So I am thinking about my post about Brantley's ROCKY review.
Now I have never poster before. Thought I would give it a shot. Told...actually laughed at and warned that if I say anything against someone hating the show, that I am spoiling the fun here. People will come after me. I will be called a shill or said to have some involvement in the show.
They were right. Maybe I should have listened. But you know what...this is actually sort of fun. Anyway, in re-reading what I originally posted, I have to say that yeah...it sounds like I have something to do with the show. That I am too close. Well, though not involved with the show, I am perhaps too close to the industry.i have seen first hand, how brutally difficult it is to create, not to mention sustain a show on Broadway. So when Brantley said that the audience was in a couch potato stupor, I guess the proverbial straw broke. Clearly he was bored. For many that seems to be the case....certainly among critics.
Now who in the world can ever say what an audience truly feels. You could certainly recognize the biased applause. Fans of the movie, friends of the cast and so on. Easy to spot. Also, if an audience is in a stupor you pretty much know it. Again,easy to spot. . He knows,I know, the audience there that night knows that was not the case. Also, He makes the audience comment in the most read part of any review. The first paragraphs (or the last sentence). He knows what he is doing.
So....in my opinion, his opening remarks were designed to damage the financial prospects of the production. Another poster was right in saying that his review was a fair assessment. Now that I have calmed down I realize this. He did not like the show and except for the opening about the audience he makes a good case.
But being at the same performance...The couch potato stupor stuff was just too much for me.
Ok...I promise I will stop now. I will let it go. Time move on. I do actually have a life. Sorry if I dampened the hate feast. Best of luck to you all and thank you for spending so much time talking about Broadway, even if to trash it. I can totally see how one can become addicted to this.
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