NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - Reviews Thread- Page 23
NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - Reviews Thread
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - P/reviews & News Thread#550
Posted: 4/26/23 at 9:23pm
I’m impressed that no reviews have come out yet where usually there are several by this time. Could it be an embargo issued by the producers to respect the artists on their opening night and wait until later in the eve?
NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - P/reviews & News Thread#551
Posted: 4/26/23 at 9:30pm
The show is about 2:40, so I anticipate they will start coming out any minute
Swing Joined: 4/13/14
NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - P/reviews & News Thread#552
Posted: 4/26/23 at 9:41pm
Seems like it's rare for many news organizations to even wait until the show is over. I remember in early days of the internet when a lot of reviews would post at midnight eastern time. These days I've sometimes seen reviews posted shortly after the opening night performance has started.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - P/reviews & News Thread#553
Posted: 4/26/23 at 9:43pm
I anticipate the reviews any minute as the show ended
NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - P/reviews & News Thread#554
Posted: 4/26/23 at 9:44pm
Time Out says
3 out of 5 stars
The big city takes center stage in a new show with songs by Kander and Ebb.
Broadway review by Adam Feldman
https://www.timeout.com/newyork/theater/new-york-new-york-broadway-musical-review-kander-ebb
NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - P/reviews & News Thread#555
Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:03pm
New York, New York’ Review: New Kander and Ebb Musical Is a Love Letter to Big City Gusto
https://variety.com/2023/legit/reviews/new-york-new-york-review-broadway-musical-1235595785/
NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - P/reviews & News Thread#556
Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:05pm
New York, New York’ review: Broadway musical can’t make it here, anywhere
Post Pan
It’s tired, sappy and deathly dull.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/26/new-york-new-york-review-broadway-musical-cant-make-it-here/
NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - P/reviews & News Thread#557
Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:13pm
Elisabeth Vincentelli for the NYT:
"The Big Apple, Without Bite"
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/theater/new-york-new-york-review-broadway.html
NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - P/reviews & News Thread#558
Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:13pm
NY TIMES
New York, New York’ Review: The Big Apple, Without Bite
Based loosely on the 1977 film, a show about performers making it in the big city comes to St. James Theater with the sharper edges of its source material sanded off.
Sprawling, unwieldy, surprisingly dull show
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/theater/new-york-new-york-review-broadway.html
NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - P/reviews & News Thread#559
Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:14pm
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - P/reviews & News Thread#560
Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:17pm
Elisabeth Vincentelli is a great writer. "friction feeds fiction"
"The show follows the triumphant template set by Frank Sinatra rather than the more ambiguous one imparted by Minnelli. In this rose-colored vision, trials are temporary, everybody gets along, and nobody runs up against New York’s bad side."
NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - P/reviews & News Thread#561
Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:18pm
Peter Marks of the Washington Post is, well, uh:
"My critical blues,
Never melted away,
They need a brand new start with it, this meh “New York”!"
NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - P/reviews & News Thread#562
Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:20pm
I usually despise Johnny Oleksinski's reviews, but I thought he was fairly spot on here.
Also, thanks to those that answered my question about Sorry I Asked. It just seemed like such a specific sentiment that it felt like it had to be from a show, but I guess Kander and Ebb really are that good!
NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - P/reviews & News Thread#563
Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:20pm
NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - P/reviews & News Thread#564
Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:24pm
BETTY22 said: "Elisabeth Vincentelliis a great writer. "friction feeds fiction"
Well, she nailed it.
(There are overall more forgiving than I expected them to be, and yet much harsher on the cast. Uzele's vocals arent "sophisticated" enough for Variety? Wow.)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - P/reviews & News Thread#565
Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:27pm
DTLI Consensus: New York, New York doesn’t come through.
7 negative (including the NYT), 6 mixed, 1 positive.
https://didtheylikeit.com/shows/new-york-new-york/
NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - P/reviews & News Thread#566
Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:30pm
akhoya87 said: "Peter Marks of the Washington Post is, well, uh:
"My critical blues,
Never melted away,
They need a brand new start with it, this meh “New York”!""
This reminds me of Jackie Hoffman's standup about how harsh the critics were on The Addams Family. Peter Marks boredom at NY NY made him go stark raving insane.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - P/reviews & News Thread#567
Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:30pm
I'm not normally a person who revels in bad reviews for shows I didn't like, but these are oddly satisfying to me. During the first act, I had a real desire to take out my phone and start aimlessly scrolling, and that's never happened to me before at a show. It's just a big pile of nothin'.
Updated On: 4/26/23 at 10:30 PMUnderstudy Joined: 11/17/17
NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - P/reviews & News Thread#568
Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:33pm
These reviews are exactly why Lin backed out of the Tony awards...how can you lead an awards show when your name is attached to a VERY mixed show...?
Broadway Star Joined: 5/19/20
NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - P/reviews & News Thread#569
Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:36pm
BossBroadway said: "These reviews are exactly why Lin backed out of the Tony awards...how can you lead an awards show when your name is attached to a VERY mixed show...?"
Yet he demanded they move the ceremony uptown….
Understudy Joined: 11/17/17
NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - P/reviews & News Thread#570
Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:37pm
This may not be the WORST reviewed new musical of the season (@Bad Cinderella), this is sure as hell close.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - P/reviews & News Thread#571
Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:37pm
New York, New York Offers Too Much and Too Little
https://www.theatermania.com/news/review-new-york-new-york-offers-too-much-and-too-little_1700053/
John Kander draws from the Martin Scorsese movie musical, his back catalogue, and more for his latest Broadway show, with mixed results.
OUCH
Maybe Colton Ryan is aware of how generic his character is — a possible explanation for his embarrassingly mannered performance, with his Kermit the Frog-like voice and inexplicable accent.
Not even sound designer Kai Harada, otherwise doing solid work in making sure we can hear the lyrics, can save Ryan’s rendition in Act 2 of “A Quiet Thing,” in which his focus appears to have been on delivering it as quietly as possible
NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - P/reviews & News Thread#572
Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:38pm
TaffyDavenport said: "I'm not normally a person who revels in bad reviews for shows I didn't like, but these are oddly satisfying to me. During the first act, I had a real desire to take out my phone and start aimlessly scrolling, and that's never happened to me before at a show. It's just a big pile of nothin'."
I'm hopeful there are enough pull-quotes in these to help them stay open a while, but given the deranged response from this show's fans because people were so insulted by the book, the unanimous consensus here is welcome predictability.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - P/reviews & News Thread#573
Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:39pm
Robbie2 said: "New York, New York’ review: Broadway musical can’t make it here, anywhere
Post Pan
It’s tired, sappy and deathly dull.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/26/new-york-new-york-review-broadway-musical-cant-make-it-here/"
I CAN'T BELIEVE I AGREE WITH JOHNNY OLEKSINSKI WORD-FOR-WORD
NEW YORK, NEW YORK On Broadway - P/reviews & News Thread#574
Posted: 4/26/23 at 10:41pm
So now, the hypothetical 5th slot for Best Musical is wide open. Who, realistically, would join & Juliet, Shucked, Some Like It Hot, and Kimberly Akimbo?
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