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MrE1111


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I wonder if the company has been warned about Riedel....though he's been surprisingly lax on Grease until now.  A very snarky few paragraphs from one of Broadway's most hated columnists.

"* Here's something that should make Laura Osnes and Max Crumm, the two nobodies picked by viewers of "Grease: You're the One That I Want," to star on Broadway, a little nervous: Their counterparts in the London revival of "Grease," Susan McFadden and Danny Bayne, opened this week to some nasty reviews.

The Daily Telegraph said that whatever qualities the British Sandy and Danny had that made TV viewers vote for them "fade in the spotlight's harsh glare."

Noting the success Andrew Lloyd Webber's had with his reality-cast "The Sound of Music" and "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," the paper added that "Grease: You're the One That I Want" is "the genre's first flop."

I wonder what shade of orange producer David Ian turned when he read that.

Word on the street is that Osnes might escape McFadden's fate, but that Crumm could be Bayne'd.

The New York "Grease" opens Aug. 19."



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I don't know how Riedel could have escaped their notice -- and he HAS already commented on Max and Laura. His nastiness is biased and he doesn't appear to research carefully. I can't imagine anyone taking Reidel seriously.

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I'm sure the company knows about Reidel and are not taking him seriously. Before G:YTOTIW was over he was promising to give a bad review. He had his mind made up before the show was cast. I wouldn't use his columns for anything except kitty litter.

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Eris wrote:

Before G:YTOTIW was over he was promising to give a bad review.



Riedel doesn't write reviews.  He is not a critic.  So I'm not sure where you're getting such misinformation.



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I wouldn't call it "misinformation."

Riedel was indeed promising to rake the show over the coals.

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