Word of Caution To LA Actresses & Diet Gurus: Male Broadway Critics Are Torturous!

[JohnBckWLD]

One-Woman Broadway Show to Close After 8 Day Run. From M&C Arts:

Suzanne Somers’ first jump into Broadway was a short trip. She announced that The Blonde in the Thunderbird will close on July 24th. She gave bad reviews as the reason…The New York Post reported that on Monday when the reviews appeared the show took in only $5,000 in ticket sales…

What makes this flop story more interesting is a story by Mike Riedel in the aforementioned NYP(Reg Req)

“These men are curmudgeons…I was lying there naked, and they decided to kick me and step on me, just like these visions you see in Iraq”

Wow! Can you say drama mama! I hope those mean men didn’t hold a gun to your head and make her get in a naked pyramid with Elton John & Harvey Fierstein.

…She’s “pissed” that the critics savaged her one-woman show, “The Blonde in the Thunderbird,” and “saddened” that, because of their terrible notices, she’s being forced to close it on Sunday…

I wonder how the ticket holder(s) to the 1st 8 performances felt

Somers speaks candidly about her struggles in life—an alcoholic father, teen pregnancy, bankruptcy, breast cancer. "I laid out my life in all of its flawed ugliness, and I guess there was a part of me that hoped the critics would say, ‘Wow!’ "

Grow up Sister. Compared to people 5 miles from the theater you bombed in, your Dad’s boozin and malignancy are a walk in the park and barely reach the level of flawed ugliness

“Barry Manilow said Broadway would break my heart, and it has.”

At least it didn’t break your nose

Somers believes that the one decent review she got was from Linda Winer of Newsday, the only woman among New York’s top theater critics. Winer called Somers “bright and ebullient” and said the show was “slickly presented.”

Today’s topic: Affirmative action for theater reviewers - Yay or Nay?

Somers is hoping that her gal pack — “those ladies out there in Queens who watch me on TV” — will ignore the critics and flock to her show.

Sorry, Crissy. In case you haven’t heard, Fran Drescher’s ‘Nanny’ character is fictional.

In case anyone asks, the answer is either no, or bwaaaaah-haaaaa-haaaa. I really have nothing against the woman, her diet plan or her previous work - my only beef with Ms. Somers is that she forgot what she was taught in Drama 101, “to earn the approbation of honest critics take criticism.” I doubt we’ll be seeing her triumphant return anytime soon. Sour grapes, indeed.

[Eve]

“These men are curmudgeons…I was lying there naked, and they decided to kick me and step on me, just like these visions you see in Iraq”

[ . . . Imagining Frank Rich holding up the chopped-off head of Suzanne Somers . . . ]

[Exapno_Mapcase]

You think she’s complaining now? What if John Simon hadn’t just retired? :eek: