when will OPPOSITE OF SEX come to B'way?
when will OPPOSITE OF SEX come to B'way?
aces25
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/13/04
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#1re: when will OPPOSITE OF SEX come to B'way?
Posted: 3/20/05 at 8:24pmOh, I love guessing games...
aces25
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/13/04
#3re: when will OPPOSITE OF SEX come to B'way?
Posted: 3/20/05 at 11:06pmI wish I could tell you something definitive, but I can't. Sorry.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
Mattio98
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/03
#5re: when will OPPOSITE OF SEX come to B'way?
Posted: 3/20/05 at 11:10pmHopefully in the 2005-6 season.
Mattio98
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/03
#6re: when will OPPOSITE OF SEX come to B'way?
Posted: 3/20/05 at 11:12pmYes, 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.
#7re: when will OPPOSITE OF SEX come to B'way?
Posted: 3/20/05 at 11:14pm
Although how great would a fight between the Weisslers and anyone else for KZ be? 
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
Mattio98
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/03
#8re: when will OPPOSITE OF SEX come to B'way?
Posted: 3/20/05 at 11:16pmOh 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.
#9re: when will OPPOSITE OF SEX come to B'way?
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...
#10re: when will OPPOSITE OF SEX come to B'way?
Posted: 3/20/05 at 11:20pmKaren 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.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
Mattio98
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/03
#11re: when will OPPOSITE OF SEX come to B'way?
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.
#12re: when will OPPOSITE OF SEX come to B'way?
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.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
Updated On: 3/20/05 at 11:33 PM
Mattio98
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/03
#14re: when will OPPOSITE OF SEX come to B'way?
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/03
#15re: when will OPPOSITE OF SEX come to B'way?
Posted: 3/20/05 at 11:43pmI feel its in the same vein as DRS and that is a VERY good thing.
#16re: when will OPPOSITE OF SEX come to B'way?
Posted: 3/20/05 at 11:47pmThat is an extremely good thing.
#17re: when will OPPOSITE OF SEX come to B'way?
Posted: 3/20/05 at 11:50pmLF - it's almost verbatim to the movie.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#18re: when will OPPOSITE OF SEX come to B'way?
Posted: 3/21/05 at 12:07amYes, 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!
#19re: when will OPPOSITE OF SEX come to B'way?
Posted: 3/21/05 at 12:17amI just missed Charlotte, thank the lord. Because then I really would have commited suicide by playbill in that show.
#20re: when will OPPOSITE OF SEX come to B'way?
Posted: 3/21/05 at 10:35amMEF- i do not want to see Little Mermaid on bway even if it gives my favorite actress a leading role.
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#21re: when will OPPOSITE OF SEX come to B'way?
Posted: 3/21/05 at 4:47pmI say Opposite in SF and was underwhelmed..it needs alot of fixin to be worth the trip.
#22re: when will OPPOSITE OF SEX come to B'way?
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#23re: when will OPPOSITE OF SEX come to B'way?
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.
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