when will OPPOSITE OF SEX come to B'way?

[aces25]

Posted: 3/20/05 at 8:09pm

[Thesbijean]

Posted: 3/20/05 at 8:24pm

Oh, I love guessing games...

[aces25]

Posted: 3/20/05 at 8:48pm

Anyone have any info?

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 3/20/05 at 11:06pm

I wish I could tell you something definitive, but I can't. Sorry.

[Mattio98]

Posted: 3/20/05 at 11:09pm

My fingers are crossed!

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 3/20/05 at 11:10pm

Hopefully in the 2005-6 season.

[Mattio98]

Posted: 3/20/05 at 11:12pm

Yes, hopefully it will be next season and no later. I don't want to see an ugly battle between Disney and the Weisslers for Kerry Butler.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 3/20/05 at 11:14pm

Although how great would a fight between the Weisslers and anyone else for KZ be?

[Mattio98]

Posted: 3/20/05 at 11:16pm

Oh that would be great. But Karen is perfection in that role and she damn well better play it on Broadway if/when the time comes.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 3/20/05 at 11:18pm

Yeah, Karen MUST come back.

I would also love to see Kerry play Ariel opposite my Emily as Ursula, though...

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 3/20/05 at 11:20pm

Karen was perfection last night on the stage of the Kauffman Concert Hall at the 92nd Street Y - and her final two numbers were Hey Big Spender and If My Friends Could See Me Now. Yeah. She kicked ASS. Stupid Weisslers.

[Mattio98]

Posted: 3/20/05 at 11:29pm

What concert was that Rath?

Kerry would be a great Ariel but I still say that Patti LuPone or Eartha Kitt should play Ursula.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 3/20/05 at 11:33pm

It was Lyrics and Lyricists. A tribute to Dorothy Fields, with Billy Stritch, Julie Wilson, and Karen. A fabulous evening.

Updated On: 3/20/05 at 11:33 PM

[Mattio98]

Posted: 3/20/05 at 11:34pm

Whoa...what a trio!

[LittleFish8386]

Posted: 3/20/05 at 11:42pm

Yeah, I am really pulling for this show to come to Broadway soon. I saw the movie the other night, and I got really excited.


Come one people who are in charge of these things!

[Mattio98]

Posted: 3/20/05 at 11:43pm

I feel its in the same vein as DRS and that is a VERY good thing.

[LittleFish8386]

Posted: 3/20/05 at 11:47pm

That is an extremely good thing.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 3/20/05 at 11:50pm

LF - it's almost verbatim to the movie.

[Jon]

Posted: 3/21/05 at 12:07am

Yes, Rath, anyone who saw Karen in CONTACT and then saw Charlotte D'A.'s pathetic stab at the role knows just how a battle between those two would come out!

[LittleFish8386]

Posted: 3/21/05 at 12:17am

I just missed Charlotte, thank the lord. Because then I really would have commited suicide by playbill in that show.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 3/21/05 at 10:35am

MEF- i do not want to see Little Mermaid on bway even if it gives my favorite actress a leading role.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 3/21/05 at 4:47pm

I say Opposite in SF and was underwhelmed..it needs alot of fixin to be worth the trip.

[Mother's Younger Brother]

Posted: 3/21/05 at 5:05pm

I totally agree, Singingbackup. There were a lot of good things about The Opposite of Sex in SF, mainly Kerry Butler. She and her character were just about the only things that don't need fixing. The show as a whole very quickly falls in to the predictable "every scene/character gets a song" mode. Worse than that, the songs don't mesh at all with the book -- the lyrics don't match the way characters speak in dialogue and the songs don't come out of the action. There's a repeating "I feel a song coming on" vibe to the whole thing. I didn't think there was one memorable/distinctive song in the whole score.

Wow, this all sounds more negative than I intended it. Like I said, Kerry was wonderful, and they're really on to something with the way her charcter is used in the show. The rest of it is just odd. It's not awful, it just doesn't work.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 3/21/05 at 5:15pm

MYB---It could be the source material. I think it's a good film, not a great one....they really stick close to the movie script and that could be problematic.