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It's just impossible for it to live up to expectations of any kind, let alone carve out its own niche. The Shaiman/Wittman score has about a fifth of the effortless magic of Bricusse/Newley's, the structure means the first act is a tedious and mostly Wonka-free slog, and the countless revisions have never been able to settle on a consistent tone. There are parts I love but on the whole it's a constipated mess.

I mean, it kinda sucked on the West End, too, so it's not like the material was great to begin with.

no...[chord chord chord chord chord chord]...staaaaars

also it's funny that we're literally not allowed to talk about a performer because of their name. i wonder if there are any unicode workarounds. "alaska thunderƒuck"

oh my god this is great casting

if this show closes without a cast recording i’m going to personally dispatch myself to the heaviside layer

In the U.S.A. You can have your sayYou can set your goalsAnd seize the dayYou've been given the freedomTo work your wayTo the head of the line...💥To the head of the line!

dissension, divisionthat birthright decisionand threats that the union will fallthere's but one thing to be doneWE MUST HAVE A BALL

Ensemble1763372746 said: "I've kept quiet for forty years, but I think it's finally time to respond to some of this nonsense....The original 1986 London production, which was successful and ran for three years, didn't really have a conventional book at all. It was conceived as a through-composed musical, where the story is told through the music and shaped into a coherent whole by the lyrics. That is how the piece should be judged—not by the standards of a traditional Broadway book musical....

probably just trying to whip up a controversy so he can get a gig at mar-a-lago playing the Lloyd-Webber songbook blindfolded while Trump diddles kindergarteners

JK Rowling can suck the turds out of my asshole.

Zeppie2022 said: "Matt Rogers said: "Voter said: "I, for one,can't wait to watch Youtube clips of Smash being done at some theater in Utah! Usually a bad musicalis the most unbearable form of art, but Smash was so hilariously misguided it came around again. The greatest bad thing I've ever seen, and I'm here for its camp future."And yet, some people liked it."Some people like any show no matter how bad. I think the general consensus was the show was a mess but there were some excellent perfor...

I mean, at least it was better than Boop.

...why?

Chess is fun to listen to, but difficult to give your full attention to. The score is full of darlings nobody wants to kill, the lyrics are clogged with awkward, constipated phrases, and the central love triangle just sits there like a piece of hardtack. It's like if half the songs in Evita were replaced with ten more Another Suitcases.

binau said: "I did wince at the idea of a 14 piece orchestra being marketed as a positive thing...."it feels like advertising a hamburger as having both a top and a bottom bun

(sorry i just wanted to be a Maximum Hater for a moment)

trying to think of a cheaper, shoddier example of a blatant licencing grab. someone with deep pockets put this rickety, ramshackle piece of dinner theatre on Broadway for the sole purpose of making money on tours and regionals. i'm sure the geriatrics in Topeka will love what of it they can stay awake for.

Excited for this, if there's anything Malloy excels at it's creepy-ass music.

went to the majestic wiki to see what had been there before phantom and i didn't realize Midler herself had had a residency there. seeing this poster again unlocked an ancient video store memory:Almost fifty years later and she's back at the Majestic, kind of!