WAS BBAJ a really bad musical?
#2
Posted: 10/3/15 at 5:37pm
Iesha said: "it had a really short run"
The length of a show's run has nothing to do with the quality of a show, only its ability to sell tickets. Many good shows can't always do it, and many mediocre shows excel at it.
#3
Posted: 10/3/15 at 5:40pm
Havent a clue what musical you are even talking about. Is it that difficult to spell out shows or use the whole first word or two?
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#4
Posted: 10/3/15 at 5:41pm
^ Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. I saw a production of the show a few years back and really enjoyed it.
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#5
Posted: 10/3/15 at 5:50pm
Did it close then because its too small for broadway?
BBAJ= Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
#6
Posted: 10/3/15 at 5:50pm
Did it close then because its too small for broadway?
BBAJ= Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
#7
Posted: 10/3/15 at 5:57pm
This board was running when the show was on Broadway, so just search and you can go back five years and get lots of info.
#8
Posted: 10/3/15 at 6:00pm
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Posted: 10/3/15 at 6:28pm
you guys, this poster is another screen name for this person (click the name for an example thread)
There are a bunch more (including Mr. Smith for one) but he ends up spamming the board posts stating he's only trying to annoy us so the mods keep deleting his various personas.
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#11
Posted: 10/3/15 at 6:33pm
I think the concept was great: Andrew Jackson was a populist like a rock star. But the execution was bad. I really didn't like the narrator on the wheel chair. If it's rewritten and it could be presented like US history suites: 1776, Hamilton, BBAJ. Three different styles of musical, it'll be a blast.
#12
Posted: 10/3/15 at 6:36pm
Off Broadway, it did great. On Broadway, it died. Same thing happened with The Human Comedy
We did not care for it.
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#13
Posted: 10/3/15 at 6:39pm
thats what I thought. It just lost its magic on broadway.
#14
Posted: 10/3/15 at 7:04pm
One source and you know the truth? You looking to work at Fox News in the future?
#15
Posted: 10/3/15 at 7:17pm
Lol, two threads already deleted in the past 5 minutes.
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#16
Posted: 10/3/15 at 11:30pm
I loved BBAJ both Off-Broadway and on, but it's true it lost a special something it had at the Public when it transferred.
#17
Posted: 10/4/15 at 1:15am
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson had essentially the same concept as Hamilton. American political biography with a modern score. It just didn't maintain its momentum and hype after it transferred.
#18
Posted: 10/4/15 at 2:06am
"WAS BBAJ a really bad musical?"
As really as really can be.
Which is really bad.
Updated On: 10/4/15 at 02:06 AM
#19
Posted: 10/4/15 at 2:51am
But your opinions don't count because you're stuck in the past which is never coming back.
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#20
Posted: 10/4/15 at 8:27am
I loved it at the Public, but the energy was totally different on Broadway. I still love listening to the recording from time to time.
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#21
Posted: 10/4/15 at 10:03am
It's true that length of run isn't always directly linked to quality of show (my poor Ragtime revival,) but in this case I think the run was mercifully short.
I remember very little of the show, except for the fact that it was just awful.
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#22
Posted: 10/4/15 at 7:24pm
I honestly love the show, but think it will never be seen on Broadway again. Let the record show I only saw the show on Broadway, but I can see what those who saw both productions are saying. The show was truly too small for Broadway, which is weird because the show is essentially set in a hipster bar/dive, just like Once, which also played the Jacobs. The show also had an energetic rock/pop/folk score, compared to Once's dreary Irish Folk. I think the production tried to hard to grow the production compared to Once though. The Jacobs was literally turned into a hipster Bar/dive, with memorabilia hanging everywhere. Right above where i was sitting was the butt of a fully taxidermied horse, hanging upside down. It was am impresive production, but it was just too big. Honestly I could see this being revived off-broadway with truly immersive production alla Here Lies Love.
#23
Posted: 10/4/15 at 7:59pm
Maybe it failed because they billed it as BBAJ and no one could figure out what it was?
#24
Posted: 10/4/15 at 8:03pm
One of my favorite new musicals of the last decade. That said, it was doomed to fail on Broadway.
#25
Posted: 10/4/15 at 8:21pm
I loved the show and saw it many times between the Public and Broadway. I think it remains Friedman's best score, and it was anchored by a terrifically funny cast and a breakout performance by Benjamin Walker.
It wasn't a particularly deep analysis of the themes and history it presented, but didn't need or desire to be. It was just a ****ing funny, smartass show. It was tremendously misplaced on Broadway, in a much-too-large house and with the totally wrong audiences.
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