THE STORY OF MY LIFE Reviews — Page 4

I don't think that's fair. I went to SOML VERY excited, wanting to like/love it. The show BROUGHT the comparisions to mind CONSTANTLY. There were specific chords in the music that immediately transported me to SITPWG, there were LINES that brought me there.

If the show didn't bring him to feel, analyze or react (as it did not me) that is not necessarily his fault.

The ONLY moment the show almost made me FEEL anything was the moment that Chase tells Gets NOT to come visit. But then that intense emotion is dropped cold. It doesnt develop into anything.

Just because someone doesn't LIKE a show, doesn't make it THEIR fault or that they didn't "get it". If it doesn't work for the audience member (critic or not) that is the fault of the production...and in this case the book, lyrics and score.
The actors were admirable in their performances...with what they were given.

You aren't wrong for liking it anymore than he is for disliking it.

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I'm very upset...it seems everything I love is trashed by the critics. So depressing. I hope it can run at least a month or two...

It's not a bad show because it's small. I don't mind small.

It's a weak show AND it's small. I think it will be lucky if it runs 2 months.....I don't see it getting any Tony noms. I think it will find even less of an audience than TOS.

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I wouldn't be suprised if Gets got a nomination for Best Actor. It's a weak category.

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So LadyDramaturg, now the NYTimes theatre critic is too stupid to get Story of My Life as well? I suppose he only thinks shows with spectacle and explosions are good too, right? I mean, none of these negative critics could possibly have intelligent perspectives that you just happen to disagree with- they're just stupid. All of them. The two Word of Mouth reviewers on Broadway.com are the only critics with any brains in all of New York. They're the only ones who understand what good theatre truly is.

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Updated On: 2/20/09 at 10:03 AM

The New York Daily News gives the show 2 OUT OF 5 STARS:

"Gets and Chase are likable actors stuck playing stick figures.

There's the chipmunklike Alvin, in vest and little-boy sneakers, and the brooding Thomas, in a dark-blue, all-grown-up Brooks Brothers.

Besides being formulaic — whenever Tom gets stuck while writing the eulogy, it's time for another crumpled piece of paper and a flashback — the creators frustratingly dangle plot points.

Why did Tom split with his fiancée? Did Al jump or fall? We're never told. Real life isn't neat and tidy, Alvin says. But no one ever said musicals are real life."

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/arts/2009/02/20/2009-02-20_sorry_but_the_story_of_my_life_is_not_wo.html


Newsday is a PAN:

"It would be lovely to be able to say nice things about "The Story of My Life," the two-man musical that showed up on Broadway last night with no hype and lots of obvious care.

But, really.

The 90-minute show, written and composed by newcomers from Toronto, is banal, improbable and unrelentingly derivative. And boring? Please. The production, directed by Richard Maltby Jr., does have a handsome dreamlike set by Robert Brill and engaging performances by Will Chase and Malcolm Gets.

But even these good actors are defeated by a piece that, under the guise of exploring the ups and downs of a lifelong small-town friendship, can't come up with anything better than "relationships die/without our knowing why." And life is "like stories in the lake/and the ripples they make.""

http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/exploreli/ny-ethoriz6040665feb20,0,3881667.story

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Ouch...

can't come up with anything better than "relationships die/without our knowing why." And life is "like stories in the lake/and the ripples they make."

Are those actual lyrics in the show?! No wonder...

if they are going to pan the lyric they could at least get it right... it's "relationships thrive or dissolve without our knowing why". sorry, that just bothers me.

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dramamama611- Are you sure we oughta see AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' in Boston? WAT likes that show!??

J*

I really have not seen ROA but if they will overlooked TOS just because another show is open.. it's really sad! TOS deserves it. Its a small intimate show and it was well written. I like the show, I know some people hated it.. I thought it was funny and witty. It's just a jukebox musical over an original well constructed musical is mind boggling..well I have not really seen Rock of Ages~and I should not probably comment!

any how...It's good they postponed or cancelled VANITIES- uh..that's another show that would have the same fate as TSOML! Ive heard the score and it was B-O-R-I-N-G !

J*

Updated On: 2/20/09 at 11:32 AM

SHREK will take the nomination before [TITLE OF SHOW] and ROCK OF AGES.

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I see your point Wanna Be. If CRY-BABY can be nominated...anything can happen.

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J! you made me laugh...though it does give me pause!

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