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Friday, October 13, 2006
Bob Dylan Musical Will Lose $10 Million, Insiders Say
FOXNews.com: "Producers of the troubled show that features the music of Bob Dylan set to dance pieces by the legendary Twyla Tharp now fear a total loss when the show opens on Oct. 26."
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Previews can be a time for editing depending on how many more previews you have until the show actually opens. It sound like “Times” is trying to do more than change a few things. A complete overhaul is sometimes what the show needs, but there is always a time where they need to just polish what they have and make it the best. It is a lin time issue. As for the show itself, if they are billing it as Dylan and the music is not recognizable as Dylan, it will not last long.
It's true that we all have worked on "those shows." The shows that we know are bad, but our work never-the-less. It's possible you might know the show is horrible, but no artist should ever badmouth their own show before it even opens. Shows change during previews, although not drastically, and to call a show "a financial and artistic disaster" before it even opens is just irresponsible of the "insider." I always tell people, come see for yourself. -Aaron Siebert
Having seen "Moving Out", I wasn't thrilled with the Twyla's previous work. Sure the dancing was nice, but I honestly just sat back and listened to almost too much Billy Joel. These shows seem to have very little point, especially in pocessing a dialectic consciousness. This just seems like another Broadway attempt to make a meaningless musical. I am not saying at all that musicals are meaningless, but often sparkles goes too far to replace the unities.
This article sounded like it came from a tabloid. I agree with Derek. It seems that Broadway is running out of ideas for musicals. Where are the composers? Where are the writers? We can't say they went to film because Hollywood has started to produce old and already released musicals left and right. If this musical does flop, hopefully Broadway will get the hint and put a stop to producing musicals based on famous musicians. Have we lost our creativity?
I don't understand how a show could even make it to preview when even people working on it think it's this bad. If it's true that the music is unrecongnizeable, they must have noticed that a long time ago. Why was it not fixed then? It's sad when you can say that your own show will be an utter and complete failure.
Here in lies the problem with just assuming that a show, based on who it is concieved around, will work. Movin' Out works because Billy Joel's music. in the first place, uses more than just the standard set. He uses saxophones, and organs and everything that could end up in a Broadway band. To take a song that isn't related to Broadway in the slightest, and then orchestrate it, well, that is how to lose 10 million dollars.
6 comments:
Previews can be a time for editing depending on how many more previews you have until the show actually opens. It sound like “Times” is trying to do more than change a few things. A complete overhaul is sometimes what the show needs, but there is always a time where they need to just polish what they have and make it the best. It is a lin time issue. As for the show itself, if they are billing it as Dylan and the music is not recognizable as Dylan, it will not last long.
It's true that we all have worked on "those shows." The shows that we know are bad, but our work never-the-less. It's possible you might know the show is horrible, but no artist should ever badmouth their own show before it even opens. Shows change during previews, although not drastically, and to call a show "a financial and artistic disaster" before it even opens is just irresponsible of the "insider." I always tell people, come see for yourself.
-Aaron Siebert
Having seen "Moving Out", I wasn't thrilled with the Twyla's previous work. Sure the dancing was nice, but I honestly just sat back and listened to almost too much Billy Joel. These shows seem to have very little point, especially in pocessing a dialectic consciousness. This just seems like another Broadway attempt to make a meaningless musical. I am not saying at all that musicals are meaningless, but often sparkles goes too far to replace the unities.
This article sounded like it came from a tabloid.
I agree with Derek. It seems that Broadway is running out of ideas for musicals. Where are the composers? Where are the writers?
We can't say they went to film because Hollywood has started to produce old and already released musicals left and right.
If this musical does flop, hopefully Broadway will get the hint and put a stop to producing musicals based on famous musicians.
Have we lost our creativity?
-Julianna Slaten
I don't understand how a show could even make it to preview when even people working on it think it's this bad. If it's true that the music is unrecongnizeable, they must have noticed that a long time ago. Why was it not fixed then? It's sad when you can say that your own show will be an utter and complete failure.
-Natasha Alejandro
Here in lies the problem with just assuming that a show, based on who it is concieved around, will work. Movin' Out works because Billy Joel's music. in the first place, uses more than just the standard set. He uses saxophones, and organs and everything that could end up in a Broadway band. To take a song that isn't related to Broadway in the slightest, and then orchestrate it, well, that is how to lose 10 million dollars.
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