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GLORY DAYS reviews
#25re: GLORY DAYS reviews
Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:08pm
The producers of the show are idiots not the creative team.If you are given the money and the opportunity to realize your dream you cant say that you would not take it?
Plus its not like they new is was going to flop, didn't this show get good notices during its run at the Signature
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
#26re: GLORY DAYS reviews
Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:09pmI get it...but whats the deal with being 'polite to the artists' of Glory Days and rude to those of Cry Baby?
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#27re: GLORY DAYS reviews
Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:09pm
the D.C. critics loved it...
just goes to show that NEW YORK is an entirely different monster.
Bert -- I'm not sure! at least with CRY-BABY, Thomas O'Donnell is a proven writer and is rather brilliant (not at his best with C-B). and even though the composers are new, they've been in the "business"
why should we let these young kids slide? it's everyone's fault. not just the Producers. they should have made some changes during Previews and they really didn't. that's their fault.
Updated On: 5/6/08 at 08:09 PM
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#28re: GLORY DAYS reviews
Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:09pm
If you are given the money and the opportunity to realize your dream you cant say that you would not take it?
As I said, with good judgment - yes, you can say NO. Not ready yet.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#29re: GLORY DAYS reviews
Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:10pm
Plus its not like they new is was going to flop, didn't this show get good notices during its run at the Signature
Honey, imagine if every show that does well regionally ended on Broadway. Please, there are standards.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#30re: GLORY DAYS reviews
Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:11pm
But Blaxx your missing the point
the show got good notices out of town, its not like it was a flop at the signature and someone went "yeah, great idea lets take this flop to Broadway"
They will have thought that the show was working and with the reviews and people telling them they had a hit on their hands of course they would go
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#31re: GLORY DAYS reviews
Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:12pm
CRY-BABY got great reviews in California...
hell, HIGH FIDELITY was a hit in Boston!
what's your point? New York is different.
#32re: GLORY DAYS reviews
Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:13pm
*shudder* dont call me Honey lol
And yes lots of shows get great reviews out of town and not great ones in NY, thats why we have flops, it doesn't mean that the creative team thought the show was unready to deliver to NY
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#33re: GLORY DAYS reviews
Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:13pm
No, love. There are TONS of regional shows that do well with critics. Why are they not all on Broadway? The hit in Nowhere, Virginia will never instantly translate into Broadway smash.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#34re: GLORY DAYS reviews
Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:14pmIm sure many very small shows which had a modest Out Of Town run have found success in NY
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#35re: GLORY DAYS reviews
Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:16pm
AP
NEW YORK - "Glory Days" is an eager pop-rock musical examining past, present and future — as seen through the eyes of four best friends, a quartet of guys who have returned home after their first year of college.
In `Glory Days,' 4 best friends deal with trying to grow up
#36re: GLORY DAYS reviews
Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:17pm
The Associated Press is Mixed-to-Positive:
Good. At least there's one.
"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
Hiram
Featured Actor Joined: 12/16/06
#38re: GLORY DAYS reviews
Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:21pmWithoutATrace - I plotzed when you mentioned HOME SWEET HOMER! I saw that turkey! It was so dreadful but I'm thrilled I saw it. One of the great legendary bombs!
backstageonbroadway
Swing Joined: 5/6/08
#39re: GLORY DAYS reviews
Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:24pmI saw this show and actually ENJOYED it. some parts were a little boring, but IMO, it was an alright show. i feel bad for everyone right now! i mean sure that's not what the buisness is all about, you gain some and you lose some. I guess this show just wasn't ready for Broadway. some reviews are funny, but i think they are HARSH. It's their FIRST show and well, I just hope them getting bad reviews won't affect their future in writing. Hopefully the rest they get won't be..bad.
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#40re: GLORY DAYS reviews
Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:25pm
the HARSH reviews are a good dose of reality.
it's their first show. they're young... they'll be back. hopefully with something BETTER!
backstageonbroadway
Swing Joined: 5/6/08
#41re: GLORY DAYS reviews
Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:27pmyeah, i know. i just hope the reviews won't discourage them in the future! =)
#42re: GLORY DAYS reviews
Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:28pmHiram: Joan Diener singing "Did He Really Think" is absolutely brilliant...she should have won a Tony that year for HOME SWEET HOMER.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#43re: GLORY DAYS reviews
Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:32pmCan't wait for the soothing words of my beloved Matthew Murray, who fills my world with his love and theatrical compassion.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
perfectliar
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#45re: GLORY DAYS reviews
Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:35pmKalimba - It's really hard to take your comment seriously when your avatar is of one of the worst pieces of trash to grace the Broadway stage in the past decade or so.
whatever2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/06
#46re: GLORY DAYS reviews
Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:37pm
blaxx: im not sure youre microsoft analogy is apt (unless youre like a middle manager in the technology industry or something).
these producers didnt ask bus drivers to be rocket scientists, they asked fledgling writers to come to broadway (cue jerry orbach bellowing, "Allentown?!?!?"). the proximity makes the temptation a bit more irresistible, imho.
and, fwiw, after the hash microsoft made of their bid(s) for yahoo, they could probably use you at the top!
"You, sir, are a moron." (PlayItAgain)
#47re: GLORY DAYS reviews
Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:39pm
Can't wait for the soothing words of my beloved Matthew Murray, who fills my world with his love and theatrical compassion.
The man liked IN MY LIFE...
"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
Updated On: 5/6/08 at 08:39 PM
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#48re: GLORY DAYS reviews
Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:40pm
I think the NEXT TO NORMAL comment is interesting, opening a new untried show in a smaller venue makes more sense, because it's cheaper and you get a sense of what the New York audience is gonna think of it.
I am glad that (title of show) is taking it's time, but I do believe it could have taken this theatre this season and blown the other new shows away.
What a downer for the final musical of the season.
Should be an interesting evening of revue reading.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#49re: GLORY DAYS reviews
Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:44pmwhatever2, I was just trying to say that the fact the opportunity came up does not mean they HAD to take it. Some posters make it sound that anyone who had the opportunity to be on Broadway would take it, and that sounds terribly off.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
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