A question about Adam Pascal's performance in Chicago and the current state of the show — Page 2

I saw the show a few Sundays ago.

Pascal was okay, tho his accent seemed off. I don't know if it was that he was the only one doing an accent, or that it seemed more NY than Chicago, but he didn't drop a line or a lyric.

The audience was brutal. completely dead. I admit the previous times I had seen it were the Facebook fan show and the 15th anniversary show which had great audiences, but this one, no entrance applause for anyone, no applause after Go to Hell Kitty's speech to open the show. Even I stopped trying to lead the crowd in anything more than polite applause after the numbers. You could just see the energy drain out of the cast as they were playing to a room of mannequins.

The 2nd act was better. It was like they met at intermission and decided to just have fun despite the crowd.

I saw the show on Saturday the 8th.

LOVED Adam and Amy, HATED "Velma" and thought Christine Pedi tried to hard to be a good Mamma. She should have just rolled with the material.

Dancing was spot on from all.

It was the first time I'd seen the show in YEARS and I was happy I went. My audience was OK. Pretty involved and laughed in "all the right places," clapped in "all the right places" and rocked out with the orchestra at the end.

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Updated On: 6/20/13 at 09:10 AM

"Don't you have that a little backwards? It isn't the audience's responsibility to energize the cast, it is the cast's responsibility to give them something to be excited about."

I am saying it is a two way street. They came out giving their all. and when the crowd was a vacuum the performance level dropped to match.

Again, I don't know what they did at intermission, but they really rallied for act II.