This musical is so dull and bland for me. Every song is some love song and that’s what you get the whole way through. It desperately needed more variety, and then maybe we’d appreciate some of the ballads more. It felt like more of a concept musical. The three stages of love, or life. There was very little drama. I wanted middle Allie and Noah to be passionate and rough and tumble like in the film, but it all just felt so inconsequential. Her seeing him and their house in the paper, that should be a moment where everything stops for her, which should have been done through music. Instead, she goes off to the restroom and sings some boring wordy song. I wish this was more of a choice between the two men, love vs security, but we barely go into Lon. I genuinely liked the second half of act 1 when theres actually DRAMA. We find out how the young got separated, middle Allie is going to the house, and old Allie doesn’t remember her own family. Everything is coming into focus and you want to see what happens next. Unfortunately, they squandered Act 2. What was the deal with the male nurse? I don’t understand what he was supposed to mean. It actually felt like a theme park show with theme park acting. I don’t understand why Ryan Vasquez even chose this show, maybe it was the money. The old lady ran away with this whole thing. I can’t imagine any of the actors getting nods except Maryann Plunkett for featured. People were crying at the end when old Allie remembers her husband, sings, and then dies. This is not my type of musical to begin with, way too sappy and mushy. Dread.
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