Re: BROADWAY shows with SHORT runs you saw and/or LIKED

Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 19:13:04 -0500 (EST)
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Re: BROADWAY shows with SHORT runs you saw and/or LIKED
Group: rec.arts.theatre.musicals Date: Sat, Mar 29, 2003, 2:31pm (EST-1)
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Rags and Johnny Jones were good enough. I didn't love them either found
them reasonably entertaining, as much so as better-reviewed shows such
as Evita, Rent and Chorus Line.
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I enjoyed RAGS much more than any of the others above. And in spite of
later winning the NY Drama Critics Award, Broadway's EVITA (deservedly)
got mostly terrible reviews.
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RA: Good News: I saw the real 1927 version about a year before the '74
"revival" that lasted two weeks on Broadway. Cute and funny, almost
because of its crude construction and precious jokes. How badly must the
Broadway version have adapted it to do so badly? Perhaps the ticket
price difference between a college production and Broadway raised
expectations.
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I've seen both versions. I thought the Alice Faye/Gene Nelson (Abe
Burrows) revisal was much, much better. In fact, I liked it slightly
more than NANETTE, and considerably more than IRENE.
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RA: Patent Leather Shoes: again, a good evening's entertainment. It does
seem out of sync with novelist Powers' type of humor. What I read about
inauspicious New York opening was that the tone of reviews was not so
much that it was a bad show, but that __of course__ it was a bad show,
it originated in local regional theatre (Summit, Illinois). It was
probably a mistake to open it __on__ Broadway instead of off.
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It was a smash in Philly. I liked the cast but not the show. Ditto on IS
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