LEMPICKA Reviews — Page 20

JSquared2 said: "gibsons2 said: "Lola Getz2 said: "Matt Gould: We have to do better.

Me: Yes, YOU do."

Matt Gould is not the one to blame. He wrote beautiful score. Book writer, director and marketing team are to blame."



While many (most?) would disagree with you about it being a "beautiful score", the quality of the work is not what people are (justifiably) raking him over the coals for -- it's the sense of entitlement, playing the victimand "blaming the Broadway model" in his curtain speech. If the actual show had that much drama -- it'drun for 10 years!

lol

they knew full well what the broadway model was

so to turn around and blame it for their shows demise is disingenuous

no one forced them to move the show to broadway

especially given the tepid response at la jolla

vanity project

"Has there been a flop where it was worked on for 10 years, performed out of town, was well received, came to Broadway and flopped, was worked on for 10 more years and then it did well?"

Uhhh.... MERRILY?

Madonna sang over pre record for songs on this tour, but she sang every song (bar 2).



I agree though, she ain't gonna perform in a musical night after night.

JSquared2 said: "Robbie2 said: "Wick3 said: "I agree that the average person goes to tiktok and other forms of social media for information rather than BWW.

I used to come here for information on rush, etc. but nowadays I tend to go to reddit more.

As for Lempicka, if Madonna liked the production, perhaps she can save it if they produce this in London's West End by starring in the lead role? I can see her fans at least buying tickets."



Can you really see Madonna performing this role and singing Woman Is? NO! Madonna bolted during the start of the curtain call and did not go backstage for a photo op so the questions is: Did she like it?"



Madonna is a HUGE fan of Tamara de Lempicka and is a major collector of her paintings. She even showed a collage of them on her recent tour. She also attended the off-Broadway play TAMARA several times."



I know that!!!

Can you really see Madonna performing this role and singing Woman Is? NO! Madonna bolted during the start of the curtain call and did not go backstage for a photo op so the questions is: Did she like it?"



In her apartment on CPW

Someone in a Tree2 said: ""Has there been a flop where it was worked on for 10 years, performed out of town, was well received, came to Broadway and flopped, was worked on for 10 more years and then it did well?"

Uhhh.... MERRILY?"

Well, Merrily was worked on extensively after flopping on Broadway, but it wasn't publicly developed for many years before Broadway, which the previous post also specified.

Well given how many productions of Merrily were mounted over the years and didn’t really work it does feel like they kind of workshopped it for years until the found the secret ingredient - the cast.


I haven’t seen any other production of Lempicka but I think if it’s the same artists involved you will get to the same outcome. They need a book doctor, a director without such a camp vision, and a new choreographer. That’s not something you can just solve in a workshop. Something needs to change about the first 30 min of the show and all the structure and framing, ‘our time’ etc. it needs radical changes to well and truly work. But I think the foundations are there - a very strong score, an incredible lead and supporting role, you could find another cast, the shakey broad foundations of a book.

What happened to that rumor of a dramaturg coming onboard during previews? Only change I can think of was near the top of the show.

GiantsInTheSky2 said: "What happened to that rumor of a dramaturg coming onboard during previews? Only change I can think of was near the top of the show."

It wasn't a rumor –– Peter Duchan was billed as "creative consultant" (aka Dramaturg) and was involved even prior to previews, as he was on Waitress too. But as we've discussed, it can be so hard to implement BIG changes once a show is up and previewing. Rehearsal time is limited, any staging changes require changes in lighting and other departments, and new material has to be written, rehearsed, orchestrated, and teched before it can be implemented.

The expensive but smart thing to do (which most shows do not do because they're confident that they won't need it) is pulling a Shuffle Along and scheduling 3-4 days of previews off in the middle of the preview process, to make changes. Even 1-2 days where they can rehearse on stage all day without a show at night would be beneficial.

The longer a show is in development, the more likely that more cooks start getting involved- particularly producers who want to keep their investors happy.

All right, now. The show is closed. Y'all can just stop.

kdogg36 said: "I thought this showwas good but not great - specifically, in the second act, it devolved into maybe the fourth best anti-fascist show of the season - but it sure seems like a lot of collective time has spent on savoring its demise."

I think there was double polarization regarding this show. It got lukewarm reactions and bad reviews, which caused the show's fans to make it their ENTIRE personality and the creatives to respond to the fans with indignation. In response to how obnoxious the fans and creatives became, the haters made hating the show their entire personality. It made for a whole lot of virtual shouting about a show that came and went in two months.

hearthemsing22 said: "Yesterday Eden posted a story saying they would have been doing act II by now.

Matt Gould posted something as well that I almost rolled my eyes at.

Here come the tributes, but now they're just annoying me so much."

You can unfollow them if it bothers you, you know.

People are allowed to "grieve" the closing of something they cared so much about and invested so much of their time and energy in, even if some of them made a poor showing about why it closed.