Real Women Have Curves - Previews- Page 2
Real Women Have Curves - Previews
ajh
Broadway Star Joined: 5/6/11
#25Real Women Have Curves - Broadway
Posted: 3/30/25 at 8:40am
Really pleased to hear this was looking good in its dress rehearsal. I’ve got preview tickets in a couple of weeks, and I have become slightly addicted to the songs already released. ‘Make It Work’ and the title song are real ear worms. It’s not a particularly original sound but that Latin beat meets theatrical bombast reminds me of In The Heights, and I love that score. RWHC has a decent story, plus the themes of immigrants fitting in within the USA feels extremely relevant….I’m quietly optimistic that this is going to be a good one.
BroadwayBen
Broadway Star Joined: 6/5/03
#26Real Women Have Curves - Broadway
Posted: 3/30/25 at 11:41am
I'm looking forward to this one too...Have they announced if they will (eventually) make a recording?
#27Real Women Have Curves - Broadway
Posted: 3/30/25 at 3:46pm
I really think once the word gets out, this show will be really hard to get tickets to, the audience reaction was insane, so this will be a hard ticket to get. Buy them now while they are still affordable.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
#28Real Women Have Curves - Broadway
Posted: 3/30/25 at 7:47pm
muscle23ftl said: "I really think once the word gets out, this show will be really hard to get tickets to, the audience reaction was insane, so this will be a hard ticket to get. Buy them now while they are still affordable."
Glad you enjoyed it! But...you attended the invited dress, right? Those tend to be audiences that are already friendly...
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#29Real Women Have Curves - Broadway
Posted: 3/30/25 at 7:56pm
muscle23ftl said: "I just went to see the dress rehearsal, this show could open tomorrow and it's in excellent shape (I can't say this about the other shows I have seen recently) this show was simply fabulous!"
Well, the show does start in two days :) but I'm glad you loved it. The music is incredible and the tickets are very affordable for the season so hopefully it will be a hit!
starlightlocamotion
Stand-by Joined: 1/22/14
#30Real Women Have Curves - Broadway
Posted: 3/30/25 at 7:57pm
For what it’s worth … I know two different people who attended the invited dress last night & raved about it. The feel good show of the season.
#31Real Women Have Curves - Broadway
Posted: 3/30/25 at 8:19pm
Sales are miserable and I hope they can pick up, but in a best-case scenario at the moment, I unfortunately see this taking THE HEART OF ROCK AND ROLL’s route. Good WOM, perhaps some better-than-expected notices, but they simply fall victim to a crowded musical season with superior options.
Or, given some of the out-of-town reviews, they could just as easily go out with a whimper like LEMPICKA.
Well, I’ll be. That bird really did it.
Updated On: 3/30/25 at 08:19 PM
#32Real Women Have Curves - Broadway
Posted: 3/31/25 at 12:00am
Flying away, the wind on my side…
The shapely Latina immigrants of Real Women Have Curves get ready to make it work on Broadway. Based on Josefina López’s 1990 play of the same name which was adapted into a 2002 movie, this vibrant new musical — which premiered last winter in Boston — stars Bay Area product Tatianna Córdoba in her Main Stem debut as Ana García. Also featured are Justina Machado, Florencia Cuenca, Mauricio Mendoza, Jennifer Sánchez, Carla Jimenez, Aline Mayagoitia, Shelby Acosta, Sandra Valls, and Mason Reeves. Real Women Have Curves features an original score by Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez, with a book by Lisa Loomer and Nell Benjamin and direction and choreography by Sergio Trujillo. Previews begin tomorrow (April 1) before an April 27 opening at the James Earl Jones Theatre.
“Ana García dreams of flying away. But when her family’s East Los Angeles garment business receives a make-or-break order for 200 dresses, Ana finds herself juggling her own ambitions, her mother Carmen’s expectations, and a community of women all trying to make it work against the odds.”
Who’s heading to Boyle Heights?
(And thank you, Sutton Ross, for updating the thread title!)
Well, I’ll be. That bird really did it.
#33Real Women Have Curves - Broadway
Posted: 3/31/25 at 10:51am
Monkey, you are correct, but the people who attended with me were not friends with anyone, so I'm talking for us 3. The audience may have been friendly though. But I feel that the reaction was legit. Unlike when I saw Tammy Faye for example and had a screaming queen next to me but the rest of the audience was a bit more "polite". This felt honest.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#35Real Women Have Curves - Broadway
Posted: 4/1/25 at 11:20am
9-piece band for this show. Orchestrations by Bill Sherman and Cian McCarthy, and the conductor is Roberto Sinha.
- 2 Keyboards
- Trumpet / Flugelhorn
- Drums
- Percussion
- 2 Guitars
- Electric Bass / Acoustic Bass
- Cello
Also worth noting that the official website lists a 2:10 runtime with an intermission. (It clocked in at 2:40 out of town.)
Well, I’ll be. That bird really did it.
Updated On: 4/1/25 at 11:20 AM
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