I actually saw it twice in Pittsburgh. Both times, starting up in the cheapest seats they had (last three rows of the balcony and the theatre it was in seats around twenty-seven hundred) and going down to the orchestra during intermission. The second time I was in the second or third row.
The sets were from the London production of the show. The person from the CLO who was behind it saw the show in London and bought the rights and the sets from those producers. They thought that it would make a great family musical. (Every year they used to do a family musical like "Annie" or "Bye, Bye Birdie" or "Oliver" "Dreamcoat" in order to be able to use the kids from their Musical Theatre Academy and fill the stage during one number with shrieking adolescents and fill the audience with the parents, aunts, uncles and grandparents of said shrieking adolescents.) And they toured it to other cities with CLOs, hoping to have the same success that they had with their tour of "Barry Mannilow's 'Copacabana'".
But, "Casper" bombed and they lost a lot of money.
It was by no means a great, or even a good show. But it was fabulous seeing Chita Rivera. It was like a gift to her fans who never had the chance to see her in "Bajour" or "1491."
Those four hunks were her henchmen, Alberto, Bernardo, Reynaldo and Chuck.
EricMontreal22's comment reminded me that it was playing here the week of Pittsburgh's Gay PrideFest parade. I remember thinking that the planners of PrideFest should have asked Chita to be the Grand Marshall of it instead of the porn star they had!
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