Very Brief Thoughts on ELVIS PEOPLE

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 6:52pm

What a bizarrely entertaining production. Entertaining for all the wrong reasons, I must say. I can't even call it a vanity production - I don't know who the hell they were glorifying...not the awful playwright or director, and certainly not Elvis (if I were a member of his family, I'd sue, just for making the King look bad).

None of the scenes make sense, nothing ties them together, and the acting is, well, pretty sh*tty. Ed Sala and Jenny Maguire are best of the worst, with Nell Page coming in third.

Act II is certainly better than Act I. The long (long being 20 minutes) sketch "The Impersonator" was the best of everything.

The highlight of the show? When, during the "Elvis in Vietnam" sequence, the guy in front of me puts on his baseball cap, sinks down in his chair, and starts snoring. And he wasn't the only one. Of the roughly 75 people in the theater (it seats 499), about half were dozed by the abrupt end of Act I.

Run, don't walk to Elvis People. You'll get the best laughs of your theater-going lives.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 10:20pm

Forgot to mention - Fred Willard was in the audience today. He's tall!

[Testing1232]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 10:34pm

Better hurry.... It's closing 6/23

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 10:40pm

Not necessarily. I've heard through a few people over there that the press release was premature.

[LollyNYC]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 11:24pm

I LOVE ELVIS PEOPLE!!! Updated On: 6/23/07 at 11:24 PM

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 6/21/07 at 8:23am

I think there's definitely the possibility that it'll close (considering that about 85% of the tickets are comps).

Either way, it ranks as the worst thing I've ever seen in my theater-going career.

Good times.

[adoannie]

Posted: 6/21/07 at 11:22am

Well, I'v resisted seeing ELVIS PEOPLE yet it haunts me wherever I go. First, I was sitting in a diner talking to my friend about broadway and the producer of the show...Bruce something or other, leans over and hands me his card and a flier. THEN I'm watching the Today show and some Tenor is performing and I see a sign in the backgound that reads "ELVIS PEOPLE A NEW MUSICAL". Yet the show is closing!WTF! Let's stop beating this dead horse!

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 6/21/07 at 12:29pm

Did it really say "A NEW MUSICAL"???

False advertising at it's finest.

It would have been a sh*tload better if it were a musical.