Wow...they have 6 weeks of previews and they need it! It's only their 2nd or 3rd preview so hopefully things will get better.
It's like when you want a really good piece of cheese, and you're handed cheez whiz, or a velveeta single.
Technical glitch in the first 5 minutes but that's ok. That's what previews are for. Tony and Rob came out and worked the audience for 2-3 minutes to pass the time which was fun while they were working backstage to get it fixed. Show started right at 8:05 and the curtain came down at 10:50.
Tony Danza's soft, tearful ballad in the first act about skin cancer needed to be cut immediately. The show stops totally dead in its track when he's warbling his way through it. He is charismatic as all get out. He's a true natural on stage. He has a specialty dance solo in the second act that is great. Singing is NOT his strong suit and the Director and Musical Director should take that into consideration and not give him so many songs to sing!!!
Brynn O'Malley performance is like watching paint dry. She's dull, she's boring, no one cares about her.
Rob McClure is producing major "flop sweat" (Working 100 times harder to try to make things work when they know they're in a flop)
Can they just cut everyone else and have Nancy Opel and David Josefsberg do the whole show? They were by far the best things in it!!! Nancy Opel has the best entrance i've seen on stage in a LONG time.
Jason Robert Brown produces an utterly forgettable, drab, mediocre score. This is the man that gave us Parade, and Bridges Of Madison County?!?!
Denis Jones choreography is clunky. He's given at best "actors who move".
There is definitely a fun, cute show in there somewhere. I did have a few laugh out loud moments. With major cuts and tightening things up it will appeal to the average tourist visiting from out of town who wants to see a celebrity in a show when they come to NYC.
I wish them well, and for the sake of everyone that works there they have a long healthy run but they have TONS of work to do to help save this turkey.
As we were walking out the people in front of us one turned to the other and said "I want my night back!"
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