Maureen McGovern agrees with most of us...

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 12:16am

...on the downfall of Little Women on Broadway.

"McGovern blames the musical's lukewarm reception in New York on two factors ---- heavy competition from many other new shows, and shortsighted marketing that targeted mothers and daughters (but didn't reach out enough to male theatergoers)."

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/08/24/entertainment/theater/82405111419.txt

Updated On: 8/27/05 at 12:16 AM

[WonderBoy]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 2:14pm

That's funny. I thought the score, lyrics and the treatment of the book were it's downfall!

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 2:15pm

Lol Wonderboy. I was just going to write something very similar. Maybe it would not have gotten such lukewarm reviews if the show wasn't so, well, lukewarm.

Updated On: 8/27/05 at 02:15 PM

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 2:35pm

I for one loved the score to LW. It's a very classic story but it has a gentleness that doesn't connect well with most people nowadays.

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 2:54pm

This explains why I said most of us.

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 3:12pm

I didn't see the show and i loath the recording, I really hope that some of those songs were not the best preformances they did because frankly Astoishing wable Sutton sounded like she forget everythign she has ever learned about singing!

[JoMarch]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 5:19pm

I hate to agree with you about Sutton because I normally love her but her singing in Astonishing really disappointed me. She just shouted the song. There was nothing remotely pleasant about it. In fact, the whole song is nothing but a whore job, a poor attempt to have a female anthem for young girls to emulate.
Updated On: 8/27/05 at 05:19 PM

[freeadmission]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 5:21pm

"I for one loved the score to LW. It's a very classic story but it has a gentleness that doesn't connect well with most people nowadays."

Which is precisly why I liked it. :)

The "classic story" and "gentleness" part. Not the fact that it "doesn't connect well with most people nowadays". Yeah. I'm not a non-conformist . . . though it may seem so at times. LOL

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 5:25pm

Just to correct the article, it closed on May 22, 2005, not in January.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 5:27pm

I think the problem was one of billing. Had it said, "Undisputed Championship Pop Musical Superstar of the 1970s MAUREEN 'There's Got to Be a Morning After' McGOVERN in

little women

w/s. foster"

it would have been SUCH a hit. Anybody 40 and over remembers clearly the fourteen seconds in the mid-'70s when she was a true superstar.

Updated On: 8/27/05 at 05:27 PM

[Kringas]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 5:32pm

You're forgetting her turn as "Waitress" in 2000's The Cure For Boredom, but that's okay. Everyone else did, too.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 5:36pm

She held the order pad with a level of realism not seen since Uta Hagen.

[Kringas]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 5:37pm

She inspired me to become a waitress. That's how much I believed her.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 10:04pm

Maureen McGovern, Superstar, if you're reading this: you change people.