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Thursday, May 21, 2026

"Beaches" On Broadway Is All Washed Up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


                           It's not like I was not expecting it, darlings, but, really, this soon???????????



                           "Beaches," the first casualty of the TONY season, because it got no nominations, will close this Sunday, May 24, a special day in Musical Theater history because, sixty years ago on that day, "MAME" opened at the Winter Garden!!!!!!!!!!!!!



                               When a show closes, the ones I feel most sympathy toward are the actors.  Eight shows a week they have to present this material, even if it is a piece of crap!  The ones I really blame ae the composer and lyricist of this score.  What in hell were they thinking?  And Lonny Price?????????  Hey, Lonny, couldn't you have gotten a better composer-lyricist team, or one singular, to write a better score, which this show not only deserved but desperately needed?  If "Beaches" had had a good score, it might have become a cult classic among Theater Queens, then it might have lived on in memory and respectability.  Remember 'Merrily' and "RAGS," Lonny???????????????????



                                 So if anyone out there wants to see "Beaches"--God help you, if you do--there is only till this Sunday to do so.  Careers are ruined with this show; it will not take its leads anywhere, nor the superb children who were even better than the leads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



                               But remember, folks, what Bette Davis as Baby Jane Hudson said, "You can lose everything, but you can never lose your talent."



                                  So, how come I am not appearing on Broadway?????????????????




2 comments:

Victoria said...

maybe it’s just as well; that’s a brutal schedule for children.
Hopefully they can spend the summer at a real beach!!
Or as we used to call it, “down the shore “!!!

The Raving Queen said...

Victoria, You are right; we called it "down to the shore,, too." You are right about the children's schedules, but understand this is what I desperately wanted as a child.