Six Dance Lessons

[Jamie]

Posted: 10/30/03 at 9:07pm

Any know if this will be around for a while after the reviews they recieved?

[tkts]

Posted: 10/30/03 at 9:19pm

My guess, less than 3 weeks.

[Corine2]

Posted: 10/31/03 at 8:58am

I had tickets for it and then someone offered to take me to Millie. So I gave the ticket to my boss.
He loved it. Did anyone else see it and like it?
I love Polly Bergen.
Updated On: 10/31/03 at 08:58 AM

[QueenS]

Posted: 10/31/03 at 9:34am

Polly Bergen aside, the evening is a disaster. The script is weak, the direction poor and Mark Hamill is worse than you could possibly expect.

Ms. Bergen, however, comes off quite well. She actually made me laugh a few times. But this show is not worth seeing.

[lc1965]

Posted: 10/31/03 at 9:34am

So did my mom & a lot of the younger Bway fans I know. Most of the reviewers complained about predictability -- if that's a problem, how do you explain the popularity sitcoms? Sometimes we want to joy of a performance w/o having to worry about whether teh show is innovative or earth-shattering in any way. Well, I guess they get paid to write SOMETHING so it's the people who read the reviews who are equally to blame for putting too much stock in them. I'm looking forward to seeing it.

[JKB2]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 1:31am

I saw it and thought it was hysterical. I don't get why the reviewers are panning it, apparently just because it's not intellectually deep enough. It's really funny and the ending made me cry (and I wasn't the only one).

[logan30]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 11:25am

When you consider that the the most popular plays in summer stock and community theater are sentinmental drivel like On Golden Pond, Same Time Next Year, Driving Miss Daisy, and Steel Magnolias -- I've think they've got a winner in the long run. This play will paying royalties to the writer for the next few decades. (Does anyone remember that On Golden Pond received scathing reviews when it opened on Broadway and ran only a few weeks?)

[WOSQ]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 11:44am

Six Dance Lessons is not a good play. Predictable and simplistic, but also not painful to sit through.

That said, I'd book bigger TV oriented stars and try to get a tour out of it. It could make a lot of people happy: audiences, local promoters, investors.

This play could play split weeks and one week stands plus some one-nighters, all on guarantee against percentage and come out well. It could do a full season on the road followed by a stock tour or two.

The running costs cannot be much:
two actors
two understudies
two stage managers
one set where nothing moves; they don't even use the house curtain
basic crew plus two dressers
some music clearance fees

The NY running costs are low for the same reasons, and there is probably a small advance with the discount mailer that was 35/40 which is downright cheap.

After a show goes up, you've got to wish them well. Even Fran and Barry. Well, some of the time.

[logan30]

Posted: 11/4/03 at 11:58am

Had Rue McClanahan not dropped out of the cast the play would probably have had a healthy 6-month run based on her box-office appeal. Polly Bergen is very talented but she is not a Golden Girl.

Posted: 11/4/03 at 12:29pm

I love Rue! She is so damn funny. I wish she had done the show.