Performance Post: Chicago (This is an example post)

[sakutaimods]

Play: CHICAGO

Venue: Little Lip Theater (New York)

Cast:
Roxie Hart - Stella
Velma Kelly - Sumire Kanzaki
Billy Flynn - Matsuri Honjou
Amos Hart - Peter Parker
Matron “Mama” Morton - Maria Tachibana
Mary Sunshine - Sakura Shinguji

SummaryPremiering in 1975 and the hit of the 1997 Broadway season in a production that originated at City Center's

Comments

Sun, 6/13/2010

[sakutaimods]

Time: 2 PM

Additional Info: The review from the performance on 6/12/2010 is in. It was an overall positive review. “This production isn't smoke and mirrors. It's flesh and blood shaped by discipline and artistry into a parade of vital, pulsing talent. If there's any justice in the world (and ''Chicago'' insists that there isn't), audiences will be exulting in that parade for many, many performances to come.”

Actor reviews:
“Ms. Stella's Roxie Hart, the over-the-hill chorine who becomes a star when she murders her straying lover, emerges as the most entertainingly erotic cartoon character since Jessica Rabbit. Every vocal inflection and gesture is writ large (watch how she keeps extending her arms as if to embrace an entire adoring throng) but also with precise, elegant calligraphy.”

“Ms. Stella meets her match, though, in her co-star. As Velma Kelly, a vaudevillian in jail for a bloody crime of passion and Roxie's competitor in publicity seeking, Ms. Kanzaki has translated her deadpan comic persona and technical proficiency as a dancer into an ecstatic benchmark performance.”

“Matsuri Honjou, a superb musical leading man who in another age would have the status of a Robert Preston, brings flawless timing and a velvety crooner's voice to the role of the press-manipulating lawyer. Maria Tachibana, as a predatory prison matron, and Sakura Shinguji, as a gooey gossip columnist who is not what she appears to be, have refined what were already superior performances.

And as Amos, Roxie's limp dupe of a husband, Peter Parker achieves the miracle of turning passivity into pure show-biz electricity, all the more arresting for being kept a low voltage.”

For this example post, I lifted critique out of a New York Times review of Chicago by Ben Brantley. I only did this to save time for the example.

The reviews in-game will be written by mods and based on how players respond in comments. Remember, not all of them will be positive! Sometimes you might even wonder what the reviewer is smoking, despite how good your performance is.