"Definitely not gothic & no power ballads here.
Something tells me the critics still would trash it. A few numbers sounded calypsolike & like they could have been from Havana. "
I think the core creative team of Wildhorn, Murphy & Boyd are trying really hard to make it a hit. Surpringly, with nearly every new announcement I tend to get less & less excited.
I've always said the casting of Dacal was a bad decision - first she doesn't look like anyone would expect of Alice. I still firmly believe with a character like Alice, you need the whole blonde-hair-thing going on. Second off, BASED OFF THE RECORDING, she doesn't sound like that big of a stand-out. I'm hoping I'll be blown away by her in person.
Luckily the visuals/scenic/etc. look really great! Some of the music is fine, but again, majority isn't very Wildhorn-sounding. "Worst Day of My Life" sounds like it's from Legally Blonde; most of the songs just repeat themselves over & over.
Just for your folks on BWW I guess, this was on the Wonderland Study Guide (and worried even me!):
"With book musicals, the composer and lyricist who compose the score are
instrumental in the conception and creation of the musical, working closely with a
playwright or writing the script themselves.
Over the years, there have been many notable composer-lyricist pairings that have made their mark on the theatrical scene: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice,
and Frank Wildhorn and Jack Murphy.
Wonderland Study Guide
So much hope for this project. It seems like the show opens and Alice is already in Wonderland after a scene or two. What happened to developing that whole thing? I'm really hoping there's dialogue to fill in the viods, which unfortunately usually isn't done in a Wildhorn piece. 
