Ado Annie D'Ysquith said: "Sigh. I may never fully comprehend that out of all the shows Papermill produced last season, they plucked Bandstand for Broadway (which seems to have gotten tepid reviews) over the glorious Hunchback. Well, I wish it the best anyway!
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It all comes down to taste, doesn't it? I've seen almost everything on Broadway in the last year (excluding Hamilton) and Bandstand was one of my favorite theatrical experiences, beating many Broadway productions. Now I never got around to see Hunchback at Papermill, so I'm not comparing it to that. (I saw it in Germany maaaany years ago and did not like it then, but I understand it has changed a LOT since then and won't judge it based on that experience that I can't remember much about other than the terrible set design and just not liking it)
This is merely to say that there were a lot of people who thought that Bandstand was great, and it has the potential to turn into something special in my opinion. (My taste is pretty much all over the place, I've loved everything from shows critics hated, to BO failures to shows everybody loved to pieces).
I truly hope they will do well and run for a good long while, and if just so that I can see it again (and can I please get a cast recording asap??)