PRETTY WOMAN Broadway Previews — Page 3

The song where they say “extrordinary” a bunch of times should be replaced with “It Must Have Been Love” IMHO.

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Ravenclaw said: "Would anyone mind posting a song list? I'm curious what (if anything) has been added/cut since Chicago. I found much of the show in Chicago incredibly bad, but I genuinely hope it has been improving."

Act I

"Welcome to Hollywood" (Happy Man, Kit, Company)

"Anywhere But Here" (Vivian)

"Something About Her - Part 1/Welcome to Hollywood" (reprise) (Edward, Happy Man)

"Something About Her - Part 2" (Edward)

"Luckiest Girl in the World" (Vivan, Kit, Giulio)

"Rodeo Drive" (Kit, Company)

"Anywhere But Here" (reprise)

"On a Night Like Tonight" (Mr. Thompson, Company)

"Don't Forget to Dance" (Happy Man, Scarlett, Company)

"Freedom" (Edward)

"You're Beautiful" (Edward, Vivian, Company)

Act II

"Welcome to Our World" (Stuckey and Company)

"This is My Life" (Vivian)

"Never Give Up on a Dream" (Happy Man, Kit, Company)

"The Opera" (Alfredo, Violetta)

"You and I" (Edward, Company)

"I Can't Go Back" (Vivian)

"Freedom" (reprise) (Edward)

"Long Way Home" (Vivian, Edward)

"Finale" (Company)



From the list of songs in the Chicago production on Wikipedia, I believe "Luckiest Girl in the World" and "Welcome to Our World" are new.

Apropos of nothing, the 3rd row mezzanine seats in the Nederlander are the most uncomfortable I've ever sat in. (I've been in economy-class airplanes seats that were better - and I'm only 5'3!) My legs were right up against the row in front of me, and my choices were either hunching very uncomfortably throughout the whole show or getting familiar with my seatmates. By the end I think we all just gave up!

(Will try to post actual thoughts on the show when I'm more coherent tomorrow)

I was at the first preview as well, and I'm disappointed with the show. I'm a big fan of the movie and Andy, so I was hoping for a great show. None of the music was memorable for me, except maybe Samantha's "I Can't Go Back" - but that may be because I had heard it prior to the seeing the show. Poor Andy doesn't get anything to dig into and really shine. I did think Samantha is excellent and Orfeh is her usual kick-butt scene-stealer.

It's "cute" and "lite" and definitely go if you can grab a rush ticket and don't mind a possible partial view. That rush policy must have been published Fri (7/20) b/c I had been looking for any info (including the site) and hadn't found anything. I'll go back once it opens to see if it has improved.

Who else was waiting to hear Prince during the bathtub scene???

There weren't any songs in the show from the movie. Does anyone know if that was intentional or did they decide not to/couldn't get the rights?

It depends on her competition, but I think she could be remembered. We’ve seen actors be nominated for starring in worse shows, and Pretty Woman is merely mediocre. The critics won’t be kind, but I think it will have decent word of mouth. It’s safe and inoffensive enough.

I actually applaud the creative team for not including the songs from the movie in the stage show. Those songs would only steal focus from the original score and make it seem even blander than it already is in comparison. Rocky used Eye of the Tiger and the Rocky theme and both completely overwhelmed the A&F score. The only thing you could hum while walking out of the theater was Eye of the Tiger. Had they included Pretty Woman (and I assume again at the curtain call), then that’s all you would be able to remember for the evening.

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I don’t mean that I think they should exclude just because you’ll remember it, but that it will completely and totally overwhelm the rest of the score, even if it were first rate. Our minds are just naturally drawn to the familiar and the rest of the score would never be able to live up to it.

Did you not think Rocky’s score was overwhelmed by Eye of the Tiger or Ghost’s score was overwhelmed by Unchained Melody?

Even with the best score, if you swapped out Losing My Mind for I Will Always Love You, a person walking out of Follies would have an uphill battle retaining anything other than the pop hit.

Maybe I’m in the minority about not wanting this hits in otherwise original scores, but I think it creates a standard that the new composers can’t live up to and basically says to them, why not just create a jukebox score for this show instead?

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Actually, the song I couldn’t get out of my head when I walked out of ROCKY was “Raining”, but it’s understand that I’m in the minority in that one. But how is that a bad thing if people remembered “Eye of the Tiger” or even “Pretty Woman”? It comes with the territory. If you choose to adapt a well known property with an even more popular song, then it’s on you to write a score to match it or live with peoples disappointment.



I see it as absolutely no different from having a Celine Dion jukebox musical and not including “My Heart Will Go On”. It’s what people go in expecting to hear so just give it to them or change the script and “base” a new musical on PRETTY WOMAN.

Updated On: 7/21/18 at 10:14 AM

if anyone is curious, front row tickets are still being sold at rush (I know someone said that it was apparently a mistake yesterday but they're still doing it) they're stamped as partial view even in the center section, because the stage is so high up.

stephimarie said: "if anyone is curious, front row tickets are still being sold at rush (I know someone said that it was apparently a mistake yesterday but they're still doing it) they're stamped as partial view even in the center section, because the stage is so high up."

thanks for the heads up :)

what time did you get there/how many ppl in line?

thanks in advance!

Anymore reports from the show?

I have to confess to being less positive on this show than Whizzer (whose thoughtful reviews I always appreciate). I agree that Barks has charm and a great big voice, but I didn’t believe she (or any of the rest of the hugely talented, blameless cast) was used to the Herculean challenge of elevating this material.

The score is deadly—these songs are neither appealing nor productive. They each stop the show dead in its place because none of them move the action forward. They either re-establish place (“Welcome to Hollywood”) or grind on nailing a single internal thought repetitively (“I Can’t Go Back”). The book isn’t much help either, serving essentially as a Cliff’s Notes version of the movie.

Orfeh and Eric Anderson are saddled with the worst material. Again, not their fault. But whether Orfeh was belting about Rodeo Drive while tremendously unfashionable (even in the 90s) women danced behind her or Anderson was trying to sell a few bars of a rap written by Bryan Adams in “Never Give Up on a Dream,” they were fully committed but the songs were wince-inducing.

Allison Blackwell makes out best with ththe chance to sing a bit of La Traviata which she does with astonishing beauty. Of course, it helps that it’s a break from the generic pop we’ve been suffering through for two hours by that point.

I found the sets flat and unattractive, the costumes either a carbon copy of the movie (for Barks) or garish, the direction and choreography self-consciously busy, and the main relationship utterly lacking chemistry.

Again, there are enormously talented performers on that stage, but I felt they were utterly failed by the creative team top to bottom.

Well, the book being the movie script isn't really their fault. Gary Marshall has sadly passed on, so he can't update his story.

There also is another writer credited on both the screenplay and the musical. So someone is on hand who could work on it. And I agree—if they wanted to do a stronger adaptation, they’d have brought in someone with theater experience, particularly since Marshall passed away before the first production.