Posted on 05/05/2015 8:34:00 AM PDT by C19fan
The critically lambasted musical from composer Lucy Simon, lyricists Michael Korie and Amy Powers and book writer Michael Weller, will shutter Sunday, May 10 at the Shubert-owned Broadway Theatre, having played 26 preview and 23 regular performances. The show is staged by Tony winner Des McAnuff (Jersey Boys, The Who’s Tommy) and choreographed by Kelly Devine.
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Maybe the particular production sucked, or maybe there just wasn’t enough twerking in it.
I’ll let you know;we’re going tonite!
I saw it in previews. It was a wanna-be Les Mis that fell far short.
Not a problem. The producers are already hard at work creating “Shindler’s List - The Musical!”
With the epic David Lean movie an all time great it seems weird to shrink the story onto a broadway stage.
“It’s springtime for Lenin and Petersburg!”
It was a very bizarre production.
The cast had the audience sing Happy Birthday to the composer Lucy Simon,who was in the audience last nite. She’s the older sister of Carly Simon. I agree it was a strange production.
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