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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.

Mostly on the music side:— that *sting* that announces "I've had a revelation I'm going to sing about!"— 4/4, key of C — there's more to music than that, people!— leitmotifs. Wagner knew how to use them. You dont. Kindly stop.— winsome solo piano intros— two-character scene, very intimate, and a song starts. It builds and builds and builds and builds to a blow-out emotional finish with all brass blaring... and then you're wretched completely out of the moment because the scene continues in it...

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?b?skyo?or/adjective1.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, hiddenin 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 d...

"War and Peace" is like "Moby Dick" — a book everyone claims to know but hardly anyone's ever read — and I'll add that MD has never been out of print either. The 57 film is nice, but — by necessity — it's a Coles Notes version. And it's not something seen as a classic film. Even the recent miniseries was a ratings disaster.Sorry, but for your usual Bway ticket buyer, this was a hard sell. If you're selling it as "War and Peace: the Musical", then you really might as well toss it in. It ran on...

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.

GavestonPS said: "WAR AND PEACE is "obscure source material"? Surely, that's not what you meant to write, Sean. Even those who chap their lips reading long bookshave had several film versions from which to choose."And how many peple have actually seen any of them, let alone read the book, let alone the seventy-some-odd pages used to create the play?You're talking about people who think Dancing with the Stars actually means these people are, you know, *stars*. Yes, for them, this was obscure. ...

Perhaps they should title it: COMPANY: THE NEXT GENERATION

Harold Prince moved CANDIDE from an immersive experience to a proscenium stage, and no one missed a thing. COMET doesnt *have* to be done that way: the show will work as a traditional proscenium presentation as well.But if these investors really want to go after someone to explain the failure of the run, they might want to look at all the theatrical SJWs who failed to understand that Oak was *not* a name outside New York and that, cutting through it all, this is a business. COMET was a diffic...

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.

HogansHero said: "SeanMartin said: "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."You seem to misapprehend the purpose of the union. It is not a guild. "Thanks for completely missing the point. Time was getting into 829 was one of the hardest of memberships to get, because they had pretty high standards for desi...

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.

Ado Annie D'Ysquith said: "Hmm. I haven't seen the movie and I really love what I've heard of the score. Therefore, I can't speak to its dissimilarity to the original "tone." Perhaps this adaptation was meant for those new to Amelie?"Well, I suppose by that logic one could simply go to Wikipedia, read the synopsis of any film, and then work up an adaption for the stage. After all, why bother seeing what it was that made the film so charming in the first place, right?

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 ...