NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - Reviews Thread — Page 2

Colton Ryan singing "Music, Money, Love"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2LBEqybV3A

Anna Uzele singing "But The World Goes 'Round"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3X5vnCBKnc

I cannot wait to see this.

I love how they released two songs the minute casting was announced. I wonder if they have recorded the entire show yet?

This is thrilling.

I have no idea how this show will do. Is the plan to sell Colton and Anna's chemistry? This show will require an aggressive publicity campaign.

I was just thinking of how 2019 Oklahoma revival sold us on Damon Daunno and Rebecca Naomi Jones having sizzling chemistry in those promo videos.

NY,NY has to deliver on the swoon since the source material isn't beloved. This will be interesting

I find the recordings rather lackluster, but as long as they spend money on a fully staged version of Happy Endings, I am in! That could be worth the price of admission alone.

Huss417 said: "At this point why not just be thankful a new show is going to be opening and save the predictions of what will happen to the show till after it opens."

Being thankful that a new show is opening and assessing its viability are not mutually exclusive. The show is a commercial enterprise. Think of it the way you would a startup. There are opportunity costs associated with shows that flop: valuable real estate is not otherwise available, people who have turned down other work are out of work, etc. I will never understand why some folks eschew methodical analysis.

Individual experience means nothing really, but I live in the middle of nowhere and recently someone told me they'll be seeing this on their next trip to NYC. They referenced Lin as their reason. It doesn't really matter how many new songs he actually wrote for this; he wrote the biggest show Broadway has seen in decades and his name carries weight in middle America.

I have to say that while I love that they didn't go with movie stars to sell tickets, I am not impressed with those two songs. Here's hoping they have tons of charisma/chemistry on stage and the show itself is a vast improvement over the film.

this show has 32 sets and a full orchestra

if they make it through the summer I will be amazed

Judging by the tag line, it seems they aren't trading off the familiarity with the movie, since there isn't really, but with the song.

Ke3 said: "I'm always surprised how much people despise that movie. Tome,itsgreatest sin is being fairly conventional and people usually like conventional.

I've seen the movie twice, but a very long time ago, and what I remember being the movie's greatest sin are several seemingly improvised dialogue scenes that are endless and don't go anywhere.

Also, whether the movie is beloved or not is kind of a moot point as most of the millions of people who know and adore the title song aren't even aware that it's from a nearly-50-year-old box office bomb. They know it as one of Sinatra's biggest hits which became the signature song of New York City.

Ah...well, then. Commence with the "How're you going to pay for that?" Republican discourse!

Where’s the vamp? What a wasted opportunity to get people to fork over advance ticket charges immediately. The art work is boring and the two songs embedded in unappealing soundcloud links feels really lackluster. Music, Money, Love sounds like a B side. I’ll see it but not too excited.