Revised Jane Eyre musical in Cleveland- Page 2

[Lot666]

Posted: 9/6/18 at 10:11am

Thanks for the video - this looks like a show I'd love!

[Wick3]

Posted: 9/7/18 at 11:59am

Just read this article from BWW:

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/VIDEO-Get-A-First-Look-At-Cleveland-Musical-Theatres-World-Premiere-Of-Revised-JANE-EYRE-20180907

I know Cleveland Musical theater is new but didn't know it was Cleveland's only equity theater company devoted to musical theater. Kudos to them! 

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 9/7/18 at 12:19pm

Yikes. Every song has new lyrics. It sounds like it's an entirely new show.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/7/18 at 1:22pm

It's killing me that I won't get to see this!  Shame that it's such a short run.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 9/7/18 at 3:38pm

What an incredibly short run!  Those clips made me want to see this.

[markypoo]

Posted: 9/7/18 at 7:41pm

Fortunate enough to have seen the original at the 5/19/01 matinee on B'way.
Also had the pleasure of meeting Schaffel and Barbour afterward, and took pictures with a disposable Kodak my Mother had given me as a gift.
Need to dig those out...

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 9/8/18 at 1:56am

markypoo said: "Marla Schaffel was nothing short of excellent in the original; imho."

Just a short note to thank everyone who recommended the score of the 2000 Jane Eyre. I'm a huge fan of the same composer's Daddy Long Legs, which I have played at least a hundred times.

Bought Jane Eyre and I find it lovely. It may have been too gloomy on stage, but play the recording while sipping a cocktail or smoking a joint and you get an entirely different experience.

[Wick3]

Posted: 9/10/18 at 9:34am

My friends and I watched this production this past Saturday evening and Andrea Goss blew us away as Jane Eyre! Yes, they made a lot of revisions and deleted a few songs (either completely or replaced them with a shorter song) but repeated a few of the main songs as a reprise. 

There were a few new songs but I didnt' feel it was a completely new musical. The main comedic and emotional elements are still there and though it's not a full orchestra, the music and score was still moving. 

Its last performance was yesterday but I really hope there will be other productions of this show and who knows, it may even come back to NYC though probably off-bway at first. I'm so glad I got to see this show after 17 years since seeing it on Bway!

[newintown]

Posted: 9/10/18 at 9:57am

As has been pointed out ad nauseum, flops like this don't become hits. A return to NYC isn't impossible, but its success is implausible. (Evidence: Carrie, Side Show, Gigi, etc., etc., etc.)

Here are quotes from the Times review of the original:

"But even with a dignified, assured performance by Marla Schaffel in the title role, the gloomy and mundane musical version of 'Jane Eyre' that opened yesterday on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theater captures few of the richly available nuances."

"What stands out in this production is the sense of scene-by-scene problem solving, a connect-the-dots approach to narrative that is particularly disappointing..."

"...the storytelling is fitful and hurried, a pace that accommodates a soundtrack but rarely pauses long enough for an actual song."

"...the design and lighting here are far from tepid, which is one word to apply to the score by Paul Gordon, whose work seems to be straight from the Broadway schmaltz kit of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Claude-Michel Schonberg ... we are given an undertow of melodic snippets, mostly of the brief arpeggio variety, climbing and descending stairs, resplendent with soapy minor-key harmonics, vaguely familiar and repeating themselves with abandon."

"The result is that a great adult fable has been attenuated to the thinness of a children's story."

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/10/18 at 12:35pm

I'm glad I enjoyed it much more than Bruce Weber.

[Wick3]

Posted: 9/10/18 at 7:51pm

lol +1 on enjoying it much more than the NYT reviewer! Back then I never read reviews; I just watched shows that interested me.

[Fan123]

Posted: 12/9/18 at 3:12am

For those interested, there's a new 2-disk live German-language cast recording of this show, from a 2018 Austrian production. Not sure if this is the revised version.

https://www.amazon.de/Jane-Eyre-Original-Cast-Gmunden/dp/B07L39X551/

http://musical-gmunden.com/news/jane-eyre-musical-cd/

[Fan123]

Posted: 5/13/22 at 5:08am

This revised chamber version of 'Jane Eyre' is getting a production in Japan next year:

https://janeeyre.jp/

Updated On: 5/13/22 at 05:08 AM

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 9/4/24 at 3:59pm

Did anyone catch the Theatre Raleigh stream of Jane Eyre? I assume it was the revised version they performed as it had the opening from the Toronto cast album and it was missing "Perfectly Nice," "The Finer Things," "Farewell, Good Angel" and a few other bits. Still enjoyable though and the young girl playing young Jane and Adele was excellent.