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"Footloose": Two Left Feet?
Your services are desperately required in New York where a new Broadway musical based on your Gen X-era iconic film, Footloose, is stumbling.
Consider these anti-blurb blurbs, based on Thursday's opening night:
"A flavorless vanilla shake of a musical." (Associated Press)
"The flavorless marshmallow of a musical." (The New York Times)
"It all ends up more ham than Bacon." (New York Daily News)
"Seems a good few more than seven degrees from Kevin Bacon." (New York Post)
As you can see the New York press is in rare (almost spooky) agreement: The thing needs (1) flavor; and, (2) you.
On paper, this production seemed like a curious idea from the get-go. Footloose, after all, was a cute 1984 movie--about a big-city kid who moves to a small town where dancing is forbidden--but was it worthy of a serious reworking for the stage?
Post critic Clive Barnes reasoned that backers perhaps had visions of The Who's Tommy dancing in their heads--thinking they might be onto the next hit rock/pop musical. "Pinball Wizard" for "Almost Paradise," a fair trade, right?
Actually, it wasn't the music, the book, the actors or even the concept that most damned Footloose in reviewers' eyes. It was the overall sense of: Eh.
"The show's creators seem to be aiming at teen-agers whose parents won't let them see the raunchier Rent...," Ben Brantley writes in the Times.
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