The Brooklyn Experience
The Brooklyn Experience
soulman83
Stand-by Joined: 2/25/05
#0The Brooklyn Experience
Posted: 6/11/05 at 10:07amLast night a friend of mine and myself decided to do lottery for Wicked and Spelling bee because we really needed to see a show. obviously, we really wanted to see spelling bee because we've seen wicked a million times and spelling bee is the new obsessiong. well...piazza is my real obsession but i wanted to see spelling be just as much. we lost both lotteries...very upsetting. so we thought about going to see all shook up because my friend loves the show and he insists i will become obsessed after seeing it...thats to be seen. anyway, all of sudden i thought to myself...BROOKLYN IS CLOSING SOON AND I HAVENT SEEN IT YET!! my friend agreed to see it although he was less than enthused. of course rush tickets were available...its brooklyn! so, we are at the show and the theatre is FREEZING!!! The show starts and honestly i was not expecting much except the amazing voices from Eden and Ramona. UM OMG!!!!!! the show was going smoothly with nice and appriate power punches all the way up Once Upon a Time...YIKES THE TRAMP CAN SING HER BUT OFF!! honestly i am not going to tell about the entire show. the bottom line was that despite the actual plot and such the show is still a success. The CAST makes it a success! EDEN ESPINOSA AND RAMONA KELLER make it a success! i am so happy i went to see the show because it was pure entertainment. you have to admit, those outfits are fabulous! they deserved a tony nom for atleast the costumes! if i can offer any advise to anyone...go see this show! its worth atleast one more visit! because no matter what you may think about the initial show, its the voices that count! and you really wont find voices quite like that anywhere else on broadway...not the kind of voices that stop a show!
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#1re: The Brooklyn Experience
Posted: 6/11/05 at 10:09am
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
Updated On: 5/9/06 at 10:09 AM
soulman83
Stand-by Joined: 2/25/05
#3re: The Brooklyn Experience
Posted: 6/11/05 at 10:46am
were there any understudies?
nice review.
A dancer might dream to see her name in lights and mean it,
but all she really dreams is to make someone
else feel the way she did when she first saw a dancer.
And that is so beautiful-Anonymous
#4re: The Brooklyn Experience
Posted: 6/11/05 at 10:46am
"YIKES THE TRAMP CAN SING HER BUT OFF"!!
You tell it boy.
"If I have something to say, the whole world (BroadwayWorld) should hear it." - Thenardier
soulman83
Stand-by Joined: 2/25/05
#5re: The Brooklyn Experience
Posted: 6/11/05 at 11:22amyeah lee summer covered for the part of Taylor Collins. amazing show!
IveGottaBeME
Leading Actor Joined: 1/15/05
#6re: The Brooklyn Experience
Posted: 6/11/05 at 11:35ambrooklyn is amazing.. i wish i got to see it again
#7re: The Brooklyn Experience
Posted: 6/11/05 at 11:36am
"you really wont find voices quite like that anywhere else on broadway"
And thank Jesus Christ in heaven for that."
hehehehehe that made me laugh
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#8re: The Brooklyn Experience
Posted: 6/11/05 at 11:41amI was one of the few frequent posters on this Board who didnt hate BKLYN. I think with any other cast changes, it wouldve fallen apart totally because the OBC was brilliant.
#9re: The Brooklyn Experience
Posted: 6/11/05 at 11:53am
I'm glad you liked it soulman!
Brooklyn does have the most amazing voices on or off Broadway.
ethp23
Swing Joined: 1/26/05
#10re: The Brooklyn Experience
Posted: 6/11/05 at 12:10pm
"...has the most amazing voices on or off broadway"
yea, maybe, but the worst acting, design, direction and EVERYTHING else. If you want to see amazing Human Instruments with absolutely no meaning behind it, find a friend who tivo's American Idol. This crap does not belong on Broadway.
#11re: The Brooklyn Experience
Posted: 6/11/05 at 12:15pmWell I think it got the most amazing acting, design, direction and EVERYTHING else.
ReNtHeAd04
Featured Actor Joined: 10/11/04
#12re: The Brooklyn Experience
Posted: 6/11/05 at 12:15pmi didn't like the actual show. the singing was very good though
"maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love, or have babies, or be who we are. After all, seasons change. So do cities. People come into your life and people go. But it's comforting to know the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away" -sex and the city
#13re: The Brooklyn Experience
Posted: 6/11/05 at 12:15pm
"If you want to see amazing Human Instruments with absolutely no meaning behind it, find a friend who tivo's American Idol. This crap does not belong on Broadway."
eXACTLY
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
#14re: The Brooklyn Experience
Posted: 6/11/05 at 12:22pm
true dat...
its cheaper than paying 75bucks
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
Clarity 8
Swing Joined: 3/22/05
#15re: The Brooklyn Experience
Posted: 6/11/05 at 1:11pm
"yeah lee summer covered for the part of Taylor Collins. amazing show!"
Hi Soulman, just a small correction--it's Lee Morgan who has been playing Taylor Collins in Brooklyn, since March. He originated the role in the Denver production, and he is indeed a very talented actor and singer.
I have to say that I've noticed that any time someone posts on the board about actually (God forbid!) enjoying or appreciating or being entertained by Brooklyn, the same handful of destructive people leap in quickly to make a "clever" nasty or insulting comment. It's just so old, and so unpleasant. And probably bad karma.
soulman83
Stand-by Joined: 2/25/05
#16re: The Brooklyn Experience
Posted: 6/11/05 at 1:42pmthank you clarity...everyone wants to be a critic...instead of enjoying what the show has to give...this show has so much to give...
#17re: The Brooklyn Experience
Posted: 6/11/05 at 1:47pm
"thank you clarity...everyone wants to be a critic...instead of enjoying what the show has to give...this show has so much to give... "
Funny, I wasn't given anything...
~And let us try, before we die, to make some sense of life~
FosseBoi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
#18re: The Brooklyn Experience
Posted: 6/11/05 at 2:59pm
I was given pain...
I am glad you liked it though! It just shows how different our taists are...
"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread.
~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line
CJR
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
#19re: The Brooklyn Experience
Posted: 6/11/05 at 3:23pm
I too, was given pain.....
Brooklyn is when bad theatre happens to good performers. *shudder*
"You're every gay man's wet dream!" ~ MA
If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...
FosseBoi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
#20re: The Brooklyn Experience
Posted: 6/11/05 at 3:38pmI was also given scars from the screaming and bad(imo) musical phrasing.
"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread.
~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line
#21re: The Brooklyn Experience
Posted: 6/11/05 at 3:46pm
yea, maybe, but the worst acting, design, direction and EVERYTHING else. If you want to see amazing Human Instruments with absolutely no meaning behind it, find a friend who tivo's American Idol. This crap does not belong on Broadway.
the best review i've ever read of Brooklyn!
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#22re: The Brooklyn Experience
Posted: 6/11/05 at 4:02pmBrooklyn was amazing and like you said, the cosutmes were clever... and I'll never forget my experience at Brooklyn.
CJR
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
#23re: The Brooklyn Experience
Posted: 6/11/05 at 4:52pm"By the end of the show I was covered with claw marks..... and they were self inflicted" Okay, so Mario Cantone said that about Cats, but I feel it applies to Brooklyn as well.
"You're every gay man's wet dream!" ~ MA
If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#24re: The Brooklyn Experience
Posted: 6/11/05 at 4:58pmWhat exactly is so bad about it? CJR can you answer that for me.
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