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What show do you think was overall the most misreviewed?
#25re: What show do you think was overall the most misreviewed?
Posted: 11/19/06 at 2:08am
The Talkin' Broadway review of the recent Sweeney was pretty brutal. At least, I think it was the TB...
Just a thought.
#26re: What show do you think was overall the most misreviewed?
Posted: 11/19/06 at 2:30amThe Woman in White.
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lovesclassics
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#27re: What show do you think was overall the most misreviewed?
Posted: 11/19/06 at 2:37am
Some that got less than stellar reviews the first go round but have gotten/will likely get better reviews in future mountings:
Sondheim shows for sure.
West Side Story.
Recently, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Dessa Rose come to mind. (I know, Dessa Rose was off-Broadway, but still...) Both have gotten better reviews on tour and in regional mountings than the originals.
Didn't Ragtime receive mediocre reviews, too, at first? And now look - it's being called an American classic (which I agree it is).
lc
#28re: What show do you think was overall the most misreviewed?
Posted: 11/19/06 at 3:30am
LaneStalker; as much as I loved Reefer Madness. The reviews were pretty dead on. Its a fun show, but it has striking flaws.
I didn't understand the drubbing of 3penny last season, I thought it was amazing and so anti-brecht it was brecht.
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#29re: What show do you think was overall the most misreviewed?
Posted: 11/19/06 at 4:02am
I think that Seussical and Ragtime where big on misundertandings. I never saw Seussical (because of the reviews) and when i did a reading for a school version of it with MTI this summer i was really surprised at how great the work was. We were doing a choreography DVD for iTheatrics (sister company of MTI) and the music on the three numbers we did was spectacular. It was Sondheim, but it wasn't crap either.
Ragtime I think just came at a bad time and from the wrong place. It had some absurdly crazy producer how put a working model T on stage and tried to keep an expensive show running while he used the money he made here to pay for the expensive salaries he was giving actors in tour versions of show boat all across the country. While I do think the grandeur was a bit much it also opened in the same season as the Lion King, so it me it's like Chicago/Chorus Line all over again. If Ragtime were revived now in a smaller production (like a john doyle thing or anything "minimalist" like light in the piazza) then it would do much better.
...what?!
FoscasBohemianDream
Broadway Star Joined: 1/20/06
#30re: What show do you think was overall the most misreviewed?
Posted: 11/19/06 at 4:08am
Ragtime got a very mixed (undeserved) review on the New York Times when it opened.
I thought Mary Poppins received just the kind of reviews it deserved, it is a mediocre somewhat crowd-pleasing show, nothing else, nothing more.
I may be wrong but I've often read Ken Mandelbaum's complains about Dreamgirls getting less-than-stellar reviews from critics who thought the show was too much spectacle and not much heart. The only review I've read of the show was the NY Times rave that compared it to Gypsy, so I don't have evidence to support my argument.
Another misreviewed show was the original production of Chicago, deemed to dark and cynical for the time, now considered one of the most brilliant American musicals.
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#31re: What show do you think was overall the most misreviewed?
Posted: 11/19/06 at 4:34amJull-What to songs did you do?
#32re: What show do you think was overall the most misreviewed?
Posted: 11/19/06 at 8:21am
Another misreviewed show was the original production of Chicago, deemed to dark and cynical for the time, now considered one of the most brilliant American musicals.
One of the most brilliant American musicals? By whom?
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#33re: What show do you think was overall the most misreviewed?
Posted: 11/19/06 at 9:36am
LI Larry - What made you go see the revival of TRT when you hated the original? Just curious because I loved the revival, but never got to see the original. And the revival didn't have the star power of the original, so was wondering what made you want to revisit it.
The original was recorded (audio only), and I managed to hear that. Not sure I would have loved the original based on the recording.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#34re: What show do you think was overall the most misreviewed?
Posted: 11/19/06 at 10:01amWomen in white...come on it was good
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#35re: What show do you think was overall the most misreviewed?
Posted: 11/19/06 at 10:04am
Frank Rich didn't "almost like" Sunday in the Park with George. He adored it, and wrote about it lovingly throughout the show's run, including a huge, fabulous story in the NYT Magazine. It did receive a set of stupid reviews from the other major critics, but Rich kept it going almost single handedly.
And the original Sweeney Todd opened to almost across the board raves.
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#36re: What show do you think was overall the most misreviewed?
Posted: 11/19/06 at 10:13am
Lauren B.
I'm not really sure why I went to the revival. As I recall, it was available on TDF so it didn't cost all that much. A friend wanted to go and asked me to go with him. And I had always heard since the original how great it was. It made me think that I might have been too young (not! I was already 16)to fully understand it and that maybe I should give it another chance now that I was well into my 30s.
I was wrong. It was more sucky and even more boring.!
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