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Posted by:	Harper 07:36 pm EDT 05/08/15
In reply to:	I don't think so - MockingbirdGirl 01:35 pm EDT 05/08/15

All valid points of view. I'm not on here often enough to get a sense of who some of you are, but it's exciting to read posts from so many people that have so much passion for the theatre. My theater-going friends and I represent a younger crowd than a lot of audience members. That may not really make any difference, but here's my take. Fun Home is pretty damn near flawless: writing, performing, design. The couple of times I went it was a full and enthusiastic house. It's an important work. Not because it deals with sexual identity, but because it's a very well told story: an entertaining adult play about people learning and taking a journey. An A in P is trite. The dancing is dynamite and the production looks great. You won't hear better music in a Broadway theater. But the script is old fashioned and not in a good way, particularly with the repressed gay character. And there's absolutely no chemistry between any of the characters. Something Rotten is a series of TV outrageous sketches with lots of inside theater jokes performed really well. But the script implodes, the music is painfully repetitious, and the sets and costumes look regional theater. It's great to have an insider theatre-folk 'must see' show, but friends not in the theater are done with it by the end of the first act. The biggest plus is an unbelievably great ad campaign. All that said, there's so much theater to recommend to people this season and that's a very good thing.

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