That was one HELL of a first preview performance. I have seen some rough starts, but this was exquisite. These women. Oh, they are all divine. Eden Espinosa is on that stage very nearly from start to finish and she does not falter. Amber Iman a revelation. Beth Leavel, my beloved, is gnashing her teeth into this small but rich part. Amy Jo Jackson, a riot from start to finish. (And okay, yeah, the men are great too, but this ain't about them.)
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these two songs are siblings.
go ahead, tell me i'm wrong
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Thanks for tagging me @myhusbandharryhamilton and @aqpippin love you both mwah mwah
shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and list the first 10 songs that play, then tag 10 people ✨
Okay I have no clue who has been tagged already so if you’ve already done this I’m sorry xoxoxox I love you all @inespadrille @sapphire-to-the-rain @thecollectionsof @junosjukebox @scrunklyshinyguy @sweetlikesunflowersandhoney @glittertrail @goodemethyd @sweetestberryofthebunch @la-grande-dames
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I need someone to properly engage with about how feral Woman Is makes me. Because I am dying, clenching my chest and my heart and my stomach is in knots over the lyrics and the way Eden Espinosa sings “your heartbeat” and I can’t stand it it’s gorgeous
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Too late, no one stopped me. Let's dig into this, shall we?
In Shubert Alley, Lempicka has a big poster advertisement along the wall with all the other Broadway shows currently running. The bold-print, fancy New York Times review pull-quote read as follows:
"A STIRRING, EPIC BLOCKBUSTER MUSICAL."
Now, that struck me as a little suspect because I couldn't recall Jesse Green of the Times saying any such thing. Lo and behold, I did a quick search, and then a deeper search, and then a full internet scour, and those words have never appeared together to describe this musical. Some of those words do, however, appear as separate words in the Times review for the WILLIAMSTOWN production from 2018, which is, by now, a vastly different show (see below). And some of those words were not used to describe Lempicka at all.
Once upon a time, marketing teams had to get approval from papers to ensure their pull-quotes were accurate. This is...not only just a quote with the context chopped up. It's a ransom note magazine cutout. None of those words (except, y'know, "A" and "musical") appeared in the Broadway review of this show.
Furthermore, earlier today, this graphic went live on Lempicka's socials:
We've already discussed how (now an entirely new quote from the one used before) the Brantley quote isn't accurate. It's even more egregious now because it includes the reviewer's name, which I feel like might be against some kind of regulation somewhere(?) it's been several years since I studied libel law. But let's go to the Jesse Green quote. "An overeager blur," is not a string of three words that ever appears in Green's review.
So. What are we doing here? Why are we making up a negative quote when there were so many actual quotes to choose from? I mean, darlings, there were disparaging remarks so frequent it would have been like shooting fish in a barrel.
In trying to make a (not untrue) statement, the marketing team instead feels as if it's catering to the fast-paced "gotcha" tone of the internet. But a snappy comeback at a middle-grade level doesn't hold water if it's so easily disproven. Who is running this team? I just wanna talk.
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Lempicka, a musical based on the life of Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka created by Matt Gould and Carson Kreitzer, has announced that it has booked a Broadway run at the Longacre Theatre, with performances starting March 19th and opening night set for April 14th. It stars Eden Espinosa and is directed by Rachel Chavkin. Lempicka was previously produced at the Williamstown Theatre Festival (2018) and the La Jolla Playhouse (2022).
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