Ten Cents a Dance
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Aug 11, 2011
Closed Aug 28, 2011
Opened Aug 11, 2011
Closed Aug 28, 2011
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Prepare to be bewitched and beguiled by Ten Cents a Dance, a new musical conceived by John Doyle, who applies his signature style of engaging a company of actor-musicians to bring to life the extraordinary music of Rodgers and Hart. Crooner Johnny wistfully recalls his lifelong love affair of chorus girl Miss Jones, who is embodied by five women, each portraying a different stage of her life. As Johnny and Miss Jones take "Manhattan" under a "Blue Moon" while "Falling in Love with Love," you can't help but think "Isn't it Romantic?" - even if sometimes "The Lady is a Tramp." These and so many other unforgettable songs - filled with infatuation, longing, and enchantment - will sparkle like a glass of champagne on a sexy summer evening. "All you need is a ticket, come on big boy, ten cents a dance."
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and sorry for the grammar, I was rushing
Reviewed by Jane Schaffer
on Friday, Aug 12th, 2011
RE:ten cents a bust
It is a shame to give this play even 1 star. I love Williamstown and have never been let down by a show but I am sorry to say there is a first time for everything. I never write reviews online this is a first for me but after the conversations I had after the show I felt like I had to. This play is a review not a musical which is what it is billed as. I love Malcolm Gets which is the main reason I got tickets, I usually stick to the classics but being a college student I am up for trying anything new having never heard of this play or reading a review I was expecting the best but it is a slow weird thing. No dialogue just song into song with no rythm. It felt forced through the whole show leaving me wondering every second when something was going to happen I loved the woman sitting behind me wispering to her husband that :it just keeps going".
The premise of the play is this
man slowly walks down stairs, plays piano, women walk down stairs, everyone freezez for far tooooo long, everyone sings, everyone freezes, everything sings, everyone freeses, take a bow, new song, take a bow, repeat a sone and play over
I really want to be nice to this play I really really wanted to like it!!! but I can say that it was just bad, and I am truly sorry to say that.
If you want a great play drive the 40 minutes to Lenox mass. The hounds of the bakservilles was the single funniest thing I had ever seen, a perfect play, even As you LIke it at shakespeare and Co was sooo mush better and actually worth the money.
This was my first bad play at Williamstown and I hope my last, I love what Jenny is doing and hope she keeps it up.
Reviewed by Jane Schaffer
on Friday, Aug 12th, 2011
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British director John Doyle, master of minimalist musicals in which actors are pressed into doing double duty as musicians, would prefer that we not refer to his latest work, Ten Cents a Dance -- now at the Williamstown Theatre Festival before heading next month to Princeton's McCarter Theatre -- as a revue. He insists that this 80-minute pastiche, cobbled together from some 30-odd Rodgers & Hart tunes, constitutes a full-scale, freshly concocted musical in its own right. But really, the rubric "staged concert" would more than suffice for this unsatisfying work.
If there's a story line, it's the wispiest of devices, perhaps more salient in Doyle's private vision than what is seen onstage.[...]