*Official* Sweet Charity review thread.- Page 6

[Elizadoolittle6]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 3:46pm

I'm so tired of everyone thinking in a box. When a revival is done it doesn't mean that you need to copy or follow the original. You only need to follow the script and the music, everything else is extraneous. Fosse was amazing, and NO ONE can recreate his dancing. I Love the revival of chicago but feel the dancing to be a cheesy rip off of the original by A. Reinking. When you do something old, bring something new to it. Don't revisit something that could never be redone as Mr Fosse is gone. The show has heart. Christina is wonderful and smart, and likable. As far a Mr. Brantley.... I as a gay man find him a step back for our people. IF something isn't gay... he doesn't like it. In his review he even makes the point to point out that mr. O'hare plays a great heterosexual. Where I feel this is to point out that he is gay. What does that have to do with his acting. IT DOESN't. I find that if you read a brantly review almost 80 percent of the time hes wrong and you should go see everything he doesn't like. Mr Brantley fall right into the current reviewing broadway trend. LIKE NOTHING!!!! He sits and preaches that we must save broadway but he bags on it all the time. GET A CLUE MR. BRANTLEY. You obviously have no clue what you're talking about. I think it might be time to find a new profession as you are failing miserably as a reviewer. PATHETIC.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 4:06pm

Excerpts from major reviewers:
http://www.broadway.com/Gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=511649

[rclocalz]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 4:17pm

So what happened to the USA Today? Did they not review it?

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 4:24pm

Clive Barnes gave it 3 stars. He calls Christina and the show "pretty damn good". He seems to be going against the grain with his reviews a lot this year. With a few exceptions (BKLYN, Little Women, The Pillowman, Doubt...), his reviews have mostly been the opposite of what every other critic has to say.

Examples just off the top of my head:
Dame Edna (got mostly good reviews he gave it *1/2)
Spelling Bee (raves he gave it **)
Spamalot (mixed to negative he gave it ****)
DRS (mixed he gave it ***1/2)
and now Charity (mixed reviews he gave it ***)

[ljay889]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 4:28pm

Broadway.com has some cute opening night pics.

[uncageg]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 5:54pm

Brantley review excerpt:

"...and, as two of the many men in Charity's life, Denis O'Hare and the handsome-voiced Paul Schoeffler. Doing a variation on his Tony-winning performance as a neurotic gay accountant in Richard Greenberg's "Take Me Out," Mr. O'Hare at least provides some comic oxygen as a neurotic heterosexual accountant."

I only see this as a comparison between two characters Mr. O'Hare has played. Doesn't seem to me that he is talking about anyones sexuality outside of the character being played.

I am buying my ticket tonight. I just gotta see it!

[justme2]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 7:30pm

ok, I saw this on Playbill.com and immediately thought of MARGO:

"Whew! "Everything but the bloodhounds snapping at her rear end," as Birdie Coonan was once heard to observe. It's impossible not to see this subtext running alongside the show at hand, not to speculate about how Applegate may have used recent misfortunes to build a character of sparkplug spunk. The show and its encircling myth are quite compatible."

Updated On: 5/5/05 at 07:30 PM

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 5/5/05 at 9:50pm

That's funny!

I picked up the Post today because I hadn't seen it posted on here, and I was thrilled to see the review. There's a big picture of Christina in "If My Friends Could See Me Now" and under the major SWEET CHARITY headline, in large semi-bold letters, he had:

CHRISTINA TRIUMPHS

Printed before his review - I was so happy.

GO CHRISTINA!

[wiggum2]

Posted: 5/8/05 at 4:18pm

USA Today reviewed it on Friday. They gave it 3 1/2 stars!
Anyone have a tally of the reviews?