STAGE TUBE: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' Video Preview!

[EddieVarley]

STAGE TUBE: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' Video Preview!#1

Posted: 7/23/09 at 8:15pm

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[insertclevernamehere]

re: STAGE TUBE: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' Video Preview!#2

Posted: 7/23/09 at 8:24pm

Oh. God.
This show needs some serious work.

Oh, and I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop.

[TheatreDork2]

re: STAGE TUBE: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' Video Preview!#2

Posted: 7/23/09 at 8:26pm

That was hellish.

[CapnHook]

re: STAGE TUBE: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' Video Preview!#3

Posted: 7/23/09 at 8:27pm

Not gonna lie, it looks BAD but FUN, just like NINE TO FIVE and MAMMA MIA!. All of which happen to feature a gal trio...hmmmm.......

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

[lovesclassics]

re: STAGE TUBE: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' Video Preview!#4

Posted: 7/23/09 at 8:28pm

Man. If that's the best clip they could post to sell the show, they are in big trouble!

I really think these out-of-context video previews do more harm than good.

[songanddanceman2]

re: STAGE TUBE: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' Video Preview!#5

Posted: 7/23/09 at 8:28pm

That was awful, like really bad.....it made me want to kick puppies

Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

re: STAGE TUBE: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' Video Preview!#6

Posted: 7/23/09 at 8:29pm

Wow. Just when I think it can't look any crappier, it tops itself again.

Wow. Just ... wow.

[insertclevernamehere]

re: STAGE TUBE: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' Video Preview!#7

Posted: 7/23/09 at 8:35pm

CapnHook, the difference between this show and other "bad-fun" show is energy. I hated Mamma Mia, but I remember thinking that the whole cast had so much energy if they crashed into a wall, they'd run right through it. Bad-fun shows have to compensate for their poor material by having a cast that looks like they want to be there. First Wives Club is only in out-of-town tryouts and the whole cast already looks bored and embarrassed to be in the show.

Oh, and I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop.

[songanddanceman2]

re: STAGE TUBE: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' Video Preview!#8

Posted: 7/23/09 at 8:37pm

Oh i just had to watch it again to see if it was as bad as i thought and phew....its not

ITS WORSE

MAKE IT STOP!!!!

Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

re: STAGE TUBE: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' Video Preview!#9

Posted: 7/23/09 at 8:41pm

I know, right? I mean, everything I've seen plays like a parody.

[songanddanceman2]

re: STAGE TUBE: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' Video Preview!#10

Posted: 7/23/09 at 8:48pm

It really does Phyllis Rogers Stone your right

Its like someone is taking the piss and has not let the cast in on the joke

Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

re: STAGE TUBE: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' Video Preview!#11

Posted: 7/23/09 at 8:52pm

And I'm a total bitch for saying so, but it really does warm my heart to see almost universal scorn for this mess.

Now watch it come to NYC and be a huge hit. Or not.

I wish I could see it now, because I'm beginning to think that maybe there will be an element of "so bad it's good to it," but I really wish Sheryl Lee Ralph will get out now. She's the only rat I care about on this sinking ship.

[TheatreDork2]

re: STAGE TUBE: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' Video Preview!#12

Posted: 7/23/09 at 8:59pm

This is one of those shows that you wouldn't mind be fired from.

It's like getting kicked of the Titanic.

[Broadwayboy2631]

re: STAGE TUBE: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' Video Preview!#13

Posted: 7/23/09 at 9:04pm

Wow, I always thought that the First Wives club could make a good musical, but this is just horrible.

[jennafan]

re: STAGE TUBE: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' Video Preview!#14

Posted: 7/23/09 at 9:09pm

Ok, how does this work? If this show already has producers backing it for Broadway, why is it playing in San Diego?

If this is a pre-Broadway tryout and fails in Cali, will it still go forward to Broadway? It really looks bad.

[TheatreDork2]

re: STAGE TUBE: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' Video Preview!#15

Posted: 7/23/09 at 9:17pm

"It has been an honor performing with you ladies, sort of."

[AndAllThatJazz22]

re: STAGE TUBE: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' Video Preview!#16

Posted: 7/23/09 at 9:18pm

...I just threw up in my mouth...

"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.

[BillFinn]

re: STAGE TUBE: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' Video Preview!#17

Posted: 7/23/09 at 9:18pm

The material is interesting, but Karen Mason! She totally blew me away. She's just a little spitfire.

Bill Finn rocks. Woot.

[songanddanceman2]

re: STAGE TUBE: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' Video Preview!#18

Posted: 7/23/09 at 9:21pm

LMAO At the Titanic pic

Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna

[iflip4musicals]

re: STAGE TUBE: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' Video Preview!#19

Posted: 7/23/09 at 9:26pm

I will join songanddanceman in the puppy kicking. wow that was awful! the best part of watching it was seeing the titanic picture after!

"I've never encountered such religiously, you know, loyal fans as Broadway musical theater fans. It's amazing." --Allison Janney

[DottieD'Luscia]

re: STAGE TUBE: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' Video Preview!#20

Posted: 7/23/09 at 9:28pm

Two words - Francesca Zambello.

Is anyone else surprised?

Hey Dottie! Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

re: STAGE TUBE: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' Video Preview!#21

Posted: 7/23/09 at 9:29pm

That was awful. But more fun that it should have been.

[somethingwicked]

re: STAGE TUBE: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' Video Preview!#22

Posted: 7/23/09 at 9:30pm

BillFinn, that was Karen Ziemba, not Karen Mason (though they do look alike.)

Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

re: STAGE TUBE: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' Video Preview!#23

Posted: 7/23/09 at 9:57pm

[BillFinn]

re: STAGE TUBE: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' Video Preview!#24

Posted: 7/23/09 at 10:03pm

Thanks for the heads up! I'm getting my Karens, Kates, and Mary Louise's mixed up lately.

Is it me or does Barbara Walsh seem... a little lackluster? For instance, in that white suit-pic, Karen and Sheryl look like they're really INTO IT and Barbara is just wafting. In the video, she seems less into it too. Maybe I'm nitpicking though.

Bill Finn rocks. Woot.