This musical was based on a surprisingly intelligent movie that offered an unconventional brand of feminism by showing a pretty, fashion-conscious, seemingly familiar stereotype showing greater intelligence and achieving greater depth than anyone … [Continue reading]
Grey Gardens
This show was a critical smash, with good-to-great reviews and the biggest, most lauded star performance in years. Even Forbidden Broadway had nothing bad to say about it…so why did it only run six months? It’s a common cliché to say that a show … [Continue reading]
The Woman In White
Webber’s most recent stage projects had been failures, but I consider this show to be the point at which it became clear that something was seriously wrong. The source material, Wilkie Collins’ gothic novel of the same name, offered a cliché-bound, … [Continue reading]
The Wedding Singer
This is a show based on an Adam Sandler movie, which is never a good sign. Granted, the movie it’s based on is arguably Sandler’s best movie ever, but the stage version doesn’t seem to understand why that was the case. The original movie was set in … [Continue reading]
The Drowsy Chaperone
The liner notes to this show’s cast album presumptuously declare the show to be the next in a line of daring, offbeat off-Broadway transfers following Urinetown, Avenue Q and Spelling Bee. In reality, Chaperone isn’t remotely in a class with those … [Continue reading]
Hannah Montana: The Movie
The show this movie was drawn from was neither good television nor good music, but I get why it needed to exist. In its own way, it was the show that helped reestablish the long-defunct musical sitcom model that would lead to the creation of shows … [Continue reading]
Black Snake Moan
This film was a disastrous commercial failure, but that was less due to its quality than certain basically unfixable issues with its publicity campaign. The film is, in effect, a deconstruction of exploitation films. It’s about a white Southern girl … [Continue reading]
Hairspray (2007 Film)
This movie isn’t a complete failure on its own terms, but it is so vastly inferior to the stage musical it is based on that watching the process by which it has eclipsed that stage version has enraged me. The movie has its strengths, certainly; the … [Continue reading]
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