It wasn't awful, actually, and that may have been its greatest sin. The writers seem to have made some decent choices in the changes they made in reshaping the story, so that it becomes about the dreams of all of the characters and how reality can crush those dreams. But the music doesn't manage to give the story enough heart. It's a lot of '80s-style wailing and no honest emotion, good melodies or terribly interesting rhymes. The songs in the first act that are not in the movie are all deadly dull, as are most of the songs in the second act. And my favorite from the movie, "Gloria," is ineptly staged and used.
