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PRISCILLA Reviews
#25PRISCILLA Reviews
Posted: 3/20/11 at 8:07pm
"ANYONE can open a blog and call themselves a critic."
Isn't there a certain CORNER that tries that?
#26PRISCILLA Reviews
Posted: 3/20/11 at 8:41pm
As it happens, I was sitting next to a very knowledgeable NY theatre fan during the March 16th 8p.m. showing of Priscilla. He pointed out a slender gentleman as the theatre critic Isherwood. Is it pretty much him and Brantley as the two critics who have the biggest influence? RC in Austin, Texas
alterego
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#28PRISCILLA Reviews
Posted: 3/20/11 at 8:56pmReidel will be interesting as he saw it about a month after it originally opened in Sydney.
#29PRISCILLA Reviews
Posted: 3/20/11 at 8:57pmRiedel isn't a critic; he's a columnist. He doesn't review shows.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#30PRISCILLA Reviews
Posted: 3/20/11 at 9:12pmAnd yet, on NPR's Studio 360 this week, he was called a theater critic and he did not correct the host.
broadwayman17
Broadway Star Joined: 10/27/07
#31PRISCILLA Reviews
Posted: 3/20/11 at 9:20pm
EW: B
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20364394_20475104,00.html
#32PRISCILLA Reviews
Posted: 3/20/11 at 9:24pm
Best line:
Needless to say, the show is campier than a tentful of Boy Scouts (working on their choreography merit badge).
#33PRISCILLA Reviews
Posted: 3/20/11 at 9:27pmThe EW really to put in two thin plot mentions? "thin road-trip yarn" and "nylon-thin plot"...hmph
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
#34PRISCILLA Reviews
Posted: 3/20/11 at 9:34pm
Chicago Tribune calls Priscilla a "far from revelatory but irresistibly enjoyable and big-hearted confection."
We three queens: Divas take a musical road trip
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#35PRISCILLA Reviews
Posted: 3/20/11 at 9:49pm
"a couple of shameless scene-stealers: Keala Settle as a mullet-haired bar owner with a private yearning for passion"
I'm so proud of her!!!!
andsym9001
Stand-by Joined: 5/16/08
#36PRISCILLA Reviews
Posted: 3/20/11 at 9:50pmDid EW confuse Jessica Philips character with Ashley Spencers?
#37PRISCILLA Reviews
Posted: 3/20/11 at 10:03pmI also thought it was Jessica Phillips playing Will Swenson's wife.
#38PRISCILLA Reviews
Posted: 3/20/11 at 10:12pm
Isherwood is up. Doesn't look great. Very positive for Sheldon, but that's about it.
“Priscilla” feels monotonous and mechanical. It lacks the narrative complexity of “La Cage” (egad, did I just write those words?) and isn’t as impishly clever as guilty-pleasure indulgences like “Mamma Mia!” and “Xanadu,” similarly ditzy musicals inviting audiences to take a mindless boogie down memory lane.
http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/03/21/theater/reviews/priscilla-queen-of-the-desert-on-broadway-review.html
Updated On: 3/20/11 at 10:12 PM
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#39PRISCILLA Reviews
Posted: 3/20/11 at 10:23pmIsherwood frankly prides himself on being in the minority about mainstream entertainment.
kyle4
Leading Actor Joined: 10/9/10
#40PRISCILLA Reviews
Posted: 3/20/11 at 10:23pm
OH MY GOD... kyle four.... the THEATER BUFF.... said the SAME stuff as ISHERWOOD.... WEEKS AGO.....
http://thetheaterbuff.typepad.com/the-theater-buff/2011/02/wheres-stephen-spinella.html
WAIT... THAT'S ME !!!!!!
#41PRISCILLA Reviews
Posted: 3/20/11 at 10:25pm
On DidHeLikeIt.com: The Unofficial Ben Brantley vs. The World aggregator, 3/5 were positive in their reviews, with 2 at the polar opposite end.
DId He Like It?
#42PRISCILLA Reviews
Posted: 3/20/11 at 10:38pm
Isherwood, for the most part, hit the nail on the head for me.
At first I was not crazy about the lip-synching but then I realized what they were doing. A lot of drag queens lip-synch and I really think that was executed well with the Diva's doing the singing. So I don't agree with the negative comments about the lip-synching.
tourboi
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/15/05
#43PRISCILLA Reviews
Posted: 3/20/11 at 10:55pmAnd yet, Kyle4, one thing remains unchanged: no one cares. Those who liked the show will continue to like it. Those who didn't, likewise.
kyle4
Leading Actor Joined: 10/9/10
#44PRISCILLA Reviews
Posted: 3/20/11 at 10:57pmBROADWAY CARES !!!!!
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#45PRISCILLA Reviews
Posted: 3/20/11 at 11:02pm
"Probably a few inconceivable surfaces have been accessorized with equally exotic detail, but I hesitate to inquire."
Why is he revealing his fantasies in this way? Who are these buffoons who write these sorts of things nowadways and have their editors all been the victims of budget cuts?
#46PRISCILLA Reviews
Posted: 3/20/11 at 11:10pm
I think the rave in the Philadelphia Inquirer sums it up for me:
"Priscilla is so sound, so right, and after seeing it, I can't imagine it any other way. Just give yourself over to its giddy theatrical turns. It is, after all, about acceptance."
#47PRISCILLA Reviews
Posted: 3/20/11 at 11:11pm
Just came from the opening. Saw in London last year, but I have to say the Broadway production is even better! Cast is super slick and the show was fabulous.
** Plus, I love the fact that the Opening Night Playbill is actually "SEQUIN"NED...(Take that Isherwood!)
As much as I was surprised (again) at how much fun the show is, I do hope this can do well with the tri-state and tourist audience....We'll soon see. Congrats to the cast and crew on a great opening!
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#48PRISCILLA Reviews
Posted: 3/20/11 at 11:14pmIt is what it is -- an excuse to provide some eye-catching musical numbers as it goes through its rudimentary "book." Take it as that and you'll have a good time; start looking for Chicago or The King and I and you wil not like it. A great show? No. An entertaining one, absolutely.
#49PRISCILLA Reviews
Posted: 3/20/11 at 11:14pm
Why do I get the feeling you're an a-hole if you have a less-than-favorable opinion about this show?
So some people don't like it. Boohoo.
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