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We saw it last night--awful. The flying was fun, but why not just see Cirque de Soleil? They do it better, and you don't have to sit through those dreadful songs. I wondered why I hadn't heard any of the music anywhere. I don't wonder any more--the songs are as unmemorable as any Broadway musical in recent memory. And the show is long--if it is going to be bad, at least make it short and bad!

Does anyone know who did the awful painting of the old couple on the park bench? It looks like a bad amateur painter did it, and I found it weird how the last section of the play revolved around such an ugly painting. The poster for the show was done by Craig Nelson, who was one of my painting teachers in art school, and I wondered why they just didn't get him to to a new painting for the show--he could have produced a better painting of the same subject with the paintbrush stuck up his nose!