Well, lets chalk this up to another misfire.
Lighting: why do some lighting designers think giving the audience a headacheis a particularly wise move? Seriously, both during pre-show and intermission, those moving lights were annoying not to mention during the show. Cant begin to tell you how many times I had to cover my eyes/turn away.
Costumes: nothing special
Set Design: initially very cool, but it wore thin.
Projections: the best part of the show.
Book: Meh. Pretty inconsistent, and looking for the cheap joke. I never thought the film did that. I will admit to laughing a good deal at the beginning, but it waned to smiling to nothing.
Performances - overall, they all just played a stereotype and not a character. Too rote and automatic.
Brightman: Loud, screamy,not a single acting moment of thought or objective.
Caruso: real potential, but not 100% sold on the 2D portrayal. Im a sad person.- exceot when Im not.
McClure: I liked him, at least i believed his acting choices but still wairing for him to land/choose a great show.
Butler: I found her plastic beyond plastic, and wondered about playing a caricature so poorly. Nothing was earnest, or heartfelt. Hard to play for laighs when ypure character isnt funny. (I did think to myself: she left Mean Girls for this? How bad IS Mean Girls??)
I could go on...but why bother?
Music: blaahh and blech. Nearly every song was too long and entirely unearned. Characters are suppose to sing because they NEED to, not because dude wrote another song. At intermission, my son turned to me and sang Way Down Hadestown.
Interesting note: a family of 4 seated behind us left 30 minutes into the show. No idea why.
And for all the talk about how offensive this Beetlejuice was, he really wasn't. He wanted to be, but that, too, fell victim to poor writing.
As I said to my son...it wasnt as bad as BMC!
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
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Updated On: 4/18/19 at 05:59 AM
