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Post by raider80 on Apr 17, 2019 13:43:32 GMT
Might just be me, but this looks like the weirdest thing ever. Can't tell if it's good or bad. Strange. It’s bad. Real bad! The best part of the show is at the 0:41 mark.
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Post by pianowithsam on Apr 17, 2019 14:19:36 GMT
Might just be me, but this looks like the weirdest thing ever. Can't tell if it's good or bad. Strange. It’s bad. Real bad! The best part of the show is at the 0:41 mark. Lol, have you seen it? Have to admit, I do like the abstract set design. I also like the Basilisk-like creature that makes multiple appearances. Yes, I don't know the story of Beetlejuice if you couldn't tell. Will just wait to hear how things sound on the music side.
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Post by danieljohnson14 on Apr 18, 2019 7:12:04 GMT
the trailer looks AMAZING!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2019 17:57:08 GMT
The trailer looks awful, and I would 100% absolutely go and see this show if I were in New York.
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Post by jess173 on Apr 18, 2019 19:52:17 GMT
I’m planning on seeing this next month. I’m really curious about it and I don’t really know what to think of it. The trailer doesn’t look bad but not great either. I hope we’ll win the lottery. I don’t want to spend a fortune on tickets. 🙈
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Post by raider80 on Apr 19, 2019 0:22:09 GMT
It’s bad. Real bad! The best part of the show is at the 0:41 mark. Lol, have you seen it? Have to admit, I do like the abstract set design. I also like the Basilisk-like creature that makes multiple appearances. Yes, I don't know the story of Beetlejuice if you couldn't tell. Will just wait to hear how things sound on the music side. I saw it late last week. The sets and lighting was the best part of the show! Alex Brightman on the other hand... lets just say the producers aren't going to offer him a contract extension.
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Post by Jon on Apr 19, 2019 19:15:40 GMT
It’s interesting that Warner Bros has never managed to do the whole screen to stage adaptation as well as Disney. Charlie was somewhat successful in the West End but not a success on Broadway.
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Post by pianowithsam on Apr 19, 2019 19:50:24 GMT
It’s interesting that Warner Bros has never managed to do the whole screen to stage adaptation as well as Disney. Charlie was somewhat successful in the West End but not a success on Broadway. Loved Charlie in West End. Saw some clips from Broadway - looked awful.
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Post by musicalmarge on Apr 20, 2019 3:22:19 GMT
Saw this tonight.
What is it about broadway at the moment? Everything is so meh... it was enjoyable, fun but I had issues with the book and dud songs. Looks great though and looks expensive enough. A bland 7/10 - could have been much better in my opinion.
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Post by graham on Apr 23, 2019 14:37:52 GMT
Saw Beetlejuice at the weekend. It's got a great design, but that's about where the positives end. As a musical it just doesn't work - it's not helped by the songs being bland and unmemorable, but they add nothing to the show.
Alex Brightman is playing Dewey Finn playing Beetlejuice. The rest of the cast are trying hard with very weak material
Opportunity missed!
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Post by viserys on Apr 24, 2019 8:44:34 GMT
I quite enjoyed it. The music isn't great, but I was pleased to realize that it's more classic Broadway sound than that kind of bland noisy pop music that's all the rage on Broadway these days.
Happy to see Sophia Anne Caruso again who was so great in Lazarus and she gets the only real good song to sing with Dead Mom. Personally I enjoyed Alex Brightman, great fun and very likeable, only the "growly" voice grated.
Overall the show was very broad American comedy and initially the other women (Kerry Butler and Leslie Kritzer) set my teeth on edge with their extreme overacting, but it got better.
Would agree though, if this show had 2-3 more really good songs, it could be great, as it is, I'd settle for "okay".
It's a visual feast to be sure and amid the sea of current teenie/high school shows and jukebox pop I still thing it's worth seeing and I'm glad I did.
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Post by raider80 on Apr 25, 2019 14:06:09 GMT
Opening night is tonight and I have a feeling the critics are going to be catty.
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Post by musicalmarge on Apr 26, 2019 6:31:19 GMT
Saw Beetlejuice at the weekend. It's got a great design, but that's about where the positives end. As a musical it just doesn't work - it's not helped by the songs being bland and unmemorable, but they add nothing to the show. Alex Brightman is playing Dewey Finn playing Beetlejuice. The rest of the cast are trying hard with very weak material Opportunity missed! Agreed!!!!
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Post by graham on Apr 26, 2019 11:23:42 GMT
Surprised by the reviews this morning. Whilst they are mixed, they are more positive than I expected.
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Post by jess173 on May 29, 2019 13:27:21 GMT
I finally saw this last Sunday and did not like it at all. I knew it would be different than the movie and I would have been totally ok with it but I just couldn’t warm to it. The set and costume design were amazing. And Sophia Anne Caruso was really good. I just didn’t find the jokes to be funny... like... at all. I think I laughed 5 times during the whole show. On Monday I couldn’t remember a single song. We rushed the show and so only paid 42$ each. Our seats were slightly restricted to the right side of the stage but I don’t think we missed much. I liked the second act more than the first one (which dragged on forever) but it couldn’t save the show for me. I guess it was simply not my cup of tea which is a shame because I liked the movie. I really liked the interior design of the Wintergarden theatre and the music they played before the show and during the interval. I wish the music in the show would have been a little more like this.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2019 11:06:50 GMT
Been listening to the soundtrack that came out (in the UK) on Friday. Not sure if it's been mentioned already, but love the first song Twhere Beetlejuice is setting the rules for the show - and being in a theatre...
"The Sword of Damocles is swinging and if I hear your cell phone ringing I'll kill ya myself!!"
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Post by jess173 on Jun 10, 2019 15:11:25 GMT
Well there were cellphones ringing when I saw it. No one was killed for it... regrettably...
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Post by thenightowl on Jul 6, 2019 9:19:54 GMT
Caught this a couple of weeks ago when I was in New York and thought it was brilliant! I've pretty much been listening to the cast recording non-stop since I've got back - I can't get the songs out of my head and for what it's worth I think the score is very strong for this show. I saw three shows in total whilst in NY and this show has the score I always want to put on (saw Tootsie and The Prom, I'll put some comments in their respective threads).
Special mentions to Sophia Anne Caruso, Alex Brightman and Leslie Kritzer who really shine in this show. I can't believe the voice on Sophia, such an incredible talent and I was really surprised to find out she's only 17! I can see how Alex's gravelly voice might grate, but it works perfectly for Beetlejuice, and how he's managed to train his voice to safely sound like that 8 times a week is amazing! Leslie Kritzer just steals the show when she's on and her key songs (No Reason and What I Know Now) land perfectly.
Fantastic costumes/sets/lighting as you would expect from a big Broadway show. So many parts of the show rely on very slick rehearsed movements/timings, there's a 360 degree video on YouTube for That Beautiful Sound that gives an indication on this - watching this live was like magic as they appeared.
I didn't book tickets in advance but planned on getting rush tickets as I had a couple of days with loose plans. Arrived about 15mins before the theatre box office opened and managed to get four tickets (we were a group of four) side seats on Row S in the Orchestra/Stalls for $43 each, these normally go for $139 plus fees - granted I wouldn't have been happy paying that price as you really start to feel far away back here. Broadway seems so much more expensive than when I last came (12 years ago), I know the exchange rate is poor but wow things are so expensive. A diet coke at the Winter Garden theatre was $10! Although you have no choice you get it in a reusable Beetlejuice cup whether you want it or not. There's a line about $50 wine in the show that got a lot of laughs!
It is the one show that I want to see again already and I'm glad to see ticket sales are increasing (gradually) - it's a really fun show that considering its about death actually has a strong message about making the most of life.
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Post by iamamazing on Jul 13, 2019 21:46:55 GMT
Does anyone think this show will come over I think the will be a perfect show for the GILLIAN LYNNE theatre.
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Post by viserys on Jul 14, 2019 7:14:30 GMT
While not doing fantastically well, it seems that Beetlejuice is being a bit of a slow burner improving little by little, while the more hyped Tootsie (which has already announced a London production) seems to be going downhill. So who knows?
That said, I think Beetlejuice is a pretty expensive show (at least it looked expensive to me, unlike the cheap tacky Pretty Woman which is ALSO coming over) and I think that kind of "horror comedy thing" (see also: Addams Family, Young Frankenstein) seems to be a very American thing that never really translated well abroad.
They have survived the summer cull and may actually benefit from so many shows closing soon, because the tourists will now have to look for other things to see. If they can keep going through a strong-ish second half of the year, I guess chances will rise for it to come over. Dunno about the Gillian Lynne, I'd say that open platform staging could be used for better things as Beetlejuice is pretty much a classic proscenium show. Can see it go into one of the mid-sized musical houses, but then everyone wants these...
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Post by AddisonMizner on Aug 28, 2019 21:39:37 GMT
Any rumours of a London run?
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Post by theatremadness on Sept 5, 2019 17:38:06 GMT
Just seen someone on twitter suggest that if Beetljuice ever made its way over to London, that Rufus Hound would be a good fit for the title role and I have to say I totally agree! I actually think he'd be perfect!
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Post by zephyrus on Sept 10, 2019 13:06:06 GMT
Saw Beetlejuice the other week and, having read the reviews, I shouldn't have been surprised, but I really didn't care for it at all. I liked the performances of Alex Brightman, Sophia Anne Caruso and Leslie Kritzer, but the material is just so thin. The plot sort of limps along, punctuated by totally unmemorable songs, and the whole thing outstays its welcome after about the first half an hour.
I'm a fan of Alex Timbers - I think he's a very clever director - and this show looks great, but it's something I could happily have missed.
It baffles me slightly that it's thriving at the Box Office, whilst Tootsie is struggling. I saw Tootsie on an earlier visit and, for me, it's a vastly superior show.
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Post by squidward on Oct 30, 2019 20:05:51 GMT
I felt much the same as Zephyrus, aside from the design of the show, which felt way over the top even for the broad subject matter. It felt like the entire kitchen sink of design tricks were there to distract from the abysmal book and tuneless, ear deafening score.
It's hard to fathom how material this poor actually made it to Broadway without a big rewrite. Perhaps it's enough these days just to have a film title to get bums on seats? The theatre was very full at the performance I saw.
The whole thing felt completely one note from start to finish and Alex Brightman's shouting and growling performance didn't help.
I saw Sophia Anne Caruso in Lazarus and thought she was absolutely wonderful. Not so much in Beetlejuice though, but I'm not sure how anyone else would have been able to make much more of such a thinly drawn role.
Obviously this is cartoon-like subject material, but if characters are impossible to care about, it's very difficult to maintain any interest in what's happening on the stage however much money has been thrown at it.
I've seen other cartoony shows like The Spongebob Musical and the current off-Broadway revival of 'Little Shop of Horrors' (with Jonathan Groff & Christian Borle)where I was fully absorbed and even moved by the productions, but Beetlejuice left me entirely cold.
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Post by sprampster on Nov 8, 2019 19:28:26 GMT
Have to say I loved this when I saw it earlier in the year and if it ever does come to the UK Simon Lipkin would be perfect in the title role !
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2019 20:38:41 GMT
I think this would suit the Gillian Lynne theatre really well should SoR close anytime soon.
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Post by iamamazing on Nov 17, 2019 22:37:45 GMT
Beetlejuice would look nice here?
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Post by theatre241 on Nov 18, 2019 7:36:40 GMT
They would have to change the staging like they did for school or rock because it’s a shallow stage
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Post by learfan on Nov 18, 2019 9:32:56 GMT
Love the film, remember seeing it in Leicester Square the week it opened! Really hope this comes to London. Imagine there will be some theatres available next year.
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