Margo on Drowsy Chaperone & Tarzan- Page 3

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 4/21/06 at 10:08am

Wow, I can't believe you weren't more harsh on TARZAN - I found it intolerable, including the performers.

Solid spider scene? If the spider is still pink and purple carpet and looks like a squid - it was laughable. Have they changed it?

[songplugger]

Posted: 4/21/06 at 10:10am

The staging is fine, but I found the choreography of the numbers to be fairly uninspired and overly busy and frantic as if Nickolaw is saying "I have to fill this huge stage with SOMETHING." The only time it really clicks is Sutton's "Show Off" which dispite all the quick-changes is very well-focused.

Another problem is the fact that Sutton & Leavel's big numbers are early in the show (and back to back), and nothing that follows surpasses them.

It's a sweet little show, but it would have been better served in a smaller, older house. Theoretically, the Golden would have been ideal, but one takes what one can get.

[Runner1B]

Posted: 4/21/06 at 10:50am

Margo, thanks for Casey's photo.


--Peter

[dented46]

Posted: 4/21/06 at 11:42am

Thanks for the excellent and concise reviews Margo.

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 4/21/06 at 11:50am

thanks margo!

[sabrelady]

Posted: 4/21/06 at 10:43pm

Always an education when reading you Margo- thx!
I know the show from most of it's incarnations here in TO ( OK not the wedding gift one) and one of the things I like about it is it does NOT try to be some grand piece of Theatre. It is fluff, it know's it's fluff and does not pretend otherwise. As a Canuk I'm really hoping this goes. Yay for Bob Martin!