I probably will not be too vocal in the notes themselves, but this was one of the worst productions I've ever seen. I love Damn Yankees - but it requires a director with at least a rudimentary idea of comedy, actors who understand what the comedy's about - and then when you add a choreographer who has not one original bone in her body, you get a production like this. In Two Lost Souls when the Rob Marshall-cum-Bob Fosse dancers brought out their Cabaret chairs (dressed in suspenders, pants and bare chests for the men and the usual garters and crap for the women) you know how low you've sunk. And when you cast a young man in the role of Applegate who does not have one funny performing bone in his body, you're done for. The band, which was at least fifteen pieces, was so amplified it actually sounded like canned music because the EQ was so terrible and it completely drowned out the singers. But then again, you have a poster for their next show, which is Ragtime, and on the poster it says Book by Terrence McNally. Music by Stephen Flaherty. That's it for the credits. I guess they cut all the things called lyrics. And then the ad for Peter Pan in the program - Music by Jules Styne. Lyrics by Carol Leigh. Music by Morris "Moose" Charlap - who, BTW, never used the name Morris in his credits. Adryan actually went up to the guy who runs the show and he said he was aware of those problems and had nice excuses but still...
