I just heard a recording of "The confrontation" and "Room 317" from the Miss Saigon Broadway revival.
I was a bit shocked by the amount of spoken lines and how forced and insincere the scenes feel because of it. They constantly switch from a spoken line to a sung line, sometimes they even speak a whole line and then sing the last word, which makes it very cringeworthy, and it completely removes the sincerity from the moment. They are basically forcing the audience to switch with them all the time, which makes the sung word feel out of place, and the spoken word after feel out of place too. It reminds me of Hugh Jackman in the les miserables movie, which made people laugh in the audience too.
I have never noticed this unnatural forced feeling in any other production of Miss Saigon nor in any recording. Is the director under the impression that this is raw and gritty? Because in fact, it's not, it's the opposite. Raw emotions lie in the opposite with this material. Making it soap-opera and speak-singing with constant switching makes it clown-esque. Nobody will ever buy speaking 4 words and then use a long vibrato on the 5th. Make up your mind director, which artform is it?
Updated On: 6/7/17 at 03:34 PM
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