Oh, positive!
Oh, positive!
#0Oh, positive!
Posted: 8/20/04 at 2:37pm
"Does it provide an evening of real entertainment, with lots of neat visuals and expensive-looking special effects? And is it over before you know it (and before you've looked at your watch even once)? You bet."
" 'Dracula, the Musical' will, like its predecessors, run a nice long time, with a light touch that steers the serious story away from easy kitsch.
The critics, poor devils, will have little to do with its success."
http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/082004/e0120dracula.html
#1re: Oh, positive!
Posted: 8/20/04 at 2:45pmi admire your tenacity! i'm sure there will be many people who enjoy this show... there were many positive things to say during the previews... i have yet to see a Wildhorn show, so i can't make any statements regarding this one... i wish i could afford to see it so that i may make my own judgement... Updated On: 8/20/04 at 02:45 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#2re: Oh, positive!
Posted: 8/20/04 at 2:51pmI'm intrigued by this writer. She starts out with a thinly-veiled contemptuous reference to 'highbrow critics,' and then quickly uses the royal 'we' when referring to her own opinion. Then for the rest of the article, she refers to 'critics' as if they are someone other than her. SO, is she a critic or isn't she? My impression is that she walked in with a pre-set attitude about how this show would be perceived, and then set out to counter-act it without really considering the piece at all. There seems to be an inordinate number of comments distancing herself from what every other critic has said. Perhaps she couldn't get a job as a critic elsewhere, and is bitter? Updated On: 8/20/04 at 02:51 PM
CurtainUp2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/8/04
#4re: Oh, positive!
Posted: 8/20/04 at 2:56pm
New York movie and theatre critic Jeffrey Lyons also gave it a very good review and reccommended it highly on NBC News this morning.
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#5re: Oh, positive!
Posted: 8/20/04 at 3:02pmwow, Cats - you're like a dog with a bone when you like something...silly Possum....
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#6re: Oh, positive!
Posted: 8/20/04 at 3:18pmStarting Mr. Lyon's review clip with a piece in which Burt Reynolds ponders the art of acting is an interesting way to establish his credibility.
#7re: Oh, positive!
Posted: 8/20/04 at 3:24pmDGrant - You just said a mouthful...
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
BT
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#8re: Oh, positive!
Posted: 8/20/04 at 3:31pm
Well, the Washington Post reviewer didn't totally hate it... He said:
The show is a classic example of middle-of-the-road Broadway mediocrity: everything performed with taste and nothing with distinction. The very best you can say about "Dracula" is that you've seen worse.
At least that's something ...
I sing for myself. I sing when I want, whenever I want to, just for me. I sing for my own pleasure. Do you understand that?
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#9re: Oh, positive!
Posted: 8/20/04 at 5:43pmJacques Le Sourd (a "he" incidentally) has been around for many many years and, for most of us who have been reading him for the last couple of decades, he inspires roughly the same level of respect and confidence as John Simon..... namely, not much.
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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Updated On: 8/20/04 at 05:43 PM
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