VANITIES starts Feb 2nd
VANITIES starts Feb 2nd
#1VANITIES starts Feb 2nd
Posted: 10/16/08 at 2:13am
Vanities' NY dates have been announced on Anneliese's official myspace - no mention of a theatre though
www.myspace.com/anneliesevanderpol
Updated On: 10/16/08 at 02:13 AM
#2re: VANITIES starts Feb 2nd
Posted: 10/16/08 at 3:15am
Really? I'm astonished. The show quite simply isn't Broadway worthy.
I'm totally prepared to eat my words. But the show I saw a while back is mediocre at best.
Ah well.. only time will tell...
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#2re: VANITIES starts Feb 2nd
Posted: 10/16/08 at 3:30am
I agree with BigFatBlonde.
I saw the show closing weekend and it was dreadful, except the final two scenes. I hope a LOT changes before Broadway.
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#3re: VANITIES starts Feb 2nd
Posted: 10/16/08 at 3:39am
Agreed, Sondhead.
The High School scene was interminable. Had I not been with company, I would have happily walked.
And while the final scene had some emotional "tug." It wasn't enough to warrant the seemingly endless monotonous banter the preceded it.
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Updated On: 10/16/08 at 03:39 AM
#4re: VANITIES starts Feb 2nd
Posted: 10/16/08 at 7:34amAs was mentioned recently in another thread, the first preview is February 2nd. Opening night is tentatively scheduled for February 26th.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
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millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#5re: VANITIES starts Feb 2nd
Posted: 10/16/08 at 7:44amWhatever happened with Lauren Kennedy's other musical?
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RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#6re: VANITIES starts Feb 2nd
Posted: 10/16/08 at 11:05amSo is this 3 Acts, with two intermissions?
#7re: VANITIES starts Feb 2nd
Posted: 10/16/08 at 4:41pmI'm disappointed to hear two people who really didn't like it. I saw a few numbers performed way back when at some "Coming to Broadway" event at the Times Center and really loved what I heard. Admittedly, it helped that Kelli O'Hara was one of the three performers at that event. Though I never heard any more of the music and am unfamiliar with the play it is based on, I was really hopeful about this one. Actually, I'm still hopeful. But maybe more cautious now.
WishingOnlyWounds2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/25/08
#8re: VANITIES starts Feb 2nd
Posted: 10/16/08 at 5:13pm
It's an 1 hour and 45 minutes with no intermission...
http://www.broadway.com/Vanities/group_show/5012405
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#9re: VANITIES starts Feb 2nd
Posted: 10/16/08 at 6:43pm
I can see how the songs alone could come off promising. But onstage they were just "somewhat pleasant".
More often than not the score just elongated the already tiresome book scenes. The songs would state the obvious and STRETCH out a simple concept to death. Each woman got her "turn" and you just sat there waiting for for the big "finish" so the damn thing would finally end.
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