stage! That means it's a great show, there are no issues, and you're homophobic if you think it's bad!"

Can they not? it was a bad show. It did not close prematurely, it was worked on for years, and it didn't deliver. I don't know what else can be said. I'm sorry it closed. I am. But for a show to succeed it has to be good. I almost fell asleep. Was Eden great? Yes, she was. Is that enough to keep a show open? Not in the slightest. The fans need to realize this. 

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 8:04pm

A clip of Rachel Chavkin’s speech at curtain call. It’s giving “too close to the material.”

So basically: Because I made this show, and I intended to express this through the show, if you don’t like the thing I made that means you don’t see me or what I expressed.

Really fascinated by the disconnect the creators and diehard fans of this show have from reality, but I hope they had a great time. On to the next.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 8:06pm

I saw Chavkin’s speech on TikTok and just couldn’t stop rolling my eyes. Thanking everyone for coming and thanking the actors for giving it their all is a classy move. Ranting about how nobody “gets it” and it’s “unfair” yada yada yada makes you look awful and the video lasts forever. 

[AKarp2013]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 8:09pm

It's a true shame. This was the show I was most looking forward to this season, and it ended up being the one I was most disappointed in. Long story short this well-meaning but poorly executed in every which way show won't be remembered in t-minus 5 minutes.

Updated On: 5/19/24 at 08:09 PM

[Jonathan Cohen]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 8:16pm

ColorTheHours048 said: "A clip of Rachel Chavkin’s speech at curtain call. It’s giving “too close to the material."

Right. Essentially she's blaming the reviews saying they didn't recognize it as a queer love story where the male characters are just there. 

I would argue everyone saw that, but devoting so much of the story to male characters the creative team actively doesn't care about is a narrative problem. The story needed to be more focused on the love story between the two women.

Down the line if this musical resurfaces in some form, I'd love to see a female director other than Chavkin take a stab at this material.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 8:17pm

The writing was spray painted on the wall the second the “Eden Espinosa is best known to gay men across the country as one of the best Elphaba’s of all time” ad came out. 

THAT is what the show will be remembered for. 

[AKarp2013]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 8:21pm

Jordan Catalano said: "The writing was spray painted on the wall the second the “Eden Espinosa is best known to gay men across the country as one of the best Elphaba’s of all time” ad came out.

THAT is what the show will be remembered for."

I stand corrected. That 180-degree tonal shift in this show's marketing will baffle me for years to come.

[BoringBoredBoard40]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 8:25pm

this was truly bad producing up and down, the show was a mess in La Jolla and it seems very few of the problems were fixed. There is a group of 30-something lead producers that have zero clue and are just burning so much money on shows that have no place in the current Broadway marketplace 

[BorisTomashevsky]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 8:26pm

My eyes rolled so hard at the Chavkin speech that I gave myself a facelift. 

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 8:29pm

Wait until you see the Matt Gould speech. It’s not letting me post the link here but I’m sure someone else will. 
 

These speeches are actually shockingly embarrassing to me. 

Updated On: 5/19/24 at 08:29 PM

[jagman106]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 8:34pm

Jordan Catalano said: "The writing was spray painted on the wall the second the “Eden Espinosa is best known to gay men across the country as one of the best Elphaba’s of all time” ad came out.

THAT is what the show will be remembered for."

I agree, and the fact that they discounted/papered tickets to many women who identify with or advocate for the gay LGBTQI-plus community, who were extremely vocal during certain scenes, may have turned off theater-goers who don't necessary identify with or advocate with the community. I saw the first show after opening night. The audience was populated with a large number of people, mostly women wearing T-shirts with slogans of advocacy, who screamed and hollered during any reference to lesbianism, scenes of affection between women, and any other aspect of the show that these audience members most identified with. As a gay man, I found the audience behavior to be very distracting and frustrating. Several friends, gay and straight, reported the same type of behavior at the performances they attended. I don't think it was necessarily a good look for our community and may have very well been a turn off to the general public as they gave the impression that "Lempicka is a show for queer women." I don't understand the need to put so much emphasis on those aspects of the show when the show deals with much more complexity in Lempicka's life. It seemed a very odd marketing strategy and one that stunk of desperation.

Updated On: 5/19/24 at 08:34 PM

[NYadgal]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 8:37pm

The more I think about the speeches the more insulted I feel.   They were angry and full of blame and I was sorry to leave the theater on that note.

[BCfitasafiddle]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 8:40pm

Did the writer have to say the f word that many times? Jeez. 

[AKarp2013]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 8:44pm

I had no idea that Lempicka invented queer theater. You learn something new every day.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 9:12pm

Something I find really weird (despite liking the song), is 'Perfection' becoming like THE song of the show that isn't 'Woman Is' they use it in a lot of promo, the recorded songs, they even scored their "farewell" video with it.

It's a villain song. Its an ode to Futurism, the antithesis of Lempicka's art. I know Chavkin said "the men aren't the heroes or the villains, they're just there." Marinetti is a villain. Sure not until the 11th hour in the show, but he's a real person! He wrote the Facist Manifesto!

 

Updated On: 5/19/24 at 09:12 PM

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 9:17pm

Where can I find the Gould speech?

ColorTheHours048 summed Chavkin's up best. Too close to the material.