[RED15]

Has any one seen it? I'm watching a medley on "The View" right now and it looks like bad Karaoke. Thoughts?

[i-train123]

i've seen videos and i'm not impressed. like you said it's bad karaoke.

[ChrissyJudyLeisel33]

Honestly it's a lot of fun and they get marketing props for all those publicity stunts (breaking the guiness record for most people doing an air guitar riff) and props for making money by selling drinks in the aisles...

however, at the end of the day it's a cliche story of boy meets girl, boy looses girl, they go down less-than-true paths, and in the end they find each other again.

It's a good show for girls who want to bring boyfriends along who wouldn't be caught seeing musical theater.

[Far Off Broadway]

I've seen it three times now and I have to say, I love it just as much now as the first time.

It's definitely not for those who are looking for a classic Broadway musical, but if you're in it for fun, reminiscing about great 80's rock/hair metal songs, and, as Chrissy said, a new rehashing of the classic meet/lose/get back the "girl", it's loads of fun.

Any more questions, I'd be happy to explain the best (unlearned, non-technical, fairly new-to-Broadway) I can.

[Monsieur D'Arque]

It's definitely a show for the mainstream, probably more than the upper-class, intellectual Broadway audience. That's not to say it's not fun for both, but it has a target audience it shoots for.

A friend of mine, seeing clips of it, said it looked like a Broadway parody of rock and roll. I disagree- the show tries its hardest to be the most legitimate rock show on Broadway, and some of the things that seem the most unrealistic or camp about it actually ring truest for the hair-metal generation.

The narrator for instance, a so-straight-he's-gay soundman with a mullet, a broad Chicago accent and some very campy stage moves... well, anyone who's ever seen a Styx concert will immediately recognize that he's just a mix of Tommy Shaw and James "JY" Young, the two frontmen of the band.

Plus: All. Stripper. Female. Chorus. How many other Broadway or Off-Broadway shows can say that? Until they bridge the gender gap and produce Naked Girls Singing, that is.