If the concert is like last year's Follies, the Co-Hosts basically just fill in the storyline between songs and sometimes offered brief insights about the making of the musical. I have a feeling DiLella's main job will be keeping Lee Roy Reams on a short leash so he doesn't start bounding from one tangent to another.
I think both the movie and musical start coasting once both ladies realize they have drunk the potion, but the musical has a more satisfying conclusion. It's been a while since I've seen the film all the way through, but does Ernest get drunk in the "second act" and start hallucinating talking inanimate objects in that too?
I have no idea how the revised version compares to the original, but I wish Encores would stop trying to be a worklab for revisals. Seems they always leave the audience somewhere between disappointed and disgruntled.
Judy Kuhn was absolutely ravishing singing "Blame It on the Summer Night" at this spring's Broadway Leading Ladies concert and she would definitely be my pick to play Rebecca in a City Center (or any!) production.
So, has the SMASH ending been changed since opening or not? When I saw the musical in previews...
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Ivy sang "Don't Forget Me" and then performed a solo dance culminating with her draped in a sheet on a bed as Nigel repeatedly said throughout the show was how he DID NOT want to end the show. We then move
