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RippedMan said: "No offense to cast but I wouldn't consider any of those men to be "rock singers" so why they'd be cast in this I don't know?"

EXACTLY.  This show would be better served with legitimate rock singers.

 

Saw the first performance on Friday night.  Didn’t really do it for me.  The score wasn’t very strong, and the book was just a copy of the movie.  Drew Gehling was weak, definitely not a good fit for him.  Anika Larsen was a strong point, very good in the role.  Solea Pfeiffer was good, but the material she was given wasn’t that great.  Her big song (“Morocco&rdquo wasn’t spectacular, but maybe it’ll grow on me with further listening.  That brings us to Colin Donnell.  I had one big problem with him in this role.  With his 1970’s hair and mustache he looks exactly (EXACTLY) like Paul Rudd in Achorman.  I kept expecting him to do something goofy, and it kind of took me out of the moment.  (Not necessarily a problem with the show, more a problem with the retardation that is me.)  Other than that, he was perfectly serviceable in the role.  Good, not great.  (Sorry, Patti.)  Overall, it just didn’t feel like it would be received well.  It felt like a bunch of Broadway talent pretending to be rock stars.  Drew singing “Ramble On” by Led Zeppelin was cringe worthy.  Maybe it’s the small venue, or the band pretending to play their instruments on stage, or the fact that it was the first performance... but it wasn’t great.  Kitt’s weakest score, for sure.  Superhero was 10x better.  Listened to the music on my way back to LA the next morning, and it didn’t grow on me at all.

 

AlfieByrne, I believe you have Donna Vivino and Whitney Bashor mixed up.  Whitney sang a very nice "Not a Day Goes By"; Donna was delivering the train wreck of a performance in the first party scene.  This production felt like community theatre.  Arden should stick to posting childish Tweets about how he wasted six months in Hunchback.  Or maybe he should stick with the whole sign language thing.

Saw this over the weekend.  It was awful.  I've seen hundreds of shows, and this was the first time I've ever left at Intermission.  No chance this will ever see Broadway.  My turds have more charisma than the guy in this show.  Emily was fine.  Score was forgettable.

It's fun to hear everyone talking about the La Jolla bootleg of Zhivago.  Rumor has it that the same handsome devil that recorded that bootleg also recorded an audio bootleg of the original Page-to-Stage production in La Jolla, a video bootleg of the staged production in La Jolla, and an audio bootleg of the Broadway production.  But these are just rumors.  Certainly wasn't me.