The Theatre Season In Review
The Theatre Season In Review
The Theatre Season In Review#0
Posted: 2/25/06 at 12:02pmI was looking over many of the recent boards about shows that are currently in previews and noticed the bovious trend that they all are receiving very negative comments. Wedding Singer, Ring of Fire....What are your opinions on the theatre this year in general? Overall, it seems to be a weak season.
re: The Theatre Season In Review#1
Posted: 2/25/06 at 12:05pmI don't know why, but it always seems like a weak season when we start the season...Then near the end when the Tony's get closer we are always surprised by something. I don't know...It might just be me!
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
re: The Theatre Season In Review#2
Posted: 2/25/06 at 12:05pmThere's still three months to go yet, with some of the most anticipated shows of the season (History Boys, Festen, Wedding Singer, Three Days Of Rain, Threepenny Opera, Well) are all yet to have their first Broadway preview.
re: The Theatre Season In Review#3
Posted: 2/25/06 at 12:07pmMaybe it is just seeming that way for now....or as opposed to last year, as we got so many amazing shows. Light in the Piazza, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Spamalot, Spelling Bee...
re: The Theatre Season In Review#4
Posted: 2/25/06 at 12:11pmYes, we got absolute **** last season (Spamalot, the Sweet Charity revival, Good Vibrations), but with the **** came the great works (Pizza, DRS, Spelling Bee, Doubt, Pillowman). This season looks more or less like the 2003-2004 season. We have the big commercial musical drama, the quirky musical comedy with good word of mouth, the successful jukebox bio musical, the interesting Sondheim revival and the old fashioned revival of an obscure show.
re: The Theatre Season In Review#5
Posted: 2/25/06 at 12:12pmLast year around this time, people were calling it a weak season too.
re: The Theatre Season In Review#6
Posted: 2/25/06 at 12:29pmSomeone in one of the Pajama Game posts was saying that it seemed as though a lot of shows got positive reviews... And we still have Drowsy plus everything else poppy listed!
Chorus Member Joined: 5/12/05
re: The Theatre Season In Review#7
Posted: 2/25/06 at 12:42pm"Bovious" isn't a word...stop trying to sound smart.
"What?"
"I must meet your wife..."
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
re: The Theatre Season In Review#8
Posted: 2/25/06 at 12:46pmLooks like Katurian was trying to write 'obvious' but just reversed the letters in a typo, ya crank.
re: The Theatre Season In Review#9
Posted: 2/25/06 at 12:49pmHow can we say whether its a weak or strong season before so many shows have even opened on Broadway? Previews are the time for tweaking, not for reviewing, so its way too soon to judge some of these shows. And "Tarzan" still has another month before it's first preview!
re: The Theatre Season In Review#11
Posted: 2/25/06 at 1:00pmThis has been an unusually strong fall/winter...
Broadway Star Joined: 9/26/05
re: The Theatre Season In Review#12
Posted: 2/25/06 at 1:38pm
No, I'm with alanimal on this one.
Katurian2 obviously meant to say "bovine" rather than "bovious." "Bovine," of course, means "resembling or pertaining to cattle"; a "bovious (or bovine) trend" refers to the tendency of a population to develop a herd mentality.
However, I don't think Katurian2 is correct that the negative comments are a bovious trend; there are plenty of differences of opinion here on the boards. No bovious trends here at BWW!
re: The Theatre Season In Review#13
Posted: 2/25/06 at 2:40pm
HISTORY BOYS!
yay.
re: The Theatre Season In Review#14
Posted: 2/25/06 at 3:06pm
Because obvious is such a smart person word.
Well, it's not, but bovious is!
joey
re: The Theatre Season In Review#15
Posted: 2/25/06 at 5:31pmOh my. Well, the "crank" comment made me laugh harder than I have in a long time. Um....yes, I did mean to type obvious. Obviously!!!
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