The music is tribal and organic, and in some ways alike to Hair and Two Gentlemen as well as Dude, but with completely original melodies and musical ideas.
Mef- I can't believe you saw it! Do you remember anything about the actual physical production? Sets?
In his book, Mandelbaum says it was a "magnificent work" and also notes that Frank Rich gave it a good review. Also:
"The musical theatre of the eighties was dominated by such British pop operas as Evita, The Phantom of the Opera, and Les Miserables, it's most unfortunate that The Human Comedy opened and closed on Broadway without anyone noticing that America had produced a work that could rival any of these. It is, in fact, the great American pop opera, yet it sounds no more like the British works than it does a real opera. MacDermot's music, one of the most sophisticated scores of the last decade, combined country, forties swing, and classical lyricism into a wholly unique, original mixture."
I find this all so intriguing...
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
