Posted: 4/20/15 at 11:54pm
I think they're as many expected: praise for Sills and Fleming and a much harsher eye for the rest of the show. It's mixed reviews leaning towards mixed-to-negative. It wasn't brutal.
Tomorrow night at Zhivago? That might be truly brutal.
Posted: 4/20/15 at 11:57pm
this is another show that could have benefited from a better creative marketing campaign, seriously why is their marquee black and gold with a dog drinking out of a martini glass? if Renee is your sell point slap her face on the ****ing marquee, marketing 101 guys.
Posted: 4/20/15 at 11:57pm
this is another show that could have benefited from a better creative marketing campaign, seriously why is their marquee black and gold with a dog drinking out of a martini glass? if Renee is your sell point slap her face on the ****ing marquee, marketing 101 guys.
Posted: 4/21/15 at 12:02am
No one said anything awful. Wishing you gone is status quo.
Posted: 4/21/15 at 12:02am
I agree until the last month marketing was absolutely horrible. Really, the only success in marketing they've had has been free media generated by Fleming's people, and I'm not sure her message is cohesive with the rest of the marketing, although I'm still not sure what the marketing message is. They changed their artwork twice, I think.
They seemed at first to bill the entire project only as "Renee Fleming debuts on Broadway, not singing, doing something she's never done. So please pay $100+ to see it." That not surprisingly wasn't successful. 
Updated On: 4/21/15 at 12:02 AM
Posted: 4/21/15 at 12:09am
So, what's the consensus? Does it make it till the TONYs?
Posted: 4/21/15 at 12:15am
Play Esq. --He not only would have but did sing the Duke. But as long as we are reincarnating him, and people are being forced to interrupt their summer vacations to come hear him, I thought the least he could do is sing the baritone role.
But if you prefer...
Posted: 4/21/15 at 12:32am
"JPeterman, who are you?
Um .... I think I'll pass on answering that
Posted: 4/21/15 at 12:35am
Does Sills snag a nomination for this?
Posted: 4/21/15 at 12:42am
JPeterman, who is that a picture of?
Posted: 4/21/15 at 12:56am
Philly, I think you should take it as a challenge to find out on your own .... you are a very industrious fella on the internet, I have faith that you will figure it out!
Posted: 4/21/15 at 1:37am
I saw the show and I think Sills should definitely snag a nomination. He makes the show and is hilarious.
Posted: 4/21/15 at 2:02am
^ Instead of Paul Jesson or Nathaniel Parker for Wolf Hall, or Richard McCabe for The Audience, or Kieran Culkin for This Is Our Youth, or Maulik Pancholy for It's Only a Play, or Alessandro Nivola for The Elephant Man, or Bryce Pinkham for The Heidi Chronicles, or Josh Radner for Disgraced? I’d be surprised.
Posted: 4/21/15 at 6:46am
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"Well if they come in July they will have to sit in their seats for about 90 days."
I never said she is going to bring people into the met over the summer. You are smearing. Im just saying, people to travel to see opera singers, and she is a big star so people might consider coming over for her. I want to know how they are selling in June and July
Play Esq, yes, i am aware that the Met is dark in the summer. I don't think that has anything to do with anything. If people like her enough, they will come to see her. Do you know how they are selling over the summer?"
Who are all these "people" who are coming over from Europe when the dollar is strong against all European currencies, spending at minimum say $2000 to travel over and see one of their favorite stars in a "frothy" play that has received middling reviews? And more importantly to the producers, how many of them are there and might they all bring a friend and even buy premium tickets now?
Posted: 4/21/15 at 7:12am
"What a truly awful thing to say.
I won't be on here for much longer"
Okay, Pintool, I'll bite. What do you mean? Are you already retiring from the boards?
Posted: 4/21/15 at 9:25am
""What a truly awful thing to say.
I won't be on here for much longer"
Okay, Pintool, I'll bite. What do you mean? Are you already retiring from the boards?"
Please God, let it mean that!
Posted: 4/21/15 at 10:15am
Teachout gave it a NEGATIVE review in the Wall Street Journal. I didn't see if anyone posted it, so my apologies if it already was.
One really harsh quote:
"It isn’t funny. Not even slightly so. Indeed, it’s so unfunny as to make the viewer despair of ever laughing again, much as a starving man might despair of ever eating again."
http://www.wsj.com/articles/living-on-love-review-discomfort-zone-1429576201
Posted: 4/21/15 at 10:19am
"It isn’t funny. Not even slightly so. Indeed, it’s so unfunny as to make the viewer despair of ever laughing again, much as a starving man might despair of ever eating again."
Or as the pinto bean would say- "It's a rave!!"
Posted: 4/21/15 at 10:54am
I do not make **** up so stop being annoying !
Teachout doesn't like anything so his opinion means nothing. Plus he's ugly
Posted: 4/21/15 at 11:02am
Teachout raved about Hand to God and gave a very positive review for Fun Home just yesterday. He isn't alone in disliking this.
Posted: 4/21/15 at 11:03am
I knooooo i was being a little dramatic hellooo
Posted: 4/21/15 at 11:08am
oooooooh. yeeeeeeeah. ittttt's nooooooot liiiiiiike heeeee waaaaaaas maaaaaakingggg anythiiiiiiing uuuuuuuup. Heeeee waaaaas juuuuuuust beeeeeeeing dramaaaaaaaaatiiiiiiiccccc.......
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Posted: 4/21/15 at 11:14am
I don't make anything up. When did you hear me say that that review was a rave? You didn't !
