So you wanted to like it, but didn't? That's art. That's life. Maybe you'll like their next show?
I just don't see why you feel so mortally wounded by this. That they tried to inflict a labor of love on you before you feel it was ready. Maybe this is the exact show they wanted to make? That is for them to decide. "Ready" is determined by the creative team, not the audience. And, most artists will admit that nothing is ever ready, it is merely done.
I think it was Stephen King who said he never finished a book, but he's published many.
As for hummable, here is what Sondheim had to say on that oft-used, but equally useless critique: "Everything is hummable. When they say my music is not, they're really saying it is not reminiscent of something else. Hummable is a meaningless word, and so is melodic. If a tune is heard often enough, it becomes hummable. The hits from shows are the tunes that are played four or five times during the course of the evening. The reprises. Well, I don't like to use reprises, because the emotional situations themselves do not recur. I've always thought reprises were fake."
So, yeah, you can leave Phantom and Les Miz with a tune in your head, since they drive it in there all night... other shows don't. N2N also repeated its music more, so yes, it was more memorable. Clearly the team is capable of doing that sort of thing, if they want to, which can only mean they chose to not do it this time. They could have subtly planted Always Starting Over in our head all night, so that when Idina finally sang it at the end, we were almost ready to hum along like it's a song we knew all along.
They could have, but they didn't.
Neither is better, just different.
Updated On: 3/31/14 at 07:20 AM
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