Posted: 7/26/18 at 5:20pm
Kad,
How did you get ahold of Jeff Whitty's version? Which version of his script are you talking about? What's the date of the script?
Posted: 7/26/18 at 6:07pm
Posted: 7/26/18 at 7:16pm
christinelavin said: "If you are reading this and are a creative person, remember to google any potential title before you commit to it."
What a stupid, myopic thing to say. This year's Pulitzer winner for fiction is called Less. Last year's is The Underground Railroad. Neither are likely to be the first search result you find, and they managed to be perfectly well off with their titles.
Posted: 7/26/18 at 7:28pm
A Director said: "Kad,
How did you get ahold of Jeff Whitty's version? Which version of his script are you talking about? What's the date of the script?"
It’s a 2014 version. I assume things changed before its debut the following summer. I know people who were involved.
Posted: 7/28/18 at 9:48am
I saw the show on Wednesday afternoon and I liked it, but with a better book, I feel like I would have loved it. The show feels right in my wheelhouse - campy, over the top, and ridiculous but the book with the muddled Shakespearean language dragged down the show for me. The cast is very talented and I actually felt like the Go Go's music worked well in context, but the book was very messy. Was there some good moments of the book? Yes, but ultimately I felt the overuse of the Shakespearean language dragged it down. If Something Rotten can make their show work in the setting of Shakespearean times and not overuse the Shakespearean language I felt like this could. Overall, I was a little disappointed because as I mentioned this show felt right up my alley, but ultimately it fell short with the book. I definitely still had a fun time, and I'd not turn down going again, but I definitely didn't love it as much as I felt I could.
Updated On: 7/28/18 at 09:48 AM
Posted: 7/28/18 at 10:22am
I also went Wednesday afternoon via an amazing seat in the balcony. I wanted more, but I felt cheated after the performance. It could of been more campy/flashier (heaven on earth scene-how boring). I was even bored with Peppermint. Everyone was going through the motions. I didn't connect once with anyone on the stage. It will work great on tour.
Posted: 7/28/18 at 10:28am
Posted: 7/28/18 at 10:30am
It's highly doubtful it'll happen but I would really like a cast album because the arrangements of the songs were great and the cast sang the hell out of the music.
Posted: 8/11/18 at 6:40pm
Posted: 8/11/18 at 7:44pm
I concur. I saw it this week and was very pleasantly surprised. It's not perfect but I think it's hugely ambitious and I gave it more points for that. Campy, highly theatrical and expansively inclusive, while remaining playful and ironic, I think it's a hell of a lot better than some of the paint by numbers shows on Bway now.
Posted: 8/11/18 at 8:23pm
Posted: 4/23/21 at 11:33pm
I decided to finally listen to the cast album today (now that I'm doing that again). Knowing the voices of some of the actors, it sounded quite thin to me and it made me wish I'd seen the show in person. It's interesting revisiting this thread. To be completely honest, I don't know that would have enjoyed this show in 2018 but it feels like the kind of show that would be very fun after a year without theatre.
Posted: 4/23/21 at 11:52pm
