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re: Daily Beast: Is Broadway Brain-Dead?

Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 03:09 pm EDT 03/18/14
In reply to: re: Daily Beast: Is Broadway Brain-Dead? - enoch10 02:09 pm EDT 03/18/14

If you want to look on the bright side: The creative team for IF/THEN is the same as the team for NEXT TO NORMAL, one of very few recent shows to prove it's still possible to have a Broadway success with an entirely original musical.


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re: Daily Beast: Is Broadway Brain-Dead?

Posted by: ryhog 04:44 pm EDT 03/18/14
In reply to: re: Daily Beast: Is Broadway Brain-Dead? - Michael_Portantiere 03:09 pm EDT 03/18/14

I have to reserve judgment on the show, but I am happy that Yorkey and Kitt have not yet succumbed to the same temptations we are seeing from Brown, Flaherty and Ahrens this season. Will it remain thus? (It didn't for the aforementioned.) Do they have the talent to reach beyond their one hit wonder? We shall see.


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re: Daily Beast: Is Broadway Brain-Dead?

Posted by: bwaydiva1 04:54 pm EDT 03/18/14
In reply to: re: Daily Beast: Is Broadway Brain-Dead? - ryhog 04:44 pm EDT 03/18/14

I don't care if someone 'succumbs to the temptations' of adapting a film (heck Sondheim did that) as long as it's good. Original doesn't always mean GOOD. And this is NOT good in my humble opinion.


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re: Daily Beast: Is Broadway Brain-Dead?

Posted by: ryhog 05:29 pm EDT 03/18/14
In reply to: re: Daily Beast: Is Broadway Brain-Dead? - bwaydiva1 04:54 pm EDT 03/18/14

If it is not clear from what I have written, let me restate it: I have no issue with film adaptations. It is the cheap exploitation I have been consistently referring to and that are the "brain dead" specie.


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re: Daily Beast: Is Broadway Brain-Dead?

Posted by: bwaydiva1 04:39 pm EDT 03/18/14
In reply to: re: Daily Beast: Is Broadway Brain-Dead? - Michael_Portantiere 03:09 pm EDT 03/18/14

I take it you haven't seen If/Then yet. I think this is really inferior to next to normal in the material, the book and the score.

Next to normal took YEARS to develop. If/Then feels like it was slapped together and brought to Broadway in a haste. I usually love the music of Kitt and Yorkey but I really didn't like If/Then at all. (The lyrics were particularly atrocious.)

I'm not convinced If/Then is the savior of the original musical.


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