The Pirate Queen Reviews — Page 2

"why do people take such pleasure in the fact that it's getting negative reviews?"

Because the fangirls are extraordinarily annoying.

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Normally i wouldnt

but the fans of this show on here have been so damn annoying and negative towards anyone who has a bad word to say about it.

I know all the cast will go on to do really well in there next jobs as they are superb(especially Stephanie )

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Wait til S Block doesn't get a tony nom. The earth will quake

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Ditto the above-comments. I don't wish ANYONE associated with the show ill - the performers were as good as they could be given the terrible material - which has come from some artists whose past work I've very much admired. Still, the show itself is just not good - if its reviews ARE positive overall, I'm going to start think its the critics who are voting to keep Sanjaya in AI (I know, a mixed metaphor, but hopefully you get what I'm saying).

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Because the fangirls are extraordinarily annoying.

- I LOVE YOU. The fangirls for this are pretty scary, I must say.

That's true Taz. But I think the Earth might just explode if Spring Awakening doesn't win Best Musical.

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It's really unfortunate because Pirate Queen is one of those shows that has AMAZING potential. Like if they had spent another year or so working on it before bringing it to Broadway, it could be really good. It's going to be shame to see it fail when there is so much good underlying material there.
-BJH

Variety is Mostly Negative:

"When a pop culture throwback appears earnestly unaware of how firmly its style and conception are rooted in another era, is it retro or just outmoded? The lumbering epic "The Pirate Queen" comes down on the latter side. As "Les Miserables" creators Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg showed with their last excursion into romantically embroidered 16th century historical tapestry, the commercially ill-fated "Martin Guerre," the French composing team's bombastic 1980s megamusical formula now sits stodgily onstage. Their all-plot, no-heart new show is persuasively sung by a valiant cast, yet it never forges an emotional connection with the audience.
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The show has plenty of romance, adventure, battles, royal court intrigue and the erosion of a proud traditional culture, yet somehow it remains mostly inert.
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All this unfolds over a monotonous first hour, alleviated by the dance segs and some pleasing vocal work on a largely unmemorable score laced with Uilleann pipes, harp, flute and Irish fiddles. There are about 15 I-pledge, I-vow, I-swear songs too many, but Fraser's powerfully emotional tenor sets apart "I'll Be There." Also vocally accomplished, Block makes a feisty, attractive lead, but all the characters remain bland cutouts suffocated by plot.
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The sad realization of watching "The Pirate Queen" is not that it's especially bad, but that despite its dense action and wealth of conflict (both of the heart and the sword), it's dull. It's a relief in this context to be jarred out of boredom by the crotch-thrusting, hip-grinding vulgarity and innuendo-drenched lyrics ("I may well have to beach her/Take her inland to teach her") of Chait's act-one song, "Boys'll Be Boys" -- a raucous pub number filled with lusty lads and brassy tarts, which corresponds precisely to "Master of the House" in "Les Miz." Elsewhere, this is a plodding Harlequin historical romance. For all its inflamed passions, it never ignites."



http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117933297.html?categoryid=33&cs=1

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Margo with all due respect, the Variety review is more than just negative, it's a pan.

They have been selling very well in previews though. I am not sure what negative reviews will do to it.

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So is everyone still placing an order for the OCR that people here *swore* would be coming out?

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"So is everyone still placing an order for the OCR that people here *swore* would be coming out?"

I dunno'... even if the songs aren't up to the Le Miz team's standards (I can't spell their names, sorry)... I mean, it's the guys who wrote Les Miz and Miss Saigon. They're not going to abort a cast album without a fight, at least.

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Wow...all that negative commenting and nothing from the ever faithful lot of PQ supporters.. I guess the whole wait for the reviews has made it clear...that ship is sinking! My partner owes me for taking me there all those times...

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