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I would actually probably agree based on the Encores! production alone, or at least it's my sure favorite. After years of hearing it spoken of in infamy without ever even hearing the cast album, I found it to be a basically perfect musical with a top-tier score and genuinely funny and thematically resonant book in this decade. But when I listened to the album, not only did I like the supporting cast's vocals far less, but its reputation made more sense to me just realizing that "Through the B...

As far as I've seen, kids LOVE Little Shop. It's a live cartoon. It has a few adult jokes, they go over your head. The movie is also a lot grizzlier in tone than the show onstage, despite the happier outcome. Idunno, thank God my parents weren't pearl-clutching prudes who thought I could handle nothing, or couldn't be explained anything.

Just listened to the album for the first time and wow, it really is...not good. Everything fun that was new for Central Park is gone, replaced with worse stuff. Even less of what was fun from the movie remains.So many lyrics from remaining songs rewritten for the much worse. Even the thrilling Muse harmony when we go up to Mt. Olympus in "Gospel Truth" gone. A grating, tinny sound to everything. Bewildering.

It was never really alive as a possibility.

Well I'm glad the thread has taken a turn for the positive, I was feeling pretty lonely about it last week

Sure, nothing safe or warmed-over about yet another unauthorized """parody""" musical of whatever's popular at the moment.

Yeah, the staging of "Mascara" was the low point for me. Really just baffling. I think it would have helped the show a lot to see Billy in that more vulnerable place at the top and put himself through a real transformation. (Low point of the show in general, the low point of the star performance was the stumble through the title number.) I thought he was funnier in the second act than the other Albins I've seen, "Masculinity" was a highlight. Mother had me in stitches in a way I really don't ...

Depends on where you sit and your eligibility for access programs.

Oh one other positive that may seem like faint praise but isn't for anyone who was at BAT BOY, WILD PARTY, or some of their other recent productions: the sound was fully intelligible even in the balcony.

You know, we all take turns having a production where we write something eyerollingly corny like "Is it perfect? No. Does it have problems? Of course. Did I have a great time? Yes."I think Encores! would do well to strip back to music stands and do an expectation readjustment after next season because the most unfortunate thing here is the desire to present a fully-cooked "concept" revival in a very undercooked setting. Cats kind of ate its lunch, too, in a production that made its choice fee...

Fair enough but the best of times also weren't when the original production ran during the AIDS crisis, the message of the song is simply to make the most of the moment you have with the people you love. That's why it's the encore.

I think... It's "working"? now? For me? Hard to tell.

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Still can't get a password reset either. Bummed because I had Wednesday off and was planning to get a matinee on there. Why do this? Why are these relaunches always worse? Someone trying to justify their job, or what? It was a purely functional website, it was very clear and simple on desktop and mobile.

Girl.

I don't expect it, but if any show this side of Dolly ought to go out across the country with its original star...

Interesting to hear Wayne Brady say that the idea years ago was for him and Tituss Burgess to do it together, that I can see very easily.

I did that but couldnt get them to send me a link to reset, checking spam folders and everything. Friend has the same issue so hopefully just something that's still being worked out.

Yall can log in? I sure can't!

I mean, according to Harvey, Laurents didn't even want gay men in the leads. Or for them to kiss. A fascinating man.