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| YES - a really important phenomenon | |
| Posted by: D2025 03:17 am EST 02/24/19 | |
| In reply to: MERRILY: How much do reviews affects our views? - Zelgo 09:35 pm EST 02/23/19 | |
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| I so appreciate you raising this. As a writer and actor, I have seen this happen both ways both to my work and others. Audiences go from loving something to lukewarm. Or from lukewarm to really loving something. It is really unfortunate when this happens. But there are still works I've loved even after reading pans. All we can ask is for people to go in with open minds. The big thing it can do is kill ticket sales... | |
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| re: YES - a really important phenomenon | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 09:19 pm EST 02/24/19 | |
| In reply to: YES - a really important phenomenon - D2025 03:17 am EST 02/24/19 | |
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| I think that general audiences who see shows after the reviews come out are generally affected by them. They expect to like something or not based on the reviews (or sometimes simply their knowledge or perception, without having read the reviews, that a show got good reviews or bad reviews). Of course, plenty of people still end up not liking something that they know got good reviews or, perhaps less often, liking something that they know didn't get good reviews. I think that on ATC, however, most of the regular posters really are more independent in their thinking. Not all of us, but a lot of us. And I don't think it's just folks on ATC who are independent in their thinking. I think in general people who are very serious in their theatregoing, people who see a lot, are less swayed by reviews. This is all speaking generally, of course. |
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| re: YES - a really important phenomenon | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 05:39 pm EST 02/24/19 | |
| In reply to: YES - a really important phenomenon - D2025 03:17 am EST 02/24/19 | |
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| I had just seen the 1996 production of STATE FAIR and loved it when I walked into a theater district bar, I told someone at the bar that I had just seen it. And he said "Ugh, really?" And then I asked him if he had seen it. He HADN'T! It's amazing how people hate shows they haven't seen. I think I've done it a few times too. Guilty! | |
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| re: YES - a really important phenomenon | |
| Posted by: 37Rubydog 11:30 am EST 02/24/19 | |
| In reply to: YES - a really important phenomenon - D2025 03:17 am EST 02/24/19 | |
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| Daddy seems to be another work where there is some disagreement - although much of the disagreement is whether it is interesting and promising vs self-indulgent... For me it shared stylistic elements of Slave Play...while also raising a slew of issues/themes etc. I liked the work and the performances...but for me it is a lot to digest. Let’s see what the critics say and what posters say after. |
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| re: YES - a really important phenomenon | |
| Posted by: ryhog 10:18 am EST 02/24/19 | |
| In reply to: YES - a really important phenomenon - D2025 03:17 am EST 02/24/19 | |
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| I think you are referring to a different phenomenon-that audiences get better or worse after they have read reviews. (Ann also mentions this below, and I do not disagree with that at all.) I took the OP to be writing about the posting of opinions that are more negative once (negative) reviews come out. FWIW I am not someone who posts a lot of reviews/opinions on shows, but when I do early on (i.e., after seeing an early preview) it is I think always to alert folks to something I think they might like but might overlook. I cannot imagine posting to tell people not to see something but as things go on I occasionally post (in either direction) to a thread where opinions in both directions are being expressed or (even more likely) where I think a person has misapprehended something about a show. But I also think many of us have different ways of interacting with this board so it is not possible or wise to generalize. |
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