Has anyone else ever seen a musical entitled BERLIN? I was channel-surfing last night when I stumbled across a production on BYUTV - a channel I didn't even know that I had. Apparently it is Brigham Young University's public television station. I enjoyed several parts of the production, but it was certainly far from perfect. The book, music, and lyrics are by Erik Orton, and I think that may be part of the show's failures. The show definitely needed another voice, preferably one who writes music.
The songs were all very similar and repetitious. The show needs a Bruce Kimmel to step in and change the things that need to be changed. However, I am not sure that BK would really be interested in working on a musical in which the Germans were the protagonists. Still an intersting production.