| re: Love Never Dies Announces North American Tour Dates for 2018-19 Season and Casting | |
| Posted by: MikeP (ACL15@aol.com) 04:47 pm EDT 06/20/18 | |
| In reply to: Love Never Dies Announces North American Tour Dates for 2018-19 Season and Casting - Official_Press_Release 05:46 pm EDT 06/19/18 | |
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| In response to the posters below....I haven't seen Flashdance but I did see LND, Dirty Dancing and The Bodyguard. I cant even describe the mess that is Dirty Dancing other than to say 2 hours of my life I'll never get back. Both DD and Bodyguard are commercialized excuses to leverage a know brand with little or no interest in the quality of the production. Its just plain blatant rip off aimed at an audience that probably isn't comprised of Broadway regulars or the readers of this board. LND does attempt to produce a quality, original event. Not unlike Phantom, you need to suspend any hope of reality or a book that consistently makes sense (the book of LND is only a bit more ludicrous than Phantom). It too leverages its brand but in a different way. It attempts to do something new rather than mimeograph a watered down version of the original. I enjoyed LND. Some of the music is really gorgeous. Not in the Andrew Lloyd Webber "ear worm" way. But actually beautiful music and lyrics. The score moves the story and the production (especially for a road company) is spectacular. IIRC, the London version of LND was actually praised for its score. The critics killed the book and the direction. This version follows the rewritten production that started in Australia. Does it deserve a shot at Broadway? Probably yes and no less than some of the crap that's playing now. Would it succeed on Broadway, probably not. ALW could cure cancer, homelessness and world hunger. The NY critics will still crucify him. I would imagine that the biggest deterrent to a NY run is that it would probably cost a mint. I doubt that even ALW wants to throw money on an almost guaranteed loss. |
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