Legally Blonde Musical, first preview reactions — Page 6

Is this it?

http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_024221938.html

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So can someone explain why the percussionist was enclosed in a glass box?

Wow. That clip was really cool.

Thank you.

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Any second preview reviews?

RE: Quick question, the alibi discussion happens face to face in the prison yard, it isn't whispered and I don't remember Elle gasping, but she is definitely surprised.

Some of you guys are pathetic. What do you all do for a living that you can post these all-day rants? As if anyone gives a f**k what you think. It's the first preview. They just started rehearsing with the orchestra a few days ago, and with the set a little more than a week before that. That's why they have previews, to figure out and save what works, and to find out what doesn't so they can fix things. I don't have to tell you guys this stuff, being obsessive b-way freaks, this is chapter one of the handbook. It sounds like you guys WANT shows to be bad, so you can sit around and talk sh*t.
I saw the last invited rehearsal in NYC. No sets, no costumes, no orchestra. The show was good. Granted, there were some pacing issues normal for a show in it's stage, but nothing that couldn't be fixed, and probably has been since the first preview...the cast is still in rehearsals every day before the evening's performance.
Someone said something about Leslie Kritzer looking "old". She may have mature energy, but what I will say is that she is an absolutely BRILLIANT musical-comedy actress, maybe the best of her generation. Her one-woman Patti LuPone show at Joe's Pub is already legendary among theatre professionals. I'd take a 50 year old Kritzer playing a 21 year old, just to get the chance to watch her on stage.
To those caught up in speculation, the show will be here soon, see it for yourself. I can't get a few tunes out of my head from a few weeks ago, and look forward to hearing them again. They are catchy and fun. You will leave feeling uplifted, and that, to me, is worth $100 any day (when I think of some of the crap I spend $100 on...)

Are_you_kidding?...I agree with you 100%. I thought at first you were gonna bash Legally Blonde (thank god you didn't, haha!) But I agree, it's only in out-of-town PREVIEWS. I'm sure parts of songs will be re-written, taken out, the script might need changed a little and so will staging, but it's just starting out the process on an actual stage so it can be perfect by April.

One question though, Are_you_kidding, did you join JUST to post that...haha

I don't think the posts on this thread have been overwhelmingly negative or premature. Everyone’s fairly assessing it based on the fact that it’s a first preview.

sweeneytodd2 I agree, I'm glad we have been able to keep a civil thread going here. It may not last long but it sure is a lot more stimulating then a flame war. It will be exciting as more and more people see the show in previews and we start to hear some more varied opinions. I have done some blog surfing looking for "normal" people who have seen the show in the first two days here in SF and the reactions have been much more positive then negative.

I don't see what's wrong about talking about a show's problems based on one preview. If they're making the audience pay, then what's the big deal? And also, why shouldn't we discuss the shows problems? That's what previews are for! And I like how people always say "The show was good...granted there were lots of problems like..." I don't get that notion at all. I'm not saying this show is good or bad, I haven't seen it, but if people have to pay a good amount of money, then they have the right to say what they want.

And if the show is good then the critics will like it. The Wedding Singer and Hi-F weren't that great and didn't deserve to be on B'way. Broadway is the epicenter of musical theater. It should be the best. [Granted, the Producers is STILL running...]

RentBoy86 - As you contradict yourself, maybe you should just edit your post and accept it: Broadway is what sells.

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Are_you_kidding, I somehow doubt someone in a place to be invited to a rehearsal has the most unbiased opinion and should be lecturing others about theirs. Same with those using Legally Blonde avatars despite not actually seeing the show for themeselves...

Very few people here want shows to be bad (the rest being the flop queens) since we are the ones that will have to sit through many more of them than the tourists these "bad" shows are apparently targetted towards.

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Updated On: 1/26/07 at 01:23 AM

Leslie Kritzer is very talented. But she looks completely out of place with the sorority girls, mostly (from what I can tell) as a result of poor costume and make-up choices.

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