LYSISTRATA JONES Is Heading To Broadway...- Page 2

[RippedMan]

Posted: 6/22/11 at 11:43pm

The Post claims they are looking at the Kerr. I think that's a bad choice. The Kerr just has the wrong environment for it. I think the Golden is better suited. It kind of feels like a gymnasium.

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 6/23/11 at 12:16am

While it's never going to be a "big" show, people forget that this production is incredibly stripped down compared to the previous one in Dallas (back when the show was called GIVE IT UP!)

For the Broadway transfer, expect a lot of the bigger production values that were present before. Scenic pieces like this one, which could never be used in the environment of a space like the Gym at Judson, will almost surely come back into play. The whole idea of the show being atmospheric was not part of the original concept, so they'll be plenty more to fill a Broadway stage than what you're seeing in the Off-Broadway incarnation.

Updated On: 6/23/11 at 12:16 AM

[RippedMan]

Posted: 6/23/11 at 12:24am

Hm. Were the reviews pretty favorable about the environmental staging?

[Brick]

Posted: 6/23/11 at 12:35pm

I agree the Kerr seems a bad fit. It's a jewlbox of a space, and not right for something as plucky as this.

[Blockhead24]

Posted: 8/3/11 at 12:30pm

starting performances on Nov 12 opening on December 14 at the Kerr http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/03/playing-on-a-bigger-court-lysistrata-jones-taking-its-game-to-broadway/

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 8/3/11 at 2:51pm

There is, no doubt, a great little musical possible with LYSISTRATA.

This aint it.

I wish someone would talk Ralf Konig into dramatizing his utterly whacked out version of the play. Infinitely funnier.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 8/3/11 at 6:23pm

This seems like a bad fit. The Golden has such a more "auditorium" feel to it than the Kerr. I don't know. The Kerr just seems so classy, and this musical seems, well, not?

[massofmen]

Posted: 8/4/11 at 8:13am

if this lasts past the new year I will be amazed