Who is excited for this weeks reviews?

Wedding Singer and Lestat are both opening this week. I can't wait to read them. Anyone else? Are other shows opening that I just can't think of? I think History Boys? Or has it already?

I'm really curious to see how Lestat does, and how the reviews affect its run.

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Cool. I wasn't all that excited about History Boys. I know I won't ever see the show, so Its not like something I'm all that interested in.

Yeah, I'm sure its good/great, but I dunno. I mean I'd go see it, but being from Alabama, I know I won't ever see it cause it wont tour. At least with some of the musicals I know I'll eventually get to see it.

I'm excited. And when do DROWSY and WEDDING SINGER open? It seems like it should be about time. But I'm excited for LESTAT. It should be entertaining to read the hate mail (otherwise knows as a Brantley review)

I am. I want to see if all of the changes to "Lestat" will result in better reviews than it received in San Francisco. Several people on the board have told me many times that it's a different show so I am anxious to read if different is better or more of the same.

I am also interested in reading the reviews for "The Wedding Singer". I have not seen it but I have been following the posts here and on that other message board.

'Make Me as You Are'
Bernie Taupin's lyrics for "Make Me as You Are," as sung by Gabrielle in "Lestat": (From Newsday)

And from that truth I feel no fear

Two kinds of death are present here

Mine's the age old act of dying

But yours is like the phoenix rising

Your mother's frail and feeble husk

Will soon be nothing more than dust

So let's not dwell on wasted years

My time is short my choice is clear

Make me as you are

Tear the hands off clocks that tick away my final hours

I want to rage against the light and leave the sun behind

I want to feel the power of everlasting youth inside

Take me, give me new life and we'll live beneath the stars

Together and forever, I beg you, make me as you are

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Updated On: 4/24/06 at 01:50 AM

Oh wow, Hot Feet too? It might be an onslaught of bad reviews. I hope not.


Are there any shows that got bashed out of town, but when they opened on Broadway they got rave reviews? Or is it sort of like if you get bad reviews out of town, most people trash you when you open on Broadway?

I saw The Wedding Singer last week (still in previews) and i decided to write a review of it, just because i feel like it.

When I first got to the show, and sat down in my seats, I couldnt help my smile. The disco ball, the cool curtian, and than the music started to play. Fun music that you can't help but enjoy.

When I look at peoples posts and they say "to bland, not interesting" I can only help by ask: Were they seeing the same show as me? The show itself is not an original concept, but it's fun. Broadway needs a fun, good-hearted show.

Yes maybe HAIRSPRAY did the 'same-ish' thing, but these are two completely different shows.

Lynch happends to be one of my favorite comedians, so i was excited to see him from the beggining. He was great, but he was different than Sandler's charecter in the movie. In the movie Robbie was more of a nerdy out-cast guy, but in the show he's more "normal" (for lack of a better word) Not necesarilly a bad thing, but just different.

As for the "bad casting" ... i think that's 101% wrong ... I couldnt think of a different cast that would be better.

Question is: Are you going to see a show to have a good time? I did, i had a good time, and i'll be the biggest advocate for it.

As for price: Folk's broadway is no movie theater .. it's expensive.

And for the people who came down on the show because it's too BLAND, go away! K? K.
And for the people who havent seen the show but chose to come down on it, go see it and than talk to me.

"That's an outrageous amount of new musicals opening in the span of ONE WEEK"

Yup. All racing towards that Tony nomination deadline of May 10. It's why so many major movies are released in December. They all want to be eligible for the next closest award presentation. You won't see so many shows open at the end of May, or big movies open in January.

Some of the reviews that I find most fun to read are in Variety. Here's the opening paragraph of its 4/20 review of "Three Penny Opera":

"Timing is everything. While any time is ostensibly the right time for "The Threepenny Opera," the enterprise has been trumped this season by an exemplary application of Brechtian staging principles to depict a society rotten to the core in Broadway's riveting reinvention of "Sweeney Todd." Even without the stiff competition, however, the landmark Brecht-Weill musical would be a botched job this time around, directed and adapted with sledgehammer subtlety by Scott Elliott and Wallace Shawn, respectively. While the cast is game and talented, the production is sunk by its one-note sleaziness and puerile provocation. Forget alienation effect, this is just plain off-putting."

Ouch. Tell me what you REALLY think!
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