Little Women
Little Women
MrMarkCharlieBrownCohen
Stand-by Joined: 4/5/05
#0Little Women
Posted: 2/21/06 at 9:08am
(sorry if this was posted before - I didnt see it)
Why did this close on Broadway?
Saw the tour in Mpls on Saturday and thought it was great!
#1re: Little Women
Posted: 2/21/06 at 9:15am
poor marketing+ medicore score and book= low attendance
Basically, from articles I remember reading at the time, the producers tried to play off of the Wicked craze with young girls. I distictively remember one article saying that it has the same demographic and location hooked in. I personally think that was a sorry excuse for promotion. Also, it just wasn't that great of a show. I saw it twice because of Sutton and Maureen (who was out the 1st time I saw it). Granted, I bought the cast recording and I do enjoy most of the songs.
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Kaye Thompson
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#2re: Little Women
Posted: 2/21/06 at 12:59pm
I found it disjointed and confusing. Suffered from the same problem as the musicals of Jane Eyre and Color Purple (but to a greater level). There was no sense of time, the scenes were just snapshots over the course of many years and sometimes a whole year seemed to go by in between scenes and you had no idea where everybody was.
I keep hearing that the original composer and lyricist were kicked out of the show; the producer stepped up and decided he wanted to write the songs himself (wanted the show to be more "Wicked" like), and the production suffered from it.
Shay Jericho
Understudy Joined: 9/8/05
#4re: Little Women
Posted: 2/21/06 at 1:24pm
If you go to BroadwayAbridged's link in his post, he has created a fine parody of Little Women that illustrates the faults of the show quite well.
My biggest gripe, which has already been stated, is that it was difficult to establish coherency because the time jumped around so much.
#5re: Little Women
Posted: 2/21/06 at 1:28pmAlthought LITTLE WOMEN was, in fact, just mediocre, I found it to be among the best "just mediocre" shows of the past few years. I think it's a better show than THE COLOR PURPLE, THE WOMAN IN WHITE, etc.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#6re: Little Women
Posted: 2/21/06 at 2:08pmLittle Women better than The Woman in White. Munk, when i saw The Woman in White for the 1st time i liked it, but i didn't love it, once i started to listen to the amazing score, my mind changed. Get the OLC.
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wicked4life51
Broadway Star Joined: 6/20/04
#7re: Little Women
Posted: 2/21/06 at 2:14pm
little women was a real musical with a real score and real book. People didnt like it because it wasnt a spectacil or anyhting like wicked . It all originated from the classicals and little women was a classical peice with a time period and it wasnt appreciated because it was a real musical. People dont know where it originated from,they are all singing modern stuff and they know nothing about rogers and hammerstein and george gershwin or cole porter . It all came from there and little women was a classic and it wasnt a spectacle it was a real musical with real everything. PEOPLE DIDNT LIKE IT BECAUSE IT MADE YOU THINK FOR ONCE.GOSH PEOPLE DONT YOU KNOW REAL THEATER
all these broadwya actors right now who are all performers have all the classical training or the knowledge or know that it all came from there
shoshana bean is a soprano ,but also an amazing mixer
i mean they all got the classical range and training people learn the real stuff or else you will get no where
THERE WAS NOTHINMG MEDIOCORE ABOUT THE SHOW
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#8re: Little Women
Posted: 2/21/06 at 2:26pm
PEOPLE DIDNT LIKE IT BECAUSE IT MADE YOU THINK FOR ONCE.GOSH PEOPLE DONT YOU KNOW REAL THEATER
- okay..yeah no. The novel Little Women required thinking but the actual new broadway musical, not so much. It was simple, medicore and glossed over the story. Agian, I enjoyed it but I can see it for what it is and there's nothing wrong with that!
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Kaye Thompson
#9re: Little Women
Posted: 2/21/06 at 2:32pmLOL. I am not a big fan of Wicked, I don't need special effects or anything to have fun, just a good show. But Little Women was not my cup of tea. Anyhow...Wicked4life that is just my opinion. I am glad the show made you think and enjoy.
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#10re: Little Women
Posted: 2/21/06 at 2:33pmI believe Little Women is the worst show I've ever seen on Broadway (that's just my personal opinion). My dislike from the show did not stem from the fact that it made me think for once; I love complex shows (Sweeney Todd is quite possibly the best Broadway show I've seen and it certainly made me think). Little Women's book had many problems. It didn't flow well. I didn't think the score was anything special, either.
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#11re: Little Women
Posted: 2/21/06 at 2:36pmI don't care one way or another about spectacle -- I like well-made shows regardless of what form they take. I found LITTLE WOMEN was mediocre and dull with a weak book and a pedestrian score (and an awful marketing campaign), and I apparently wasn't alone in my assessment. Plenty of non-spectacles have been quite successful in recent years -- A LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA, SPELLING BEE, AVENUE Q, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS and JERSEY BOYS all come to mind. LITTLE WOMEN simply wasn't very good -- THAT'S why it failed.
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#12re: Little Women
Posted: 2/21/06 at 3:03pmSee I think the score is pretty good. I just think the book is awful. It's like they left out the best parts of the real book in the script. It's mentioned like oh by the way amy fell in the ice, meg had the baby, and so on and so on. It left out big things. It makes me think the characters are so oh by the way this happened.
#14re: Little Women
Posted: 2/21/06 at 3:04pmI guess the tour has been cancelled? It was to play the Buell here in Denver and has been replaced by Sweet Charity with Molly Ringwald.
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peggyandvelma
Broadway Star Joined: 9/4/05
#15re: Little Women
Posted: 2/21/06 at 3:05pm
The lyrics were kind of odd, too.
"Our love is like a small umbrella in the rain"???? Huh?
It has a few good songs, but I'd rather watch the movie or read the book again.
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#16re: Little Women
Posted: 2/21/06 at 3:05pm
I have THE WOMAN IN WHITE olc.
The score brilliant? Come on. That's like saying FOLLIES' score is deplorable.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#17re: Little Women
Posted: 2/21/06 at 3:06pmi got rid of the cd, i tried and tried to let it grow on me, but i hate that score.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
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#18re: Little Women
Posted: 2/21/06 at 3:10pmYet you think WIW is brilliant?
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#19re: Little Women
Posted: 2/21/06 at 3:13pmget the cd, listen to it. We'll talk about it later.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
#20re: Little Women
Posted: 2/21/06 at 3:27pm
Well I think it killed its audience.
The tv commericals read "from mother to daughter." Already men don't wanna go, so there's 1/2 cut down.
I'm a guy and loved it and know a lot of other men that enjoyed the show. They messed it up.
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To Kill A Mockingbird
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#21re: Little Women
Posted: 2/21/06 at 3:30pm
The tv commericals read "from mother to daughter." Already men don't wanna go, so there's 1/2 cut down.
And yet I also remember people complaining that they didn't market enough with Mother's Day coupons, etc. So both ways.
Out of curiosity, what in Little Women (the musical, not the book) could be considered as "something that makes one think"?
#22re: Little Women
Posted: 2/21/06 at 3:35pmMuscle, I have the cd. I said that already. I've had it ever since it came out. I hated it then, I hate it now - even after seeing the show. It's dreadful. Don't act like I'm in the minority here...
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#23re: Little Women
Posted: 2/21/06 at 3:41pmoh, i thought you didn't have the cd. Well, what can i say? we all have different tastes.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
BSoBW3
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/21/06
#24re: Little Women
Posted: 2/21/06 at 3:42pm
I can't even force my way through the LITTLE WOMEN score.
It is beneath mediocre, IMO.
TCP and WiW are much better. TCP being much better than WiW, as well.
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