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Posted: 3/21/08 at 2:31am
Saw the show tonight, Orch Row B, right hand side. In the last 24 hours, I'd received three seperate text messages from friends of mine telling me the show was among the worst they'd ever seen on Broadway. On top of which, all the reaction I'd read here on the boards was piss-poor to say the least. I expected the worst, and when I left the theater around 10:30, I was carrying the opinion that it was... fine.
No, truly: fine. Not good, not astonishingly bad. Occasionally smile-inducing, rarely laugh-provoking, mostly just remarkably mediocre. I, for one, was really grasping to understand why the word of mouth has been so putrid. Granted, there's nothing special about the show, and I can't really see people recommending it (nor should they), but it's completely just middle-of-the-road.
Had any of these people bitching SEEN "Tarzan"? Or "The Phantom of the Opera" while we're at it?
I only found one thing especially awful: Harriet Harris' "I Did Something Wrong Once" (or whatever that number was called). The lyrics were atrocious, the music/beat was aimless, and it went on FOREVER. That aside, some numbers were fun, but most were just bland and forgettable. Maybe it's because I'm caught up in whirlwind of shows in a very compressed time period due to Spring Break ("Young Frankenstein," "Cry-Baby," "South Pacific," "Gypsy," "Passing Strange," "In the Heights" all in one week), but I guess I just don't understand what everyone's complaining about.
I enjoyed this significantly more than "Young Frankenstein" (though, granted, that's not saying much). While I wouldn't recommend either show, here at least there seemed to be consistent effort put into the proceedings, where "YF" just came off as mere regurgitation.
Anyway, I don't think this is going to be a long-running show or anything, but I'm just wondering if anyone else thought it was not so bad?
No, truly: fine. Not good, not astonishingly bad. Occasionally smile-inducing, rarely laugh-provoking, mostly just remarkably mediocre. I, for one, was really grasping to understand why the word of mouth has been so putrid. Granted, there's nothing special about the show, and I can't really see people recommending it (nor should they), but it's completely just middle-of-the-road.
Had any of these people bitching SEEN "Tarzan"? Or "The Phantom of the Opera" while we're at it?
I only found one thing especially awful: Harriet Harris' "I Did Something Wrong Once" (or whatever that number was called). The lyrics were atrocious, the music/beat was aimless, and it went on FOREVER. That aside, some numbers were fun, but most were just bland and forgettable. Maybe it's because I'm caught up in whirlwind of shows in a very compressed time period due to Spring Break ("Young Frankenstein," "Cry-Baby," "South Pacific," "Gypsy," "Passing Strange," "In the Heights" all in one week), but I guess I just don't understand what everyone's complaining about.
I enjoyed this significantly more than "Young Frankenstein" (though, granted, that's not saying much). While I wouldn't recommend either show, here at least there seemed to be consistent effort put into the proceedings, where "YF" just came off as mere regurgitation.
Anyway, I don't think this is going to be a long-running show or anything, but I'm just wondering if anyone else thought it was not so bad?
