Why Did Amour Close? Explain It To Me

Well, lots of people didn't like the music but beyond that it was a very small show on Broadway and small shows tend not to do well, especially in this day and age where people want more razzle dazzle for their buck.

Thats what I figured why it closed. I just think the show was with such raw talent that people would love it for that....but i guess your right about the whole razzle dazzle thing

"Amour" was a small, dark horse candidate. While none of the reviews were what you would call "bad", none of the critics seemed very excited by it. A show like this needs better reviews than "eh" to servive.

That being said I found it to be one of the most perfectly staged, completely charming moments I have EVER spent in a broadway theater. I would not have changed a THING about it. I caught the final performance and left the theater feeling VERY angry that someone could not have generated more excitement about this beatutiful production.

A GREAT loss!!

TWOGAAB

" A Class Act" will never die!

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Updated On: 1/14/04 at 12:21 PM

Agreeed..i hate to say it but i have the same feeling about BD

Yes but if someone is pointing out that foreign transfers, particularly ones using a foreign storytelling technique and style, haven't done well on Broadway, why not then carry the discussion to 'Bombay Dreams,' which is a foreign transfer employing non-standard storytelling techniques and styles (namely, Bollywood.)

No one's bad mouthing anything, we're discussing something.

I found the music dull and the lyrics insipid. Except for Norm Lewis, the tremendously talented cast did everything they could to make the material come to life, but just weren't able to. Mr. Lewis, at least the night I was there, walked through his performance more easily than Malcolm Gets was able to walk through walls.

I did enjoy some of the vocal arrangement and the idea of the sets being fashioned off Magritte. However, the latter didn't quite come off very well.

However, it was the lyrics that did this show in for me. Perhaps adding a script and cutting the recitative (which all came off as silly, badly rhymed couplets) would have helped.

I never saw it, but I'll never forget the ad that featured the awful Brantley quote:

"A twinkling trinket of a musical!"

Not a "Money" quote by any means.

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Updated On: 1/14/04 at 09:20 PM

Good grief, Charlie Brown! lol

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