WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN begins previews TONIGHT!- Page 28

[inlovewithjerryherman]

Posted: 10/24/10 at 10:43am

ok, so, has anyone seen the new opening number and/or finale? This thread is getting redundant, I wanna hear about changes, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/24/10 at 11:10am

"I've snoozed many a time on Broadway, but not on this one."


I love this quote so much I want to marry it.

[ljay889]

Posted: 10/24/10 at 11:13am

I'll be at the evening performance tonight. I'll report back if any substantial changes were made.

[dshnookie]

Posted: 10/24/10 at 12:05pm

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news%2Fentertainment&id=7707153

Broadway Backstage video PART 2 (right after the Driving Miss Daisy segment) has a few show clips and short interviews with Patti and Danny for those who haven't seen the show yet.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 10/24/10 at 1:56pm

I am so glad to finally see some clips! I think the taxi and set look awesome.

[aasjb4ever]

Posted: 10/24/10 at 2:56pm

Luis Salgado (Malik) just posted on Facebook that "today is the last day to see him nude" so I guess that they're completely reworking the opening...20 minutes? Jeez.

[BwayTday]

Posted: 10/24/10 at 3:18pm

What was the opening and why was he nude? It is probably someone in this thread, I just don't feel like looking through the non-review (to put it lightly) stuff

[aasjb4ever]

Posted: 10/24/10 at 3:35pm

Well the first 20 minutes of the show goes:
-Overture
-Curtain rises on Pepa in her spinning bed, as Ivan's message plays
-Patti + women sing 'My Crazy Heart'
-Pepa does her looping at the studio, she passes out
-Pepa sings 'Lovesick'
-In 'Lovesick', Candela talks about her boyfriend (Malik) and they're in bed, naked, and he gets dressed with a grenade belt and uzi. (rofl)

So they're at least cutting 'Lovesick', and replacing it come tuesday...

[rgdave]

Posted: 10/24/10 at 4:05pm

Saw this pretty early, on Oct. 13th, and have been checking in on this thread since. I've been especially interested in the discussion of the audience breakdown - 75% older, 15% gay men, 10% other. And how tepid the audience response has been.

Your experience may actually be quite different on where you sit. I agree with earlier posters that the LCT subscription audience tends to be old, cranky and unappreciative. It's a reason I often don't enjoy LCT mainstage productions.

I sat in the first row of the balcony for this one, and up there in the rafters isn't subscriber territory. But it's the only place LCT offered any kind of discount --- the $36.50 balcony price in email promotions and on discount sites. Forn the most part, only full price or subscription seats have been on offer in the orchestra and mezzanine.

The balcony crowd around me was having a great time. The audience was certainly younger. Among the folks around me, all except 1 were under 60, and quite a few were much, much younger. True, it wasnm't the hip crowd you find at American Idiot or Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson. But definitely not the tried and true old LCT subscriber crowd.

I think Lincoln Center has made a big mistake by not discounting throughout the house. It creates a dead audience. The audience that might appreciate this musical more, or at least give it some slack, aren't LCT subscribers and aren't buying full price tickets.

[inlovewithjerryherman]

Posted: 10/24/10 at 4:12pm

or perhaps switching and reconceptualizing the two (which also could work a bit better.)

The opening number, imo, just needs to be an uptempo.

[ljay889]

Posted: 10/24/10 at 4:31pm

Damn, I was hoping to see the changes today. And who says they're replacing lovesick????

[aasjb4ever]

Posted: 10/24/10 at 4:57pm

Well, i dont know about replacing but certainly cutting parts of the show (see: candela/malik's entrance)

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 10/24/10 at 4:58pm

Doesn't Lie To Me come before Lovesick?

[inlovewithjerryherman]

Posted: 10/24/10 at 5:23pm

WiCkED,
it does.

I hope they don't cut Lovesick - as one of the few uptempo numbers I think it should stick. They may cut the Candela moment so that Benanti gets one less chance to upstage Scott, in an effort to make us care more for Pepa.


Updated On: 10/24/10 at 05:23 PM

[aasjb4ever]

Posted: 10/24/10 at 5:52pm

Oh, right, i typed that quickly on my ipod and skipped over details in my head

I hope they keep lie to me... i liked it

[ZiggyCringe]

Posted: 10/24/10 at 8:15pm

Serious, unfortunate Tech problems at today's (Sunday) matinee.

There were five camera crews filming (clips to go with the TV reviews, Broadway Beat, etc.), and during the first act, there were serious sound problems, with mic feedback and garbled lyrics.

Near the end of the first act, the middle projection unit burnt out, and kept flickering the wrong projections. (There are three projection units that tie together, the center one went out, so when scenes would travel across the back of the stage, the image went blank when it hit the middle of the picture, and then would come back when it passed the blacked-out portion).

They tried to get the projection unit back at the top of the second act, but realized that it wasn't going to work and turned off the projections entirely for the second act.

I think all of the footage the camera crews got today was useless, as the first act had bad sound, and the second act had no projections.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/24/10 at 8:20pm

How was act two without projections?

[Steve2]

Posted: 10/24/10 at 8:30pm

From The Independent: A thread on website broadwayworld.com has attracted over a thousand posts with reactions ranging from the mildly enthusiastic – "It's not perfect, or even a great musical, but it was a good deal of fun", "It's a sweet little musical about strong, adult women" – to the brutal – "an abomination", "a complete mess, I feel sorry for the actors".
Is Broadway crazy to take on Almodóvar?

[aasjb4ever]

Posted: 10/24/10 at 9:43pm

Yay for my thread being famous but not really! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay

[kyle4]

Posted: 10/24/10 at 9:44pm

um, YOUR thread? ha!

[aasjb4ever]

Posted: 10/24/10 at 10:02pm

yes, i started it, like if i took a dump it would be my dump.

[ljay889]

Posted: 10/24/10 at 10:13pm

The camera crews were still there tonight. No problems with projections.
No major changes yet. Only notable change is having The Concierge's Crazy Heart reprise sung in Spanish.

Audience was surprisingly enthusiastic! Scattered standing ovation at the end. I still enjoyed it a great deal and cannot wait to see the changes.

[Joey.]

Posted: 10/24/10 at 10:39pm

^ Same here. You just can't help but to root for this little show. :) It's just so much fun.

[ZiggyCringe]

Posted: 10/25/10 at 12:15am

I wish they had gone out of town.

There are some TERRIFIC things about this show. Laura's "Model Behavior," and Patti's "Invisible." Both, TERRIFIC moments in the theatre.

BUT... the pacing of this show is deranged. Every single time that set came on the stage, you could count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and it still wouldn't be there. The telephone needed to be stage left? It came on stage right, and you could count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 before it got to where it needed to be. Why not bring it on stage left? It would have taken two seconds.

If this show was on the radio, it would have been cancelled in a second. There's so much dead time.

And not just the set, the actors were to blame. Nobody picked up their cues. Sherie Renee said a line. Pause. Pause. Pause. Brian Stokes Mitchell picks it up: Pause. Pause. Pause. It was interminable.


Updated On: 10/25/10 at 12:15 AM

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 10/25/10 at 1:22am

If this show was on the radio, it would have been cancelled in a second. There's so much dead time.

They'd be pretty silly to have a set for a radio show.