Lar, I hope your cold is receding
DR Ben, it is! I am feeling much much better. Here's today's rant: on All That Chat, two posts of this ilk about last night's dress of FANNY: The City Center Sleeps 2400, from my count. This is the 50th Encores production, and in my opinion - one of the biggest snoozes and head scratcher's I've ever seen. The simplest, most earnest book - the dullest, old fashioned score and some of the most uncomfortable acting I've seen onstage in decades. This is one a misfire, to say the least. Ouch.
What a moron! He's seeing a show put up in a week, with actors dealing with costumes, being onstage, working with an orchestra and doing a lot of staging with book in hand, and he/she's complaining about "uncomfortable" acting? I thought this was one of the stronger dress rehearsals for an Encores! production and this old-fashioned criticism, which helped kill Finian's Rainbow really irks me: what does this fool think Encores! mission is? Complete ass. Doesn't he realize the crap he thinks is so magnificent will be old-fashioned in another 50 years? Some of these ATC nay-sayers are total fools.