Miphba, I was already a Bare fan before Bryant Park, so I was biased to enjoy them to start with and I did, but your take on Brooklyn is really interesting to me. In person, at Bryant Park, I thought the performers themselves were fantastic, except maybe Kevin Anderson, who just seemed to be muddling through the songs. But my mind just kept wandering and wandering while they were singing. I couldn't seem to focus on the songs themselves. I'm not sure if it was the fairy tale aspect or that the songs seemed to be a lot of platitudes strung together in order to give the singers a reason to keep belting, but I didn't have a great reaction.
I plan on actually seeing the show to form a true opinion of the entire thing, but as of right now, if I were for some reason forced to make a decision based on just those songs as performed in Bryant Park, I don't think I would.
"Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run" - Jeff Buckley