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Photo Flash: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' At The Old Globe Theatre

Photo Flash: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' At The Old Globe Theatre

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ljay889
#2re: Photo Flash: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' At The Old Globe Theatre
Posted: 7/22/09 at 12:31am

Well the ladies look great.

TheatreDork2
#2re: Photo Flash: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' At The Old Globe Theatre
Posted: 7/22/09 at 12:38am

That looks horrible.

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adamgreer
#3re: Photo Flash: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' At The Old Globe Theatre
Posted: 7/22/09 at 12:47am

Hey, look...

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re: Photo Flash: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' At The Old Globe Theatre


Updated On: 7/22/09 at 12:47 AM

TheatreDork2
#4re: Photo Flash: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' At The Old Globe Theatre
Posted: 7/22/09 at 12:49am

Not surprised...

Phyllis Rogers Stone
#5re: Photo Flash: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' At The Old Globe Theatre
Posted: 7/22/09 at 12:53am

I feel raped on behalf of both of those movies.

jennafan
#6re: Photo Flash: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' At The Old Globe Theatre
Posted: 7/22/09 at 1:06am

This show might have gone in trying to be like 9 to 5, but now it may switch and try and be more like Mamma Mia.

Sadly, I think it will have a hard time finding an audience. I'll wait for more reviews though.

TheatreDork2
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starlyricist
#8re: Photo Flash: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' At The Old Globe Theatre
Posted: 7/22/09 at 12:53pm

John Dossett...in leather.

For that, I'll pay full price.

Otherwise, meh.


There are some people in the world who say that writing stories, or composing music or dancing sparkly dances is easy for them. Nothing interferes with their ability to create. While I celebrate their creative freedom, a little part of me just wants to punch those motherf*ckers in the teeth...[tos]

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bjh2114
#9re: Photo Flash: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' At The Old Globe Theatre
Posted: 7/22/09 at 12:54pm

Adamgreer, i thought the same thing when I saw those photos.

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WiCkEDrOcKS
#10re: Photo Flash: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' At The Old Globe Theatre
Posted: 7/22/09 at 1:16pm

Am I the only person who is excited for this (what is bound to be a) mess of a show?

It looks like it'll be campy fun, if nothing else. We'll see.

Phyllis Rogers Stone
#11re: Photo Flash: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' At The Old Globe Theatre
Posted: 7/22/09 at 1:17pm

To be fair, you're also the person who thinks 9 to 5 works better on stage.

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WiCkEDrOcKS
#12re: Photo Flash: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' At The Old Globe Theatre
Posted: 7/22/09 at 1:19pm

K, thanks.

I heart uncalled for snarkiness.

Phyllis Rogers Stone
#13re: Photo Flash: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' At The Old Globe Theatre
Posted: 7/22/09 at 1:45pm

I'm not being snarky. I'm just putting your comments in context.

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BobbyBubby
#14re: Photo Flash: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' At The Old Globe Theatre
Posted: 7/22/09 at 2:11pm

It looks like the actors costumed themselves.

And could Barbara Walsh look more bored in these pictures?

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americanboy99
#15re: Photo Flash: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' At The Old Globe Theatre
Posted: 7/22/09 at 2:19pm

Barbara looks a tad bored, but also very beautiful. She looks like she dropped ten years since COMPANY.


timote316
#16re: Photo Flash: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' At The Old Globe Theatre
Posted: 7/22/09 at 2:30pm

I know its hard to judge fully from pictures, but this looks like another bang-up staging job by Francesca Zambello.

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Bettyboy72
#17re: Photo Flash: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' At The Old Globe Theatre
Posted: 7/22/09 at 5:09pm

That cast is not going to bring anyone in the theatre. This musical is resting solely on the name recognition of the film, so I hope it is good. It's a third rate cast full of supporting actors in leading roles.


"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello

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BroadwayBaby6
#18re: Photo Flash: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' At The Old Globe Theatre
Posted: 7/22/09 at 5:20pm

Is anybody else puzzled by the choice of Francesca Zambello as the director for this show? Her musical theatre record has been disastrous --- the cheesy Rebecca, the charmless Showboat, the interminably boring Napoleon, the leaden Little House on the Prairie and the amateurish Little Mermaid.

Zambello is thorougly grounded in opera but has no real love or understanding of musical theatre. While her record of directing opera has been uneven, she at least knows opera inside and out. She knows nothing about musical theatre.




"It does what a musical is supposed to do; it takes you to another world. And it gives you a little tune to carry in your head. Something to take you away from the dreary horrors of the real world. A little something for when you're feeling blue. You know?"

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americanboy99
#19re: Photo Flash: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' At The Old Globe Theatre
Posted: 7/22/09 at 5:29pm

Nothing about this show excites me. I love the film; I suppose that's the only slightly exciting part. This cast is rather upsetting- obvious talent, too little star power.

9 TO 5 has much more star power in its cast, its based on a film that I suppose is just about equal in popularity, and its got Dolly Parton attached. I just don't see how WIVES can work.


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madophelia
#20re: Photo Flash: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' At The Old Globe Theatre
Posted: 7/22/09 at 6:12pm

9 TO 5 has much more star power in its cast, its based on a film that I suppose is just about equal in popularity, and its got Dolly Parton attached. I just don't see how WIVES can work.

The movies are hardly equal in popularity. I'd say FWC is far more popular and known even by younger audiences. Perhaps you've forgotten that 9 to 5 came out in 1980, while the FWC was 1996 and it plays on TV all the time. I'm sure I've only seen 9 to 5 once, but if I notice FWC on TV, I'd watch.

While I was monitoring Twitter for some news of the previews, there were tons of tweets about the movie.

9 to 5 spoke to an older generation of women, who were enterting the workplace in the 1970s-80s, when discrimination was at its worse and the glass ceiling was more like concrete.

The FWC has a far broader appeal and wouldn't be considered by younger women as so irrelevant. Most younger women today, I've found, can't fathom how horrible the corporate workplace was for women in those days.

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Pgenre
#21re: Photo Flash: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' At The Old Globe Theatre
Posted: 7/22/09 at 8:19pm

My expectations have been met! Perhaps surpassed...

...

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A Good Nightmare Comes So Rarely,
I'll Show You Yours If You Show Me Mine.

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jakebloke
#22re: Photo Flash: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' At The Old Globe Theatre
Posted: 7/22/09 at 9:47pm

The cast is such a snooooooooozefest!!! I remember rumors a while back with Bernadette Peters and Megan Mullally......those 2 alone would get me into the theater. This cast just seems so blah to me.

AndAllThatJazz22
#23re: Photo Flash: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' At The Old Globe Theatre
Posted: 7/22/09 at 9:51pm

9 to 5, Vanities, and now The First Wives Club. These three women girl-power musicals are starting to get over used.


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-Danmeg's 10 year old son.

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sally1112
#24re: Photo Flash: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' At The Old Globe Theatre
Posted: 7/22/09 at 9:59pm

I agree Allthat, even if this were a good thing, it is just too much of it!


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