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| re: MANKIND at playwrights horizons | |
| Posted by: summertheater 12:51 pm EST 01/07/18 | |
| In reply to: re: MANKIND at playwrights horizons - Ann 12:45 pm EST 01/07/18 | |
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| The weighted average score is currently 66 on Show-Score, which is very low, considering the large number of reviews already posted. As a point of comparison, Hamilton has a superb 97 on Show-Score. | |
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| Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 01:18 pm EST 01/07/18 | |
| In reply to: re: MANKIND at playwrights horizons - summertheater 12:51 pm EST 01/07/18 | |
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| The fastest route to a collective ATC eyeroll is sneering, "It's no Hamilton"! :D | |
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| Do you honestly consider that a valid comparison or compelling arguement | |
| Last Edit: dramedy 01:09 pm EST 01/07/18 | |
| Posted by: dramedy 01:07 pm EST 01/07/18 | |
| In reply to: re: MANKIND at playwrights horizons - summertheater 12:51 pm EST 01/07/18 | |
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| To compare an off broadway play to the hotest broadway musical in the last decade? A more valid comparison is brigh colors and afterglow are in the high 70s and wolves and shadowland is in low 80s. Or perfect crime in mid 40s. Those are all off broadway plays that have some history of discussion on this board. So high 60s doesnt look that bad in comparison, but of course these alternate facts dont support your position that this is the worst play witten in decades. |
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| re: Do you honestly consider that a valid comparison or compelling arguement | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 01:22 pm EST 01/07/18 | |
| In reply to: Do you honestly consider that a valid comparison or compelling arguement - dramedy 01:07 pm EST 01/07/18 | |
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| But also - Mankind can be a bad show and be getting poor response from the audience, and summertheater can still be wrong about why that is. "Mankind" isn't very good (and contrary to the poster who called it Brechtian, I don't think Playwrights is terribly brave to do it), but that's because it fails at the level of storytelling (though I would say it's much more narratively coherent than "Threepenny"). Summetheater is right about that, at least, if nothing else... and when we get into claims of right or wrong, yes everyone has their own opinion, but summertheater has frequently declared O'Hara's intent as a writer, without offering any prooof. Meanwhile, we all know that O'Hara's work deeply upsets summertheater, suggesting to me that this isn't about "Mankind" at all. |
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| re: MANKIND at playwrights horizons | |
| Posted by: whereismikeyfl 01:01 pm EST 01/07/18 | |
| In reply to: re: MANKIND at playwrights horizons - summertheater 12:51 pm EST 01/07/18 | |
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| So Mankind"s score is less than the most commercially successful Broadway production of the last decade? | |
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| re: MANKIND at playwrights horizons | |
| Posted by: ryhog 01:00 pm EST 01/07/18 | |
| In reply to: re: MANKIND at playwrights horizons - summertheater 12:51 pm EST 01/07/18 | |
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| and Brecht, had he lived in the age of show-score, would have been very disappointed by a score as high as 50. You see, that raw nerve that's been exposed for you is the aspiration. On behalf of Mr. O'Hara, thank you for relentlessly reminding everyone the wound has lingered. :-) | |
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| re: MANKIND at playwrights horizons | |
| Posted by: Ann 12:59 pm EST 01/07/18 | |
| In reply to: re: MANKIND at playwrights horizons - summertheater 12:51 pm EST 01/07/18 | |
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| I do agree it's not getting the ratings of Hamilton. But it's just below "Bulldozer." | |
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