I don't know if I said anything about it but I saw Impressionism a few weeks ago.
I saw the two act version, not the cut version. Let me just say that the reviews got it right. There is a great performance by Andre de Shields but the play is dull, slightly pretentious and a waste of good talent. It doesn't sound like it changed much from the two act to the one act (no intermission).
I also saw Hair. God, I feel old! While I didn't dislike the production I do find the drooling over Hair as a groundbreaking, vital and important piece of musical theatre to be a bit much. I first saw an awful, dreadful and embarrassing production in 1971. It was a bus and truck that came through Saint Paul. I left thinking "what's all the fuss about?" I then saw the movie and, from what I gather, I'm in the minority but I think the movie made sense of the stage show and is a much, much, much better production. I loved the movie! I didn't see either recent the concert version of Hair or the production in the Park this past summer but the show appeared on TDF and I decided to go. As I said, it's a good production. There is lots of energy and flash and some solid performances but it's all window dressing. The show, in my humble opinion, is nothing more than a rock concert with a paper thin story and some chunks of dialogue to make you think there is a book. The songs are a lot of fun and the actors have a great time running all over the Hirschfeld Theatre, including up to the last rows of the balcony where I was sitting. I wasn't particularly moved by Easy to Be Hard (I was moved by that sequence in the movie) or any other portion. The audience ADORED, LOVED, SALIVATED and generally had orgasms over the show, screaming and cheering for every number. Much of the audience was younger than me and they rushed to the stage at the end to dance with the cast. I sound like an old coot but all I wanted to do was go home and go to bed. I had to get to work the next morning
