ACL revisited 5/4 matinee – LONG with SPOILERS — Page 2

Went back to the show today. Yikes.

The rest of the cast is in great shape, as usual.

Lopez, however, was not so good. His dancing is passable, although not even close to the technique level of his cast mates. His acting was atrocious. Flat, dull, boring, no command, no stage presence... I could keep going. Read some of his lines as though he was in a rush to get home. He looks very awkward with Charlotte d'Amboise. I do find the changes that he made to be a bit of an insult to the production, but I'll just leave it at that.

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I saw the show tonight. It was my first time back since last year. Orchestra pretty full, mezz was deserted, which looked really awful when the mirrors were onstage.

I didn't hate Lopez like some others did, but I agree that he certainly doesn't possess the technical skills that his castmates do. He's a competent dancer, but not a great dancer like Zach kind of should be. I didn't mind his line readings that much, nor did I notice him fooling around at the back of the house, but I wasn't really looking.

Overall, the show felt very ho-hum tonight, which is much the way I felt about it last time I saw it. It was lacking in excitement and energy. The whole thing felt like a paint by numbers piece.

Charlotte was all over the place- her voice just isn't that good, and it drags down Music and the Mirror. The other big disappointment tonight was Natalie Cortez as Morales. I don't know if she was tired or battling illness, but Nothing was a very big letdown.

The standouts in the cast for me were Bryan Knowlton (Paul) and Deidre Goodwin (Sheila). Everyone else was fine, but again, it just lacked any sort of zest of oomph.

I did want to add though that there was not a single understudy on tonight, which sort of shocked me for this show. Every time I have ever walked by that theater, there has been understudies on (which you would expect, since I am sure injuries are quite prevalent).

Updated On: 6/5/08 at 11:45 PM

Cortez has been sick for a couple weeks now, on and off and has been put on vocal rest twice during her time with the show. Out of the entire cast, Cortez is likely out the most.

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Along with Knowlton & Goodwin, I'd add Goldyn & Lone to that list of the stronger performers. The last time I saw it, everyone else was flat.

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