The current West End production of Hello Dolly was a mess and a half. All the changes from the movie were fine but there is absolutely no joy from this production at all. They messed up all the big numbers, from the choreo, the staging, the slower tempo.
Sunday clothes, Dancing and Parade became an over-choreographed madness. Hello, Dolly! title number was like a ballad, with no climax, no punch, and again, the terrible choreo.
Someone point me to the right direction to some goodies please??
2024 Tony Awards Jun 17 2024, 03:54:02 AM
Did anyone notice that Daniel Radcliffe was handed the awards by Ben Platt, who is doing the same character in the movie version (that we're gonna see in 2039)
2024 Tony Awards Jun 17 2024, 03:41:05 AM
The worst opening in the history of the show. They had Empire State of Mind and Willkommen and they chose to open with that??
Follies inspired skit on SNL May 19 2024, 09:49:49 PM
Wayman_Wong said: "The ''SNL'' skit of ''Beautiful Girls'' was a riot. It's hilarious that a TV variety-sketch show in 2024 would parody a showtune from ''Follies,'' a 53-year-old Broadway musical that I bet99% of the ''SNL'' crowd didn't even know. If you're a theater fan, you'll get how closely the mock tune approximately Sondheim's original with double entendrelyrics. And yet the largely youthfulaudience, which didn't know any of that, roared with laughter at its
