Some thoughts: The show was terribly unorganized this year and it was quite obvious. I was surprised (pleasantly, though) that Paul Geminiani's overture contained mostly Sondheim material (and hardly recognizable at that) and wonder what the younger crowd thought they were hearing?LOL...For Good was very unbalanced - those two voices just don't work together, in my opinion. I was happy to finally get to hear Eden's voice - she's far superior to Idina Menzel, but that song from Brooklyn was very uninteresting and reminded me of other material...it just had a very familiar ring to it and didn't impress me in the least. The piece from Dracula (funny - when they introduced it, I could have sworn that Christy Carlson Romano said DREKULA!) was really awful - Tom Hewit is SO much better than the bad material they've given him (at least this number) in this show. If I heard them repeat the lyric Life After Life ad nauseum one more time I was gonna have to kill them and then myself. I won't be seeing THAT show unless someone gives me a free ticket - and then it will only be to see the costumes, sets and affects. Wayne Brady seemed ok as Billy Flynn - but I'm so tired of that show that all I could do was look at the faces of the chorus girls and try to figure out why they were working on Broadway - I think I've figured out at least one thing - all people working on Broadway at the moment seem to have HUGE features - giant lips, big long chins and square jaws and huge popping eyes - I imagine so that the back of the house can read their emotions. I was also very unimpressed with the song from Little Women - the writing is sorely lacking - but Sutton's voice was good as usual. Sorry if I seem negative - but I am not too happy about the state of Broadway theatre at the moment. Christy Carlson Romano clearly cannot sing - she even broke character during her one solo from the show and that, to me is the ultimate in bad taste. Shakalaka Baby has good choreography - but really, did they have to lip synch it? is it done that way on stage 8 times a week? I surely wouldn't be paying good money to see people lip synch on Broadway. All in all - I was very disappointed and wonder if I'll go again next year. But as joeyjoe reminded me - next year we'll have West Side Story and The Wiz to look forward to - and perhaps there will be some good to come out of that. The highlight of today's show, to me, was Harvey Fierstein talking about how Time's Square got its name - he's simply charming.
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!