Six on Broadway- release its reviews now!

[nycesq]

Posted: 6/4/20 at 10:57pm

The opening  night didn’t go on due to Gov. Cuomo’s shutdown of Broadway.  
The reviewers already saw the show and they are sitting on the reviews.

Wouldn’t it be a grand gesture that these reviews be released?


 

 

 

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 6/4/20 at 11:09pm

I recall hearing that the producers asked them NOT to release reviews so that the buzz would not be wasted on the period of uncertainty that they were facing.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/4/20 at 11:54pm

1) Why so angry?

2) It makes zero sense to release them now. They’ll do it when they reopen as a big Re-Opening night celebration with the first show to get reviewed and get all the buzz and publicity from that. Why on earth would they just put the reviews out now when nobody’s paying attention?

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 6/4/20 at 11:56pm

Before the shutdown, The Guardian (U.K.) gave "Six" on Broadway 3/5. (the same newspaper gave it 4/5 in London)

Highlights:

"Imagine 'Queen for a Day' meets 'The X Factor' meets Antonia Fraser and you're pretty much there."

"If the pastiche music shows its student show roots, the sugar-spiked performances are entirely professional, often virtuosic."

"Having the women compete for most miserable reinscribes a Broadway trope in which women’s stories don’t count unless they are stories of suffering. Even as the women serve as each other’s back-up singers, the show’s structure positions them as rivals, rather than nudging them toward solidarity and shared experience."

"It's girls-to-the-front ethos feels unexamined and vacant."

"Long live these queens. Now give them the anthems they deserve."

 

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/mar/12/six-review-henry-viii-wives-bring-empty-pop-spectacle-to-broadway

[dramamama611]

Posted: 6/5/20 at 12:10am

The other replies here are correct. The reviews, if good, are free advertising of the best kind. Releasing them know would be a wasted moment.

Let the women, hopefully, have their day when the show is allowed to open.

[cliffordbradshaw2]

Posted: 6/5/20 at 12:12am

Reviewing the Chicago production of "Six" a year ago in the New York Times, Jesse Green called the show "great."  It seems likely that Green will be reviewing the Broadway "Six" (same cast as in Chicago) for the Times, so we can be reasonably confident about the verdict. 

[MollyJeanneMusic]

Posted: 6/5/20 at 9:32am

Jordan Levinson said: "Before the shutdown, The Guardian (U.K.) gave "Six" on Broadway 3/5. (the same newspaper gave it4/5 in London)

Highlights:

"Imagine 'Queen for a Day' meets 'The X Factor' meets Antonia Fraser and you're pretty much there."

"If the pastiche music shows its student show roots, the sugar-spiked performances are entirely professional, often virtuosic."

"Having the women compete for most miserable reinscribes a Broadway trope in which women’s stories don’t count unless they are stories of suffering. Even as the women serve as each other’s back-up singers, the show’s structure positions them as rivals, rather than nudging them toward solidarity and shared experience."

"It's girls-to-the-front ethos feels unexamined and vacant."

"Long live these queens. Now give them the anthems they deserve."



https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/mar/12/six-review-henry-viii-wives-bring-empty-pop-spectacle-to-broadway"

I never got this review - isn't the whole point of the show is that...

 

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they staged the competition to point out how ridiculous the "stories of suffering" trope is?

 

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 6/5/20 at 10:23am

No need for an exclamation point. Let's de-escalate.

Right now with the closures, and after the hard look at its own issues with race this week, the last thing anyone on Broadway needs are reviews that won't do anything for anyone. 

[carnzee]

Posted: 6/5/20 at 11:26am

"Having the women compete for most miserable reinscribes a Broadway trope in which women’s stories don’t count unless they are stories of suffering."

This...just seems so wrong. Off the top of my head I can think of several female characters in musicals who don't "suffer" and no one ever said there stories didn't count. Sure there are the Fantines, Kims, and Grizzabellas but then there are so many others: Joanne, Anna, Desiree, Beverly Bass, Mrs. Lovett, Ado Annie etc. Sure these characters face obstacles but none are suffering tragedy queens.

[JSquared2]

Posted: 6/5/20 at 11:35am

carnzee said: "


"Having the women compete for most miserable reinscribes a Broadway trope in which women’s stories don’t count unless they are stories of suffering."

This...just seems so wrong. Off the top of my head I can think of several female characters in musicals who don't "suffer" and no one ever said there stories didn't count. Sure there are the Fantines, Kims, and Grizzabellas but then there are so many others: Joanne, Anna, Desiree, Beverly Bass, Mrs. Lovett, Ado Annie etc. Sure these characters face obstacles but none are suffering tragedy queens."

 

Mrs. Lovett doesn't suffer? Umm...did you stay for Act II?  Also, Anna doesn't exactly leave Siam "whistling a happy tune".

But  yes, I do agree with your premise that there are many female characters who do not suffer. 

 

[hearthemsing22]

Posted: 6/5/20 at 12:12pm

Why on earth is this such a big deal? Broadway is shut down, with no knowledge of when it's coming back or which shows will come back. When the shows do come back, then is the time to build up the hype by releasing reviews. Right now, who's buying tickets???