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I had the questionable fortune of seeing a community theatre production of SISTER ACT recently. The cast was excellent, as was the direction — but the problems in that show were massive, especially in the second act when we stopped so everyone could get a second act solo. By and large, it's a pretty awful adaptation.

Great idea. Pity Fox's track record with these things is so abysmal.

My step-brother and his husband saw it the other night.

Decidedly under-whelmed.

I dont normally use them as a barometer for things, but from what I've read, they're probably right.

ob·scure

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adjective

1. 1.
   
   not discovered or known about; uncertain.
   
   "his origins and parentage are obscure"
   
   synonyms:unclear, uncertain, unknown, in doubt, doubtful, dubious, mysterious, hazy, vague,indeterminate, concealed, hidden

in which case COMET was indeed "obscure".  

Not gonna play semantic tap dancing with you, sorry. It was an oddball work that never should have gone uptown with the inept prep work it got. No, the audit wont find anything untoward: the investors took a risk, and it didnt pay off. Tant mieux. Stuff happens. 

But I still maintain this show was closed prematurely because of a bunch of people who made something into an ISSUE when it wasnt at all. They did the show zero favours and then tried to pin it on the producers.

YRMV.

I would go one step further and say the film soundtrack with Preston. It's essentially the same as the stage album but bigger and more precise.

Perhaps they should title it: COMPANY: THE NEXT GENERATION

Fan123: go read the script again.

Twice more, if you have to.

There's a reason this musical got the Pulitzer.

Let me know when there's an outrage over Madama Butterfly not being sung by a Japanese soprano.

And for the record, Olivier wasnt in "blackface". He was in make up. Blackface is meant to ridicule. Olivier was an actor playing a role. Huge difference, one you folks should understand.

Nice to see that the snarkiness around here hasnt dissipated since I was wandering these boards.

Perhaps if the OT had titled it THE OFFICIAL WHAT SHOWS NEED A REVIVAL THREAD, maybe everyone would have been much happier?

Ugh. I'm outa here. A lot of you really need to get a life.

And I can speak from personal experience that 829 is a total waste of time and money. It used to have standards that had to be met for membership — now, just write them a cheque (a rather substantial one, at that), and you're in.

The more I read about this, the more I kinda think Jones and Schmidt should have written it. 

Jeffrey Karasarides said: "You can hear 'Times Are Hard for Dreamers' right here...
http://ew.com/theater/2017/03/09/phillipa-soo-amelie-musical-bonus-track/"

Wow. Talk about TOTALLY missing the tonal charm of the movie...

This is like seeing the film of DEMOISELLES DE ROCHEFORT and then enduring (and there is no other word for it) that crap-awful stage adaptation done about three years ago.

>> "So in the spirit of the passion we both share, let me help you out here buddy. It's WON'T, not WONT."

Dropped apostrophes are a growing trend (as opposed to incorrect ones), in cases of words like dont, wont, and cant. I thought you guys were all supposed to be ahead of the curve.

>> "Its original run in 1998 wasn't awful but wasn't the best either as it ran for about a year and half but it got pretty meh reviews and got only a few tony nominations (and best musical was not one of them) and even though I loved doing it lets be serious the plot and characters (just like the film) in the show aren't very interesting and need a lot of work to make the show good as its pretty much high school rebellion the musical....but what do you guys think?"

I think you managed to list all the reasons why it wont.