Enjoyed MERRILY last night, but I'm new to this one so I have nothing to go on but first reactions to the material. Definitely like the show, and I can appreciate how challenging this must be to put across well. I'll have to read up on its history and get out my cast album. Wish to hell I'd gone to Encores.
I was with a very British friend who's a wonderful director and actor in this area. She loves the show but was driven nuts by the American accents. After she mentioned that during the intermission, I paid a lot more attention to it through the second act. Though accents are FAR from being my strong suit, and that's putting it mildly, it was indeed noticeable and kind of funny at times.
Video quality started off all right, but near the end of the first act, I suddenly realized the presumably high-def image was compromised. Throughout the second act it was just plain terrible -- standard broadcast quality all the way, with all the inherent problems -- lack of detail, color bleeding, "edge" distraction (I don't know all the jargon). And oddly enough, a number of shots with people getting scalped -- camera too low? At one point, the camera made a noticeable upward adjustment, so, I dunno...
