#51
Posted: 3/19/19 at 7:34pm
I saw this a couple of weeks ago and wasn’t going to write about it but…
Boyyy... I haven’t seen something this bad in a really long time
I’ll try to be brief -
There is SO much off-key singing going on up there it’s unbelieavable. Even the FIRST number! The Temptations can’t sing on pitch!
To an audience member that isn’t a musician, Jeremy Popes voice may seem impressive, but overall his mix/falsetto is very quiet and ineffective - lacks passion, power, and stamina- and it’s often off- pitch. WHERE IS THE MUSIC DIRECTOR?
Ephraim Sykes seems to be the audience favorite, but again his singing sounds strained, forced, and unhealthy.
The character that plays the bass of the group, is often funny, but then his low-pitched voice becomes monotonous and his predictable, slow delivery of the punchlines drags down the already pointless and futile book scenes.
The “book scenes” are mostly just narrative and feel as if Derrick Baskin is SLOWLY reading excerpts from Wikipedia, that he has been practicing for years.
Sergio Trujillo has sadly over choreographed this mess, probably to cover up the lack of book, lack of set, lack of humor, and lack of joy. He basically is giving us Jersey Boys with a Motown flare on steroids - The Temptations never had such complex or exhausting choreography in real life.
I liked SUMMER better than this, and, well, we remember that thing.
I wanted to leave at intermission, but we couldn’t.
I GUESS the audience was having fun, but it was hard to tell.
AND the Diana Ross - she has absolutely no presence and a terrible singing voice. What’s going on?
I wish I had more positives but I don’t understand why some people are enjoying this - must be nostalgia.
It’s hard to believe they’ve had FOUR first-class out of town productions already and it’s still in such depressing shape- but after all, I guess Des has just lost touch with...everything.
Boyyy... I haven’t seen something this bad in a really long time
I’ll try to be brief -
There is SO much off-key singing going on up there it’s unbelieavable. Even the FIRST number! The Temptations can’t sing on pitch!
To an audience member that isn’t a musician, Jeremy Popes voice may seem impressive, but overall his mix/falsetto is very quiet and ineffective - lacks passion, power, and stamina- and it’s often off- pitch. WHERE IS THE MUSIC DIRECTOR?
Ephraim Sykes seems to be the audience favorite, but again his singing sounds strained, forced, and unhealthy.
The character that plays the bass of the group, is often funny, but then his low-pitched voice becomes monotonous and his predictable, slow delivery of the punchlines drags down the already pointless and futile book scenes.
The “book scenes” are mostly just narrative and feel as if Derrick Baskin is SLOWLY reading excerpts from Wikipedia, that he has been practicing for years.
Sergio Trujillo has sadly over choreographed this mess, probably to cover up the lack of book, lack of set, lack of humor, and lack of joy. He basically is giving us Jersey Boys with a Motown flare on steroids - The Temptations never had such complex or exhausting choreography in real life.
I liked SUMMER better than this, and, well, we remember that thing.
I wanted to leave at intermission, but we couldn’t.
I GUESS the audience was having fun, but it was hard to tell.
AND the Diana Ross - she has absolutely no presence and a terrible singing voice. What’s going on?
I wish I had more positives but I don’t understand why some people are enjoying this - must be nostalgia.
It’s hard to believe they’ve had FOUR first-class out of town productions already and it’s still in such depressing shape- but after all, I guess Des has just lost touch with...everything.
