What you wish you could change in Broadway Shows

[Bwaynerd]

Posted: 5/15/10 at 3:36pm

Next to Normal- school and theater sceenery during the concert and high school sceens

Addams Family- Grandma's own song

Grinch- real whos NOT CARDBOARD FIGURES DURING SINGING SECTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

West Side Story- No spanish whatsoever (i know they changed it)

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Posted: 5/15/10 at 4:36pm

I agree with your Addams Family one.

Don't know why this was the first to come into my head:
Billy Elliot - NO jump ropes in Born to Boogie.
Updated On: 5/15/10 at 04:36 PM

[Bwaynerd]

Posted: 5/15/10 at 5:00pm

haha lol i agree

[bryan]

Posted: 5/15/10 at 7:18pm

all broadway and off broadway muiscals get cast cd's made and relased to all stores.

[wolfwolf]

Posted: 5/15/10 at 7:29pm

there are jump ropes in born to boogie I saw the show in Sydney and in New York but do not remember any jump ropes! Maybe I am remembering the Sydney one.

[BwayTday]

Posted: 5/15/10 at 8:06pm

Changing the opening part of August: Osage County. I found it slow and a rather boring beginning to a otherwise fantastic show.

[rmusic11322]

Posted: 5/15/10 at 11:42pm

"Grinch- real whos NOT CARDBOARD FIGURES DURING SINGING SECTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

What do you mean? When I saw the show in 2007, I'm pretty sure there were people dressed as whos instead of cardboard figures.

[legally_popular]

Posted: 5/16/10 at 12:07am

The dancing dresses in Billy Elliot too.

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 5/16/10 at 11:39am

BILLY ELLIOT - The dancing dresses, the STUPID bedroom tower, and the giant Maggie Thatcher puppet (these are people with low income; where did they get the money to craft a giant puppet?)

NEXT TO NORMAL - Gabe almost naked in "Just Another Day" (it's great to look at, but it serves zero purpose and it's the only time we see his character out of a direct connection with Diana so it makes even less sense)

SPRING AWAKENING [I know it's closed!] - The beating scene (needs some serious re-choreographing; it's just terrible)

SOUTH PACIFIC - Andrew Samonsky

GOD OF CARNAGE - The two plastic office chairs (these are upper class people and they really couldn't afford nicer chairs to compliment their couch?)

[TalkinLoud]

Posted: 5/16/10 at 11:46am

That awful droning noise Jessica Hecht made at the end of VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE.

[Brick]

Posted: 5/16/10 at 12:03pm

The ADDAMS FAMILY book and score

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Posted: 5/16/10 at 12:45pm

SOUTH PACIFIC - Andrew Samonsky

Thank you.

[Kalimba]

Posted: 5/16/10 at 2:27pm

Jukebox musicals, and the like (period).

[aasjb4ever]

Posted: 5/16/10 at 2:45pm

-No stunt casting whatsoever for any shows, ever. (Haha Chicago would have been in and out with this rule)
-IN THE HEIGHTS: Marcy Harriel.

[shrekster224]

Posted: 5/16/10 at 3:02pm

As far as BETM goes, I actually like the set (bedroom tower), the dancing dresses, and the jump roping is okay as long as they don't trip. If it goes smoothly it adds a lot.

In Wicked, during Wonderful, the Wizard should tap dance! It would add a lot.

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Posted: 5/16/10 at 3:04pm

and the jump roping is okay as long as they don't trip. If it goes smoothly it adds a lot.

Too bad half the time it does not go smoothly.

[broadfan327]

Posted: 5/16/10 at 4:15pm

Complimentary cough drops like in Carnegie Hall.

[yankee_fan907]

Posted: 5/16/10 at 4:46pm

"SOUTH PACIFIC - Andrew Samonsky

Thank you."



I would just like to third this. He is AWFUL.

[romgitsean]

Posted: 5/16/10 at 5:01pm

Well, while the following comments aren't necessarily of current Broadway shows, I would:

-Never allow that LuPone woman or Linda Woolverton and that heinous act she calls writing near or involved with a Broadway stage. Or just about any stage for that matter.

-Put Avenue Q back on Broadway.

-Get rid of those projections in Wicked. The show was fine the way it was in 2004. Stop trying to make it more extravagant than it already is. And put all the lines they cut back in.

-Although not currently on Broadway as of last week today; but the producers of Enron should've waited a few more years to put it on Broadway. And even when the time came, put it Off-Broadway, then let it transfer.

-Extend Fences!

-Fix the book for N2N. I'm sorry. But it sucks. Great score and cast, awful book.

And siding with Kalimba, get rid of the jukebox bullpoop (tee-hee). I don't MIND jukebox every once in a while, as long as the music is entirely relevant to the story- which there are plenty of shows where the story doesn't flow right with the music. Or better yet, just make the shows plays and use the music score as a sound track. Which is a bit amateurish, but if done tastefully I think could work.

And yes, aasjb4ever. Stunt casting is annoying- but hey! It's good every once in a while (Time Stands Still does have a pretty bitchin' cast, I must say).

Updated On: 5/16/10 at 05:01 PM

[Mildred Plotka]

Posted: 5/16/10 at 5:19pm

I wish the fangirls wouldn't treat performances like they're in the audience of Rocky Horror Show.

[Bwaynerd]

Posted: 5/17/10 at 3:59pm

in '06 (i think, well anyway it was the 1st year of the show) i saw the grinch in previews, and in some sections of songs the whos were figures singing, other scenes had real whos.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/17/10 at 4:01pm

The prices.

[Bwaynerd]

Posted: 5/17/10 at 4:05pm

haha just a couple years ago orchestra seat were just $100. But now you're talking $300!! The dollar always comes into play, and always progresses through the years!!! *sigh*

[rmusic11322]

Posted: 5/17/10 at 4:30pm

Why did Avenue Q close anyways? And why did it move to New World Stages?

[lull89]

Posted: 5/17/10 at 4:38pm

It wasn't making money on Broadway and could significantly lower its operating costs by transferring off-Broadway. The grosses towards the end were pretty bad.