i saw the show this week.
The first 2 scenes are wonderful (especially kevin chamberlain's) i thought I was in for a magical night at the theater. Wow was I wrong.
The music is banal (can anyone remember a song from this show) the characters are all stock characters which make them 2 dimensional at best.
The thing that made me the most mad about this whole show (and the insane secrecy of it from the plot to the casting at the beginning of this charade) is that the show is almost a direct rip off of the movie "After Life" by Koreeda Hirokazu. This is pathetic and sad to me. Anyone who says this is an "original musical" is sorely mistaken.
Sebastian Arcelus does a fine job but that's about it. Hunter foster does his Hunter Foster, Jenny Powers screams throughout the show and the rest of the characters sink in the mire.
The worst scene was the one where the father who doesn't pay his child support and as such makes his ex wife work 3 jobs to support her little girl, comes back to be the special tooth fairy to his daughter. Maybe if he paid his child support there wouldn't be the animosity that the mother and the daughter have for each other. I love that this show is showing that dead-beat dads' are fun and nice when they wear a tutu. Gimme a beak.
This show is awful and downright plagiaristic to the point that they should be sued.
Don't see the show. rent the movie. Cause then you won't feel cheated.
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