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re: "Diner" last night - maybe a spoiler

Posted by:	Ann 05:25 pm EST 01/18/15
In reply to:	"Diner" last night - broadwaybacker 02:29 pm EST 01/18/15

The narrator was used in an odd way (I see by the TalkinBroadway review, a narrator wasn't used in the film - I also see that Billy is Eddie's brother. I didn't pick that up.). He gave some of "what happened to them later" about the characters - but some of that was doled out during the show, not at the end. And the way they did it for Fen was really odd - they say he dies in an accident a few days after what you know will be the last scene. And they guy still has a big song in the show. Also, the actor playing the narrator also plays a part in the show (unnecessarily). At one point, he is the character, talking to the narrator's younger self, then he whips off the hat and glasses and turns back into the narrator - the actor playing his younger self is still standing there. I agree about the sound - during the song for Stevie's wife, she repeatedly belted what I knew was the title of the song, but I couldn't understand one word of it and had to look in the program. That actress has quite a voice (Erika Henningsen). I really wish Crow had let a theater writer write the lyrics.

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