#51
Posted: 4/7/09 at 10:14pm
USA Today is VERY NEGATIVE:
"You're better off buying an '80s hits collection ? or, to borrow a line from Journey, taking a midnight train going anywhere."
"In fairness, this alternately snarky and sappy songfest, which opened Tuesday at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre, focuses on a specific portion of that decade's pop terrain: the land of hair bands and power ballads ? acts and songs that one associates with fans pumping fists and waving cigarette lighters in smoke-filled arenas.
If Ages appeals to those fans, it also mocks them, as surely as the stage adaptation of Xanadu mocked roller disco, and with even less imagination. There is a flimsy plot about a rock club under threat from a greedy developer, but Chris D'Arienzo's book is essentially a series of winking setups for songs by the likes of Bon Jovi, Journey, Poison, Whitesnake and Twisted Sister."
1/2 * out of 4
USA Today ROA Broadway Review
"You're better off buying an '80s hits collection ? or, to borrow a line from Journey, taking a midnight train going anywhere."
"In fairness, this alternately snarky and sappy songfest, which opened Tuesday at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre, focuses on a specific portion of that decade's pop terrain: the land of hair bands and power ballads ? acts and songs that one associates with fans pumping fists and waving cigarette lighters in smoke-filled arenas.
If Ages appeals to those fans, it also mocks them, as surely as the stage adaptation of Xanadu mocked roller disco, and with even less imagination. There is a flimsy plot about a rock club under threat from a greedy developer, but Chris D'Arienzo's book is essentially a series of winking setups for songs by the likes of Bon Jovi, Journey, Poison, Whitesnake and Twisted Sister."
1/2 * out of 4
USA Today ROA Broadway Review
