THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES Previews- Page 6

[aislestorm2]

Posted: 10/9/25 at 5:34pm

The poster is probably already on the wall.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 10/9/25 at 5:48pm

I love me some great merch, but it's just all really tacky which tracks...perfectly,

Broadway Merch

[quizking101]

Posted: 10/9/25 at 6:06pm

Sutton Ross said: "I love me some great merch, but it's just all really tacky which tracks...perfectly,

Broadway Merch"

The hat is already sold out? Probably because they bought up the stock and gave them to the cast - everyone had one last night. (An observation - I don’t actually want one)

[CoffeeBreak]

Posted: 10/9/25 at 6:58pm

they'll have all this in bulk at Broadway flea market next year.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 10/9/25 at 7:46pm

Sutton Ross said: "I love me some great merch, but it's just all really tacky which tracks...perfectly,

Broadway Merch"

I will NEVER understand why anyone would want to buy most of this stuff.  I have a magnet from Chicago but I guess they decided people would be more interested in a scented candle as they don't seem to be available for Broadway.

Updated On: 10/10/25 at 07:46 PM

[merle57]

Posted: 10/9/25 at 10:16pm

Have we ever read such unanimously negative reviews on this site for a new show in previews? It seems the tone of the show is the problem - not satiric like Legally Blonde, not tragedy like Gypsy, not a character study like Company, not a social commentary like Chicago. Maybe the off-Broadway revival of Baker's Wife might be Stephen's high point this season, certainly a wonderful romantic musical score.  Broadway just cannot have more of these 30 million dollar busts. A lot of the touring shows, the movies made into generic musicals, are not doing well at the box office on the road for a similar reason: no point of view, no particular theme, no reason to be a musical. Even flawed shows like Love Life, Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Tenderloin, or more recently Newsies and Scottsboro Boys had had a reason to be a musical and style. In those shows the musical score amplified characters, the theme, the style, or the world of the play even if the book might have been flawed. 

I hope they can use the comments and the preview period to discover the key to the point of view and theme. Broadway needs a new musical hit this season since so few new shows are opening. 

[dramamama611]

Posted: 10/9/25 at 10:55pm

They've had since Boston to make those changes - and it sounds like they didn't "listen" then.   

[Kad]

Posted: 10/9/25 at 11:18pm

As we have seen time and time again, once a show is in performance on Broadway, the window for meaningful, substantial change has long been shut. You can tighten, you can trim, you can even swap out a song, but by this point, the show’s the show. 

[bear88]

Posted: 10/10/25 at 12:21am

Kad said: "As we have seen time and time again, once a show is in performance on Broadway, the window for meaningful, substantial change has long been shut. You can tighten, you can trim, you can even swap out a song, but by this point, the show’s the show."

When is the last new Broadway show that made significant changes in previews? I don’t see enough of them to know. Of musicals I have seen, I know Shuffle Along changed quite a bit during previews, replacing significant songs and choreography, but even that was basically the same show. Or was it? (I only saw it in previews.)

[EmceeHammer]

Posted: 10/10/25 at 12:31am

bear88 said: "When is the last new Broadway show that made significant changes in previews?”

When is the last new Broadway show that made significant changes out of town?

The system is broken. 

What would Wicked be without their time in San Francisco?

 

[DiscoCrows]

Posted: 10/10/25 at 12:49am

“Pretty Wins” sung by Nina White as Victoria is now streaming on all platforms (along with Caviar Dreams, previously released).

https://queenofversailles.lnk.to/obcr

[ardiem]

Posted: 10/10/25 at 12:54am

bear88 said: "[...] When is the last new Broadway show that made significant changes in previews? I don’t see enough of them to know. Of musicals I have seen,I knowShuffle Alongchanged quite a bit during previews, replacing significant songs and choreography, but even that was basically the same show. Or was it? (I only saw it in previews.)"

This might not be significant enough, but during previews, Maybe Happy Ending ditched an elaborate, two-story set with an enclosed motel room for the scenes surrounding "How to be Not Alone" and restaged it to its current form centered around the bed.

 

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/10/25 at 1:08am

DiscoCrows said: "“Pretty Wins” sung by Nina White as Victoria is now streaming on all platforms (along with Caviar Dreams, previously released).

https://queenofversailles.lnk.to/obcr"

Heating this the other night, I was sure that this would be the song every 14 year old girl would be singing in their drama classes, now. 

[quizking101]

Posted: 10/10/25 at 1:43am

DiscoCrows said: "“Pretty Wins” sung by Nina White as Victoria is now streaming on all platforms (along with Caviar Dreams, previously released).

https://queenofversailles.lnk.to/obcr"

One of only a few genuine human moments in this show