Saturday Church at NYTW- Page 3

[spicemonkey]

Posted: 9/1/25 at 11:36pm

RUkiddingme said: "i bet the marketing team didn't think the discussion on this show would dissolve to earplugs one week into the run! LOL"

LOL plus a cue to Patti LuPone 

[OhHiii]

Posted: 9/2/25 at 9:10am

RUkiddingme said: "i bet the marketing team didn't think the discussion on this show would dissolve to earplugs one week into the run! LOL"

I assure you that the producers care more than the marketing team lollll.

 

[TheQuibbler]

Posted: 9/2/25 at 9:18am

uncageg said: "iluvtheatertrash said: "Thanks for the tip. I’ve always worried it would mean I couldnt make out lyrics, but I’ll give it a try."



There are so many types and brands to choose from. My job offers the 3M 1100 foam plugs. A lot of people don't like them. They keep popping out. However they still allow you to hear everything, just muted.

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I’d also really recommend Loops; they’re designed to sit in your ear pretty comfortably, nothing at all like the foam plugs. Unless you’re swinging your head around, they should stay put with minimal effort. 

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 9/2/25 at 1:46pm

spicemonkey said: "RUkiddingme said: "i bet the marketing team didn't think the discussion on this show would dissolve to earplugs one week into the run! LOL"

LOL plus a cue to Patti LuPone"

LOL 😂 Sorry!!!! I am not meaning to sound like Patti though promise! Let it be loud, I just need to prepare :)

 

 

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 9/2/25 at 1:47pm

thanks for the tips, all! Loops ordered.

[Sauja]

Posted: 9/2/25 at 10:10pm

Listen. If they scrap the book and the score, they might have something…

 

I like the original movie, but this is bad. It’s just bad. I think we CAN still have coming out stories. Especially when they center perspectives different than the ones that have been most covered. But the writing is inept, and the music doesn’t move the plot forward even a millimeter.

 

Joaquina Kalukango acts her face off as Aunt Rose, the only character to have what can even be considered to be a narrative arc, but you can’t spin gold out of nothing. 
 

So many people involved have done great work elsewhere, but this is unsalvageable.

[Birdie Boy]

Posted: 9/2/25 at 10:22pm

It also lacks pizzazz. The audience was hungry for more big numbers, more ballroom, more sassy one lines.  If they can get Michael R Jackson to do that book and lyrics, I think they’d have something.  And a new director of course 

[kurtal]

Posted: 9/2/25 at 11:45pm

Has potential.  Needs a LOT of work.  Pretty much everything I think has already been mentioned.  One book thing that drove me nuts:

 

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I kept expecting there to be some connection between Sasha (Ebony's dead friend) and Ulysses's dad.  The book is screaming that there's some big reveal.  But it never goes anywhere.

I don't actually want there to be a connection -- that would be even more trivial that the current state.  But the book structure kept me trying to find parallels between Saturday Church and Sunday Church.

 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 9/2/25 at 11:54pm

Birdie Boy said: "If they can get Michael R Jackson to do that book and lyrics, I think they’d have something. And a new director of course"

So you're suggesting that they should completely start from scratch with only the melodies and the general storyline from the film in place...?

The theatre world does not work like that, 99.5 percent of the time. And the .5% of the time when that does happen, the end results usually aren't that good...FINDING NEVERLAND, LITTLE WOMEN, BEACHES, etc.

[Birdie Boy]

Posted: 9/3/25 at 12:08am

Yes that is exactly what I’m suggesting. I mean, maybe they can salvage it, but it’s all just so amateur, horrible book, no depth whatsoever.  Maybe James Ijames can fix it, but Whitney White has proven herself to be really bad at musicals.  Bare minimum, they need a new director for sure. 
 

Kurtal, I think the connection between the two churches was the idea of grievance and family.  We see Ebony and Kristolyn Lloyd characters both mothers and both dealing with loss.