| And the Times closing blurb today of course recycled their pan. | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 09:45 am EDT 08/10/17 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 09:42 am EDT 08/10/17 | |
| In reply to: re: sad and surprising - mamaleh 10:46 pm EDT 08/09/17 | |
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| I'm sure someone will school me that it's just thorough journalism, but it always bugs me when the Times closing notices pull up a piece of their pan. In the case of "Bandstand," the Alexis Soloski review was one of the nastiest, and to my thinking, odd. Soloski missed the entire point of the show, that it trades in re-examined tropes of the (MGM) musical, as if the creators were oblivious to their own strategy. When the Times incorporates the paper's take on a show about to fold, there's a kind of "well, we called it" subtext. Yeah, yeah, they have a right. Still, this show has 4 1/2 more weeks, and this comes on the heels of Jesse Green's review of the "Bandstand" album which basically said, "better to get the recording than see the show." It's their job to critique, but they also seem to savor hitting a show that's already down for the count. Just my grievances. |
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