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#26

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

Posted: 7/23/09 at 10:15pm

They do seem really bored, it's weird. The songs also just didn't come across as very good for the stage, IMO.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
#27

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

Posted: 7/23/09 at 10:21pm

Barbara Walsh's expression says it all!
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Updated On: 7/23/09 at 10:21 PM

#28

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

Posted: 7/23/09 at 10:29pm

That first song is so boring. And it all just looks sloppy and uncreative. Francesca Zambello just needs to go away. Now.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
#29

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

Posted: 7/23/09 at 10:36pm

I thought the first song wasn't...too awful. But what was that staging? Were they just running around the table? And that second song made me want to scream at someone. Probably Zambello.
Also, I just watched it again (and it was just even worse) and I realized the dance move Ziemba was doing that I couldn't place. The CHARLIE BROWN. You know, from the Cha Cha Slide you did in 7th grade. Any Broadway-bound musical that features the charlie brown in its choreography is in deeper trouble than they apparently realize...
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim

Updated On: 7/23/09 at 10:36 PM

#33

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

Posted: 7/23/09 at 11:11pm

This looks atrocious. It's hard to stomach one of my favorite movies being turned into a ****show. re: STAGE TUBE: 'THE FIRST WIVES CLUB' Video Preview!

Why didn't they hire Marc Shaiman??????????????????????
...everyone was doing the mambo and drinking golden cadillacs...
#34

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

Posted: 7/23/09 at 11:24pm

I think... that was the worst thing I've ever seen.

THIS is what people who don't like musicals point to, boiled down to a pure id.

///// F////// MONKEY /////, that was terrible.
"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
#36

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

Posted: 7/24/09 at 12:06am

Francesca Zambello is a HOT mess. She literally did one of the worst directorial jobs I've ever seen on a stage with her work in MERMAID. And something tells me her work on FWC won't be far behind.
#37

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

Posted: 7/24/09 at 12:46am

Jesus.

Well, this is what happens when you hire Francesca Zambello to direct a musical. Good lord, that was bad.

"outrageous contagious." What clever lyrics.

Does running around in circles pass for choreography these days?

And, is there a law somewhere that says that whenever you cast a black woman in a musical now, she must be SASSY????? And sing GOSPEL??????

There's no way this opens in NY, which is a shame because it looks like one of those delightful train wrecks that are fun to watch because they're so horrendous. This makes 9 to 5 look like Gypsy.

Updated On: 7/24/09 at 12:46 AM

#43

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

Posted: 7/24/09 at 4:50am

Gosh. Who put that video together and meant it for publicity?!

Francess Z really has put no effort into this at all.

The whole show, which I think could still work, it great materical, needs tightening up no end and Barbara Walsh (shame, love her in Company) needs to go - Megan Mulluly, come on down, please!
#45

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

Posted: 7/24/09 at 8:14am

I have never been a fan of the mediocre Barbara Walsh or Karen Ziemba. This video just confirms that even more. What dreck. May this show never see the light of day on Broadway.

Francesca Z. thy middle name is Trainwreck. She should be banned from theatrical productions forever.

Updated On: 7/24/09 at 08:14 AM

#46

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

Posted: 7/24/09 at 8:17am

That first song was literally three words repeated over and over. Inspired.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
#47

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

Posted: 7/24/09 at 9:20am

I have never been a fan of the mediocre Barbara Walsh or Karen Ziemba. This video just confirms that even more

Me too! I love Sheryl Lee Ralph, though. She deserves better.
#48

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

Posted: 7/24/09 at 9:33am

From this video, and the rehearsal video, it seems like all of the songs sound the same, and none of them fit into this show well. I know I haven't seen it yet, but I am sure NOT excited to with videos like these. Good thing I live near Chicago, so the out of town try out I am seeing is Addams Family!
#50

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

Posted: 7/24/09 at 9:57am

Sheryl Lee Ralph is working her ass off, again...love her. I've never "gotten" Karen Ziemba. I find her charm-free. Barbara Walsh hasnt impressed me since Falsettos.

I do have to say that Zambello's work has been highly regarded before Mermaid, including the bway bound "Rebecca".

This clearly stinks (the lyrics...OY!)
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