NY1's Roma Torre reviews "Rain" (and makes mistakes)
NY1's Roma Torre reviews "Rain" (and makes mistakes)
Broadway Star Joined: 12/7/05
NY1's Roma Torre reviews "Rain" (and makes mistakes)#1
Posted: 10/27/10 at 8:41amJust read Roma Torre's review of the Beatles show "Rain" (http://www.ny1.com/content/ny1_living/theater_reviews/127846/ny1-theater-review---rain-). In the last paragraph, she lists several Beatles songs. Is there a reason why she listed them as "Feel Just Fine," "Twist," and "Shout"? As far as I know, these songs are actually called "I Feel Fine" and "Twist and Shout." I think she should have done her homework before posting this review.
NY1's Roma Torre reviews 'Rain' (and makes mistakes)#2
Posted: 10/27/10 at 8:44amI think this kind of journalistic mistake is grounds for her to be fired from NY1 and she should also be sent to theorems east and publicly stoned. Thsts the only way people will get the message and this will never happen again.
Broadway Star Joined: 12/7/05
NY1's Roma Torre reviews 'Rain' (and makes mistakes)#2
Posted: 10/27/10 at 8:48amI just think that someone of her stature should be careful when writing reviews. Mistakes like this are embarrassing and make her look like she doesn't know what she's talking about. I'm a writer and have been called on the carpet for much lesser mistakes in publications geared towards much smaller audiences. She doesn't need to be fired from NY1, as you sarcastically pointed out. She just needs to proofread her work, as we all must do in our own jobs.
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
NY1's Roma Torre reviews 'Rain' (and makes mistakes)#3
Posted: 10/27/10 at 9:07amShe always makes mistakes. It's nothing new.
Broadway Star Joined: 12/7/05
NY1's Roma Torre reviews 'Rain' (and makes mistakes)#4
Posted: 10/27/10 at 9:12amYankeefan, that's what I was going to say but I was scared that posters would lash out against me for saying it. She does make tons of mistakes.
NY1's Roma Torre reviews 'Rain' (and makes mistakes)#5
Posted: 10/27/10 at 9:12amEditors anyone?
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NY1's Roma Torre reviews 'Rain' (and makes mistakes)#6
Posted: 10/27/10 at 9:17amNo theatergoer should take Roma Torre seriously. Her reviews are always messes.
NY1's Roma Torre reviews 'Rain' (and makes mistakes)#7
Posted: 10/27/10 at 9:30am
There's a morning radio guy up here in Albany area who constantly makes pop culture info mistakes and I swear sometimes I want to volunteer my services as pop culture fact checker.
Maybe I should offer them to Roma instead. Aren't the song titles printed in the Playbill anyway?
NY1's Roma Torre reviews 'Rain' (and makes mistakes)#8
Posted: 10/27/10 at 11:03amRoma and Donna are a cute pair of witless dilettantes; they aren't good for anything but mild amusement at their ineptitude as journalists and theatre reviewers. In fact, one only should post about them if they said anything correct or insightful - that would be the true rarity.
NY1's Roma Torre reviews 'Rain' (and makes mistakes)#9
Posted: 10/27/10 at 11:26am
It's times like this that I miss Sharon Diezenhaus. Whether she was right or not, Sharon always looked well put together and acted like she enjoyed talking theater. Roma always looks like it's her PMS time and Donna never combs her hair.
It's NY1, you can't expect a lot from them. But as bad as they are, they never made a huge mistake like the New York Times (was it Ben Brantley?). During the Bernadette "Gypsy" they wrote an article and stated that the last song in the musical was called "Mama's Turn." If the NY Times is going to have dipsh*t interns write articles about the Classics, the least they could do is teach them how to use the internet.
NY1's Roma Torre reviews 'Rain' (and makes mistakes)#10
Posted: 10/27/10 at 11:38amAt least Roma loves the theater unlike half of the reviewers working today.
NY1's Roma Torre reviews 'Rain' (and makes mistakes)#11
Posted: 10/27/10 at 11:52amNot to burst your bubble or anything but she is not naming the songs in that review in that way, shes trying to be amusing by saying their songs make us want to 'Come togther, twist and shout and feel just fine. Shes using song titles and lines from songs. She finshes saying To the detractors, I'd have to say "Let it Be."
Broadway Star Joined: 12/7/05
NY1's Roma Torre reviews 'Rain' (and makes mistakes)#12
Posted: 10/27/10 at 12:03pmI thought of that interpretation, songanddanceman. You may be right, but if Roma really wanted it to seem that way, she would have written it without quotation marks. She wrote: "Their songs still get us on our feet -- 'Come Together,' 'Twist,' 'Shout,' and 'Feel Just Fine.'" Her double dash after "feet" shows that she is about to present the names of the songs that she will then list. If she wanted to be amusing and use these song titles in this sentence, she could have written something like "Their songs still get us on our feet, make us come together, twist, shout, and feel fine." or even "Their songs still get us on our feet, "Come Together," "Twist and Shout," and "Feel Fine."
NY1's Roma Torre reviews 'Rain' (and makes mistakes)#13
Posted: 10/27/10 at 12:29pm
"You may be right, but if Roma really wanted it to seem that way, she would have written it without quotation marks."
I don't think this was written to be read. I think this is a transcript of what was broadcast during the show and NY1 just posts is as a written review.
Broadway Star Joined: 12/7/05
NY1's Roma Torre reviews 'Rain' (and makes mistakes)#14
Posted: 10/27/10 at 12:34pmEither way, it's still awfully cliched. All of her reviews are the same, where I've actually come to the point where I play a game each time her reviews come out. It's called "Guess Which Cliche She'll Use This Time." For Lombardi, I guessed the "fumble" cliche right away.
Broadway Star Joined: 12/7/05
NY1's Roma Torre reviews 'Rain' (and makes mistakes)#15
Posted: 10/27/10 at 12:41pmAnother one of her gems that I guessed before reading her review was for "The Human Scale." I guessed that she would add something in about balance and lo and behold, at the end of her review, she wrote that the playright "finds balance in the truth." Gag.
NY1's Roma Torre reviews 'Rain' (and makes mistakes)#16
Posted: 10/27/10 at 1:04pm
That's a transcript of her review. If you watch the video, it is word for word. She is just referring to the songs not giving the actual titles.
I noticed in the video that the set is different from the one I saw on the tour last year.
I like Roma. I watch her reviews online and always watch her on NY1 when I visit.
Stand-by Joined: 6/7/10
NY1's Roma Torre reviews 'Rain' (and makes mistakes)#17
Posted: 10/27/10 at 1:17pm
There's a morning radio guy up here in Albany area who constantly makes pop culture info mistakes
I don't live in the area anymore, but Chuck and Kelly (I can't remember which station) always bungled their references, and the guy on FLY 92 was, ironically, even worse.
But for this, it's whoever transcribed it who made it look stupid. I don't mind Roma Torre's reviews when I see them. I never read the transcripts because they always read much cheesier than it sounds when she's giving the review.
NY1's Roma Torre reviews 'Rain' (and makes mistakes)#18
Posted: 10/27/10 at 1:27pmI don't think it looks stupid. I have actually done this in written reviews. The quotes are showing references tot he songs.
NY1's Roma Torre reviews 'Rain' (and makes mistakes)#19
Posted: 10/27/10 at 1:43pmThe upstate guy is Paul Vandenburgh, who used to be on WROW 590 and now runs his own station called 1300Talk. His producer isn't usually much help. I actually did email when he screwed up who was who in ABBA (Agnetha vs. Frida) and he got very pissy on the air.
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