Bandstand: The Musical on Screen

I posted about it in the theater thread. But to address your question -- no, they didn't win the contest. The band from Chicago (the one that the trumpet player dissed in the preceding scene) was the winner, and had their music featured in the movie the gang had just been watching.

(Side note: I was in the audience for one of the final Broadway performances and had a front-row seat, so i could practically reach out and touch Corey's fabulous chest hair.)

Anyway, I wish I'd been able to see the post-credits extras, but the movie theater I went do did a MASSIVE screw-up in their presentation of this film. First, it was supposed to start at 7PM, but as of 7:10, the four of us who were in attendance (in a HUGE auditorium) were still sitting in a dark theater with nothing on the screen. Finally, I went out and contacted an employee to advise him of the problem. It took them about ten more minutes (and they gave us free passes for a future show), but they finally got the picture working -- but then no sound. And they started the video about 15 minutes in. Then they rewound to the beginning, but kept fast-forwarding and reversing (I guess trying to get to the start of the actual show) but in doing so, they eliminated more than half of the cast introductions and who knows what else? But of course they left in part of the commercials for "Come From Away" and "Spongebob."

Anyway, we eventually got to see the whole show, but about five minutes into the post-show behind the scenes extras, they cut off and started showing the pre-show ads for the next movie. ("Hi, I'm Maria Menounos!") I'm going to do a written complain to both AMC and Fathom. If I'm paying $20 for a ticket, I think I have a right to expect more than what I got.

This show is an OBERACKER and BLANKENBUEHLER show.

r2 What am I -- chopped liver?

One of the few ORIGINAL musicals (i.e., not from a book, a play, a movie, or a TV show) we've seen recently.

R2, so what? Is that supposed to mean anything?

Thursday is the last day you can see this. I highly recommend it.

Does anyone think something like BroadwayHD will pick this up for streaming on their pay site?

I saw Bandstand when it was performed at the Paper Mill Playhouse in NJ (about a year or so before it hit Broadway).

My friend & I were so underwhelmed, we walked out during the intermission.

Trans population underrepresented...

A period show in which the creators really did not understand the period.

R8, it has been reworked completely from the Paper Mill. It even went through a name change from The Bandstand to just Bandstand.

The should've left it as "The Bandstand." I'll bet some people go into "Bandstand" thinking it's about Dick Clark.

I was there on opening night on Broadway. I know the producers and other people involved. I had to fake my enthusiasm to be polite. Did anyone else but me wonder why they had new wave/punk music in the 40's. The final competition number was very anachronistic.