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#26

re: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET - New Rock 'n' Roll Musical to Open on Broadway

Posted: 11/3/09 at 8:00pm

Hope you're not referring to me. I just mentioned that other posters weren't impressed. It might as well be a critical and financial sensation, for what I know.
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#27

re: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET - New Rock 'n' Roll Musical to Open on Broadway

Posted: 11/3/09 at 8:03pm

AMERCIAN IDIOT reports on here have been grossly exaggerated. And the critics in the Bay Area were doing some serious starf***ng. The show has promise, but needs works. And hopefully Mayer finds it himself, since critics were of little help.

And didn't QUARTET announce its presence awhile back. Truth be told, I forgot, too. It sounds like JERSEY BOYS meets MEMPHIS. But it's been a big hit in Chicago...
#30

re: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET - New Rock 'n' Roll Musical to Open on Broadway

Posted: 11/3/09 at 8:53pm

JoeKv - ADDAMS FAMILY will be a much bigger hit than this "Million Dollar" jukebox garbage.

No judging. Saw the MDQ production in Chicago. Speaking from personal opinion. Not every single show deserves the benefit of the doubt; especially if the material is marketed terribly to begin with.

This show may be a financial hit but it will lack any artistic integrity. I promise that much, JoeKv. But I guess Broadway ain't like that anymore so what do I know??? Ugh.
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#31

re: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET - New Rock 'n' Roll Musical to Open on Broadway

Posted: 11/3/09 at 9:17pm

Joe, I'm not writing it off for no reason. I saw the show and I was incredibly disappointed. Look, maybe a lot of work is being done on it, I don't know. If it ends up a better show than the one I saw, good for them. I'm not wishing it poorly, I just don't think it can last because it's not that great.
#36

re: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET - New Rock 'n' Roll Musical to Open on Broadway

Posted: 11/5/09 at 10:33pm

"Francesca Zambello said that FWC is no longer one of her upcoming projects."

Wow. You completely missed the boat on the post you responded to ---


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#39

re: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET - New Rock 'n' Roll Musical to Open on Broadway

Posted: 1/19/10 at 2:49pm

With the show starting previews in less than two months are there any casting rumors circling about? Last I heard the hope is to have the Chicago production and the NY production playing concurrently. Would they take the Chicago cast members to NYC and replace them with other actors or cast New York actors for the Broadway production?
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#40

re: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET - New Rock 'n' Roll Musical to Open on Broadway

Posted: 1/19/10 at 2:55pm

I think the big question is: Will anybody go see it? There seems to be little-to-no buzz regarding the Broadway production and I've never heard any positive word-of-mouth on the Chicago production. I listened to the CD and saw the Chicago cast perform during the local Thanksgiving Day parade and had zero interest in seeing the show.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#41

re: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET - New Rock 'n' Roll Musical to Open on Broadway

Posted: 1/19/10 at 2:59pm

I know a few people who aren't into theatre like we are who are interested in seeing it. Mostly because of the music so this could turn out to be a tourist hit. Hard to say at this point though.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#42

re: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET - New Rock 'n' Roll Musical to Open on Broadway

Posted: 1/19/10 at 4:49pm

I saw Million Dollar Quartet on Jan. 10th and found it very entertaining. Would I buy the CD ? no. Would I see it again ? probably not. Does it belong on Broadway ? not really. - It would work well off-Broadway. The Apollo Theatre in Chicago seats 440. That size space works well for Million Dollar Quartet. The intimate and loud experience would be lost at the 1200 seat Nederlander Theatre.
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#44

re: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET - New Rock 'n' Roll Musical to Open on Broadway

Posted: 1/19/10 at 10:25pm

What I saw in Chicago was a horrible disaster of a show. Great performers (who are more impersonating than acting, in my opinion), but the book is laughably bad and does nothing for the songs.

I was stunned to hear this was coming to Broadway.
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too." - Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
#45

re: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET - New Rock 'n' Roll Musical to Open on Broadway

Posted: 1/19/10 at 11:38pm

Hunter Foster is part of the Broadway cast.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#46

re: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET - New Rock 'n' Roll Musical to Open on Broadway

Posted: 1/20/10 at 12:00am

shut up! ^ as who?? I don't really see him fitting Elvis....

Still have yet to see this...gotta find some cheap seats one day. But to be honest with all the wonderful theatre I have around me I am in no hurry to spend my money on this show... (p.s. I'm in Chicago)
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#48

re: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET - New Rock 'n' Roll Musical to Open on Broadway

Posted: 1/20/10 at 12:14am

I don't really see him fitting Elvis....

I can't see Hunter as Elvis either but I can see him as Carl Perkins. Watch us both be wrong and he's Elvis lol
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".

Updated On: 1/20/10 at 12:14 AM

#50

re: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET - New Rock 'n' Roll Musical to Open on Broadway

Posted: 1/20/10 at 3:23am

The number of new musicals this Broadway season DOES outnumber the revivals:

* 'The Addams Family'
* 'All About Me'
* 'American Idiot'
* 'Burn the Floor'
* 'Come Fly Away'
* 'Fela!'
* 'Memphis'
* 'Million Dollar Quartet'
* 'Sondheim on Sondheim'

If you're talking about book musicals with NEW original scores, the pickin's are slim: only 'Addams Family' and 'Memphis' seem to qualify, but who knows? Maybe there's still an Off-Broadway transfer that we don't know about yet ...

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