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re: Saw FINDING NEVERLAND tonight (long and spoilers)

Posted by: Teacher64 10:01 am EDT 08/06/14
In reply to: re: Saw FINDING NEVERLAND tonight (long and spoilers) - lowwriter 08:45 am EDT 08/06/14

I was hoping you would fill me in on the "Hook" numbers at the end of Act 1, but you didn't. Could you expound a bit? Thanks!


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re: Saw FINDING NEVERLAND tonight (long and spoilers)

Posted by: lowwriter 11:27 am EDT 08/06/14
In reply to: re: Saw FINDING NEVERLAND tonight (long and spoilers) - Teacher64 10:01 am EDT 08/06/14

It seemed obvious to me that the show is in part about Barrie's creative struggle and his stasis as a writer. And him fitting in a restrictive society. The Hook number shows him overcoming an obstacle in his writing and confronting his darker side. To let go in his writing and his life. To me, the Hook number was one of the numbers that grew out of the book organically. I loved it.

It may be true that the audience standing at the end could just be something that happens at the end of lots of shows. But at the two matinees I attended, the audience was very responsive to several of the numbers throughout the show. And Jeremy Jordan, Laura Michelle Kelly, Michael McGrath, and Carolee Carmello received a lot of enthusiastic applause throughout and they deserved it.


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re: Saw FINDING NEVERLAND tonight (long and spoilers)

Posted by: John_Patti 08:01 pm EDT 08/06/14
In reply to: re: Saw FINDING NEVERLAND tonight (long and spoilers) - lowwriter 11:27 am EDT 08/06/14

I truly believe the Act One curtain applause is more for the special effects and staging of the pirate number than the solo Barrie sings at the end of the Act. There is a momentum, good or bad, that starts with the circus/revolving door number, climaxes with the pirate scenery change and envelops the Barrie solo. That momentum is very exciting and not like anything that comes before it. Its a very schizophrenic show - the tone is uneven all night.

The second act finale is emotionally wrought - the last fifteen minutes are about impending death and theatrical death and involves children for gosh sake - and that cirque du soeil special effect at the end is enough to make a coma victim break a tear.

Sometimes that's all a show needs, so now its up to the creators to see if they can make it the best show it can be. They may not need to.

I still cant get over how this thing is being directed more towards children and the family audience than being an adult thinking man's show which children of a certain maturity could deal with/appreciate. I can already smell the popcorn and hear the toy mother's coffins* being hawked in the Winter Garden Lobby.

*It's a tiny coffin with flowers painted on it and when you open it tons of glitter pops out.


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