The Last Ship Lasting — Page 4

You are an audience member of one as is everyone who goes.Your opinion is yours not mine and vice versa. You did not like it and that is your opinion and not mine or others.

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Ripped is like someone going after a fly with a bazooka instead of a swatter. He has made it abundantly clear he does not like it. Not content, he wants to keep as many people as possible from seeing it. His demeanor is that of a theater critic

This mean spiritedness is not necessary but since this is BWW I guess that is to much to ask for.

I listen to no one good or bad. The critics raved about Mormon & my wife & I loathed it. Many times critics slammed shows we enjoyed & vice versa. Unfortunately, costs have become so ridiculous that we see only a fraction of shows we used to. My wife wanted to see The River until reading the thread about it. I was ambivalent about it from the beginning.

I digress. Ripped, please go on to another subject. This show appears to be your Rocky. Let it go. You will probably be happy when it closes prematurely. You can than direct your venom elsewhere.

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I've actually seen this show twice now. Originally it was not something that I thought I would be into, but one of my friends ended up having an extra ticket because her boyfriend was sick, so I agreed to go along (free Broadway show? Why not?). I've never been a huge Sting fan so I went into this with pretty low expectations, but I was pleasantly surprised.
The music was very different from what I expected, with the exception of a few exceptionally Sting-y sounding numbers... which my slightly obsessive post-show research told me were actually older Sting songs that they managed to work into the show (I'm looking at you, "When We Dance"). And even those few, I really didn't mind. "What Say You, Meg?" is gorgeous and Rachel Tucker in "If You Ever See Me Talking To A Sailor"... just wow. I walked out of the Neil Simon singing to myself - that lasted for days.
I personally have a tendency to get wrapped up in the spectacle the first time I see a show, so since I enjoyed it so much the first time I decided to see it again. I was a little worried that the initial glamour might have worn off and I wouldn't like it the second time around, but I have to say I still really enjoyed it - though I can understand why some would not. The book is definitely not perfect and not everyone can relate to the story, but personally I hope things turn around and this one lasts a while.

The problem is the plot is so nonsensical it must be kept hidden from the audience. Not a good place for a major musical to be. Someone should have mentioned this to Sting the first day.

Welcome to the board.:)

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"Your opinion is yours not mine and vice versa. You did not like it and that is your opinion and not mine or others."

Roxy, can you explain how this works some more? I'm still not getting it.

I don't think I've ever attended Book of Mormon where people didn't leave during/after Hasa Diga Ebowai. And to those people, I say, thank you, you bought amazing seats for me...

"there's a grain of truth in it."

I think you're confusing truth with truthiness.

Actually Roxy, if you'd actually read my comments I said I enjoyed the score and the staging. I just didn't think the story was anything special or interesting. It's not something that grabs you, as others have said, so why you feel the need to single me out is obnoxious.

And referring to me as being venomous? Huh? You just bashed The Book of Mormon twice in one page. So...you're absolutely no different.

And Hogans, that's absolutely untrue as well. The Book of Mormon, for example, takes a very serious subject matter - the book of Mormon - and turns it on its head. Wicked tells the same basic story we all know, but from a new angle. Rent tells the same La Boheme story, but with a new modern edge to it. I don't see anything being built upon by The Last Ship. It's not a new angle. It's the same idea of Billy Elliot - minus the creativity and characters we care about - or Full Monty - minus the humor. It's just blue collar workers who are out of a job. It's a nice poetic idea, but Broadway is commercial and it's not a commercial show.

Ripped , sorry but you just contradicted yourself. Billy Elliot and Full Monty and Kinky Boots might go into the mix are thematic cousins to Last Ship, indeed, and THE THREE ARE ALL COMMERCIAL shows, all sustaining runs of two years or better, so your thesis makes no sense. (And we are not debating their merits as commercial pieces, just their similar themes, which seems to be COMMERCIALLY viable indeed.)

"On this one"

LOL

"I think one of the biggest problems they have with ticket sales is that tickets, in large part, are bought by women. Yes, I'm about to make a huge generalization -- but women are not that interested in musicals about shipbuilding"

Yes, the majority of tickets are bought by us, but that doesn't mean we aren't interested in a variety of subjects being presented in a musical. Building ships is very interesting. I loved how gloomy it looked, and I enjoy Sting's music, which is why I bought a ticket.