lets all help this show - Page 2

[BroadwayRox3588]

Posted: 3/6/22 at 11:20pm

This Show is one of this season's best shows. We should do everything in our power to help it.

[broadwayindie]

Posted: 3/7/22 at 12:28am

I saw Paradise Square twice in Chicago largely for Kulakango's performance which is possibly one of the best performances I've ever seen on stage (yes I saw Clarke's Caroline). I among family and friends (10-15) was probably most critical of it with everyone else absolutely loving, and some saying it was one of the best things they have seen, which is something I don't agree with, but did enjoy overall. I've had my issues with the show (and obviously the production team). It's not perfect but relies on its choreo and performances to imperfectly tell a compelling story, which is worth the price of admission.

Honestly, if Drubinsky isn't advertising this properly, which it sounds like he may not be, it could rely on word of mouth and a Tony for Kulakango but I don't think it's going to beat A Strange Loop and I question if it will be enough. That being said, Come From Away had pretty much the same feelings (granted with a much smaller budget) when it first opened and has survived largely from good will and word of mouth. So I think it can happen but it will be interesting. Do see it for Kulakango though.

[Mikejoseph]

Posted: 3/7/22 at 9:36am

someone said this is the best show of the season, really? there are a boat load of new shows yet to open and trust me- i saw it twice and this show was not the best show of the season in Chicago or Berkeley. If i have to choose between having a ball at Funny Girl or stern lecture on our times in this show , I choose Funny Girl as will most tourists. Much has also been written on the lack of advertising for this show, this is odd given that Drabinsky's co-producer is Peter LeDonne, former head of Ledonne Wilner, a defuncted  Broadway agency in the 80's and 90's, but as my late Bubbie Malka used to say;  "es vet nisht helfn"  (translation - it won't help).  

[Dollypop]

Posted: 3/7/22 at 2:01pm

Smaxie said: "Mikejoseph said: "someone said this is the best show of the season, really? there are a boat load of new shows yet to open and trust me- i saw it twice and this show was not the best show of the season in Chicago or Berkeley. If i have to choose between having a ball at Funny Girl or stern lecture on our times in this show , I choose Funny Girl as will most tourists. Much has also been written on the lack of advertising for this show, this is odd given that Drabinsky's co-producer is Peter LeDonne, former head of Ledonne Wilner, a defuncted Broadway agency in the 80's and 90's, but as my late Bubbie Malka used to say; "es vet nisht helfn" (translation - it won't help)."

Oh hello poster who just joined today who conveniently claims to have seen the show in two different cities almost three years apart, but is a completely disinterested party."

 

"Defuncted" ????

 

[Mikejoseph]

Posted: 3/8/22 at 3:20pm

I just love the picture of the cast moving in to the Barrymore! It's getting exciting - what is it that Barrymore said "   You can only be as good as you dare to be bad."  

[Dollypop]

Posted: 3/8/22 at 3:33pm

Don't get too excited, Mike. Those pictures were staged.

[Mikejoseph]

Posted: 3/8/22 at 3:57pm

oh, staged? reminds me of that other quote    " a lie can hide the truth, but it can't change the truth" 

Updated On: 3/8/22 at 03:57 PM

[JSquared2]

Posted: 3/8/22 at 3:58pm

Or that other famous quote "A shill by any other name is still a shill".

 

[UncleCharlie]

Posted: 3/8/22 at 7:50pm

Or my favorite famous quote "Give me liberty or give me death. Just don't give me any posts from shills cause that's worse than death."

[whatever2]

Posted: 3/8/22 at 8:42pm

moreover, for the sake of cast & crew, i do hope this production isn't, "daring to be bad." 

[Dollypop]

Posted: 3/8/22 at 10:53pm

whatever2 said: "moreover, for the sake of cast & crew, i do hope this production isn't, "daring to be bad.""

 

That would never happen here. There are too many kind people in the staged photograph. You can tell by the practiced smiles their faces.

 

[Daniel M]

Posted: 3/17/22 at 2:21pm

I was at yesterday’s (3/16)  mattinee. It was okay.