| re: What about THE HEART OF ROCK AND ROLL? | |
| Posted by: sirpupnyc 03:14 pm EDT 06/01/24 | |
| In reply to: re: What about THE HEART OF ROCK AND ROLL? - huskyital 01:49 pm EDT 06/01/24 | |
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| I think The Heart of Rock and Roll's problem is its basic concept: Who is the target audience? Huey Lewis' popularity was relatively brief, quite a while ago in pop-music years, and not all that large. People between 45 and 60 may be a lucrative group of ticket-buyers, but how many Huey Lewis fans can there really be who want to see his music done by someone else? Even as someone who's the appropriate age and had at least a couple of the albums on cassette, I'm mostly wondering who on earth thought this was a show they could sell on Broadway. For a night or two in touring houses across the country, it'll probably do just fine, if the investors who've already lost everything they put into the Broadway mounting want to bankroll a tour. (And there's really no good producing sense in having kept it open this long, so they probably will.) It's not terrible. It's not particularly good, either, but it does a reasonable job of being what it means to be: just entertaining, middle-of-the-road, no pretense. Quite a number of critics found that charming, but even with good reviews, there just isn't an audience for it on Broadway. |
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