I'm intrigued by shows that just seem impossible to do on stage. I love when a company announces a show and you just have to wonder how they're going to achieve it. I mean is no one else even slightly curious about the sets and staging for this show? Yeah it'll be partly animatronic, but one of the great things about theatre is seeing all of the genius ways in which parts of the show are presented to a live audience.
Yeah, there are tons of actors and singers who are extremely talented and shouldn't be upstaged by a spectacle, but look at it this way: Do the highly intelligent designers who manage to put that spectacle on stage not deserve some recognition for the impossible things they manage to do in a small space in front of a live audience?
The cast is sensational, but hasn't been released to the public yet: Patti LuPone as Ann Darrow, Nathan Lane as King Kong, and Tommy Tune as the Empire State Building. All singing! All dancing! All KONG!