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Was very much not impressed with michael longoria. He does a decent acting job but basically does not have charisma. The audience totally ate up the show tonight, wildly applauding for bromides in act 2 (like about the rock n roll hall of fame is voted on by "the people"- is it? Thought it was industry votes). It's kind of cynical for the producers to put on an actor who's not really up to the starring role, just because he was already the understudy and can sing high (actually, sorry for this whole post to his fans, I found his speaking voice almost comically high). Only partly cause of his perf., I felt the show was lacking the hit electricity I can imagine it having had earlier.
I was so glad no one around me was singing along, I was really anticipating that after reading about it in posts.
by the way- this show is way easier to get into than it used to be. I arrived at 730pm and there was NO cancellation line, even though it was supposedly sold out (there were empty seats in the orchestra though). and there are actually $110 tix on telecharge for various dates in the next week, unlike when JLY was in. (I know some people were able to get the house tix cancellations on telecharge back then but I didnt have luck). incidentally, the apparently regular scalper outside was only asking $80, which tells you something. I'd already bought it on the web.
J Robert Spencer was out tonight, which really bummed me out since I was trying to see 3 original leads before d. reichard leaves, but his part turned out to be a bit of a nonentity in the show, especially in act 1, so I didnt feel so bad when I actually saw it.
I think it's good that eventually they may not be able to sell the whole mezz for 96.50 (gag) as this show is already getting to be way less of a hot ticket than it was. In general, I thought it was a decent show, not great, and I'm bummed that the good tix being $250 for so long had a lot to do with my not seeing it with JLY. I dont usually spend more than about $35 for broadway but I would have spent $110 for a sell-out hit as the only way to see it, if even that hadn't been so hoop-involving. Plus his last week and a half was cancelled by the strike, otherwise i would've been trying telecharge for cancellations like a demon!
sorry this post has been a bit of a downer! The show was good enough to understand why lots of people love it.
Posted: 12/21/07 at 1:04am
Was very much not impressed with michael longoria. He does a decent acting job but basically does not have charisma. The audience totally ate up the show tonight, wildly applauding for bromides in act 2 (like about the rock n roll hall of fame is voted on by "the people"- is it? Thought it was industry votes). It's kind of cynical for the producers to put on an actor who's not really up to the starring role, just because he was already the understudy and can sing high (actually, sorry for this whole post to his fans, I found his speaking voice almost comically high). Only partly cause of his perf., I felt the show was lacking the hit electricity I can imagine it having had earlier.
I was so glad no one around me was singing along, I was really anticipating that after reading about it in posts.
by the way- this show is way easier to get into than it used to be. I arrived at 730pm and there was NO cancellation line, even though it was supposedly sold out (there were empty seats in the orchestra though). and there are actually $110 tix on telecharge for various dates in the next week, unlike when JLY was in. (I know some people were able to get the house tix cancellations on telecharge back then but I didnt have luck). incidentally, the apparently regular scalper outside was only asking $80, which tells you something. I'd already bought it on the web.
J Robert Spencer was out tonight, which really bummed me out since I was trying to see 3 original leads before d. reichard leaves, but his part turned out to be a bit of a nonentity in the show, especially in act 1, so I didnt feel so bad when I actually saw it.
I think it's good that eventually they may not be able to sell the whole mezz for 96.50 (gag) as this show is already getting to be way less of a hot ticket than it was. In general, I thought it was a decent show, not great, and I'm bummed that the good tix being $250 for so long had a lot to do with my not seeing it with JLY. I dont usually spend more than about $35 for broadway but I would have spent $110 for a sell-out hit as the only way to see it, if even that hadn't been so hoop-involving. Plus his last week and a half was cancelled by the strike, otherwise i would've been trying telecharge for cancellations like a demon!
sorry this post has been a bit of a downer! The show was good enough to understand why lots of people love it.
