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***Spoilers*** (I can only compare the second week of performance to last week, but the show didn't show much momentum for change in that time.) Showdown is still in Act 2 and completely unchanged. It absolutely needs to go. I suspect they can't bear to drop something that big, but it's a massive production that should be a more intimate, searing moment (perhaps more like "This River Between Us.") My other pick for "please, please cut" is everything to do with the camping trip where Will says...

SPOILERS... As far as I can tell, the play and the movie are the same: there is no ugly truth. I haven't read the book, but according to Wikipedia, in the book, there is. From a storyteller's perspective, I think the ugly truth is necessary for a balanced story. The show skips over it because it would be very hard to deal with and keep the dad likable, but that's a cheat. "He told beautiful lies, and then I learned there was an ugly truth behind them and I had to deal with that" is a lot more...

I saw it last week and liked it more than not. The choreo was flat but the work with the projections was lovely and served the story well. I agree that a core problem is that the son is unsympathetic. The son wants the bare truth and the dad tells beautiful lies; the lies are a lot more interesting and have more heart. My biggest problem that left me a little hollow was the second act. I believe this is from the movie version but not the book's. Without giving it all away, the son realizes th...