The Cher Show Reviews

Mark Schneider from Chicago, Illinois

GOOD SHOW AND YET...

Singing great, costumes great, script fell short for me. Not as engaging as I hoped for.

Sandy Gould from Chicago, Illinois

SO FAR SO GOOD BUT NEEDS WORK PRIOR TO BROADWAY

Excellent voices, acting, costumes, choreography (and bodies). However, ending act one with three ballads stops the momentum of the production - give consideration to cutting some and ending with the Mackie number. Act two - again - ballad after sad ballad after sad ballad to end the show? Cher is a survivor and deserves to end her show on an upbeat note. Yes the costumes in the closing number are fantastic - but it does not tie into the story line and again the momentum is already lost - rewrite, reorganize, sustain the momentum and end with an upbeat that will bring the audience to their feet because they are moved, not because they are polite.

Warren Ellis from Washinton, DC

NEEDS A BETTER BOOK

Great performances, but the show needs a tighter book Revisions – First Act You must get rid of all of the Cinderella arc. Instead, portray Babe as someone who always believed in herself. Start the show with Cher on the playground with tormentors (not seen, just heard) singing Half Breed. Cher sings a duet with the tormentors. Her Mother can come in at the end and tell her she is special. Reference the opening of My Name Is Barbra. Show all of the men that came through her Mother’s life – Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves or Carousel Man. Get rid of the sewing machine arc. Make it about Sonny spending all of their money on the piano where we wrote I Got You babe. Add Living In A House Divided showing that Sonny lived with his girlfriend on one side of the mansion. Napoleon Number what’s the point? I would end with Sonny and Cher singing What Now My Love? End with Believe, not Take Me Home. Use Take Me Home as the Curtain Call.

Mary Hough from Chicago, Illinois

PRE BROADWAY

People need to understand this is a pre-broadway show and not a finished product. If you attended opening night and then went again at closing night you would see a different show. Cher is producing this show so it is not someone who is just putting out what they want. NOW as a musician I can say the music was great the show needs to cut some numbers and some scenes (like the one with the boyfriend in the second act - it brought the show to a screeching halt). The dresses being displayed was gorgeous and that should be the end of the 1st act and lead into intermission. When it didn't end it was weird. They need to make Cher a little stronger. The three singers were great and will only get better as their comfort level grows. I would have loved to hear more complete songs instead of all the snippets but it tells a good story. Cher is a strong empowered women but the show didn't end big enough with that theme

Suzanne from Chicago, Illinois

WAS NOT WOWED!

As stated above by others.....I was not wowed. The flow was not as I expected. Did not like the concept of 3 Cher characters on stage together. Voices were ok but not the deep fullness of Cher’s. Many songs and parts could be eliminated. Did not at all like the dream part aka Disney reference. Lot of tweaking to get to Broadway. Was not on much of a high at the end as I thought I’d be.

Nicki from Chicago, Illinois

JUST PAY FOR A BALCONY SEAT

It started very slow like a Marriot Lincolnshire Theater Production but finally picked up speed. The 3 Cher's were confusing and should have just done it with the lead Stephanie Block who had the "Cher walk" down to a science. No mention at all of Chastity/Chaz or Gene Simmons of Kiss...strange? Emily Skinner who played Cher's mom had a great voice. A few good parts like the Bob Mackie fashion show and the duet of "After All." I enjoyed it because I only bought a $33 seat in the high balcony but it was just fine. There were 35 songs and it was 3 hours long. I think the problem with this show is the venue. Cher fans in the audience wanted to clap and sing along dance and stand but the "Broadway play " type venue limited that excitement. The finale allowed for the fans to let loose and the best part of the evening

Tate from Chicago, Illinois

NO LONGER SURE IF I BELIEVE IN LIFE AFTER LOVE

This production is--in a word--absurd. That absurdity is at times, delightful, and at other times, a bit of a mess. The Bob Mackie number, for example, which culminates in flamboyantly costumed cast emerging from a line of closet doors in the colors of a rainbow was a moment when this show was at its absolute most ridiculous, and therefore, best. Ironic that one of the cast members says "this isn't a Dickens novel" when we are being visited by the Ghost of Cher past, present, and future throughout the show. Shoutout to the dude who played Sonny's anachronistic pecs. I'm willing to suspend my disbelief for three Chers, but not for the idea that Sonny would ever be able to bench press more than 50 lbs. "Believe" was used so many times that I think they have to rename it "Believe (Theme from The Cher Show)" for legal reasons. In many ways, it is the theater equivalent of her Twitter page. Bummer that the men who Cher has lost (not her many accomplishments) are the show's plot scaffolding.

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