LoveMusik, ugh!

[beyondblessed]

Posted: 2/17/07 at 4:37pm

Is anyone else having mixed feelings about this show. Kurt Weill is great, but seriously with all the hustle and bustle of broadway nowadays, how interesting will this show really be? Don't geat me wrong I love Michael Cerveris and I want to make mad passionate love to Donna Murphy, I'm just sensing an unfortunate flopper. But I guess the same was said about the concept for Grey Gardens....

[Kringas]

Posted: 2/17/07 at 4:41pm

but seriously with all the hustle and bustle of broadway nowadays

That doesn't even make sense.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 2/17/07 at 4:49pm

LoveMusik can never flop (at least financially). It's being produced by the Manhattan Theater Club, a non-profit organization. Even if it sucks, it'll 99% play out its run, no worse for the wear.

[beyondblessed]

Posted: 2/17/07 at 4:50pm

That doesn't even make sense.
I was referring to the movie musical fads, hollywood star fads, grand commercialization, and conspicuous finances for set design. Hope that cleared it up for you.

[AC126748]

Posted: 2/17/07 at 4:50pm

And what's not to love about it? Kurt Weill music, Hal Prince direction, two of the best musical theatre performers working today...I'm there.

[Kringas]

Posted: 2/17/07 at 4:59pm

Well, if the MTC wants to inconspicuously finance its set, who am I to judge?

[Smaxie]

Posted: 2/17/07 at 5:16pm

Let's see: a Jewish composer creating highly political works in Nazi Germany, who marries a Catholic former streetwalker and flees to America. There, he creates some of the most unusual musicals Broadway has seen, while sustaining a marriage and a mistress, before dying young. How is that NOT interesting?

Of all of the upcoming shows to target for possible artistic bankruptcy, who in their right mind would select LoveMusik?

[D2]

Posted: 2/17/07 at 5:23pm

BB: don't buy a ticket. That'll show 'em! Personally, I think it sounds like one of the more interesting productions of the season. That doesn't mean it will be terrific, but I wouldn't reject it out of hand. Some of us actually like the stuff that isn't the usual "hustle and bustle."

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 2/17/07 at 5:41pm

Smaxie couldn't have said it better.
Combine that with the fact that it is being directed by the most legendary director alive, with a book by a Pulitzer, Tony and Oscar winner, and starring two Tony winners that are considered some of the best musical theater performers of their generation. I'm so there.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 2/17/07 at 5:48pm

Its a limited run. Who cares about appeal! Its sounds 200 tiems more interesting than the "appealing" things audiences are flocking to. Its a non-profit, they're able to take bigger risks.

[AC126748]

Posted: 2/17/07 at 5:51pm

Yeah, Bobby. I was really hoping MTC would revive HIGH FIDELITY. Instead, they give us this crap. Who the hell wants to see that talentless hack Donna Murphy? GIVE ME JENN COLELLA!

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 2/17/07 at 5:58pm

I'd like a revival of "The Times They Are a'Wedding Fidelity" please.

[AC126748]

Posted: 2/17/07 at 5:59pm

Starring Tony Danza and Pia Zadora.

[Piazzaslight]

Posted: 2/17/07 at 6:04pm

What about a new production of "Dance of Lestat and Dracula"? I'm sure that'll bring in the big bucks...

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 2/17/07 at 6:06pm

How about another production of Wicked? That'd thin out the lotto crowds at the Gershwin.

[AC126748]

Posted: 2/17/07 at 6:08pm

Starring you-know-who...

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 2/17/07 at 6:13pm

Lea Michele?

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 2/17/07 at 6:16pm

she'll play the wizard and Boq!

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[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 2/17/07 at 6:23pm

I thought we were trying to work out a formula to discover why Yancey Arias was allowed onstage in The Wild Party

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 2/17/07 at 6:25pm

I thought it was here to get money from advertisers.

[Julian2]

Posted: 2/17/07 at 6:28pm

I've kinda always thought of it as the "arena" of the broadway world (pardon the pun). Don't you think these message boards are kind of like a giant gladatorial arena?

[AC126748]

Posted: 2/17/07 at 6:33pm

You totally can't sit at this thread, Bobby! Learn your place...

[beyondblessed]

Posted: 2/17/07 at 6:59pm

Wow peeps, I didn't mean to create such an astounding uproar over this. I suppose that I should have saw it coming, people really protect their musicals on these boards. I was just playing devil's advocate and tossing out an opinion. Thanks for putting me in my place.

[Smaxie]

Posted: 2/17/07 at 7:07pm

You tried to post something I guess you thought was provocative, and got what you deserved. If the Broadway non-profit theatres like MTC, Roundabout or Lincoln Center are going to produce a musical, at least let it be something that sticks its neck out a little and tries something outside of the current Broadway artistic climate. What else are they there for?

[RockabyeHamlet]

Posted: 2/17/07 at 9:02pm

I, for one, think this is something no Broadway fan should miss.

..and it sounds a hell of a lot more interesting then some of the "art" thats out there now and breaking records.