THE LITTLE MERMAID Reviews — Page 11

I saw that too.... I was laughing...

Poor Hillary though.. she looks like she's running out of breath! she must have dance just right before she went on tape with Sebastian in Under the Sea number...

J*

Updated On: 1/11/08 at 07:27 PM

"But they are critics. Their job is to go in whith an open mind. If they can't do that then why do they have the job they do."
I'm sorry, but I find it hard to believe that they went into this show with an open mind. I'm sure some, if not most of them knew that they going in ready to rip the show apart.

"Well duh. The average theater going tourists don't have the taste or knowledge of a critic."
And they're the majority out of the people who go to New York to see shows; and a vast majority doesn't bother with reviews. What taste or knowledge does a theatre critic have? They just apply for the job. All they have to do is go see shows and then write a review. Their reviews are written on their opinion; the average theatre goer could easily see a show and write their opinion on it and would be just as valid because it's also opinion based, but apparently it has to be someones job to tell us what we like and don't like. If a critic has seen a show produced by the same company that they didn't like in the past, odds are, they are going to go into the new show ready to hate it.

Yikes!! These are the worst reviews I've seen since . . . Moose Murders? Carrie? Comments?

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The Philadelphia Inquirer critic loved it!

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Aladdin, you're really naive if you actually believe what you wrote.

Critics don't waltz in and apply for a job - they're journalists who specalize in the arts. Drama critic, especially for a paper like the Times, is a highly prostigeous position. One would think Ben Brantley, who has been doing it since the early 90s, would know what he's talking about.

ok... you TOLD me... I stand corrected. PASSION was open when the Tony's happened. That doesn't change my point. You could win every award and accolade known to man and still not make money because the people who endow a show with awards and critical praise comprise a small fraction of the people who see Broadway shows. There is no premise of the critics or the awards voters REPRESENTING the public.

Hillary had a wet spot on her shirt.

Why can't you just accept the fact that some people loved the show?

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"Yikes!! These are the worst reviews I've seen since . . . Moose Murders? Carrie? Comments?"

Looking back through Carries Reviews i think it got better reviews than mermaid did....i mean at least Clive Barnes raved about Carrie

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Yay! Were seeing the show today! I am very excited.. I just saw the 1989 animated movie...downloaded the playbill broadcast....were goin' to play it on our way to NYC...I am definitely going with an open mind... I will forget all the reviews that I read....I will go to the theater like a little kid.... Who knows... I might like the show? or not?

Stay tuned for my 10/10/ Report on THE LITTLE MERMAID- complete with the whole nine yards- Lunt-Fontanne pics, merchandise pics, scanned playbill & stage door pics... Yahoo !

J*

Updated On: 1/12/08 at 10:06 AM

To quote the inimitable Dolores de Lago, the Toast of Chicago:

"The question before us is where's her clitoris?"

I'll stick with Bette.

"I can accept it if they can just articulate it!"

Here you go Foster:

http://tinyurl.com/2mt4ax

I'd say that's pretty well articulated.

And when I accused you of continually posting the same negative opinion about the show, you said you actually kind of liked it. So why don't you write some of the things here you really liked?

Tell me that with all it's faults, you didn't lose yourself in the show a little when Sierra sang POYW.

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